Birth: October 6, 1783 Death: October 7, 1855
Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known….
In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishe….
Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I….
I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those laws which gover….