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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
the Greeks; at least, Hippocrates (B. C. 460) does not refer to it and did not practise it. Celsus notices it (A. D. 30). Cautery, pitch, etc. were used to arrest the bleeding. The needle and ligature were introduced about 1550, by the French surgeon Pere. He was surgeon to Henry II., Francis II., Charles IX., and Henry III. of France, and though a Protestant was concealed in the king's chamber on the night of St. Bartholomew. The king is said to have remarked, There is only one Pere. A coPere. A complete set of surgical instruments of bronze was discovered at Pompeii. The tourniquet was invented by Morelli in 1674. Basso-relievos in the temples of Karnak, Tentyra, and Luxor show that the ancient Egyptians performed amputations of limbs, without the tourniquet, however, or the mode of ligating the severed arteries; it is merely a cutting and sawing, followed by the cautery, styptics, or compress. The chirurgeon of ancient times was principally employed in reducing fractures and luxa
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
ed the Bibliotheque Imperiale, also the Hotel des Monnaies, and the Institution des Sourds-Muets. At the latter I was much struck by the deaf and dumb, who had learned to articulate simply by watching the lips of a person who spoke; dined with Appleton, where I met Captain Lynch, William F. Lynch (1805-1865), explorer of the Dead Sea. who told me many pleasant things of Ferruk Khan, the Persian ambassador. May 16. Visited the Bibliotheque d'arsenal, then the chatteau at Vincennes, then Pere la Chaise; dined at the Cafe Anglais as the guest of a few Americans here. May 17. Through the kindness of Comte de Kergorlay, attended a concert of about twelve hundred voices of young musicians under the auspices of the city of Paris; Orpheon sous la direction de M. Ch. Gounod. dined wit Michel Chevalier; at dinner was a Russian prince, also the famous Émile Pereire, 1800-1875. the head of the Credit Mobilier; afterwards went to Comte de Montalembert; he was unwell, but I saw his wif
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn, History of Mount Auburn. (search)
History of Mount Auburn. The celebrity attained by Mount Auburn, pronounced by European travellers the most beautiful Cemetery in existence, and which, perhaps, without assuming too much, may be called the Pere la Chaise of America,--the extraordinary natural loveliness of the spot,--the admirable character of the establishment which is there maintained,--the fact that this was the first conspicuous example of the kind in our country,--these, with many others we might mention, are considernsecure and temporary at the best, while the nature of the erection makes it impossible to avoid, after a time, some inconveniences, inconsistent with the general good appearance of the Cemetery. These must be understood by those who have visited Pere la Chaise. On this point, a correspondent of one of the Boston papers some years since, remarks as follows: It is a part of the original design of this establishment, though not an obligatory one, that interments shall be made in single or s
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn, Appendix I: General Dearborn's Report. (search)
nths of summer, to enjoy the cool breezes, which descend from the Euxine, or are wafted over the waves of the Propontis. Throughout Italy, France and England, there are many cemeteries which are ornamented with forest-trees and flowering shrubs. Pere la Chaise, in the environs of Paris, has been admired, and celebrated, by every traveller who has visited that beautiful garden of the dead. In Liverpool a similar burying-ground was completed three years since, and a meeting has recently been ntral area are to be exact models of the superb temples, triumphal arches, columns and public monuments of Greece and Rome, as receptacles or memorials of departed worthies of the empire. The establishment of rural cemeteries similar to that of Pere la Chaise, has often been the subject of conversation in this country, and frequently adverted to by the writers in our scientific and literary publications. But a few years since, a meeting was held in Boston, by many of its most respectable cit
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn, Monuments. (search)
ce with fervent and confiding piety, he strove for many years against sickness, to be useful in the church. His last hours were characterised by serenity and blissful anticipation. A full believer in the doctrines of grace, he died, as he lived, in the faith of his fathers. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John, XVI, 33. Samuel H. Stearns. The remains of Mr. Stearns were transiently deposited, we believe, in the Cemetery of Pere la Chaise. The name in this case reminds us that it is understood some memorial, other than yet exists, will be erected over the remains of Asahel Stearns, of Cambridge, who died in February, 1839, aged 64 years; not unknown in political life, for he was a Member of Congress during one session of that body, but more distinguished by professional ability and success. During two years he was Professor of Law in Harvard University, and for nineteen years he was County Attorney for Middlesex
