. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. > UJ h w UJ iRRATUM. PAGE 71. Le Ferme General should readLa Ferme Generate.: ( 71 ) Is it then true, that the exercise of all the social virtues, the rendering ofimportant services to ones country, a career usefully employed for advancing the progressof the arts and extending the boundaries of human knowledge, do not suffice to preserveone from a sinister end, and to avoid perishing on the scaffold like a c
. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. > UJ h w UJ iRRATUM. PAGE 71. Le Ferme General should readLa Ferme Generate.: ( 71 ) Is it then true, that the exercise of all the social virtues, the rendering ofimportant services to ones country, a career usefully employed for advancing the progressof the arts and extending the boundaries of human knowledge, do not suffice to preserveone from a sinister end, and to avoid perishing on the scaffold like a culprit 1 These are the words written by Lavoisier a few clays before hisexecution. There was born at Paris on August 26th, 1743, one who made thename of Lavoisier immortal. He was educated at first for the law, butsoon natural science attracted him, and he studied botany underB. de Jussieu and chemistry under Rouell. Like another of hiscompatriots—CI. Bernard—and many men of science, he composed adrama. He was admitted to the Academy of Sciences on June 1st,1768 (eet. 25). He married in 1771, and all went well until therecame with awful suddenness his tragic end. We pass ove
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