DAZYR,VICQ INVENTOR OF OUR ACADEMY (1748- 1794)

Vicq d'Azyr (1748-1794) was the son of a norman physician. He was grad uated at the Paris university and obtained quickly a brilliant renown and career. During his whole life he continued studies on humain and a nimal anatomy. Member of Academie des sciences and Academie francaise, he was the queen's physician, superintendent for epidemies, and above all general secretary of the Societe royale de medecine. In that posi tion he kept a regular correspondence with a great number of physician s and surgeons in the Kingdom. They gave the Societe informations abou t epidemies and epizooties in relation with the climate, about economi c resources of the population, the quality of food supplies, the abili ty of health professionals, etc. The amount of the informations so col lected during sixteen years is considerable. Vicq d'Azyr also worked o ut a plan for setting up the medicine in the country. That plan was ba sed on public physicians in counties, districts and departments, givin g an <<academic body>> an account of their task. His vow was satisfied in 1820 when the Academie royale de medecine was founded.