Interstate medical journal . al career had been ended. It is well known that theinstrument was called the Louisette, after the permanent secretaryof the Academy of Surgery of Paris, and also Mirabelle, after Mira-beau, the orator of the French Revolution. In spite of these well-knownand oft-reiterated facts, this same historic error has been and is beingrepeated abroad, as well as with us, almost daily. In the Bulletin of theJohns Hopkins Hospital for July, 1906, Dr. J. Chalmers DaCosta, in his readable sketch of Baron Larry, repeats it. Peper, inthe Journal of the American Medical Association
Interstate medical journal . al career had been ended. It is well known that theinstrument was called the Louisette, after the permanent secretaryof the Academy of Surgery of Paris, and also Mirabelle, after Mira-beau, the orator of the French Revolution. In spite of these well-knownand oft-reiterated facts, this same historic error has been and is beingrepeated abroad, as well as with us, almost daily. In the Bulletin of theJohns Hopkins Hospital for July, 1906, Dr. J. Chalmers DaCosta, in his readable sketch of Baron Larry, repeats it. Peper, inthe Journal of the American Medical Association, January 4th, 1908, isguilty of the same mistake; even the great historian, Professor Pagel,of Berlin, an honorary member of the St. Louis Medical History Club,calls him the inventor of the guillotine and detracts additionally from *A sketch read at a meeting of the St. Louis Medical History Club held underthe auspices of the St. Louis Medical illustration of instrument, page 342. 342 INTERSTATE MEDICAL JOURNAL. Copy of Henry Aldegrevers copperplate engraving which bears the date of1553 and represents the death of the son of Titus Manlius, by an instrumentin principle identical with the guillotine, though somewhat more decorated. LUTZ: GUILLOTIN 343 his reputation by telling us, in common with Saucerotte, that he haswritten nothing. But perhaps we should not wonder at this when we recall what an-other of his great countrymen, Victor Hugo, says: There are unfor-tunate men: Columbus could not attach his name to his discovery andGuillotin could not detach his from his invention. The origin of the word guillotine, newly coined as associated withthe decapitating machine, is traceable to the doggerel of a royalist news-paper which was devoted to satirizing those then in power in the Journaldes Actes des Apotres. The following lines are said to have beenwritten by a member of the French Academy; they were sung after awell-known minuet melody, and appeared in its tenth nu
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