reme Court
of Aids at Montpellier, but he soon took up his residence in Paris, having
been nominated consulting physician to the king.

On the outbreak of the French Revolution he lost much of his fortune and
retired to Carcassonne, where he devoted himself to the study of
theoretical medicine. It was from this retreat that he gave to the world
his _Nouvelle mecanique des mouvemens de l'homme et des animaux_, which
appeared in 1798. In 1802 he published his _Traitement des maladies
goutteuses_, and he afterwards occupied himself in preparing for the press
a new edition of his _Elemens de la science de l'homme_, of which he just
lived to see the publication. His health had been declining for some years
before his death, which took place soon after his removal to Paris, on the
15th of October 1806. He bequeathed his books and manuscripts to J. Lordat,
who published two volumes of his _Consultations de medecine_ in 1810. His
_Traite du beau_ was also published posthumously in 1807.

BARTHOLINUS, GASPARD [CASPAR BERTHELSEN], (1585-1629), physician, was born
in 1585 at Malmo, in Sweden. His precocity was extraordinary; at three
years of age he was able to read, and in his thirteenth year he composed
Greek and Latin orations and delivered them in public. When he was about
eighteen he went to the university of Copenhagen and afterwards studied at
Rostock and Wittenberg. He then travelled through Germany, the Netherlands,
England, France and Italy, and was received with marked respect at the
different universities he visited. In 1613 he was chosen professor of
medicine in the university of Copenhagen, and filled that office for eleven
years, when, falling into a dangerous illness, he made a vow that if he
should recover he would apply himself solely to the study of divinity. He
fulfilled his vow by becoming professor of divinity at Copenhagen and canon
of Roskilde. He died on the 13th of July 1629 at Soro in Zeeland.

Of his sons, Thomas (1616-1680) was born at Copenhagen, where, after a long
course of study in various universities of Europe, he was appointed
successively professor of mathematics (1647) and anatomy (1648). During his
tenure of the latter chair he distinguished himself by observations on the
lymphatics. In 1661 he retired to Hagestaed. In 1670 his house and library
were burnt, and in consideration of his loss he was appointed physician to
the king, with a handsome salary, and librarian to the university of
Cope