Abstract
Great good sense, wonderful industry, remarkable opportunities, and an untiring and unconquerable ambition, have combined to render the name of Ambrose Paré celebrated in the annals of surgery. Born of humble parents, amid unfavorable surroundings, under circumstances which would have crushed a spirit less ambitious, Ambrose Paré, by his unaided efforts, made himself master of the surgical science of his day, commanded the confidence of emperors and peasants, of statesmen and soldiers, and left posterity the record of a life well spent. He marks the dividing line between the servile surgery of the ancients and the original, independent and progressive art of the moderns. Just as Vesalius, Eustachius and Fallopius dared to contradict the errors of thirteen hundred years, and correct the anatomic mistakes of Galen, so Paré brought about a new order of things in surgery. Firm in his convictions, honest in his statements, and accurate in his observations,
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