348 ANNOTATED LIST OF PERSONS 



Beohachtung iibcr Generatio aequivoca," is in Pogg. Annalen 

 dor Physik u. Chemie, Bd. 39, Leipzig, 1836, pp. 487-489. 

 Schutzembach, ( ). German chemist. 



Sedillot, Charles Emmanuel (1804-1883). French surgeon. Born in 

 Alsace. Served in the war of 1870 as surgeon. Introduced the 

 word microbe (C. R. de I'Acad. des Sci., March 11, 1879). The 

 following is one of his aphorisms: "Le succes des operations depend 

 de I'habilete du chirurgien. Le revers accusent notre ignorance 

 ou nos fautes, et la perfection est le but de I'art." 



Sevigne, Madame Marquise de, nee Marie de Rabutin-Chantal (1626- 

 1696). Parisian of the time of Louis XIV. Greatest, with perhaps 

 the exception of Voltaire, of all French letter writers. For a por- 

 trait see Abry, p. 189. 



"Sa correspondence est un tableau fidele de la societe et des moeurs 

 du XVIIe siecle ; c'est un journal des faits les plus interessant des 

 quarante plus belles annees du Siecle de Louis XIV. C'est surtout 

 un des monuments de la literature frangaise." (Larousse: Grand 

 Diet, universel du XIXe Siecle.) 



Signol, Jean Jules (1841-1904). French veterinarian. Signol's 

 confusing discovery in relation to anthra.x was announced in 1875. 



Spallanzani, Lazzaro (1729-1799). Italian phj-siologist, naturalist, abbe, 

 and traveler. Educated at Bologna. Professor of logic, meta- 

 physics and Greek in Reggio ; then of natural history, first in Univer- 

 sity of Modena (1760-1769), afterward in University of Pavia. 

 One of the most perspicacious minds of the 18th century. It is 

 said that we owe to him our first exact notions of circulation of the 

 blood, digestion, respiration and generation in plants and animals. 

 In 1785 he fertilized eggs by means of spermatozoa. For 

 portrait see Iconogr. di uomini sommi nelle scienze e nelle arti 

 italiane. Napoh, Soc. Editrice (1854) pi. 69. 



Stahl, George Ernst (1660-1734). German chemist and physician. 

 Opposed Hoffmann and developed a doctrine of psychic influence 

 known as animism. Professor in Halle. Physician to the Iving 

 of Prussia. His "Zymotechnica fundamentalis seu fermentationis 

 theoria generalis" was published at Halle in 1697. For portrait 

 see Pagel, p. 18. 



Strauss, Isidor (1845 ). French physician and pathologist. Pro- 

 fessor of comparative and experimental pathology in Paris. Co- 

 operated with Chamberland in studies on transmission of anthrax, 

 and with Roux, Nocard and Thuillicr on cholera in Egypt. Wrote 

 on cholera in Toulon (1884), etc. For portrait see Pagel, p. 1670. 



Susani, Guide ( ). Italian silkworm proprietor. Published 



several papers on silkworms in Milan, 1870-72. Entertained 

 Pasteur. 



