Léon Bence (18 January 1929 – 13 May 1987) was a French physician.
Life
Léon Bence had peasant origins, and was born in 1929 at Licques, Pas-de-Calais. He died in 1987 in Lille.
Education
After secondary education in
Saint-Omer
Saint-Omer (; ; Picard: ''Saint-Onmé'') is a commune and sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department in France.
It is west-northwest of Lille on the railway to Calais, and is located in the Artois province. The town is named after Sa ...
(Pas-de-Calais), Bence joined the Faculty of Medecine of
Lille
Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...
, where his doctoral thesis was approved in 1955.
Career
Bence's character as a man of the soil led him to choose a career as a country doctor. Although he practised for more than 20 years at
Lumbres
Lumbres (; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France at the junction of the valleys of the rivers Aa and Bléquin, about 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Saint-Omer.
Population
History
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(Pas-de-Calais), he remained a permanent student. He obtained a diploma of agricultural medicine in 1974 at the Faculty of Medecine of
Tours
Tours ( ; ) is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabita ...
, and his work earned him a prize from the Faculty of Medecine of
Strasbourg
Strasbourg ( , ; ; ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est Regions of France, region of Geography of France, eastern France, in the historic region of Alsace. It is the prefecture of the Bas-Rhin Departmen ...
in 1978.
As a member of the Medical Society of Biotherapy he became familiar with the different systems of biotherapy, which corresponded closely with his convictions derived from his personal experience. His discoveries in the field of laser therapy attracted attention at world congresses in Palma (1982), Sofia (1953) and Brasilia (1984).
His final speciality concerned music therapy, for which he collaborated with the composer
Max Méreaux to combine global medicine to take account of the whole person and his personality.
1929 births
1987 deaths
20th-century French physicians
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