The year 2023 was the eightieth anniversary of the defence, in 1943, of Georges Canguilhem’s doctoral thesis in medicine: Essay on some problems concerning the normal and the pathological. 2026 is the year for celebrating the 60th anniversary of its (en-larged) second edition published in 1966, by the Presses Universitaires de France, under the title On the normal and the pathological. This new edition was a significant event in the history of the book’s reception in France and beyond. Looking back 60 years later, the publishing history of Canguilhem’s “most famous” work also reveals a lesser known “face” of this author. Canguilhem was the Editor for the “Galien” collection at the Presses Universitaires de France, a collection that included this new edition of his own thesis published in 1966.