Annals of medical history . The Old General Hospital, York (Toronto) as When Occupied uv theGovernment of CanadaIt was built 1820-4; occupied by Provincial Legislature 182J-8; used as ahospital 1829-55, and for Government ofliccs 1856-9. A SIXTEENTH CENTURY LATIN POEM ON THE DISEASES OF NURSLINGS: PAEDOTROPHIA, BY SC^VOLE DESAINTE-MARTHE* BY CHARLES GREENE CUMSTON, M. D. Lecturer on the History of Medicineuniversity of geneva, geneva, switzerland INTRODUCTION SCEVOLE de Sainte-Marthe was bornon February 6, 1536. He belonged toan illustrious family of Poitou, whichhad given a great number of me


Annals of medical history . The Old General Hospital, York (Toronto) as When Occupied uv theGovernment of CanadaIt was built 1820-4; occupied by Provincial Legislature 182J-8; used as ahospital 1829-55, and for Government ofliccs 1856-9. A SIXTEENTH CENTURY LATIN POEM ON THE DISEASES OF NURSLINGS: PAEDOTROPHIA, BY SC^VOLE DESAINTE-MARTHE* BY CHARLES GREENE CUMSTON, M. D. Lecturer on the History of Medicineuniversity of geneva, geneva, switzerland INTRODUCTION SCEVOLE de Sainte-Marthe was bornon February 6, 1536. He belonged toan illustrious family of Poitou, whichhad given a great number of mendistinguished in letters, the sciences andpublic functions during the sixteenth andseventeenth centuries, to ScEvoLE De Sainte-Marthe(1536-1623) In his youth Scevole displayed propen-sities for study which indicated that hewould equal, or even surpass, his eminentancestors, and in reality, having been placedunder the guidance of no lesser men thanTurnebec, Muret, Ramus and Duarin, he sogreatly profited by their instruction that * Read at the annual meeting of the Society ofMedical History of Switzerland, Berne, August24-25,1922. he became a new star in the legal firmamentof France. Scevole de Sainte-Marthe, whose realname was Gaucher, which he exchangedfor that of Scevole (of which Scaevola is theLatin translation), was surveyor-general offinance of Poitou and afterwards presidentof the paymasters of France. Sincerely devoted to Henri iii and Henri ivof France, he opposed the Leaguers andwas present at the Etats de Blois, likewiseat the Assembly of Notables in appointed mayor of Loudun, hewas regarded as The Father of his NativeCity. From the pen of Scevole we have Gall-orum doctr


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