Toulouse. Professor Jacques Arlet has passed away
Professor Jacques Arlet died this Sunday, November 28 in Toulouse in his 102nd year. Jacques Arlet, an adopted Toulousain, but of Périgord family, arrived in the Pink City, by the chances of the free zone during the period 39-45, where he continued his medical studies and met his wife. A pupil of Prof. RIser, he worked as an external and intern at Hôtel-Dieu and was at the origin of the creation of the specialty of rheumatology. The places of hospital doctor being rare at the time when there was only one hospital in Toulouse, he first participated in the creation of the Pasteur Clinic with, among others, the future professors Eschapasse, Bollinelli, and Calazel, his closest friends. He was then able to join the new Rangueil hospital as Professor of Rheumatology where he was a pioneer, with his orthopedic counterpart, Professor Ficat, in the field of bone circulation, until his retirement in 1989. It was then that he undertakes a second life, just as rich, as a writer, mainly interested in the history of Toulouse with a last and 18th volume for his hundred years: “The hundred marvels of Toulouse”. His artistic practice is also expressed through painting and music. The medical writer was also Maintainer of the Floral Games, Knight of the Legion of Honor and Officer of the Academic Palms.