Sketches of the character and writings of eminent living surgeons and physicians of Paris / translated from the French of J.L.H.P., by Elisha Bartlett.

Date:
1831
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    their places, and Deneui, Fizeau, Guilbert, Bougojv, &c, men who were more ready than their predecessors, to bend the pliant hinges of the knee, I Where thrift might follow fawning, were rewarded with the vacant professorships. M. Chaussier was guilty of assisting in the establishment of the School, during the Revolution. Pinel was suspected of cherishing liberal opinions and philanthropic sentiments. M. Desgenettes had followed the usurper in most of his campaigns; he had received from him honors and rewards; he had been distinguished with his friendship and had cured republican soldiers. M. Pelletan was gifted with an elo- quence that might be dangerous ; had held places under the repub- lic, and had received from an emperor the cross of the Legion of Honor; while M. Dubois had, with unparalleled effrontery, at- tended the birth of an imperial infant! Such were the crimes of which this illustrious brotherhood were individually guilty. They were accordingly driven from their stations, and their places were filled by men of little celebrity and of less desert. These men, and the ministers who appointed them to office, our author lashes with unsparing and well merited severity. There is little doubt that they are now involved in the fallen for- tunes of their royal master and his worthy associates, and that the School of Medicine at Paris, with all the institutions of regenerate France, has re-assumed its rank, and re-asserted its long violated rights.—[Trans.]