Annals of medical history . of his niece. He recounts withgreat satisfaction that it was Lilio, aRoman physician, and not Greg-ory XIII, who reformed thecalendar. It wasnt sowith the Greeks, Voltaireadds; with them theglory of the inventionremains with the art-ist. In sending his por- fltrait in 1775 to Dr. J. 0B. Silva (1682-1742),first doctor to theQueen, who had at-tended him, he in-cluded these verses: At the shrine of Epidau-us it was etiquetteto bring An image of the person\\ hom the gods hadcured or saved; So to Silva, who in mas-tering death has likea god behaved, We should offer the s
Annals of medical history . of his niece. He recounts withgreat satisfaction that it was Lilio, aRoman physician, and not Greg-ory XIII, who reformed thecalendar. It wasnt sowith the Greeks, Voltaireadds; with them theglory of the inventionremains with the art-ist. In sending his por- fltrait in 1775 to Dr. J. 0B. Silva (1682-1742),first doctor to theQueen, who had at-tended him, he in-cluded these verses: At the shrine of Epidau-us it was etiquetteto bring An image of the person\\ hom the gods hadcured or saved; So to Silva, who in mas-tering death has likea god behaved, We should offer the same thing. O Modern Esculapius, I owe my days to you And you look upon your handiwork in seeing meanew. He tells us that Theophraste Renaudot(1586-1653) the founder of the Gazette deFrance,1 published thirty-four years (1631)before the first Oxford Gazette, was a doctor. 1 These early gazettes, like the Roman Ada Diurna,contained official announcements of current information came directly from Von Haller, the great man without humor He forgives J. B. Morin (1583—1656), who cast the horoscope of Louis XIV. He wasa savant in spite of the prejudices of thetimes, he exclaims. Of G. Patin (1602-1672) he says that he was more famous forhis letters than for his medicine. Thisman seems to prove that those who hastilywrite up current events are misleadinghistorians. It is the letters of Patin, whowas Dean of the Paris Faculty, whichGarrison cited as showing the sterileinefficiency of the internists of theseventeenth century. Through Voltaires worksallusions to medicine andphysicians abound. Inwriting of physicians,he says, The smallnumber of great phy-sicians who came toRome were , to the GrandSeigneurs of Rome,a doctor became aluxury like a rich man hadin his suite, perfu-mers, bathers, musi-cians and doctors. Thecelebrated Musa,physician to Augus-tus, was a slave. Hewas given his freedomand made a RomanKnight, and fromthen on, med
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