THREE EMINENT PHYSICIANS.
As the celebrated French physician, Desmoulins, lay on his death bed, he was visited and almost constantly surrounded by the most distiuguisod medical men of Paris, as well as other prominent citizens of the metropolis. Groat wore the lamentations of all at the loss about to bo sustained by the profession, in the death of one they regarded as its greatest ornament; hut Desmoulins spoke to his fellow pracitioners, assuring them that he had left behind three physicians much greater than himself. Each of the doctors hoping that his own name would be called, inquired anxiously who was sufficiently illustrious to surpass the immortal Desmoulins. With great distinctness the dying man answered, “ They are Water, Exercise, and Diet.” Call in the service of, the first freely, of the second regularly, and the third moderately. Follow this advice, and you may well dispense with my aid. Living, I could do nothing without them, and dying, I shall not be missed, if you make friends of these, my faithful coadjutors.
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Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 18, 12 June 1875, Page 3
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171THREE EMINENT PHYSICIANS. Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 18, 12 June 1875, Page 3
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