He did not think in making this verse, that the Parisians would one day engrave his name with his last words on the marble of his statue as witness for future generations that the memory of Rabelais must never be effaced. [THE END.] _Reprint from The Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic, December 1, 1888 to February 16, 1889._ FOOTNOTES: [1] The Mahometans considered dissection of the human cadaver not only as an impious act, but also forbid its practice by their religious dogmas. They believed that the soul, after death, did not suddenly abandon the body, but withdrew itself gradually, until it left the limbs and finally entered the thoracic cavity. Thus the body could not be dissected without suffering. However, osteology was not neglected, and studies were made on the bones gathered in cemeteries. [2] The romance of Dolopatos or the Seven Sages is the work of a Troubadour of the twelfth century, named Herbers. The origin of this poem seems to date back to Indian literature. [3] The words are in old French and therefore not easily translated: “Vous avez oi la novelle Tandis com li plaie est novelle Lors pust estre mieux garie Que lors quant elc est envieillie.” etc., etc. [4] This famous poem, by Perrot de St. Cloof, as a work of imagination, is considered the most remarkable literary monument of the Middle Ages. [5] The reader of old French can translate the following lines at his leisure: La pie avoit tel meschief, Et la Jambe si boursoufflee, Si vessiee et si enflee Si pleine de treus et de plaies; In’il i avoit, ce croi, de naies Et d’estoupes demi giron, Boue et venin tout environ, De toutes parts en saillait fors. —_Gautier de Conisi._ [6] In the _Miracles de Saint Louis_ we find the history of a cure effected through the royal touch. This cure affords an illustration of how the monks wrote medicine in the thirteenth century. The disease resulted in this patient from white swelling of the left knee. The following is the veracious chronicle: “About the year of Our Savior 1174, before the Feast of St. Andre, one Jehan Dugue of the town of Combreus, in the Diocese of Orleans, was attacked by inflammation of the left leg near the knee. Several openings were observable in the flesh, which was soft and rotten above and below the joint.” [7] Bachelor was in other times a title of chivalry or a University degree. The word was derived from the Latin _Bachalarius_. The word was not introduced into France until the sixteenth century. Under the name _bachelor_ or _bachelard_ were afterwards known all young men in the army studying the profession of arms, or sciences or arts. [8] See the oath taken by Christian apothecaries and those that fear God, prescribed by the _Procureur General_, Jean de Resson, _Institutions Pharmaceutique_, 1626.