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That battlefield on which he fell is one which demands courage and claims many victims. He has advanced the science of medicine. No one at his age has done so much so well." E. Boinet: Les doctrines medicules, leur evolution, Paris, 1907, pp. 85-86. It was a pupil of Corvisart, Rene Theophile Laennec, who laid the foundation of modern clinical medicine. The story of his life is well known.
See Journal, pp. 79, 85-86. The end of this paragraph gave Mary much trouble. This revision is a good example of Mary's frequent improvement of her style by the omission of purple patches. But the passage also has intrinsic interest. Mathilda's "adoration" for her father may be compared to Mary's feeling for Godwin. See Nitchie, Mary Shelley, p. 89, and note 9.
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