Observations on the comparative state of medicine in France, England, and Germany : during a journey into these countries in the year 1835 / by Adolph Muehry ; translated from the German by Edward G. Davis.

  • Mühry, Adolf, 1810-1888.
Date:
1838
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    PREFACE In the following work, founded on a residence of several months in Paris and London, a journey through England to Dublin, and a visit to the north of Germany in the year 1835, it is not my inten- tion to present a complete account of the tour, or of the hospitals and other institutions of the cities visited. Enough of this kind of information is already to be found recorded by those who have preceded me: in the travels of Frank, for example, in 1805; of Andree, in 1810: of Haindorf, in 1815; of Wagner, in 1825; of Otto, in the same year; lastly and especially, of W. Horn, in 1832. Neither do I design to reproduce what may be found in more sys- tematic treatises—as in Casper's Characteristics of French Medi- cine, and Contributions to Medical Statistics, which have appeared in 1822, 1825, and 1835; in Von Ammon's Parallel of French and German Medicine, in 1823; in H. Kopp's Medical Observations for 1825; in Philip von Walther's Remarks of a Traveller upon London; in Graefe and Walther's Journal for 1832; in Dieffenbach's Remarks in and upon Paris; in Casper's weekly publication for 1835 and 1836. Nor, again, do I intend taking any notice of current medical intelligence, new remedies or instruments, remarkable cases, &c.; since, by means of transla- tions, and of journals expressly devoted to that end, the reading community of Germany are constantly and promptly supplied with news of this description. My purpose is. besides presenting a few gleanings of recent facts of interest, to give such a compendious view of the state of national science in these different countries, as personal observation, combined with the publications of the day and with the history of the past, have enabled me to form. I have endeavoured to do this in such a manner, as not only to recount