Note 31 — INTERMENTS IN TOWNS. (continued 5)

It is due to the medical profession to state, that they have always discountenanced as injurious the practice of entombment in vaults under churches. A Parisian physician had the following epitaph to his memory:—

“Simon Pierre, vir pius et probus

Hic sub dio sepeliri voluit

Ne mortuus cuiquam noceret

Qui vivus omnibus profuerat.”

At Louvain, there is the tomb of a celebrated anatomist, with the following:—

“Philippus Verhagen,

Med. Dr. et prof.

Partem sui materialem

Hic in cœmeterio condi voluit,

Ne templum dehonestaret

Aut nocivis halitibus inficeret.”