Mathieu Geraud proposed the setting up of a Health Court (Tribunal de Salubrite) where a prosecutor would denounce `any person who, without having given proof of his ability, exercises upon another, or upon an animal that does not belong to him, anything pertaining to the direct or indirect application of the art of health';`' the decisions of this court concerning professional abuses, inadequacies, and imperfections should constitute the jurisprudence of the medical state.