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Mauritius, to encounter an epidemic of cholera. There he slaved 

 manfully, for which a gold medal was afterward struck for him. 

 That over with, he embarked in 1852 for New York, without a 

 word of American, learning English on board. This was the first 

 of a series of voyages. As he often boasted, he crossed the ocean 

 sixty times, not a bad record for the days when the Mauretania 

 was still in the womb of time. He made a hopeless failure out 

 of practice in New York, became so poor as to practice obstet- 

 rics at five dollars a case, and married a niece of Daniel Webster. 

 Then he went back to Paris. Back to America next as Professor 

 of Physiology at the University of Richmond, Virginia, a job 

 occupied for a few months only because of his opinions on 

 slavery, ostensibly anyhow. 



To Paris then the rolling stone meandered again. So that 

 soon after he was offered and accepted the charge of a great 

 newly opened hospital for epileptics in London. That proved 

 merely an interlude and in 1863 we find him back in his father- 

 land (if we may hold France his motherland) as Professor of 

 Neuropathology at Harvard. In New York fame preceded him 

 now with a thousand trumpets, so that on the day of his arrival, 

 he was kept busy seeing patients until night, when he had to 

 desist because of exhaustion. But still he did not prosper. An 

 unfortunate second marriage almost broke his heart, and an at- 

 tempt to found in New York a new medical periodical, the 

 Archives of Scientific and Practical Medicine and Surgery, got 

 him into hot water. Not until the death of Claude Bernard in 

 1878 left vacant the chair of physiology in the College of France, 

 did he find peace and rest. He hastened to Paris, was appointed, 

 and lived, in spite of the most erratic of existences, to the ripe old 

 age of 78, working up to the last minute. 



Addison's monograph stimulated Brown-Sequard, in the year 

 after its printing, to reproduce the fatal disease experimentally 

 by excising the suprarenal capsules in animals. Addison was 

 very modest in his monograph. He stated that the first case of 

 the malady had been reported by his great predecessor at Guy's 

 Hospital, London, Richard Bright, the describer of Bright's 

 Disease. Then he talks about the "curious facts" he had 

 "stumbled upon" and refers to an "ill-defined impression" that 

 these suprarenal bodies, in common with the spleen and other 

 organs, "in some way or other minister to the elaboration of the 

 blood." In the preface to his work he had spoken more confi- 



