Doury P
Institution nationale des Invalides, Paris.
Hist Sci Med. 1994;28(2):161-6.
In June 1912, Lyautey was called to Marocco as "Résident général". His first decision, before his arrival in Marocco, at Fès, was to require an important additional quota of physicians. He received each of them, in order to verify their moral and professional capacity to assume their charge. Lyautey knew that he must contribute to the modernization and development of this very old, fascinating and glorious nation, which was no longer suited to the modern time. Among the necessary and urgent actions, the medical one seemed to be the more important. Lyautey had found with Henry Foley, all the essential qualities to manage the medical assistance service for marocan populations. But Foley refused to be with Lyautey in Marocco, because he was working in the saharian city of Beni-Ounif, on different subjects as exanthematous typhus, recurrent fever ... He had discovered in 1908, the role of lice in the transmission of recurrent fever in Beni-Ounif, one year before the discovery of this role in exanthematic typhus by Charles Nicolle. But the relation proved by not yet published correspondence, was not broken off between Foley and Lyautey.
1912年6月，利奥泰被任命为驻摩洛哥的“总驻地长官”。在抵达摩洛哥的非斯之前，他做出的第一个决定是要求大幅增加医生配额。他逐一接待了这些医生，以核实他们承担职责的道德和专业能力。利奥泰深知，他必须为这个古老、迷人且辉煌但已不再适应现代的国家的现代化和发展做出贡献。在诸多必要且紧急的行动中，医疗行动似乎最为重要。利奥泰发现亨利·福利具备管理摩洛哥民众医疗救助服务所需的一切基本素质。但福利拒绝与利奥泰一同前往摩洛哥，因为他当时在撒哈拉城市贝尼乌尼夫工作，研究不同的课题，如斑疹伤寒、回归热……1908年，他在贝尼乌尼夫发现了虱子在回归热传播中的作用，比查尔斯·尼科尔发现虱子在斑疹伤寒传播中的作用早一年。不过，尚未发表的信件证明，福利和利奥泰之间的关系并未断绝。
