The Atheist's Mass And Other Stories

THE ATHEIST'S MASS This is dedicated trJ Auguste Borgd by his friend De Balzac BrANcHo~, a physician to whom science owes a fine system of theoretical physiology, and who) while still young, made himself a celebrity in the medical school ot Paris, that central luminary to which European doctors do homage, practised surgery for a long time before he took up medicine. His earliest studies were guided by one of the greatest of French surgeons, the illustrious Desplein, who Rashed across science Ii ke a meteor. By the consensus even of his enemies, he took with him to the tomb an incommunicable method. Like all men of genius, he had no heirs; he carried everything in him, and carried it away with him. The glory of a surgeon is like that of an actor: they live only S0 long as they are alive, and their talent leaves no trace when they are gone. Actors and surgeons, like great singers too, like the executants who by their performance increase the power of music tenfold, ar

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