LIFE AND WRITINGS OF BECLARD. 7 



1815. He also communicated at this time, several facts of 

 pathological anatomy, that he had observed in the dissecting 

 rooms of the Practical School. 



A competition then arose for the place of second surgeon 

 of the Hotel-Dieu, and Beclard, for the first time, was unsuc- 

 cessful in this kind of contention: Mr. Marjolin was his op- 

 ponent. As the two Candida* e., however, had contended for 

 the victory, with equal merit and talents, Beclard was appoint- 

 ed surgeon to the Hospital of La Pitie. He had already ac- 

 quired a considerable skill in the art of Part and of T. L. Petit, 

 under a master who loved him tenderly, and with whom 

 he was afterwards united by the most affectionate ties of friend- 

 ship. Dubois had taught him operative surgery, at the school 

 of Perfectionnement) and it is not astonishing, that Beclard 

 should have soon developed a talent truly surgical, to which, 

 however, his natural dexterity, and his daily habit of dissec- 

 tion, had already predisposed him. 



In 1816, he became a member of the Philomatic Society, 

 and he gave, for the first time, a course on General Anatomy. 

 In 1817, appeared his researches on the wounds of arteries. 

 The experiments of Jones, in England, were scarcely known, 

 when our anatomist thought it proper to give them a trial, and 

 the result of his labours confirmed the conclusions drawn by 

 the English experimenter. This memoir is to be found among 

 those of the Soci&te d* Emulation, of which he was a mem- 

 ber. In 1818, he published with Mr. J. Cloquet, a transla- 

 tion of Lawrence's treatise on hernia. 



It was also during the same year, that the faculty of medi- 

 cine, of Paris, received him as one of its members. This 

 memorable event in the life of Beclard, in adding new lustre 

 to his reputation, inspired him with the noble ambition of 

 rendering himself equal in talent to the celebrated professors 

 of that faculty, old in glory and experience. Thus, did we 

 see him redouble his efforts, in order to fulfil with dignity and 

 talent, the chair which had been entrusted to him. The eager- 

 ness with which the students attended his learned courses on 

 Anatomy, was the best pledge of the propriety of the selec- 

 tion the faculty had made, of this remarkable man. 



