DESGENETTES AND LARREY, FRANCE’S MOST CELEBRATED MILITARY SURGEONS

Chapter XXIV. Military Surgery in France, as represented by Desgenettes and Baron Larrey[241]

BOOK XIII

A FEW OF THE IMPORTANT HOSPITALS AND THE PRINCIPAL ORGANIZATIONS IN PARIS FOR TEACHING MEDICINE AND MIDWIFERY

Chapter XXV. Hospital of “La Maternité,” the Great French Midwifery School[253]
Chapter XXVI. Further Details Concerning the Paris Faculté de Médecine and Concerning some of the Larger Hospitals of Paris[258]
Chapter XXVII. Armand Trousseau, one of the last of France’s Great Clinical Teachers[265]
List of the More Important Authorities Consulted[271]
General Index[277]
Footnotes[300]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, the French chemist and biologist who contributed more than anyone else to our knowledge of the chemistry and physiology of oxygen. (Copied from the frontispiece of Volume I of Lavoisier’s “Works,” published by the French Government in 1864.)[Frontispiece]
Loudun. This photograph, which was taken from one of the highest points in the village of Loudun, shows its elevated position above the surrounding country and affords a bird’s-eye view of the adjacent river, the Martray. (Courtesy of Monsieur le Pasteur Paul Barnaud, of Sainte Foy la Grande [Gironde], France.)[4]
Cardinal Duc de Richelieu. (From a portrait engraved on copper by Nanteuil in 1655.)[6]
Statue of Théophraste Renaudot at Loudun, France. (Courtesy of Monsieur le Pasteur Paul Barnaud, of Sainte Foy la Grande [Gironde], France.)[8]
Hufeland. (From Eugen Hollaender’s “Medizin und Plastik,” by permission.)[28]
Albrecht von Haller[34]
Vignette from the title-page of Haller’s “Elementa Physiologiae,” Lausanne, 1757[36]
Gerard Freyherr Van Swieten[60]
Medal commemorating the discovery of vaccination. (From Eugen Hollaender’s “Medizin und Plastik,” by permission.)[108]
Edward Jenner. (Copied from Thomas J. Pettigrew’s “Medical Portrait Gallery,” London, 1838. The original portrait was painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Royal Academy.)[110]
Sir Astley Cooper. (Copied from a print in the possession of the New York Academy of Medicine.)[136]
William Hunter. (Copied from Thomas J. Pettigrew’s “Medical Portrait Gallery,” Fisher & Son, London, 1838. The original portrait was painted by Pyne; the engraving was done by J. Thomson.)[140]
John Hunter. (Copied from Thomas J. Pettigrew’s “Medical Portrait Gallery,” London, 1838. The original portrait was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds; the engraving was done by G. H. Adcock.)[144]
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart., F.R.S., Sergeant Surgeon to the Queen. (Copied from Thomas J. Pettigrew’s “Medical Portrait Gallery,” London, 1838. The original portrait was painted by H. Room; the engraving was done by J. Brain.)[148]
Sir Charles Bell. (Copied from a print in the possession of the New York Academy of Medicine.)[154]
Bichat[162]
Costume worn by Paris physicians in the eighteenth century. (From Alfred Franklin’s “La Vie Privée d’Autrefois,” Paris, 1892.)[172]
Gaspard Laurent Bayle[182]
A candidate for the degree of “Doctor of Medicine” defending his thesis before the examining committee of the Paris Faculty of Medicine. (From “La Vie Universitaire,” Paris, 1918.)[184]
Corvisart. (Copied from an old French print in the possession of the New York Academy of Medicine.)[188]
Laënnec. (Copied from an old French print in the possession of the New York Academy of Medicine.)[196]
The Faculté de Médecine and the Cathedral at Montpellier, France. (Courtesy of Monsieur le Pasteur Paul Barnaud, of Sainte Foy la Grande [Gironde], France.)[198]
The “Court of Honor” of the Faculté de Médecine at Montpellier, France. (Courtesy of Monsieur le Pasteur Paul Barnaud, of Sainte Foy la Grande [Gironde], France.)[200]
Montpellier. Vestibule of the Faculté de Médecine at Montpellier, France. (Courtesy of Monsieur le Pasteur Paul Barnaud, of Sainte Foy la Grande [Gironde], France.)[202]
Charles A. P. Louis[204]
Broussais[208]
Jean-Louis Petit[216]
Dupuytren[226]
Desgenettes[242]
Baron Larrey[244]
Eighteenth-century plan showing the relations of the Paris École de Médecine to Hôtel-Dieu, the Cathedral of Nôtre Dame and the River Seine. (Reduced copy of the cut printed in Franklin’s “La Vie Privée d’Autrefois,” Paris, 1892.)[258]
Side of the Paris Faculté de Médecine which fronts on the Rue de l’École de Médecine. (From “La Vie Universitaire.”)[260]
View of the former École de Médecine since it has been incorporated with the new structures of the Faculté de Médecine. (From “La Vie Universitaire.”)[260]
Musée Dupuytren. Formerly the refectory of the Convent of the Cordeliers (Franciscans), in the fifteenth century. (From “La Vie Universitaire.”)[260]
Device of the École de Médecine de Paris. (Adopted by the Faculty in 1597.) (Three storks, each holding a twig of origanum in its beak; and at the top of the design the motto “Urbi et Orbi Salus” [Health to the City and to all the World].)[262]
Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris. Planned and drawn by Claude Chatillon, architect, in 1608. (Copied from Tenon’s “Mémoires sur les Hôpitaux de Paris,” Paris, 1816; reduced about one-half.)[264]
Trousseau[266]
Velpeau. A contemporary of Trousseau and one of France’s most distinguished surgeons. (Copied from a print in the possession of Transylvania College, Lexington, Kentucky.)[268]

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