Letters from foreign lands . no longer drive theirVesaliuss to ItahT, nor give over theirServetuss to the stake. They have moremen like Rene Descartes who, diplomatic-alh, seek to promote truth without court- 97. 98 ing martyrdom. He had the courage todefend Harvey, to teach evolution, todevote his life to the promotion of scientificphysiology, and yet he was trained andraised as a Jesuit. His cogito ergo sumis still the despair of materialism—a pithystatement of fact that no opponent has everbeen able to refute. He helped bridge thegreat chasm between past and present waysof thinking in both
Letters from foreign lands . no longer drive theirVesaliuss to ItahT, nor give over theirServetuss to the stake. They have moremen like Rene Descartes who, diplomatic-alh, seek to promote truth without court- 97. 98 ing martyrdom. He had the courage todefend Harvey, to teach evolution, todevote his life to the promotion of scientificphysiology, and yet he was trained andraised as a Jesuit. His cogito ergo sumis still the despair of materialism—a pithystatement of fact that no opponent has everbeen able to refute. He helped bridge thegreat chasm between past and present waysof thinking in both medicine and philoso-phy. His body, like that of Columbus, hasbeen tossed about bv the exigencies ofpolitics, but the black marble tablet, in thechurch of St. Germain-des-pris, thatmarks his last resting-place, should bevisited by medical tourists who hold inrespect the great men who have helpedcreate modern medical science. There are a good man}- such spots inParis. In the court of the Ecole de Medi-cine is a bronze statue in memory of Bichatthat the}- should see. He was known asThe Napoleon of Medicine, and hisAnatomie general laid the foundationstones of scientific pathology. He firstdifferentiated a
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