Greatest of Centuries

BY

JAMES J. WALSH, K. C. Sr. G., M. D., PH.D., LL.D.
LITT. D. (Georgetown), Sc. D. (Notre Dame)

PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY AT CATHEDRAL COLLEGE, NEW
YORK; LECTURER ON BIOLOGY AT THE CATHOLIC SUMMER SCHOOL OF
AMERICA; MEMBER OF THE N. Y. ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, OF THE

GERMAN AND FRENCH SOCIETIES FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDI-
CINE, OF THE ST. LOUIS MEDICAL HISTORY CLUB, THE
NEW ORLEANS PARISH MEDICAL SOCIETY, A.M.A.,
A.A.A.S., ETC.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS EDITION
(THIRTY THOUSAND)

CATHOLIC SUMMER SCHOOL PRESS

NEW YORK, 1913

HARVARD

COLLEGE
LIBRARY

Copyright 1907

JAMES J. WALSH

Set up and stereotyped 1907 (first edition 2,000)
Reprinted with Appendix 1909

Georgetown edition enlarged and extra illustrated 1910
Fourth edition reprinted with additions (6th thousand) 1912
Fifth edition, Knights of Columbus, 30,000, 1912.

THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS
RAMWAY, M. J.

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TO RIGHT REV. MONSIGNOR M. J. Lavelle,

Rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, sometime President of the Catholic Summer School, to whose fatherly patronage this book is largely due, and without whose constant encouragement it would not have been completed, it is respectfully and affectionately dedicated by the author.