Émile Forgue

Émile Auguste Forgue (29 December 1860 – 1 February 1943) was a French surgeon.

In 1893 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Montpellier with the thesis Distribution des racines motrices dans les muscles des membres.

In 1899 he became a correspondent member of the Académie de Médecine.

In 1924 he was appointed director of the Centre anticancéreux de Montpellier.

[2][3] With urologists Leopold Ritter von Dittel and Felix Legueu, the "Dittel-Forgue-Legueu operation" is named, a procedure used for closure of vesicovaginal fistulae.