JUDICIAL CHRONICLE
THE GAMES OF MEDICINE AND LAW

...I am a disciple of Pascal, Descartes, Curie, Hertz, Messmer, Joan of Arc, Inaudi and Pasteur. Knock on my door, if you are suffering! My last thought is called love of humanity. ".
This is how Jean Savoye, known as Clément, boasted in his prospectuses, and he nevertheless found customers to whom he promised to restore their sight, if they were blind; to make them walk, if they were paralytic; to cure them of the tuberculosis which is eating away at them. Had he not, in an octavo of 412 pages, explained how he had discovered the means to transform humanity?
Two patients who remained refractory, and for good reason, having filed a complaint, Savoye was sentenced to one month in prison and a fine of three hundred francs for illegal practice of medicine. But the law can also work miracles
Illegal practice of medicine! supported Jean Savoye on appeal, through Me Jozkowski. I never studied medicine. I did not administer any drugs to my clients. I made magnetic passes in front of them on a magnet immersed in a glass of water, and I prescribed compresses of this water for them, their confidence doing the rest. Is it medicine? More charlatanism!
And the court, magnetized in turn, acquitted Jean Savoye.