ANIMAL, GABRIEL, a celebrated French physician, member of the institute and of the academy of medicine, was b. in Paris on the 6th of Nov., 1797. In 1823, he estab lished his reputation by the publication of the first part of his Clinique .:IfedUale; in 1828, partly through the influence of M. Royer-Collard, whose daughter he had married, lie was appointed professor of hygiene; and in 1830, was advanced to the chair of in ternal pathology, a branch of medical science which had always possessed great attrac tions for him. A. in fact, commenced his investigations with pathological anatomy. He presented to the academy, at a comparatively early period of his career, a paper, Sur l'Anatomie Pathologique du Tube Digcstif (on the pathological anatomy of the alimenta7 canal), which was greatly admired. Besides, he published, in 1829, a Prixis Elementaire of the same science, which met with striking success; and his Clinique Medicale treats principally of diseases of the chest, of the abdomen, and of the brain. In 1839, A. was almost unanimously elected by his colleagues to succeed Broussais in
the chair of pathology and general therapeutics, the highest in the school. Here lie has shown the vast range of his 'medical knowledge; but in occupying himself so much with the pathological anatomy of the dead body, it is alleged that lie has not paid sullicient attention to the phenomena of disease before the organs begin to exhibit traces of alteration. Though actively engaged in his general practice, lie has found time to write several other works besides those already mentioned. In 1835, appeared his Peejet d'un Ewa eur la Vitalite; in 1836, he edited and considerably enlarged Laennec's Traite de l'auecultation Media!e et du atur • in 18:16-37, a Cann de Pathologic In dente; in 1837, hii-report to the academy, :Sur /4 Traitennot.`!de la Rem 1phoide par les Purgatifs; in 1843, he presented to the institute his Trade Elementaire de Pathologie et de Therapeutique Generale (published in 1840), etc.