A FAMOUS FRENCH SURGEON.
A Parisian' doctor—Dr. IV-au—is declared by Parisians to be the first surgeon iu tho world. Putting exaggeration on one side, Peau is a remarkable man. He was the son of a miller at Chateaudun. He never retires to brd before midnight, and is always up by five o'clock in the morning. He has no set hours for meals, but eats when he is hungry, and whereover he may be—even in his coup!; or in a railway carriage. His whole time is spent performing surgical operations, for which he receives from 3to 30,000f. ! It is said that once, when his father was ill, he had to pay the great Velpean HOOf., which seemed so enormous a sum to the old man that he said to his son, who was then a student, "If over you are a surgeon, boy, bo more moderate iu your fees!" The sou must, often think of this recommendation when ho receives 30,000 fr. for an operation! He not unfrequently operates gratis on those patients who may be too poor to pay.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2459, 14 April 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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179A FAMOUS FRENCH SURGEON. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2459, 14 April 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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