Claim: Sauveur François Morand became a demonstrator of surgery and was later appointed surgeon-major he also was a founding member of the Académie de chirurgie.
Evidence: In 1724 he became a demonstrator of surgery at the Jardin du Roi in Paris, followed by service as censeur royal and a surgeon at the Hôpital de la Charité (from 1730). He was later appointed surgeon-major of the Régiment des Gardes françaises (1739) and chief-surgeon at the Hôtel des Invalides. He was a founding member of the Académie de chirurgie (1731), and a member of numerous learned societies in Europe.