New-York tribune., 1906-12-08

of the death OF the doctor reached the PontIff he
was exceedingly greved 1t is reported that before
losing consciousness DR.. Lapponi referring to the
Pope said:
He He has strong constitution and, having studied
Leo XIII.
The dead physician was popular in Rome among
the Clericals as well as with the Anti ti-Clericals
The following curious incident regarding DR..
Lapponi is being recalled here tonight On Sep
tember DIT. Lapponi. while visiting a patient in
a hospital in Rome. said to the man: UNLESS COM
plications set in you will recover in a couple of
days" After the doctor had gone the patient said
to his nurse DR. Lapponl is mistaken, OF he
wishes to deceive I will die in a couple of
days, you will die in a month and DR.. Lapponi will
pass away in three months The prophecy of the
patient has been fulfilled. He did die two days
later, the nurse died month later and Dr. Lapponi
expired exactly three months later.
The doctor related this prophecy to his friends
including the Pope The Pontif laughed at it, but
DIR. Lapponi who was a confirmed spiritualist, re-
receive inspiration and unconsciOusly tell the
The Pope has given orders that the funeral of
DR.. Lappon be at the Pontif's own expense.
Dr. Giuseppe Lapponi was the personal physician
of two Popes and served in the Vatican for
nineteen years He attended the Cardinals in
concave and was with Pope Leo XIII when he died.
in 1909. DR.. Iapponi about forty-fve years
old. He studied for his profession at the Bologna
School under Drs AIussi. Concato and Others and
took his degree with high rank. lie began
to practise his profession at Capalone. Tuscany
and afterward went to Poenza, where he secured
a large practice. In 1885 he went to Osimo, and
was there in 1887, when the Pope invited him to
Rome TO succeed DR.. Alessandro Ceccarelli as his
private physician. Their relations soon became
intimate, and when the Pope passed his Goth year
the duties of his physician were increased until
the end came Within three hours after his cleo
tion Pope Plus Y redppointed DR.. Lapponi ply
siciln to the Vatican.
After the death OF Pope Leo XIII, DR.. Antonio
CardarelI who Italian Senator. harshy
criticised the treatment of the Pope by DR.. Lap
poni, asserting that the death of the PontiR was
due to tuberculous cancer, which DR.. Lapponi had
delled. On September 10. 1903, Drs Lapponi and
Mazzoni. who had attended the Pope, made public
statement that they understood the true nature
OF the Illness of the Pope, but that Cardinal Ram
polla then PaDaI Secretary of State refused to
allow them to announce 1t IN the medical bull
letins but in order to protect their professional
regulations they had made 4 signed statement as
TO the nature OF the disease before notary copies
Of which We're deposited with the Vatican authori-
ties
. DR.. Lapponi was professor Of applied anthro-
pology III the Roman Academy, and course of
lectures given by him has been published In
which is regarded the expression of Roman
Catholic opinion in regard 10 occult phenomena,
and In which the discrimination between the
dangers and disorders of spiritualism and morbid
hypnotic phenomena and the 1udCious USE Of
genuine hypnOtiSm for therapeutic purposes is set
forth. The volume was issued this year Last
brief vacation, and on his return In September II
was made known that he suffering from can
Ger OF the stomach. Notwithstanding his own ILL
ness ne insisted on attending the Pope in the latter
part Of October.