The first of these was the Societe de Sante, founded on Germinal Year with Desgenettes, Lafisse, Bertrand Pelletier, and Leveille; in principle, it was intended to serve only as a free, neutral organ of information: rapid communication of observations and experiments, knowledge available to all those concerned with the art of healing, in short, a sort of great clinic on a national scale, which would do no more than observe and practise.