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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3. Hopital de la Charity (Rue des S. S. Peres,) 300 beds. 4. Hopital Cochin, (Rue du Faubourg St. Jacques,) 200 beds. 5. Hopital St. Antoine, (Rue du Faubourg St. Antoine,) 250 beds. 6. Hopital Necker, (Rue de Sevres,) 140 beds ; with a ward for the application of lithotrity, attended by Civiale. 7. Hopital Beaujon, (Rue du Faubourg du Roule,) 180 beds. 8. Hopital des Enfans Malades, (Rue de Sevres,) 550 beds, for children of both sexes, from two to fifteen years of age. 9. Hopital St. Louis, (Rue de l'Hopital St. Louis,) 700 beds, especially devoted to cutaneous diseases, ulcers, and scrofula. Here are medical baths, including steam and sulphur baths. 10. Hopital des Veneriens, (called Hopital aux Capucins, or Ho- pital du Midi,) Rue des Capucins, 650 beds. 11. Maison Royale de Sante, (Rue du Faubourg St. Denis,) 175 beds, devoted to the sick and wounded, who are here attended on payment of three to six francs per day. 12. Maison d'Accouchement, (or Maternite,) Rue de la Bourbe, 350 beds. The ten hospices or asylums are :— 1. Hospice des Enfans Trouves, (de 1'allaitement,) Rue d'En- fer, 258 beds ; for the reception, nursing, and charge of foundlings. 2 and 3. Two hospices for old age; the Salpetriere for women, 5100 beds ; Bicetre for men, 3200 beds. 4 and 5. Two hospices for incurables. One for women and children, 525 beds, (Rue de Sevres.) One for men, 455 beds, (Rue St. Martin.) 6. Hospice Larochefoucauld, 200 beds : asylum for those em- ployed in the hospices. 7. Hospice des Orphelins, (Rue St. Antoine,) 750 beds—half for boys, half for girls—who are maintained till they grow up. 8. Institution of St. Perine, 175 beds : for the sick and weak of both sexes, who pay board. 9. Hospice des Menages, (Rue de la Chaise,) 670 beds: for needy married persons above seventy, widows and widowers of sixty years. 10. Hospice St. Michel, 12 beds: for persons of seventy years of age. The hospitals and hospices of Paris contain in all about 15000 beds. In this number are not included the four military hospitals, the Insane Hospital at Charenton, near Paris, the Institute for the Blind, (fee. Of these institutions no one lies on the river except the Hotel-Dieu, which is reckoned the most unhealthy; whether for this reason is undetermined. (In London, also, there is no hospital on the Thames, with the exception of a marine asylum on board a vessel in the stream.) All the above named institutions in Paris are under the direction of the Administration generate des Hopitaux et Hospices de Paris, with a separate Bureau d'Admission aux Hospices. There are also a large number of benevolent institutions, which are not under rnue 2*