Autobiography of A. B. Granville, M.D., F.R.S.: Being Eighty-eight Years of the Life of a Physician who Practised His Profession in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, the West Indies, Russia, Germany, France, and England, Volume 2

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Page 321 - Le peuple veut l'hérédité de la dignité impériale dans la descendance directe, naturelle, légitime et adoptive de Napoléon Bonaparte, et dans la descendance directe, naturelle et légitime de Joseph Bonaparte et de Louis Bonaparte, ainsi qu'il est réglé par le sénatus-consulte organique du 28 floréal an xii.
Page 411 - Petersburg in 1828, because he wished to apply leeches to his temples. " ' Constantine, eccentric always, tyrannical, cruel, dies at Warsaw suddenly in July, 1831, aged fifty-two years, after having caused rebellion in the country by his harsh treatment of the cadet officers. I saw and conversed with him on the parade and in his palace at Warsaw in December, 1828. His looks and demeanour sufficiently denoted to a medical man what he was, and what his fate would be. It has been said that he died of...
Page 412 - I have related there is nothing that has been committed to me as a privileged communication ; while the imperative requirements of the moment calling for its immediate divulgement, I hesitate not to make it under the firmest conviction that my fears and anticipations will be surely realized. If so, then the method of dealing with an all-powerful sovereign so visited must differ from the more regular mode of transacting business between government and government. For this purpose it is, namely, to...
Page 412 - To complete this disastrous picture of the grandchildren of Catherine, their mother, Maria of Wurtemberg, a most exemplary princess, died apoplectic in November, 1829, scarcely more than sixty-five years of age. The attack, mistaken for weakness, was treated with stimulants and bark by her physician, Ruhl, and bleeding was only had recourse to when the mistake was discovered — but too late to save.
Page 412 - ... of the Polish military hospitals assured me some years after that he had died apoplectic and in a rage. " ' Michael, after many years of suffering from the same complaints which afflict his only surviving brother — enlarged liver, deranged digestion, and fulness of blood in the head — became in 1848-'9, intolerably irritable, violent, and tyrannical to his own officers of the artillery and engineers service, of which he was the supreme chief.
Page 411 - Constantine, at Warsaw, in 1830; as with Michael, at St. Petersburg, in 1848-'9. Like them, his nature feels the fatal transmission of hereditary insanity, the natural consequence of an overlooked and progressive congestion of the brain. Like them, he is hurrying to his fate — sudden death, from congestive disease. The same period of life, between forty-five and sixty years of age, sees the career of this fated family cut short.
Page 341 - THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: And merciful men are taken away, none considering That the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. He shall enter into peace: They shall rest in their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.
Page 412 - Alexander, to the grave, in the still fresh years of womanhood, fifty years of age. " ' During my second sojourn in St. Petersburg, in 1849, for a period of ten weeks .... What the opinion was of the emperor's health — what acts of his came to my knowledge, which bespoke eccentricity — what were the sentiments of his physician. Dr. Mandt, who, homoeopathist as he is, and exercising a most peremptory influence over his master, leaves him, nevertheless, unrelieved, except by mystical drops and...
Page 410 - ... confirms what I have myself observed, studied, or heard on the spot. The western cabinets find the conduct of the Emperor Nicholas strange, preposterous, inconsistent, unexpected. They wonder at his demands ; they are startled at his state papers ; they cannot comprehend their context ; they recognize not in them the clear and close reasoning of the Nestor of Russian diplomacy, but rather the dictates of an iron will to which he has been made to affix his name ; they view the emperor's new international...
Page 412 - Ruhl, and bleeding was only had recourse to when the mistake was discovered — but too late to save. The meek and mild Elizabeth had but a short time before followed her imperial partner, Alexander, to the grave, in the still fresh years of womanhood, fifty years of age. " ' During my second sojourn in St. Petersburg, in 1849, for a period of ten weeks .... What the opinion was of the emperor's health — what acts of his came to my knowledge, which bespoke eccentricity — what were the sentiments...

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