A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . Bichat. most industrious men are able to accomphshin a score of years. He completed (1795) the fourthvolume of the Journal de Chirurgie de Desault;edited the Oeuvres chirurgicales de Desault, in threevolumes (Paris, 1798-1799); and wrote and pubhshed abook entitled Traits des membranes (Paris, 1800),another entitled Les Recherches physiologiquessur la vie et la mort (Paris, ISOO), a third on generalanatomy (Paris, 1801), and a fourth on descriptiveanatomy (Paris, 1
A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . Bichat. most industrious men are able to accomphshin a score of years. He completed (1795) the fourthvolume of the Journal de Chirurgie de Desault;edited the Oeuvres chirurgicales de Desault, in threevolumes (Paris, 1798-1799); and wrote and pubhshed abook entitled Traits des membranes (Paris, 1800),another entitled Les Recherches physiologiquessur la vie et la mort (Paris, ISOO), a third on generalanatomy (Paris, 1801), and a fourth on descriptiveanatomy (Paris, 1S01-1S03). And while he wasdoing this prodigious amount of literary work heattended almost daily to his duties as a hospital Ehjsician, responded to the numerous calls made uponis time and strength by his private patients, per-formed over six hundred autopsies, and lectured tothe students of the L^niversity. The natural resultof this burning the candle at both ends was thatBichats strength, shortly before his death, was almostcompletely exhausted; and one day, while he wasdescending one of the stone staircases of Hotel-Dieu,. he fell and probably struck upon his head. Fourteendays later (Jidy 22, 1802) he died. Bichat was not only a man of great intellectualcapacit}, he also possessed traits of character thatendeared him to all who came in contact with him;he was modest, perfectly frank, kindly, and of agenerous disposition. A. H. B. Bienaise, Jean.—Native of M^zieres, France, inwhich town he was born about the year 1601. Dezei-meris (Diet. Hist, de la Med.) says that he was one ofthe boldest and yet at the same time most skUfuloperators of the seventeenth century. Called inconsultation to see Anne of Austria, widow of LouisXIII. of France, who was affected with cancer of , he did not hesitate to proclaim to her boldlythat all the promises of a cure wliich the charlatansof that day had made to her, were purely vanity,and that some measure of alleviation was all that
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