The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-28
4 FAMOUS DOCTOR.
In His Own Speciality He Had the Largest
 Practice in the World.


 Practice in the World.
 (From the London Daily News.)
 Dr. Fauvel, who recently died at Paris, had the greatest practice, per haps, i'm the world, of any doctor in his special branch-the treatment of throat disease. It cannot be said that he was mercenary. Specialists can ask what fees they like. Fauvers fee for looking at a throat in his own consulting room was 50 francs. He founded thirty years ago an infirmary, where he treated poor people for nothing.
 Innumerable were the singers and public speakers whose voices he saved Among his patients were Gambetta, Queen Isabella, the Emperor of Brazil, the King of Roumania, Thiers (who had an extremely delicate throat), the Elm peror Napoleon, the Princess Clotilde, the Comtede Paris and the late Empress of Russia. Dr. Evans had not more first class decorations or jeweled souvenirs sent by royal and imperial clients. His parties were like those of the late M. CremieuX, who was advocate for most of the great singers and actors, and had them as friends to his soirees to enter tain his guests.
 Fauvel first studied at the Hotel Dieu, where his father, a doctor who migrated from Amiens, was head of the sanitary service. He them placed himself under Velpeau at La Charite, where he was engaged as house student. Appointed to look into the claims of the quack, Vries, known as the Black Doctor" Fauvel was very near being a witness | for the Paris correspondent of the Daily News in an action for libel which the | Black Doctor" began in Paris, and | threatened to take 1t to London. But the suit was dropped in consequence of the publicly expressed opinionl of | Velpeau, who said that Vries deserved | the utmost penalty the law meted to homicidal 1mposters.
 Vries was greatly patronized by the Imperial court, and administered his quack medicine to a sister of the em- press, to the utter ruin of her health. His great claim was to cure cancer. It was found that his treatment was vio- lently mercurial, and that 1t drove the l SdHSclOuS pOISOlH iIltO lHe illleIlldi oI- gans. Velpeau was too busy to show up all that had been observed ito Vries' practice. He deputed Fauvel to write about it, and instructed him to be mer- ciless. As the dean of the faculty, Tar dieu was instructed from the Tuileries, where he was In favor, to do what he could for the Black Doctor"
 | Party feeling heatedt the affair Every one opposed to the empire bought Eau vel's' brochure, which almcst brought him a fortune. He was astonished to l find himself the most talked of man in Paris. Immediately he took his degree he had large practice. His thesis on the use of the laryngoscope, and a treatise that soon followed 1t on thr3at | diseases, gave him further eminence. He soon specialized his practice, but during the siege he served as surgeon major of a legion of National Guards. During the illness of the emperor Fred erick, Fauvel was applied to to give his opinion on a written diagnosis of the emperorEs throat. He said he must see the throat himself. The Empress Augusta wished him to be sent for, but she was Oyerruled