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the discoveries mikI ajiplicjitions of Ilitzig, Femer, and 

 Charcot ; of his hu«icr works, the Treatise on Tumors, and 

 the Treatise oil Aneurisms, still hold foremost rank. liroca's 

 devotion ti» anthropological studies, duriujLC the last twenty 

 years of his life, have tended to overshadow his work in 

 surgery and j>liysi(tloi::y. A _ij;oo<1 judm* said of him, that in 

 no eoiuitry or aui' had any man of thiity produced so much 

 of value in surnerv as he. 



lie was associated with l>eau and rxmamy in the pro- 

 du<tion (tf their si)lendi(l Atlas of De-^eriptive Anatomy, 

 and the third voluim- of that work. comiM-j^in^ s]ilan(hnol- 

 ojiy, is entirely his work. 



It is scarcely necessary to .^ay that thi> hrilliant com- 

 mencement of his career soon .settled the question of his 

 return to the hanks of the Dordoijjne. The father was 

 •proud of his son's success, and the <;ood mother, when told 

 of liis achievements, sacrificed her own wishes, as motliers 

 do, and .said, "my pride is gratified, hut not my heart." 



Honors continued to How in ujton him. He was made 

 secretary and then vice-president of the Anatomical Society; 

 secretary and then president of the .Society of Surgery. The 

 Academy of Medicine a<lmitted him in ISO*}; he was their 

 vice-pre.sident in ISSO, and president-elect for 18M. In 

 l.SrjT, the Faculty of Medicine appointed him to the chair 

 of pathology which he exchanged for that <if ilinii;il sur- 

 gery. 



It remains now to speak of BrocaV connection with the 

 Society of Anthropology of Paris. II.e was its founder and, 

 in the words of one of his jianc^gyrists, "the very soul of it 

 for one and twenty years." 



In 1.S47. he was one of a commission appointed i>> rx- 

 amine the bones discovered in excavations made in the 

 ancient church of the C'elestins. In drawing up this re- 

 ]»ort, (which was afterwards puldished in the first volume 

 of his Memoirs on Anthropology.) he was led to read all the 

 hooks he could find, and they were not many, ujX)n the sub- 

 ject of craniology. In those days ethnology was confined 

 to a narrow circle of iiKp.iiry. chiefly to debates upon mon- 



