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Situated at 16Rue Bonaparte in the6th arrondissement of Paris, theAcadémie nationale de médecine (French pronunciation:[akademinasjɔnaldəmedəsin], "National Academy of Medicine") was created in 1820[1] by KingLouis XVIII at the urging of baronAntoine Portal. At its inception, the institution was known as theAcadémie royale de médecine (orRoyal Academy of Medicine). This academy was endowed with the legal status of two institutions which preceded it—theAcadémie royale de chirurgie (orRoyal Academy of Surgery), which was created in 1731 and of theSociété royale de médecine (orRoyal Society of Medicine), which was created in 1776.
Academy members initially convened at theParis Faculty of Medicine (orFaculté de Médecine de Paris). Four years later, the academy acquired its own headquarters, in the form of a mansion in the rue where it was located until 1850. The office was then relocated to a vaulted hall of theHospital of Charity on rue Saint Pierre.
Their current facility onRue Bonaparte was designed by the French architect Justin Rochet, and was constructed between 1899 and 1902.
In addition to Medicine, the academy has also been known to concern itself with access thereto.[2]
As of 2020, Maurice Tubiana is the president of the academy.[3]
The institution name has been changed several times since its creation. The following provides a timeline for the various names taken on by the institution:
Theedict of 1820 (formally known asOrdonnance de 1820) was signed by Louis XVIII. The edict issued the following missions to the Académie Royale de Médecine:
" This Academy is especially instituted to respond to all requests coming from the government on all subjects that may concern public health, and mainly on epidemics, diseases specific to a country, epizooties, diverse fields of legal medicine, propagation of antivariolic vaccination, appraisal of new and secret, internal as well as external, medications, natural or man-made mineral waters, etc..."
"The Academy will moreover take charge of the works of the Companie royale de médecine and the Académie Royale de chirurgie in all fields of study or research which can contribute to the improvement of the art of healing."
Consequently, all registers and papers belonging to the Companie royale de médecine and the Académie Royale de chirurgie and related to the tasks assigned to the Academies, will be transmitted as Archives to the new academy."
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