Frere Sylvain

Family: French medical profession · Role: surgeon · First appears: Chapter 59

Life events

• Frere Sylvain diagnosed three of Raoul’s eight wounds as mortal and warned that movement would kill him.(Chapter59)
  • With: Raoul
  • “He probed the wounds in his turn, and said nothing.”

Chapter 59

• siblings with Sylvain de Saint-Cosme “The third surgeon was the brother of Sylvain de Saint-Cosme, the most learned of them all. He probed the wounds in his turn, and said nothing. M. de Bragelonne fixed his eyes steadily upon the skillful surgeon, and seemed to interrogate his every movement. The latter, upon being questioned by monseigneur, replied that he saw plainly three mortal wounds out of eight, but so strong was the constitution of the wounded, so rich was he in youth, and so merciful was the goodness of God, that perhaps M. de Bragelonne might recover, particularly if he did not move in the slightest manner. Frere Sylvain added, turning towards his assistants, ‘Above everything, do not allow him to move, even a finger, or you will kill him;’”
• with Raoul (Frere Sylvain treated Raoul and gave a prognosis of his wounds.) “The latter, upon being questioned by monseigneur, replied that he saw plainly three mortal wounds out of eight, but so strong was the constitution of the wounded, so rich was he in youth, and so merciful was the goodness of God, that perhaps M. de Bragelonne might recover, particularly if he did not move in the slightest manner. Frere Sylvain added, turning towards his assistants, ‘Above everything, do not allow him to move, even a finger, or you will kill him;’”

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Extracted from the original text of The Man in the Iron Mask. Made with Rho MD.