A doctor's table talk / by James Gregory Mumford.

James Gregory Mumford

Date:: 1912

Credit: A doctor's table talk / by James Gregory Mumford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$read and write, and perhaps some slight tincture of the Latin — though he seems to have lost that later. We find him next in Paris, a young man of twenty-three, attending lectures on anatomy at the University, having served an apprenticeship to a barber-surgeon, name unknown. The training was hard and crude enough, — long hours, con- stant work, little leisure, and blows for recompense. The lectures, too, must have been a sorry farce, for besides anatomy, the teacher expounded the writ- ings of De Chauliac on wounds, tumors, and ulcers, with a few remarks on fractures and dislocations. ‘The honor of the University forbade a professor to speak French, and the apprentices did not understand Latin’ (Paget). “By this time the old King Louis XII was eight- een years dead, and his cousin, Francis I, married to Louis’s daughter Claudia, was on the throne. It was a reign of many wars, furnishing abundant practice for the budding surgeon. “This early portion of Fare’s life was constantly busy and constantly progressive. He was a keen, ambitious, highly intelligent man; kindly, affec- tionate, generous; undismayed by great names and pomposities; familiar early with human weak-$

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