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and killing animals. His dislike of the English
derived, I think, from his hatred of fox hunting.
Professor Potain shared with Charcot the
position of the greatest medical celebrity in Paris in
those days. There never were two people more
unlike one another than these two great doctors.
The famous clinicien of Hôpital Necker was a
very plain, insignificant-looking man, who would
have passed unnoticed in a crowd where the head
of Charcot would have been singled out among
thousands. Compared to his illustrious confrère,
he looked almost shabby in his ill fitting old
frockcoat. His features were dull, his words few
and spoken as if with great difficulty. He was
beloved like a god by all his patients, rich and
poor seemed exactly the same to him. He knew
the name of every single patient in his enormous
hospital, patted them young and old on their
cheek, listened with infinite patience to their
tales of woe, often paid from his own pocket
for extra dainties for their tired palates. He
examined his poorest hospital patients with the
same extreme attention as his royalties and
millionaires, he had plenty of both. No sign of
disorder of lungs or heart however obscure seemed
to escape his phenomenally acute ear. I do
not believe there ever was a man who knew
more of what goes on in the breast of another
man than he did. What little I know of diseases
of the heart I owe to him. Professor Potain
and Gueneau de Mussy were almost the only
two consulting doctors I dared to turn to when
in need of advice for a penniless patient.
Professor Tillaux the famous surgeon was the third.
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