Ambroise Paré and His Times, 1510-1590G.P. Putnam's sons, 1897 - 309 pages |
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Ambroise Paré Ambroise's ANCIEN PARIS apothecaries army artillery asked attack barber-surgeons battle of Dreux battle of Moncontour battle of Saint body breach brother burned called camp captain Catherine Catholic Charles Charles IX Château church Coligny Comte Condé confraternity Constable corrupt Court crowns cure dead death died Dieu disease dress edition Emperor enemy faculty fear France François gave gentlemen gunshot wounds Guy de Chauliac hand healed Henri Henri II Hesdin Huguenot hundred infected Jehanne Mazelin's JOURNEY killed King of Navarre King's L'Estoile La Roche-sur-Yon lived livres tournois Malgaigne married Martigues master barber-surgeon Mazelin Metz Montejan pain Paré's Paris patients Paulmier petit maistre physicians and surgeons plague poison PONT SAINT MICHEL poor Prince Queen-mother Rohan Rouen Saint André Seigneurs sent siege soldiers story surgeon surgeon-in-ordinary surgery Theroüenne things told took town vapours wife
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Page 270 - And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Page 267 - ... shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
Page 270 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
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Page 140 - And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Page 268 - Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Page 271 - He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence...
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Page 48 - Rohan went with others to enter a church where the peasants were retreated, thinking to get victuals by love or by force; but he got the worst of it, as they all did, and came back with seven sword-wounds on the head, the least of which penetrated to the inner table of the skull; and he had four other wounds upon the arms, and one on the right shoulder, which cut more than half of the bladebone. He was brought back to his master's lodging, who seeing him so mutilated, and not hoping he could be cured,...