Society of Medicine of Paris

The Paris Society of Medicine is one of the oldest medical society of France. It was established on 22 March 1796 under the leadership of SEDILLOT "young" which was the dynamic secretary general for over 20 years. She proceeded actually the Royal Society of Medicine founded in 1730 and whose activity was remarkable from 1774 until it was run by the revolution. Bringing together immediately all the big names of the time, it was presided among others by Baudeloque, DESGENETTES, LARREY, ESQUIROL, BESNIER, BUDIN, and closer to us by Edmond LESNE Victor PAUCHET Jean LHERMITTE. Clemenceau was its honourable president. "Perfecting the art of healing" final objective of the Company, led him to break immediately with the outdated methods of the past and introduce medical disciplines up then marginal physiology, chemistry, pharmacology, which was revolutionary for the time. The Paris Medical Society has kept its origins multidisciplinary vocation by welcoming teachers, hospital doctors or practitioners generalists or specialists, surgeons, biologists, veterinarians. Everyone is allowed to express themselves freely. The company wants independent. It is not subject to any private pressure media or institutional.