The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-01-10
The Pores Health.

is an Asylum for Aged Pastors"
The POpe's Health.
Annie Brewster writing to the New
York World concerning the condition Of
the Pope, says: The exceptional medical |
services at the Vatican are ended and the
usual ones resumed DR.. Ceccarell no
longer stays all night in the ante'chamber
of his holiness. This gentleman is the
night physician, but he pays no visit after
midnight except in extreme need, and goes
early in the morning at o'clock to attend
to the dressing of the fontanels; then his
duties are ever until evening. DR.. An
tenni is the day physician; but even he is
not required to remain all day except
on some especial occasion. Here are two
physicians Sctarra and Frima-who
stay at the Vatican all night in turn, each
fortnight. This is an old custom. These
doctors ara for the general service of the
Vatican. There is also dispensary in
the Vatican that is served by the Frall of
the Beus Frateli order; one Of these Frall
stays by day, another by night. This is
the usual service. Where several thous-
and persons are assembled as at the Vati-
can-which, by the way, is like small,
thicklv populated vilage,-there is con-
slant need for medical and apothecary
help. Not all the residents Of the Vatican
are celibates. There are married men
with their families-some whose sons,
married men are also i'll service; thus there
are fathers and sons, mothers and daugh-
ters and grandchildren. II is little world
by itself established there on the Vatican
hill around Plus TX, who is the centre.
The usual family attendance on his
holiness is also resumed. During the week
of the 4sh, 9Th, 9th and It'll of December,
when there was little hope of recovery,
only three OF four reliable persons entered
| the pope's room. Now this reserve is end
ed. The "Farnnghia Pontifcia," as the
little circle of gentlemen about his holiness
is called, consists of the MAJ or 'domo, Mgr.
/ Ricel Paracciani Che is the first Palatine
prelate, q marquis of an old Siennese
family, gentleman Of charming distin-
guished manners, clergyman of excellen,
character). the Maesirodi Camera Mgr.
Casah del Drago, Roman count; the
Maestro di Casa, Commentators Spagna,
who is layman, married man, with
children and grandchildren living III the
Vatican. Added to these are three mon.
signori partecipanti, so called because they
participate in the daily life of tile pontif
These are Mgr. Negrotto, secretary OF
embassies, q Genoese (this prelate is 9
dwarf and very good maH); Mgr. de
Bisogna, a Neapolitan, and Mgr. della
Velfe, marquis from near Aneona, who
is an elegant, youthful-looking prelate
The men at services about the pope are
performed by men who are called scopot-
orr Ssgyeti (scOpatore means person who
I sweeps); these are the men we zee at audi
ences and IN the papal waiting rooms
dressed 10 velvet coats and breeches-;
sort of valet. The pope's especial bod.
attendant, or valet, is Zanolinin.
The pnpal medical service in our day i
! not so important matter at it was in pas
ages, when the medical men had some.
thing to DO with politics US we'll as medi.
cine. it is curious subject, however
this papal medical service. A most inter
esting work, well worth reading, was pub
lished in 1884 By the Archivsta Vatican
of that day, Abate Gaetano Marmi, yer
, learned man. The title of the work j
"Degli Archiatri Ponsifci" 1t gives a
account of the medical coursellors of th
popes from the ninth century-the periO
of Nicholas l. 1856 S57)-with some inter
ruptions, up to the reign of Plus VI
(Brash l775 1889. Although the work
written with the usual clerical prudence
there are some strange bits of information
IN it, especially in the notices of the archi
atric of Alexander VI. (Borgia 1892 1903
and Clement VII. (Medici, l523.l234.-
indeed, through tie whole of these strange
~ immoral sixteenth and seventeent
centuries. These notices give US pictur
of those days that shows how much man
kind has improved. "The rascal man il
dividunlIy is probably no better, but ma
en-masse has certainly progressed" an
for this improvement We have to be CRATE
full to liberal political institutions.
}, Archlatri was O name employed in th
early centuries, not only for the rnedica
!, advisers of popes and omper ors, bu; for a
!, medical men who attended to the healt