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• tbc king (though it does not appear he was ever much en- 

 gaged in the praftice of medicint), and the univerfity of Co- 

 penhagen appointed him chief infpector of their hbrary. Of 

 tliis accident he gave an accour.t the fame year in a fmall 

 work, intitled, " De Bibhothecs Iiicendio, Dinertatio ad 

 Fihos," complaining heavily of the malignancy of Vulcan. 

 Among the numerous manufcripts dtftroyed by the fire, he 

 laments in a particular manner thofc intended to elucidate 

 his " Antiquitates puerperii variarum gentium, imprimis 

 Romanorum.." " Opus (he fays in his letfer to his fons) 

 varia eruditione, nifi me fefellit opinio, refertum, cnjus pri- 

 ma lineamenta duxi annis abhinc triginta et amplius, fuafu 

 CI. Walla?i, qui id argnmentum deliderari monuit. Meur- 

 fius quidem, Grscs literaturx interpres Celebris, de Gra;- 

 corum puerperio folia tria olim publici juris fecit, fed nimia 

 brevitate leftorem curiofum fatiare non potcft. Ad plura 

 diejreiTus ego, qiiicqnid autorum veterum leCtio affidua, quic- 

 qnid philologorum aliorum obfervatior.ts, quicquid variarum 

 gentium i;i!tituta, mores, ritus, antiquitates fuppeditarunt, 

 quicquid ad hoc argijmentum illuflrandum Ebrasi doftores, 

 Grzci fapitntes, Rumani fcriptorcs conferre potuerunt, cum 

 delcftu ftlegi, ct fuo ordine rcddidi, grata et difFufa varie- 

 tatc nafcendi tempora percurrens, quid nempc ante nativita- 

 tem, quid in puerperio, quid pollea aclum fucrit. Ornarunt 

 librum julli magnitudinis, variae veterum infcriptiones, et 

 figurK paflim Rom^, Neapoli, Gaftss, Florentije, in Si- 

 cilia magno lludio a me colleftae ex ruderibus, et doflorum 

 virorum monumentis, fi indufias exigui tcmporis fata concef- 

 fiffent, fidem publico exfolvere potuifTem. Jam in ipfo 

 puerperio foetus, in partu laborans, exti.i£tus, Lucinam ini- 

 micam nunquam follicitsbit, nee profam nee poftvertam. 

 Abiit enim ilhic, unde negant redire qucnquam.." His fon 

 Cafpar, who had turned his attention to the fame fubjcd, 

 and probably copied many of the notes made by his father, 

 in fome fmall degree repaired the accident by adding them 

 with fome obfervations of his own to a new edition of his 

 father's works, which he publilhed in 1676. On which oc- 

 cafion the father writes (fee epiftle affixed to the work), 

 " eripuit mihi Vulcanus argumentum bene de publico me- 

 rendi, ut tihi occafionem prsberet caligine profunda vetuf- 

 tatis obduftam matenam propulandi. Ex meo infortur.io, 

 tibi gloria relifta videtur. Quemadmodum Saturnus in coe- 

 lo Paganorum cedere coaflus eft fillo Jovi, &;c." The re- 

 fpeft, however, that was everv where paid him, and the 

 letters of condolence he received from his numerous and learn- 

 ed conefpondents, feem to have foon confoled him ; as there 

 fcarce appears to have been any intermifiion in his labours, 

 evei-y year almoft to the end of his life producing fome new 

 publication. The titles of a few of his differtations, in addi- 

 tion to thofe already named, are here given •, for the rclf, 

 the reader is referred to Vander Linden de Scriptis Medicis, 

 but particularly to Haller's Bibl'oth. Anatom. the Bib. 

 Med. Praft. et Chirurg. in which ample lills of the titles of 

 the works, of the diiTerent editions they paflTcd through, 

 and analyfes of the contents of the moil valuable of them, 

 will be found. " Anatomica Aneurifmatis difTefti hiltoria," 

 Panormi, 1644, Svo." De Angina Pucrorum Campaniae, Si- 

 cili,Eque epidemica," Neapoh, 1646, 8vo. " De Luce Ho- 

 minum ct Brutorum," Leids, 1647, attempting to account 

 for the emiffion of light by putrid flelh. In a later edition 

 he adds, " et de raris et adniirandis herbis, quae rioftu lu- 

 cent." " Domus Anatomica HafFnienlis," containing a ea. 

 talogue of the anatomical preparations, machmes, &c. con- 

 tained in his cabinet, 1662, 8vo. " Ccnturia quatuor epif- 

 tolarum medicarum," containing his correfpondeiice with 

 the moft celebrated men of the age in which he lived. This 

 valuable coUedlion has been completed, and republilhi J .U th« 



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Hague in 1740, in five volumes, 8vo. " De infolitis par- 

 tus huniani viis," HaiTni^, 1664, 8vo. " A. colleAion of 

 hiftories of fcetufes voided by the navel, .;nus, et per'os 

 etiam, fi diis placet." " Hiftoriac Anatoniica;, Cent, vi." 

