The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-21
OBITUAR
JoBERT DE LAMBALLE.

J0BERT DE LAMBALLE.
Antoine Joseph Jobert de Lamballe, the cele-
brated French surgeon, died In Paris about the
Let Of May. He was born at Lamballe, in the
Department OF Cotes-du-Nord, In l799, and dur
ing his long and brilliant career as practi-
tioner and professor in the French capital, won
reputation hardly surpassed by that of any
physician In the world. He was surgeon In
ordinary to the first Napoleon, succeeded
Magendie in the Academy OF Sciences, and
was named in Is49 commander in the Legion
Of Honor.
He was the author OF a number ofimportant
works on surgery, among which may be men
toned his "Theory and Practice of Surgical
Disorders OF the Intestinal Canal" a treatise
stIdes on tSe Nervous ET sysem me TTeaIse
on Plastic Surgery;" and Researches on the
Texture OF the Uterus" a branch of physiology
to which he devoted especial attention. For
the last eighteen months before his death his
mind had been affected, and one Of his last
actions was singular exhibition of insanity
poor man came to him at the hospital with
sore finger The great surgeon looked at II
intently for q moment, and then burst out in a
loud voice, The arm must come offimmedlatey;
wehave thirty two me utods of famputatton-the
Polish. the Turkish, the English, the German,
and many Others. Away with you to the
amphitheatre. i shall be there in one moment
and take you off that arm either straightways,
Away with you, l say. Lay yourself down on
the operation table, and Will do the JOB my
SELF" He rushed away, leaving the patient
cang of the great bell which summons the stu
dents to witness an operation brought the
whole of the young men to the spot, but Jobert
de Lamballe had already exhausted that emo.
tion, and leaving the bell had rushed across the
courtyard to his carriage, into which he
jumped with the activity of a squirrel, and hav-
Ing directed the coachman to drive to the
Place de 10 Concorde got out and insisted upon
stripping TO battle himself in the fountain,
which, blythe way, was covered with ice just
then. A crowd OF 9dnairs soon collected round
him, but he was recognized almost imme-
diately, and the state of the case being evident,
he was coaXed away to DIR. Blanches establish
ment at Passy, where he died, without even
once recovering his reason, or recognizing any
one of his friends who went to visit him. His
funeral was attended by over a thousand OF
the medical men OF Paris
GENERAL DEMETRIUs KALERGIs.
The Athens correspondence of the London Post
announces the death OF General Kalergis, who
had recently been appointed Greek Envoy 70
the United states, but while on the way to the
place of his destination had been taken sick in
Paris, from where, upon the urgent advice of
the physicians, he had returned to Athens
General Kalergis was a native Of the Island of
Crete, where he was was born in 1903 or 1904.
He took prominent part in the war OF inde-
pendence, in which he was seriously wounded
After this war he at first was counted among
the Napians or Russian party, which he, how
ever. soon left in order to lean upon England
revolution of l843, and by his frmness greatly
contributed to the safety of the Royal family.
General Kalergis has ever since been one of the
most influential statesmen of Greece, and he
was, therefore, selected as one of the extraordt-
nary ENJOYS to the great Christian powers to
implore their aid in behalf of Gambia.