The women of the salons, and other French portraits . —£/ - V/rv/////// . Tronch di day a wider influenceq than h,1, DiderHis fame-was not French, but European. Aimthe monarchs of the Continent were at some timeor another his patients. He was the most enlightenedmedical man of the eighteenth century. He was allhis life long fighting the ignorance and prejudice,almost universal at that date in his profession, Hepopularised innoculation in France. He flung openudows in Ye poor, stifling, mori- enjoy at bin, the good TRONCHIN: A GREAT DOCTOR As there are some celebrities whom posterity ho


The women of the salons, and other French portraits . —£/ - V/rv/////// . Tronch di day a wider influenceq than h,1, DiderHis fame-was not French, but European. Aimthe monarchs of the Continent were at some timeor another his patients. He was the most enlightenedmedical man of the eighteenth century. He was allhis life long fighting the ignorance and prejudice,almost universal at that date in his profession, Hepopularised innoculation in France. He flung openudows in Ye poor, stifling, mori- enjoy at bin, the good TRONCHIN: A GREAT DOCTOR As there are some celebrities whom posterity honoursunnecessarily, there are others whom it unduly these last is the Doctor Tronchin. Yet Tronchinhad in his own day a wider influence and a moredazzling renown than his_ friends and contemporaries,Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Grimm, and fame was not French, but European. Almost allthe monarchs of the Continent were at some timeor another his patients. He was the most enlightenedmedical man of the eighteenth century. He was allhis life long fighting the ignorance and prejudice,almost universal at that date in his profession. Hepopularised innoculation in France. He flung openthe windows in Versailles and let poor, stifling, mori-bund royalty enjoy at least the free air of was a practical influence upon thousands whowere unmoved by Jean Jacques passionate appealsto mothers and to the great Mother Nature fromwhom the Doctor learned almost all his art. Deeplyreligious in an age of


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