Experiences of a civilian in Eastern military hospitals : with observations on the English, French and other medical departments and the organization of military medical schools and hospitals / by Peter Pincoffs.

  • Pincoffs, Peter, 1816-1872.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Experiences of a civilian in Eastern military hospitals : with observations on the English, French and other medical departments and the organization of military medical schools and hospitals / by Peter Pincoffs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    its most varied forms, amongst sufferers of all nations, and of witnessing the treatment and comparing its re- sults, in tlie various native tribes, attended by tlieir own Physicians, along witli that of English, French, Sardinian'and German, in upwards of 30 Hospitals, often containing 15,000 patients. It is however not the object of the present volume to give the result of medical experience of disease amongst this motley crowd, but to speak of facts of which the public was more or less cognizant, but for the right appreciation of which an impartial elucida- tion is still necessary. I must begin by drawing the attention of my reader to the fact, that the English hospitals were all on the Asiatic, the French all on the European side. This fact, unimportant as it may appear, at once characte- rizes the French policy. Constantinople is the Turkish Capital, the seat of the Turkish Government, and curiously enough, all the French hospitals occupied situations commanding the city, though some of them (Gulhana, Rami-Tchiflik and the Hopital de Pera) are decidedly bad localities for hospitals. The English, with greater regard for their patients, chose the more healthy localities on the Asiatic shore, appropriating however, as Artillery Barracks, one commanding point in Pera of the greatest importance, Galata-Serai. I premise this remark about the French policy because I wish at once to establish the principle, that it would be as unfair as it is impossible, to institute a com- parison between the French and the English Military systems. France has from the earliest times, by internal and external wars, proved that her emblem,