Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — Sickened of the Scalpel. [ARTICLE]

Sickened of the Scalpel.

An extraordinary event led Lassone, physician to Louis XVI. of France, to abandon his anatomical studies. While selecting from among- some dead bodies a suitable subject for dissection, he imagined that one of them showed doubtful signs of death, and sought to revive a life which was perhaps not extinguished. His efforts were crowned with success. He cured the man,and as he was poor nourished and supported him, but ths idea of having been on the point of conjmiting a crime so affected Lassone that he felt himself unable to pursue his accustomed labors, and from that time forward the study of natural history and chemistry took the place of that of anatomy.