Volume 1

Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature.

Date:
1825
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Credit: Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to him, and continued at Gottingen, anxiously endeavouring to extend the rising fame of that medical school; until his state of health obliged him to return to Berne, his native place, where his fellow-citizens might have fixed him among themselves with no less honour than advantage to their city, had they known how to appreciate his splendid talents. Haller continued his literary labours to the latest hour of his life* He viewed the approach of death with the calmness of a philosopher. “ My friend,” said he, to the physician who attended him, “ I die, my pulse has stopped,” and then expired. He died on the 12th of December, 1777, in the seventieth year of his age. Thus lived and thus died the great Hal- ler; a man to whom Michaelis, the eminent orientalist, justly applied an observation, which had been made on the genius of Aristotle; “ Neque ccelo, neque terra, neque mari quic- quam, relinquere voluit incognitum, indole prse- terea adeo mirabili, ut ad singula natum prseci- pue dicas.”* * He was not willing to leave any thing unknown, either in the heavens, nor on the earth, nor in the waters beneath; and was of such wonderful genius, that yo^ might say he was born to illustrate every branch of know- ledge.