BO RDENAVE, TOUSRA INT, a celebrated French physieian,..was borh at Paris on the 10th April 1728. The .profession of a surgeon having been al most hereditary in his family, his father was anXious that it should be continued in the person Of his son, and gave him a complete education in languages and, philosophy, to qualify him for the situation which he might, lie -called to fill. The progress which he made in the Latin language was so great, that he learned to speak it with unusual fluency ; and this circumstance alone gave him great consideration in his own profession, and in the public schools, at a time of life when he could 'not otherwise •haVe been entitled to receive it.
Bordenave was extremely desirous to have a seat in the Academy of Sciences ; and, in the year 1774, he was appointed -a veteran associate of that learned body. This appointment 'being in direct hostility to rules of the academy, gave great dissatisfac tion and though Bordenave ,Inmself deprecated this mode of admission, the members of the academy were naturally irritated at such an intrusion. The mild ness and modesty of Bordenave, hoWever, gained him the friendship of his colleagues, and he enriched the. memoirs of the academy with several valuable papers.
Bordenave was created Edievin of Paris, and he was the first person who had been" elevated to this office. On the birth of an heir to the throne, he was rewarded with the ribbon of the order of St Michael; but he did not long enjoy this lionoui. He was struck with apoplexy ; and, after eight days of suf fering, he expired on the 12th of March, 1782.
Bordenave wz7 professor royal and director of the Academy of Surgery, and member of the Imperial Academy at Florence. To the Memoirs of the first of these institutions he contributed many valuable papers on various subjects in surgery,. medicine, and anatomy. In 1756, he published his Essai sur la Physiologic, in 12mo, which was reprinted in 1764. In 1757, he published his Remarques szzr l'insensz. &lite de quelques parties, 12mo. In 1768, he pub lished a translation of Haller's Elements of Physio logy, for the benefit of his pupils. In 1769, appear ed his Dissertations sur les Antiscptiques, Svo; and in 1774, he published his Memoires sur le danger des Caustiques pour la cure radicale des Hermes. See Hallcr's Bib. Chirterg.; and the diem. Acad. Par. 1782, Hist. p. 78. (pr)