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Émile Forgue
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Émile Auguste Forgue (29 December 1860 – 1 February 1943) was a French surgeon.
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Born | (1860-12-29)29 December 1860 |
Died | 1 February 1943(1943-02-01) (aged 82) |
Nationality | French |
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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]