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Dr Georges-Fernand Dunot de Saint-Maclou... 

established the Bureau des Constatations Médicales in 1883, so that...

"no one, who thought he had been 'cured', 

would leave Lourdes without having submitted the story of his cure 

to a rigorous and collegiate medical assessment".

Bovendien werd in 1947 ook het Internationaal Medisch Comité van Lourdes opgericht:

"The members of the International Medical Committee of Lourdes have the task of assessing and, as may be the case, certifying that the course of the cure, which has been declared 'unexplained' by the Bureau des Constatations Médicales of Lourdes, is indeed unexplained on the basis of current medical knowledge.

The International Medical Committee of Lourdes (CMIL) has about thirty members. At the moment, it is jointly presided by the Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, Mgr Nicolas Brouwet, and by one of its members, Prof Olivier Jonquet, appointed by the Bishop for a renewable mandate. The President of the Bureau des Constatations Médicales is the Secretary of the Committee."

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