# The Atheist's Mass

Author: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850; Bell, Clara, 1834-1927 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1220

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Atheist%27s+Mass+Balzac&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Bianchon, a physician to whom science owes a fine system of theoretical physiology, and who, while still young, made himself a celebrity in the medical school of Paris, that central luminary to which European doctors do homage, practised surgery for a long time before he took up medicine. His earliest studies were guided by one of the greatest of French surgeons, the illustrious Desplein, who flashed across science like a meteor. By the consensus even of his enemies, he took with him to the tomb an incommunicable method. Like all men of genius, he had no heirs; he carried everything in him, and carried it away with him. The glory of a surgeon is like that of an actor: they live only so lo...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atheist-s-mass-1220/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atheist-s-mass-1220/chapters/2/index.md)