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PRESENTATION OF "THE HUMANITARIAN WORK OF THE FRENCH NAVAL AND COLONIAL HEALTH SERVICES"

"Real progressive people are those whose starting point is ingrained in a deep respect for the past. All our achievements and what we are, constitute the outcome of a work conducted throughout the (…)

Article published on 12 January 2024

last modification on 15 February 2024

RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSIONS

"If there is something that ennobles and justifies colonial expansion", said Lyautey, "it is medical activity considered as a mission or an apostolate". The objective assigned to medical action in (…)

Article published on 27 January 2024

last modification on 7 March 2025

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FRENCH COLONIAL DOMAIN

In the course of four centuries, French colonial expansion has gone through two periods : The first starts in 1534 under François I. It ends (…)

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NAVAL HEALTH SERVICE

The Navy is the first of the armed forces to provide itself with a legal and well-defined Health Service, Its honourable status dates from the (…)

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THE FRENCH COLONIAL MEDICAL CORPS

The Colonial Medical Corps was composed of physicians, pharmacists, management officers and nurses the last ones being non commissioned officers (…)

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MEDICAL SPECIALTIES

Besides the great tropical endemics, the Colonial Health Service must obviously deal with the whole of cosmopolitan pathology which, in particular (…)

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NATIVE STAFF

The practice of medicine is not something one does alone but the work of a team which will have more members as the tasks to be accomplished (…)

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TROPICAL ENDEMIC DISEASES

An endemic disease is a medical condition which is entrenched in a region, in a country or in a continent. This implies that there is a reservoir (…)

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THE MEANS

At the end of the nineteenth century, as colonisation progresses, physicians realise the magnitude of the problems they are faced with and make an (…)

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RESEARCH

Clinical research cannot be dissociated from medical practice. Every patient is unique but, most of the time, the symptoms observed can be (…)

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INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THE UNIVERSITIES

After the Second World War, at the time of the creation of the United Nations Organization and its different sections, especially the World Health (…)

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DOCUMENTATION CENTRES

The Colonial Health Service, following on the Marine Health Service, organizes, from the beginning, scientific communication through "learned (…)

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GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Published on 31 January 2024

There are many books reporting this humanitarian action and some of them are quoted on this site. Some have historical characteristics, others are (…)

THE MARINE MUSEUM IN FREJUS

Published on 31 January 2024

Opened on the 2nd of October 1981, The Museum of the Naval Troops in Fréjus reserves an important place, among its contents, for the Colonial (…)

THE REVIEW "MEDICINE TROPICALE"

Published on 31 January 2024

The review "Médicine Tropicale", published today by the Institute of Tropical Medicine of the Military Health Service, is the product of a long (…)

THE CENTRE OF DOCUMENTATION OF THE SCHOOL OF APPLIED MEDICINE OF THE HEALTH SERVICE OF COLONIAL TROOPS

Published on 31 January 2024

On the 30th of October 1905, the decree that leads to the creation of the School of Applied Medicine of the Colonial Health Service states the (…)

APPENDIX

Published on 31 January 2024

QUALIFIED UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS (AGREGES) (Speciality and Place of Work)

Physicians and chemists who passed the competitive civil examination (…)

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS UNIVERSTIES

Published on 31 January 2024

The hazards in the careers of physicians and chemists of the Colonial Health Service and their individual competence cause many of them to be (…)

THE I.O.T.A. - THE INSTITUTE OF APPLIED TROPICAL OPHTHALMOLOGY

Published on 31 January 2024

To intensify the fight against tropical eye diseases, in particular Trachoma, "The French West African Institute of Trachoma" is provisionally (…)

THE BOTANICAL GARDENS OF THE NAVAL HOSPITALS

Published on 31 January 2024

Originally the idea was to grow medicinal plants so they could be studied, classified and experimented so as to define their therapeutic (…)

USEFUL TROPICAL PLANTS

Published on 31 January 2024

While accompanying colonial expeditions, Health Service officials discover an unknown world of plants of which they will make an inventory. The (…)

THE NATURALISTS

Published on 31 January 2024

NATURALISTS OF THE NAVAL HEALTH SERVICE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

The great maritime expeditions of the first half of the nineteenth century, (…)