[Jean-Charles Sournia's role and the medical terms].

Not only J. Ch. Sournia's stayed in the Middle East but his feeling for foreign languages allowed him to acquire a wide-ranging knowledge in languages and civilisations. So, after he has been elected Member of "Académie Nationale de Médecine", he became the Chairman of the Language Committee. He directed the edition of the Dictionary of the Academy of Medicine he could not lead to its achievement. As an enthusiastic and smart scholar, J.-Ch. Sournia carried on the idea of a humane practise of medicine. He often thought of the future and the evolution of medicine and his successors have to carry on his work.