Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon on the times of Louis XIVand the regencyTranslated and abridged by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, from the edcollated with the original manuscript by MChéruelIllustrated with portsFrom the original . much deformed, al- p ysician. most fleshlcss, extiemely delicate and subject to attacks of epilepsy, was a difficult case, to use thesurgical term. Nevertheless he was cured, thanks to hisown composure and to the skill of his surgeon, whoextracted from him a very large stone. This operationmade Mar^chal soon after surgeon-in-chief to the king,who had felt the utmost
Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon on the times of Louis XIVand the regencyTranslated and abridged by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, from the edcollated with the original manuscript by MChéruelIllustrated with portsFrom the original . much deformed, al- p ysician. most fleshlcss, extiemely delicate and subject to attacks of epilepsy, was a difficult case, to use thesurgical term. Nevertheless he was cured, thanks to hisown composure and to the skill of his surgeon, whoextracted from him a very large stone. This operationmade Mar^chal soon after surgeon-in-chief to the king,who had felt the utmost uneasiness about Fagon, inwhom for his own health he placed implicit gave Marechal one hundred thousand francs on thisoccasion. Mme. de Maintenon, who sought to hold theking by every avenue and considered that of physician-in-chief held by a skilful man of intelhgence to be oneof the most important, especially as the king grew olderand his health feebler, had succeeded at last in persuadinghim to take Fagon. Fagon was one of the finest andbest minds in Europe, — eager about everything that relatedto his profession; great botanist, good chemist, an ableconnoisseur in surgery, excellent physician, and a fine. tJi^ <i<«^3?yv^^ Cf^^ 1702] MEMOIRS OF THE DUG DE SAINT-SIMON. 247 practitioner. Moreover, he knew much besides; no betterphysician than he, but he also understood well the dif-ferent divisions of mathematics. Very disinterested; anardent friend, but an enemy that never forgave; he lovedvirtue, honour, courage, knowledge, industry, raerit; andalways tried to uphold them, without other cause or in-terest, and he never failed to fall pretty roughly on thosewho opposed them, as if they were personally opposing him-self. He was dangerous because, though very enlightened,he was easily prejudiced about anything, and once prejudicedhe scarcely ever got over it; but if by chance he did so heacted with the best faith in the world, and did all he couldto repai
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