[Docter François Miramond de Laroquette (1871-1927). Second part]

In the last issue ofVesalius, vol. XIII, No 1 p 34-39, we considered the life and work of Dr Miramond de Laroquette up to 1911. This second part takes up the story in Algeria, where he continued his military and research careers. In Algeria, country of the sun, Dr Miramond de Laroquette continued, naturally, with his work on heliotherapy. During the First World War he was at the front in Picardy and in Lorraine, where he took care of the wounded and wrote an Atlas of electro-diagnosis and therapeutics, published in 1918 and translated 2 years later by an English nurse. He left the army in 1922 and became a radiologist in Algiers, writing articles on radiology and radiotherapy. In 1923 the Ministry of the Armed Forces brought out a collection of the numerous publications on heliotherapy that he had published previously.