 Two centuries, forming two fmall volumes, were pubhfhed 

 at a time. Though fom.e of the obfeivations, taken on the 

 credit of other relaters, are apociyphal, and fhould not have 

 been admitted, the number of authentic and curious articles 

 contained in thefe volumes have ftamped a value on them 

 which time is not likely to obhterate. The lall work wc 

 fliall mention is the " Ada Medica et Philofophica Haffni- 

 enfia," of which four volumes in 4to. were publilhed by him, 

 the fifth and lall volume by his fon. He began making this 

 colleftion, which contains many of his own produdions but 

 a much larger proportion from correfpondents, foon after 

 his ret'.irn to Copenhagen, driven there by the deftruciion of 

 his library. As in all fimilar collections, amidft. fome very 

 valuable articles many infignificant and nfelefs pieces will be 

 here found. He died in 1680, leaving five fons and three 

 daughters. Two of the fons, Cafpar and Thomas, treading 

 in the fteps of their father, " at baud paffibus equis," con- 

 tributed to the collection laft named, and left other anata- 

 mical and medical works. Of the others we have no ac- 

 cour.t. Haller. Bib. Anat. et Bib. Med. Prad. Eloy. Did. 

 Hift. 



Bartholine, Era/mns, a younger brother of Thomas, 

 born at Rofchild, Auguft 13, 1625. Following the fteps of 

 his father and brother, he travelled through England, 

 France, Germany, and the Low Countries ; and having ac- 

 quired much valuable knowledge in natural philofophy and 

 in medicine, went to Leyden to perfed himfclf in thofe ftu- 

 dies, where he continued three years. In 1654 he went to 

 Padua, where he received the degree of dodor in medicine. 

 On his return to Copenhagen, he was appointed profefFor 

 in mathematics, aud was >;£warded with a feat in the grand 

 council of Denmark. Thefe honourable offices he continued 

 to fin with great credit to the time of his death, Nov. 5 

 1698. In the Ada HafF. vol.v. he gives an account of a quar- 

 tan fever, epidemic at Copenhagen in the year 1679, ''^hich 

 he cured in himfelf, as well as in many others, by giving a fin- 

 gle drachm of the Peruvian bark on the accefGon of the fe- 

 ver. In 1661 , he publilhed " De Figura Nivis DifTertatio," 

 with the obfervations of his brother Thomas on the ufe 

 of fnow in medicine; in 1664, " De Cometis," 4to. Haff- 

 nias ; in 1674, " De Natura Mirabilibus," alfo 4to. ; and in 

 1679, " De Acre Haffnienfis," Frank. 8vo. Albert, an- 

 other of the fons of Cafpar Bartholine, left behind him a 

 work, " De Scriptis Danorum," which was pubUlhed by 

 Thomas, at Copenhagen, 1666, 4to. 



Bartholine, Cafpar, eldeft fon of Thomas, was born at 

 Copenhagen in 1650; and treading in the fteps of his father 

 and grandfather, acquired almoft equal reputation with them. 

 Though acciifed of plagiarifm, and of affuroingto himfelf the 

 honour of difcoveries made by others, yet the merit of poffeff- 

 ing genius and induftr)- cannot be denied him. Indeed Haller, 

 who had fpoken I'ghtly of him at firll, on the authority of 

 Swammerdam aud Drelinccurt, treats him fome years after 

 (Bib. Med. Prad. V. 3. p.34. ) with morerefped, calLng him, 

 " Vir acuti ingenii, qui d; mum ad magnos hunores, et locum 

 hoooratum in rcgio minirterio emerfit." The earlv part of his 

 life was pafTed in travelling over foreign countries for the 

 acquiiition of knowledge ; and be had the hrppinrfs of affo- 

 dating with Ruyfh, Swammerdam, Duvernty, and other 

 celebrated anatomifts, all eagerly engaged in the fam.e pur- 

 fuit. Being at Rome on his travels, at the age of 22 he 

 publifhed in Latin, a learned and accurate trcatife on 

 the I'lUtes, or raihsr on the wind-inftrumsnti in general, 

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