Editing Louis-Ferdinand Céline (section)

===Becoming a doctor (1918–1924)===
In March 1918, Céline was employed by the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] as part of a team travelling around Brittany delivering information sessions on tuberculosis and hygiene.<ref name="McCarthy27">{{Harvp|McCarthy|1976|p=27}}</ref> He met Dr Athanase Follet of the Medical Faculty of the University of [[Rennes]] and soon became close to Follet's daughter Édith. Dr Follet encouraged him to pursue medicine, and Céline studied for his baccalaureate part-time, passing his examinations in July 1919. He married Édith in August.<ref>{{Harvp|Vitoux|1992|pp=114-125}}</ref>

Céline enrolled in the Medical Faculty at Rennes in April 1920, and in June, Édith gave birth to a daughter, Collette Destouches. In 1923 he transferred to the University of Paris, and in May 1924 defended his dissertation ''The Life and Work of [[Ignaz Semmelweis|Philippe-Ignace Semmelweis]]'' ''(1818–1865)'', which has been called, "a Célinian novel in miniature".<ref>{{Harvp|McCarthy|1976|p=31}}</ref><ref>{{Harvp|Vitoux|1992|pp=131-136}}</ref>