Annals of medical history . one pound hfts up1000 lbs. owing to its distance from the pivotand its varying way of descent, whetherstraighter or more curhng, and how all thefine lines of ships and machines ought to bemade. Whence I consider that this knowledgegained by experience of weights is most usefulfor all geometrical arts. Orator. Now you have sufficiently ex-plained the appropriate reasons for weights ofthings being taken on a balance, and regis-tered one after another and over and over again. For it seems a book Hke that would be mostuseful and sought after among distinguishedmen, so t
Annals of medical history . one pound hfts up1000 lbs. owing to its distance from the pivotand its varying way of descent, whetherstraighter or more curhng, and how all thefine lines of ships and machines ought to bemade. Whence I consider that this knowledgegained by experience of weights is most usefulfor all geometrical arts. Orator. Now you have sufficiently ex-plained the appropriate reasons for weights ofthings being taken on a balance, and regis-tered one after another and over and over again. For it seems a book Hke that would be mostuseful and sought after among distinguishedmen, so that in different regions its contentsmay be authenticated and unified, that we maybe led more easily to the knowledge of manythings hitherto concealed from us. I certainlywill not delay from hastening it in every If you love me, be dihgent—farewell—Thanks be to God. The book of the layman concerningexperiments with weights is finished, onthe day of Fabian, 13th September. Nicholas, Cardinal of St. GUY PATIN AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN PARIS IN THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY By FRANCIS R. PACKARD, PHILADELPHIA, PA. INTRODUCTION ^HE formerly so-cclebrated corres-pondence of Guy Patin, and evenhis name have fallen recently . into such undeserved oblivionthat it seems timely to the writer that anattempt should be made to revive interestin this famous old French worthy, whoseletters written during a period of overforty years (1630-1672) give us such aninvaluable picture of the life of the times,not only from the medical point of viewbut in all its aspects mihtary, religious,pohtical and courtly. As the great Frenchcritic, Sainte-Beuve, wrote of Patins letters: One finds in these letters, bon mots, the newsof the day, many curious details on the litera-ture and learned men of the time, above all alucid and natural manner, with free, boldtraits, which point to the life, the mind, thegenius of the author. It is a conversationwithout design, without pretention
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