Annals of medical history . tawhich overfills the brain and thus preventsthe animal spirits from becoming distrib-uted, the latter making every effort toescape from those places in which it hasbecome imprisoned, so that the nerves, fromtheirvery origin, suffer from violent jerks in order to eliminate that which is injuriousto them. (2) Epilepsy may also be due to avapor derived from a cold poison which,after having been distributed through-out the entire body, finally insensiblyreaches the brain, which then undertakesto defend itself against this invasion, butthe greater the thinness of the va
Annals of medical history . tawhich overfills the brain and thus preventsthe animal spirits from becoming distrib-uted, the latter making every effort toescape from those places in which it hasbecome imprisoned, so that the nerves, fromtheirvery origin, suffer from violent jerks in order to eliminate that which is injuriousto them. (2) Epilepsy may also be due to avapor derived from a cold poison which,after having been distributed through-out the entire body, finally insensiblyreaches the brain, which then undertakesto defend itself against this invasion, butthe greater the thinness of the vapor, themore easily will it penetrate the cerebralsubstance. After these remarks the author pointsout that several great men have been thesubjects of epilepsy, among others beingHercules, Csesar and Mohammed. SuchisthePsedotrophia of the famousScevole de Sainte-Marthe. This excellentpoem is a perfect work from the view pointof poesy, while in many respects it is veryinteresting from the standpoint of thehistory of Mark of Giunta, from Mercurialis, , 1603. GUY PATIN AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN PARIS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY By FRANCIS R. PACKARD, M. D. PHILADELPHIA, PA. (Concluded) THE PHYSICIANS OF PARIS VERSUS THOSEOF MONTPELLIER In a letter to Belin, June 9, 1644, Patinsumming up his opinion of Renaudot, says: The Gazetteer could not confine himself tomedicine, which he never practiced, havingalways sought to make his hving by some otheroccupation such as schoolmaster, author, pedant,spy on the Huguenots, gazetteer, usurer,chemist, etc. The occupation he followed lastwas the practice of medicine, which he neverknew; he is a braggart, and an ardeho, of whomthe crest has been lowered by the decree whichwe, the Facuke de Medecine, have not obtainedby our power but by the justice and goodnessof our cause, which was founded on a pohcynecessary in so great a city against the irrup-tion of so many barbarians who have practicedswindhng here in place of medic
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