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whose early studies on the blood pressure and other 

 cardio-vascular problems contain so much that is sug- 

 gestive and valuable; author with Teissier, Vaquez, 

 Franc. ois-Franck and others, of " Clinique medicale de la 

 Charite" (8, Paris, Masson, 1894). LANCEREAUX, who 

 first suggested the relation of the pancreas to diabetes. 

 HUCHARD, student of diseases of the circulatory appa- 

 ratus. RICORD, whose contributions to venereal disease, 

 especially to the definite separation of syphilis and 

 gonorrhoea are, as Garrison has said, "memorable in 

 the history of medicine." FOURNIER, the famous syphil- 

 ographer. HANOT, well known for his studies on cirrhosis 

 of the liver, who, with Chauffard, first described pigmen- 

 tary cirrhosis. CHARCOT, probably the greatest clinician 

 of his day, whose earlier contributions on various branches 

 of general medicine were scarcely less valuable than his 

 classical studies upon nervous diseases which followed. 

 DIEULAFOY, student and successor of Trousseau, fascinat- 

 ing clinician, author of the well-known treatise on medi- 

 cine and of six volumes of clinical lectures. DUCHENNE of 

 Boulogne, the great neurologist; BRISSAUD, JOFFROY, 



GlLLES DE LA TOURETTE, LANDRY, and MORVAN, to 



mention but a few only of those who have made notable 

 contributions to neurology. 



PASTEUR, who opened the whole chapter of the rela- 

 tions of infection to medicine; whose service to mankind 

 looms larger with every addition which has been made 

 to our knowledge of infectious deseases. YERSIN, to 

 whom we are indebted for the sero-therapy and pro- 

 phylaxis of plague. 



These are but a few of the Frenchmen who within the 

 last century have contributed to the advance of medicine. 



Instruction. These men have had worthy successors; 

 and it may be well briefly to mention a few of the living 



