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It is but fair to say that at this point Littré and many others parted company with Comte. He developed a habit and practice ascetic in its rigour and mystic in its devotion to the positivists' religion the worship of humanity. He was the friend and counsellor of working-men and agitators, of little children, of the poor and miserable.
As Littre puts it, "Les ecrits hippocratiques demeurent isoles au milieu des debris de l'antique litterature medicale." The first to be considered is the transmission of contagious disease to the fetus in utero. The first disease to attract attention was small-pox.
She went to the chimneypiece, on which had been left the telegram that summoned her to the Gare du Nord, and read it again. She gave a little cry of surprise. 'How stupid of me! I never noticed the postmark. It was sent from the Rue Littré. This was less than ten minutes' walk from the studio. Susie looked at the message with perplexity.
The question was, therefore, submitted to a learned member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres, M. Littre, in fact, whose Dictionnaire etymologique de la Langur Francaise is consulted with respect by the whole literary world, and to a young magistrate, M. Picot, to whom the Acacdemie des Sciences morales et politiques but lately assigned the first prize for his great work on the question it had propounded, as to the history and influence of states-general in France; and here are inserted, textually, the answers given by two gentlemen of so much enlightenment and authority upon such a subject.
According to Littre, there is nowhere so strong a statement of these views in the genuine works of Hippocrates, but they are found at large in the Hippocratic writings, and nothing can be clearer than the following statement from the work "The Nature of Man": "The body of man contains in itself blood and phlegm and yellow bile and black bile, which things are in the natural constitution of his body, and the cause of sickness and of health.
Now and always I quote the second edition, by Littré. "Philosophie Positive," ii. p. 440. "Le brillant mais superficiel Cuvier." Philosophie Positive, vi. p. 383. "Philosophie Positive," iii. p. 369. Ibid. p. 387. Hear the late Dr.
But when he came to take the weird twig he trembled with an ill-defined feeling of insecurity as to the soundness of his conclusions, and when he stood over the supposed rivulet the rod bent in spite of him, as was not so very strange. For, with all his vague scepticism, the honest lad had not, and could not be supposed to have, the foi scientifique of which Littre speaks.
"Then what bears witness to the perfect futility of this exordium is the way the missive ends: "'If you should take the fancy to write me, you can safely address your letters "Mme. Maubel, rue Littré, general delivery." I shall be passing the rue Littré post-office Monday.
"As to the books to be suggested for your work, partly the fact that no one can really suggest food for another, partly the fact that I don't clearly understand the nature of your work these perhaps make a good excuse if the following list is worthless. It is all I have been able to gather together. "Littre, 'Vie d'Auguste Comte. St. Hilaire, 'Vie et travaux de Geoffroy St.
A strong fellow, nevertheless, he can throw aside all this nonsense and mean business when he flings away the stump of his cigar and says, with a glance at some town, "I'll go and see what those people have got in their stomachs." "Gaudriole," gay discourse, rather free. Littre. When buckled down to his work he became the slyest and cleverest of diplomats.
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