The Paris Society of Medicine () is a medical organization based in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
,
France. Its predecessor, the
Société Royale de Médecine, was founded in 1730, and the society's current incarnation was founded in 1878.
Historical background
The society originates from the ''Société Royale de Médecine'', which was founded in 1730. The "Société Royale de Médecine" was reformed in 1778, only to be abolished by the
French Revolution
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by way of the law of "20
Thermidor
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Thermidor was the second month of the summer quarter (''mois d'ét� ...
Year I" (French revolutionary calendar, i.e. August 8, 1793). The Société de Médecine de Paris was founded on "2
Germinal Year IV" (French revolutionary calendar, i.e. March 22, 1796). The present society is an officially recognized
non-profit organization
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by decree from February 5, 1878.
Overview
The Société de Médecine de Paris is an independent and interdisciplinary medical society that is open to professors, hospital physicians,
clinicians
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,
general practitioners or specialists,
surgeons
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,
biologists
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, and others. It is intended to support
continuing medical education. During the plenary and ordinary sessions, everyone can freely express themselves, and specialists and lecturers can present the current state of research and knowledge in their field.
From its inception it has brought together many of the most famous physicians of the time, and has been chaired by
Jean-Louis Baudelocque,
René-Nicolas Dufriche Desgenettes,
Dominique Jean Larrey
Baron Dominique Jean Larrey (; 8 July 1766 – 25 July 1842) was a French surgeon and military doctor, who distinguished himself in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. An important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, ...
,
Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol
Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (3 February 1772 – 12 December 1840) was a French psychiatrist.
Early life and education
Born and raised in Toulouse, Esquirol completed his education at Montpellier. He came to Paris in 1799 where he worked a ...
,
Ernest Besnier
Ernest Henri Besnier (; 21 April 1831 – 15 May 1909, Paris) was a French dermatologist and medical director of the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris. He was a native of Honfleur, département Calvados.
He studied medicine in Paris, where in 1 ...
, and
Pierre-Constant Budin.
Georges Clemenceau
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has been an honorary president. More recently, the presidents have been Edmond Lesné, Victor Pauchet, and
Jean Lhermitte
Jacques Jean Lhermitte () (20 January 1877 – 24 January 1959) was a French neurologist and neuropsychiatrist.
Life
Lhermitte was born in Mont-Saint-Père, Aisne, son of Léon Augustin Lhermitte, a French realist painter. Following his e ...
.
Today, the Paris Society of Medicine brings together researchers and practitioners from different fields of advanced medicine, such as Gabriel Blancher,
Hommage to Dr. Gabriel Blancher
fellow of the French Academy of Medicine... but also specialists applying the results of medical research in other areas of current interest in Research and Development
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, e. g. the "Human and Environmental Health", such as Mario Christian Meyer
Mario Christian Meyer is a Swiss- Brazilian doctor and advocate for the sustainable development of the Amazonia and preservation of its indigenous cultural heritage.
Early life
Meyer was born in Salta, Argentina. His father, Hermann Meyer, a Sw ...
.
See also
* Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism
The Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism involved two entirely separate and independent French Royal Commissions, each appointed by Louis XVI in 1784, that were conducted simultaneously by a committee composed of four physicians from the Paris F ...
References
External links
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Medical associations based in France
Organizations established in 1730
1730 establishments in France
Organizations based in Paris