PATIN, GUY, professor of physic in the Royal College of Paris, was born in the year 1602. He made his way in the world merely by the force of his genius, being at first only corrector of a printing-house. He was a man of great wit and erudition, and spoke with the gravity of a Stoic; but his expressions were nevertheless very satirical, and he hated bigotry, superstition, and knavery. Notwithstanding his sarcastic tendency, however, he was upright and well disposed, an affectionate father and an amiable member of society. He died in the year 1672, and owed his reputation, not to any writings upon physic published in his lifetime, but to his letters, which appeared after his death.