[Amédée Latour (1805-1882) Physician, journalist, mutualist]

AmedéeLatour (1805-1882), native Toulousain and grand-son of a professor of medicine, came to Paris to study, prior to support his doctoral thesis in 1834, bringing his "Proposals on art cure ". He has not practiced much medicine in Paris, but quickly focused toward medical journalism, writing articles in various scientific publications, particularly L'Union médicale from 1847 to 1882. He acquainted with several prominent medical doctors of the nineteenth century, especially Professor Andral. General Secretary of the French medical Congress in 1845, he was also the initiator and founder of the Social Security Association provident and mutual aid doctors in France. Member of the Public Health Advisory Committee, he was elected partner of the Academy of Medicine in 1870. Furthermore, from March to May 1870 AmedéeLatour became a refugee in his modest country house in Châtillon-sous-Bagneux and wrote a personal journal called "Journal of the bombing from April 4 to May 28", published in L'Unionmédicale the next July. He was able to describe the consequences of the bombing in his city of adoption during the Parisian insurrection, and his role as doctor and member of the city council during this period. He was buried in the cemetery of the city.