A short account of some of the principal hospitals of France, Italy, Switzerland, and the Netherlands : with remarks upon the climate and diseases of those countries / By H. W. Carter.

  • Carter, H. W. (Harry William), 1787-1863.
Date:
1819
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Credit: A short account of some of the principal hospitals of France, Italy, Switzerland, and the Netherlands : with remarks upon the climate and diseases of those countries / By H. W. Carter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I attended the hospital of Nice regularly for six weeksj and the liberality of the phy- sician, M. Arnulfe, enabled me to see all that was to be seen in that time, which was indeed not much, for the majority of the patients were made up of persons labouring under chronic diseases, chiefly rheumatism, and the sequelas of intermitten Is, or of poverty. Cases of mesenteric disease, of marasmus, arising from bad nourishment, and all sorts of misery and filth, were nu- merous. The most remarkable cases were^ I think, the fifllowing :— / Several of extreme debility after quartan interm ittents. One or two cases of quartan interrmttents which had resisted bark in every form, and with almost every combi- nation *. It seemed to be the practice to The latter established a soup-house, and by his exertions raised a considerable subscription to purchase clothing, &c. for the poor. * Cinchona combined with Antim. Tart, in the pro- portion of two grains of the latter to one drachm of the former, has been found efficacious, when bark alone has failed. The arsenical solution has never been given in the hospital.