Annals of medical history . some other attribute than that to whichhe personally would ha\ e wished the greaterimportance attached. Baylc, in his Dictionnaire Biograjihiciuewarns that it is necessary to read hisletters with distrust because most ol the Letter to S|)i)n, Nuvc-mIxT 8, Li-ttcr of January 8, 1650. .36 Guy Patin and the Medical Profession in Paris in the Senenteenth Century 137 political and literary anecdotes in them arefalse or ill-founded, and Voltaire says ofthem, His collection of letters has beenread with avidity because it contained new-anecdotes which everybody loves
Annals of medical history . some other attribute than that to whichhe personally would ha\ e wished the greaterimportance attached. Baylc, in his Dictionnaire Biograjihiciuewarns that it is necessary to read hisletters with distrust because most ol the Letter to S|)i)n, Nuvc-mIxT 8, Li-ttcr of January 8, 1650. .36 Guy Patin and the Medical Profession in Paris in the Senenteenth Century 137 political and literary anecdotes in them arefalse or ill-founded, and Voltaire says ofthem, His collection of letters has beenread with avidity because it contained new-anecdotes which everybody loves, and satireswhich one loves even more. It serves toshow how much contemporary authors whowrite precipitately the news of the day are undergone many vicissitudes in the variouseditions in which it has been preserved tous. Triaiie,- in the preface to the editionwhich he undertook to puJilish in 1907 andwhich he intended to be complete anddefinitive, summarily ! reviews the manydefects which appertain to each of savs:. )vx)Lau ct PI ofcjjor 9ic^uu^(1602-1672J unfaithful guides for history. Such news isso often false or disfigured by malignity,moreover this multitude of petty details isscarcely of value save to small minds. These criticisms may be true as to thehistoric vahie of Patins letters, nevertheless,as pictures of the life of the day they areinvaluable and it must be rememberedGuy did not purpose writing history whenhe penned them. As occurs with all unauthorized or surrep-titious publications the correspondence has The editors have not contented themselveswith throwing aside at their convenience aconsiderable quantity of unpublished docu-ments, but they have also not hesitated tosuppress numerous passages in those which theyhave published. They have gone further yetand have not recoiled before alterations of the Note. The engraving of Guy Patin appearing onthis page is reprinted from the engraving wiiichappeared in Annah oj Medical History, Vol. I, , facing pa
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