Source:

"The First of the LeBarons"
John Abbott Goodwin, 1876

Texte:
"Louis Pecton had been a surgeon in the French armies. As popular prejudice would not allow of dissections in civil life, and as Harvey’s discoveries were written in English, few French practitioners then knew as much of their profession as did the old women who acted as nurses, or the barbers who monopolized the use of the lancet. In his army practice, young Pecton had abundant opportunity for dissections, and for making the acquaintance of English surgeons.