Émile Forgue, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Émile Forgue

Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1860

Place of Birth: Briançon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Date of Death: 01-Feb-1943

Profession: surgeon

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Émile Forgue

  • Émile Auguste Forgue (29 December 1860, in Briançon – 1 February 1943, in Mirepoix) was a French surgeon. In 1893 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Montpellier with the thesis Distribution des racines motrices dans les muscles des membres.
  • In 1896 he obtained his agrégation for surgery, and later on, became a professor of operative medicine (1891–1930) and clinical surgery (from 1895) at Montpellier.
  • In 1899 he became a correspondent member of the Académie de Médecine.
  • In 1924 he was appointed director of the Centre anticancéreux de Montpellier.With urologists Leopold Ritter von Dittel and Felix Legueu, the "Dittel-Forgue-Legueu operation" is named, a procedure used for closure of vesicovaginal fistulae.

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