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn, Miscellanies. (search)
is to emulate Mount Auburn in its way, for nature, and the love of it, are all it needs. All? I think I hear some reader say. Where, then, are your great names? The church-yards of England and other lands are full of such. See how the dust of Pere la Chaise teems with them! What monuments-what historical and classical accumulations-what scholars, conquerors, and bards-what hints and helps to patriotism, and perseverance and high ambition! Aye, and to other feelings, I fear, less in uniss the illustriously insignificant or obnoxious dead of other lands,--for these, it may be well to consider how much better and fitter an establishment is Mount Auburn, for the purposes its founders and friends had in view when they reared it, than Pere la Chaise, or anything of the sort, could possibly be in its place. How much better to muse in for the living, or to sleep in for the dead, than some few ages hence it may become, when opulence, and luxury, and fashion, and all the whims of human
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Mademoiselle's campaigns. (search)
s, grander than the living, the corridors of its half-desolate chateau. It is because these storied walls, often ruined, often rebuilt, still shelter a gallery of historic portraits Now removed. such as the world cannot equal; there is not a Bourbon king, nor a Bourbon battle, nor one great name among the courtier contemporaries of Bourbons, that is not represented there; the Hall of the Guises contains kindred faces, from all the realms of Christendom; the Salon des Rois holds Joan of Arc, sculptured in marble by the hand of a princess; in the drawing-room, Pere la Chaise and Marion de l'orme are side by side, and the angelic beauty of Agnes Sorel floods the great hall with light, like a sunbeam; and in this priceless treasure-house, worth more to France than almost fair Normandy itself,--this gallery of glory, first arranged at Choisy, then transferred hither to console the solitude of a weeping woman,--the wanderer finds the only remaining memorial of La Grande Mademoiselle.
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 4:
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: the New Orleans Exposition 1883-1885; aet. 64-66 (search)
much for desk-work, now for the witch broomstick on which I fly. The Congress was held in Chicago, in mid-October. From this place, I went to Minneapolis.... Harry and his wife are here, paying handsomely their share of our running expenses. The little house looks friendly and comfortable, and I hope, after a few more flights, to enjoy it very much. These will now be very short.... Boston is all alive with Irving's acting, Matthew Arnold's lectures, Cable's readings, and the coming opera. Pere Hyacinthe also has been here, and a very eminent Hindoo, named Mozumdar. I have lost many of these doings by my journeys, but heard Arnold's lecture on Emerson last evening. I have also heard one of Cable's readings. Arnold does not in the least understand Emerson, I think. He has a positive, square-jawed English mind, with no super-sensible aperg2s. His elocution is pitiable, and when, after his lecture, Wendell Phillips stepped forward and said a few graceful words of farewell to him,
The Daily Dispatch: June 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], Correspondence. (search)
of each other — every wound-known to the human body is seen in ghastly reality. All crave water, and crawling through mud, tap the blood-stained and slimy flood. Some curse some mean and turn their eyes to heaven sadly. Rebels hand around water to their late foes. and eyes glisten in thankfulness. Squads of prisoners are seen issuing from the woods in divers places and scowl upon their captors ominously, while others whistle and joke along the road as if infinitely gratified at capture. Pere comes a stalwart Alabamian, left hand shattered and in a sling, carrying off triumphantly the colors of the 54th Pennsylvania Volunteers, keeping a watchful eye up on the standard bearer at his side, who hangs low his head, and ignominiously drags his slow sleigh along. "I wouldn't have surrendered my colors," said he with the air of a poltroon, "but I was assisting a wounded officer, and was surrounded by three regiments!" A very probable story, say all soldier! Presently there appear