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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    formed part of the just mentioned military College, called the Ecole preparatoire , held for a short time about 350 beds; it was not long occupied as an hos- pital and was latterly used for medical stores (Phar- macie-Centrale). To the North East of this there were wooden huts holding about J,200 patients, known as THopital du terrain de manoeuvre, and which served for the reception of patients from the camp for the Army of reserve at Maslak. At the camp itself, on the hills midway between Pera and Therapia, there was hospital accommodation during the summer of 1855 for about 400 patients. In Pera, the Palace of the Russian Embassy was converted into a hospital for the exclusive use of officers. In its spacious, well ventilated rooms about 60 patients were admitted; it could comfortably have held many more. The fourteenth French Hospital was the Naval Hospital at Therapia, but little can be said in its praise. The wounded were generally admitted in the Hopital de Pera, Dolma- Baktche, Gulhana and the Universite; the cholera patients principally in the Hopital de TEcole Militaire, and the convalescents and invalids selected to proceed homcAvards were sent to Daoud-Pasha. When after the peace had been proclaimed the troops were evacuating the Crimea, a depot for scorbutic patients was formed at Prinkipo, one of the Princes' Islands. The Sardinian Hospital was at Yenikoi about half a mile to the south of Therapia. It consisted of ^excellent wooden huts, built on a healthy spot, con- taining about 1,000 patients. Before their arrange- ments for accommodating so many Avere completed, the