Medical Library and Historical Journal (Volume 2) (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. 1904. Excerpt: ... NICHOLAS STENO. Read to the Medical Students of the St. Louis University. By FRANK J. LUTZ, M.D., Professor of Surgery in the Medical Department of the St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo. The throng of the curious which day after day crowds the basilica of St. Lawrence at Florence rarely pauses in the vault beneath the fourth chapel to the left to read this inscription: Nicolai Stenonis Episcopi Titiopolitani Viro Deo pleni Quidquid mortale fuit, hic situm est. Dania genuit Heterodoxum Hetruria Orthodoxum Roma Virtute probatum sacris infulis insignivit Saxonio inferior Fortem Evangelii assertorem agnovit Demum Diuturnis pro Christo laboribus aerumnisque confectum Suerinum desideravit Ecclesia deflevit Florentia sibi restitui Saltem in cineribus voluit. A.D. MDCLXXXVII. Only few of those who tarry before the simple slab or who admire the marble bust by Vincenzo Consoni, which was placed in the basilica by the International Congress of Geologists in 1883, know that in the quiet tomb of the Medici one of the greatest scientists of the seventeenth century has now rested for more than two hundred years. The visitor to the land of Hamlet, as he meanders through the Anatomie of the Copenhagen University, will be confronted by this picture of a Catholic bishop and wonder why a churchman has been placed among such strange company. This sketch is based upon the life of "The Dane, Niel Stensen," by William Plenkers, S.J., Freiburg, 1884. We need not be surprised, however, at the general unconcern regarding the history of medical men when to the greatest number of those who daily pronounce the name of Steno, throughout all the lands in which anatomy is taught, it signifies little more than a short term by which custom designates the duct leading from the parotid gla...