La Roche, R. (René), 1795-1872.

R. La Roche was a Philadelphia physician and epidemiologist. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1827.

René La Roche, son of a French physician of the same name, was born in Philadelphia on 23 Sept. 1795. He married Mary Jane Ellis in 1824; they had at least two daughters and one son. La Roche died of prostration in Philadelphia on 9 Dec. 1872.

La Roche received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1820. He was an active member of the Kappa Lambda Association of Philadelphia, edited the North American medical and surgical journal, and wrote extensively on yellow fever. From 1827 to 1861, La Roche was a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.