. Annals of medical history. ds the progress of the stone. I got thishint from Monsieur Langon of one voided on the Puy de Dome waslarge, long and flat, neither hard nor soft. MONTAIGNE AND DEATH During the eleven years of life thatremained to him after his return from Italy,Montaigne was occupied with his officialduties in Bordeaux, with annotating andexpanding Books i and n of his Essays, andwith the composition of Book iii. He diedin his beloved chateau, September 13, 1592,and was buried in the church of the Feuil-lants, Bordeaux. For three days before he died Montaignewas unable
. Annals of medical history. ds the progress of the stone. I got thishint from Monsieur Langon of one voided on the Puy de Dome waslarge, long and flat, neither hard nor soft. MONTAIGNE AND DEATH During the eleven years of life thatremained to him after his return from Italy,Montaigne was occupied with his officialduties in Bordeaux, with annotating andexpanding Books i and n of his Essays, andwith the composition of Book iii. He diedin his beloved chateau, September 13, 1592,and was buried in the church of the Feuil-lants, Bordeaux. For three days before he died Montaignewas unable to speak and had to make hiswishes known by signs or written nature of his disability is not clear. Theactual cause of death is given as a quinsyaccompanied by paralysis of the tongue. 344 Ajvials of Medical Hislury Did he have Angina Ludovici, was hemerely afflicted with a comphcatingaphonia,was there a true edema of the glottis due toextension of the inflammation from neigh-boring tissues or to a manifestation of. Site of the original burial place f M it a_ne in the apse ofthe church of the Feuillants, Bordeaux. chronic disease of the kidneys in whichmuch tissue change must have resultedfrom the many stones harbored by them?We do not know. At all events he had friends and neighborsaround him and a priest administered thesacraments so that Montaigne passed awayin the conventional and accepted mannerand perhaps this demise was more in har-mony with the spirit of the real, inner manthan the casual reader of his essays mightsuspect. Certainly he always professed abelief in God and a respect for the Churchin its great essentials. In this he was neitherillogical nor superstitious. Montaigne fullyappreciated that the infinite is unknowable and that to comprehend God, or even to becapable of a perfectly spiritual conceptionof Him is impossible. Besides this, he real-ized, with truly scientific insight, that anyultimate explanation of physical phenomenais beyond us. His scep
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