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Franco is Joseph Victor, a French physician, born in St. Malo, Dec. 17, 1772. Profe or at the Military Hospital of Val de Grace in 1820, he became Profe or of General Pathology in the Faculty of Medicine, in Paris, 1832, and afterward was made a member of the Institute. The influence of Brou ais in his generation was unbounded, and his so called “ Physiological Doctrine” rapidly acquired a great sway, the traces of which are visible even now, though a more exact knowledge of physiology has demonstrated that the views of Brou ais were one-sided and exaggerated. The basis of Brou ais’ doctrine was the a umption that the animal ti ues are endowed with a property called irritability, a. property which is called into play by the action of stimuli of various kinds, and by the operations of which all vital phenomena are produced. He died in Paris, Nov. 17, 1888.