New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-04


Commerce Of that city, which resolved % send
him to Madrid tOstudy there under the most eel
ebTated professors Soon after, the Spanish gov
erp eht sent him to complete bis studies at Pans
where be arrived in 1877. The breaking out OF
the war between his country and France, inter.
rupted the receipt of the moderate pension Oh
1850 francs allowed him By the Spanish govern
ment Fortunately, relation VINO resided az
Marseles, now undertook to support the young
student Until be should have obtained has med
cal diploma. He received it az the close OF ISL,
and az il was not then advisable 10 return 10
Spain. he Immediately opened private course
Of lectures on chemistry. A number OF his pa-
nils cf that day have since taken rank among
The medical celebrities of France. The young
nrofessor gave three other courses, one OF them
On legal medicine, and still found time for ex-
detrimental researches andfOr recording the re-
suits Of them in various memoirs. After tue
close Of the war, Orfila offered his services to
his first patron, the junta of Barcelona, but the
CITY. unable to paw him salary becoming his
talents. released him from his obligations. At
late date the Chair OF Chemistry 10 the Uni
versity OF Madrid was offered 10 him, but the
conditions on which he proposed 10 take Il, not
being accepted, he remained in France Tree TO
follow a career that now opened with so brilliant
promise He was Daturalized in ISIS, and vas
appointed professor of illegal medicine IN the
faculty Of medicine at Paris in the following
year III 1923, when the Medical School was
re6rganized, the Chair of Chemistry was allotted
him. He filed it without interruption until
F1iCay, the fourth of March, 1853, when the
crowded auditory for the last time apflhuded
Il cir hOnOred master. He was chief iavorte
with the medical students, who often broke out
into enthusiastic applause Of his scientific elo-
quence-f0r Orila was one OF those lecturers
who had the happy faculty OF giving eloluence
to science, and that too, not as an ornament, but
as an auxiliary.
But the fame Of a lecturer, committed to the
uniaithful stewardship Of memory and tradition
hardly survives him by more than one genera
ton. Orfls has based his on a more lasting
foundation. His speciality, TO use a convenient
French term, was ToxioOiOgy. A Treatise on
Poisons or General TOxicOlOgy, published as
early as 1912, commenced the scientific reputa-
ton which be successfully enlarged and hight
ened by numerous other works relating TO Toxl-
colopy. Medical Chemistry and Legal Medicine.
His Elements Of Legal Medicine, which has
passed through six editions, his published Lee
lures on Medicat JHrisprudeHce,a and the JHridicaI
EIhursutions, which he composed with the as
sistance Of NJ. Lesueur, and some others of bis
writings form body of medical jurisprudence,
quoted as supreme authority in the criminal
tribunals here. All the physical causes, ndca-
items and effects Of death by violence, are de-
scribed and explained, and their analoges with
those of natural death marked out, with his ha-
btual clearness of treatment. But this is not
all His was one of those complete minds
whose faculties may be applied with equal sue
cess 10 a diversity of objects. etilled various
civil Offices with the ability of man who had
devoted his life 10 business and administrative
affairs. From 1881 TO lSiS he was dean OF the
faculty of medicine During his term OF office,
he enlarged the sphere and added 10 oil Kinds 10
the means of instruction in this High School OF
the world for medical education. He was pas
sionately fond of music. AT the age of IL years
he composed mass that was executed III his
native place. His talent as a singer was OF
! superior order, well known and recognized by
| masters of the art. One day at general meet
ING Of shareholders of the Northern Railway, a
discussion arose among the principal men
! charged with the financial management of their
| great enterprise The question in debate was sur
rounded with difficulties Ortila presents his view
of il and proposes his solution OF 1t. The Banker
Rothschild, a chief manager of the Company, I'M
mediately begged the Professor to become one
of its Directors. II was returning home IN the
rain from one " their meetings held last Satur-
day week that he Selt the first symptoms OF the
malady that so soon put an end TO his career OF
active usefulness 1t is said i do not know how
truly, that his health had been injured by ex.
haations from the poisons with which he ex-
perimented Strong and true TO the end, the
final effort of his dying viii was expressed In an
order for the post norton examination OF his
body-his last contribution to the progress of
science He has left 100000 francs TO found
prizes for the solution OF questions most i'm
portant 10 the advancement of toxlcology and
of medicine generally. Other legacies are for
the Academy of Medicine, for the School of
Pharmacy, for the completion of the Museum
/ of Comparative Anatomy, called the Muste Or
| fla, and for the poor, who were the objects OF
his efficient beneyolence in his lifetime. His
funeral ceremonies were attended on Monday
last by large concourse of medical professors
and students and friends.
The preceding day funeral escort of diff
ferent character followed the remains of Mad
anne Raspail. from the Latin Quarter 20 the
Cemetry of Pere la Chaise. The procession
received a large accession 10 its ranks at the
! Place de Ia Bastille, and was the most hume
rous of its kind that has been seen for long
time in Paris. Its numbers have been est
mated as high as 10000. should say 10000
was nearer the mark. The wOmanly virtues Of
the deceased. TO which her husband, in letter
dated from his prison house, at whose gates she
died, bears touching testimony, and the faith
which many put in DR.. Raspail's medical dec
trine, and the gratitude felt toward him by the
poor for his gratuitous services to them. were
but for part in the motive of their great show
of honor TO the dead. 1t was mainly demon.
stratiOn Ofpoliticd sympathy for the imprisoned
Republican, and of something very ike an
tipathy for the actual Government. In the
mere unsettled state that things were in year
ago. it would not have been permitted to take
place As il was, the Police had it under
watch, and body OF soldiery were sent up TO
Pere Ia Chaise but nothing occurred tojustiiy
their more active interference As the process
sion passed by the Column Of July-that eye.