Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Volume 14 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...never at a single bound raised itself to so great a height." In the preface to this treatise he speaks of the methods of study which have led him to the results set forth in the work. How modern arc his words "Experiments on living animals, tests with various reagents on organized tissues, dissections, necropsies, observation of man in health and disease, these are the sources from which I have drawn; they are those of nature. Nor have I neglected those of the authors, especially of those for whom the science of the animal economy has been a science of facts and experience." Nature was indeed his text-book, and on one occasion he is reported to have said, "If I have made such rapid headway, it is because I have read little." TM "Bichat has just died at the age of 30; he has fallen upon a field of battle which, also, calls for courage, and which counts many a victim; he has broadened the science of medicine; no one at his age has done so many things and done them so well." And Napoleon, wishing to honor both Bichat and his master, wrote to the Minister of the Interior: "I beg that you will have placed in the Hotel Dieu a marble dedicated to the memory of Citizens Desault and Bichat which shall attest the gratitude of their contemporaries for the service which they have rendered, one to French surgery, of which he is the restorer, the other to medicine, which he has enriched by many useful works. Bichat would have broadened the domain of this science, so important and so dear to humanity, if pitiless death had not struck him down at the age of 30." The monumental stone upon the wall of the peristyle of the Hotel Dieu has for an inscription an extract from this memorable letter. 1 Anatomle etfnfrale &c, p. lxxi...