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and spirit of these lectures, may be obtained from a very faithful and 

 aj^preciative report of a portion of them published by Latour in three 

 volumes in 1836, under the title of Cours de Pathologie Interne. 



At the height of his fame, Andral was without question the grandest 

 professor in the Faculty at Paris, then the most renowned in the 

 world. 



Andral married the daughter of the celebrated Royer-Collard, by 

 whom he had one son, Charles Guillaume Paul Andral, born June 13, 

 1828, now Vice-President of the Council of State, and an eminent 

 member of the French bar. In 1866, his wife becoming ill of a pain- 

 ful and incurable disease, Andral gave up his extensive practice, his 

 professorship, and high scientific positions, and retired while in the 

 full possession of his physical and mental powers to Chateauvieux, her 

 family country-seat, there to devote himself entirely to her necessities 

 and comfort, — a self-sacrifice worthy and characteristic of his affec- 

 tionate nature, and well-known goodness of heart. 



A few months after the death of his wife, Andral came up to Paris, 

 temporarily, to revisit the scenes of his former labors and triumphs. 

 In the chilly court of the Institute, he was seized with bronchitis, which 

 in a few days terminated his life. Thus he died, as he had always 

 wished, in his native city. 



His obsequies were attended by distinguished statesmen, deputations 

 from the Institute, the Medical Faculty, and the Academies, a military 

 body-guard from the Legion of Honor (in which he was a Commander), 

 and a host of eminent associates and friends, who, to the number of 

 more than a thousand, in spite of a furious storm, overcrowded the 

 church of St. Pierre-de-Chaillot, in their earnest desire to pay him the 

 last tributes of affection and respect. 



THE MAKCHESE GINO CAPPONI. 



On the 5th of February, of the present year, Florence put on 

 mourning for her illustrious son, Gino Capponi. Clothed in the simple 

 dress of a " Brother of Mercy," his body lay for several hours of that 

 day exposed to public view in a hall on the ground fioor of the palace 

 of his family, and was thence followed to its last resting-place by min- 

 isters, magistrates, senators, deputies, and persons specially deputed 

 to represent tlie most eminent literary and artistic bodies of the 

 States. The telegraph brought messages of condolence to the Syndic 



