ABSTRACT
Some years after the Java expedition, and in the wake of the French Revolution,1 there was founded in Paris by Ministerial decree the Society of the Faculty of Medicine. A forerunner to the French Academy of Medicine, it numbered among its membership twenty-six professors, sixteen associates and various other savants. The Society set out with the goal of furthering the cause of medical research and disseminating truthful medical knowledge throughout society, thus building a scientific edifice fit to stand on the ruins of the old France alongside the new systems of law, government and education now being set up.
