Émile Forgue

Émile Auguste Forgue (29 December 1860 – 1 February 1943) was a French surgeon.

Émile Forgue
Born	(1860-12-29)29 December 1860 Briançon, France
Died	1 February 1943(1943-02-01) (aged 82) Mirepoix, France
Nationality	French

In 1893 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Montpellier with the thesis Distribution des racines motrices dans les muscles des membres.^[1] 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.^[2][3]

With urologists Leopold Ritter von Dittel and Felix Legueu, the "Dittel-Forgue-Legueu operation" is named, a procedure used for closure of vesicovaginal fistulae.^[4]

Selected works

• Traité de thérapeutique chirurgicale, 1892 (with Paul Reclus) – Treatise of surgical therapy.
• Guide pratique du médecin dans les accidents du travail, suites médicales et judiciaires, 1905 – Practical guide for the physician in regards to occupational accidents, medical and legal actions.
• Le diverticule de Meckel (appendice de l'iléon) son rôle dans la pathologie et la thérapeutique abdominales, 1907 – Meckel's diverticulum (appendice of the ileum) its role in pathology and abdominal therapy.
• Précis de pathologie externe, 1908 – Specifics of external pathology.
• Gynécologie, 1916 – Gynaecology.
• Théophraste Renaudot, créateur du journalisme en France : une grande figure de l'école médicale de Montpellier, 1927 – Théophraste Renaudot, creator of journalism in France: a great figure of the medical school of Montpellier.
• La rachianesthésie, sa valeur et sa place actuelle dans la pratique, 1930 – Spinal anaesthesia, its value and its present place in practice.
• Précis d'anesthésie chirurgicale; anesthésies générale, rachidienne, locale, 1934 – Precise surgical anesthesia; general anesthesia, spinal, local.
• Les pestiférés de Saint-Jean d'Acre et de Jaffa : un épisode de la vie de Desgenettes : expédition d'Egypte, 1938 – The plague of Saint-Jean d'Acre and Jaffa: an episode in the life of René-Nicolas Dufriche Desgenettes: Egyptian expedition.
• Les "pièges" de la chirurgie en diagnostic et thérapeutique; erreurs et fautes ou faits présumés tels, conditions et limites de la responsabilité, 1939 – The caveats of diagnostic and therapeutic surgery; errors, mistakes or presumptions, conditions and limits of liability.^[1][5]