[The practice of medicine at the end of the Second Empire: according to a book, appearing in 1865, by Dr. Camille Delvaille, physician in Bayonne].

Dr Camille Delvaille (1835-1904) was a physician in Bayonne. He wrote many books about scientific problems and social medicine; he was one of the first to suggest medical control at school. In a book, written in 1865, he studied everyday practice in France. He complained against the "Officiers de Sante" who exercised medicine mainly in the countryside but were not doctors and had followed very short medical studies. Dr Delvaille deplored that it meant two kinds of cares: doctors for top people and Officiers de Sante for poor patients. In fact, the end of the Officiat de Sante occured only in 1892. Dr Delvaille studied also some problems related to medical demography; he purposed for our country a law cutting down foreign practice in France. Then, he put forward nomination of Professors or hospital's physicians through an examination instead of routine cooptation. Some of his minds are ahead and were applied later.