[Académie de chirurgue et SFHM]

The first meeting between the two associations happened in 1902, the Centenary year of Bichat's death. Then Paul Poirier talked about Bichat as an anatomist and Paul Jules Tillaux dealt with Bichat as a surgeon. In 1902 the "Société de Chirurgie de Paris" was nearly sixty years old as it had been created in 1843 by seventeen young hospital surgeons. Among them J. Malgaigne was also a well-known historian as he had published Introduction aux oeuvres complètes d'Ambroise Paré in 1840. In 1935 the "Société de Chirurgie" became "Académie de Chirurgie". Thus for one hundred years, six chairmen of the SFHM were also members of "Académie de Chirurgie" and thirteen chairmen of "Académie de Chirurgie" were also members of the SFHM. In conclusion some proposals of orderly meetings were made to steady the links between the two associations.