Observations on the principal medical institutions and practice of France, Italy, and Germany : with notices of the universities, and cases from hospital practice : to which is added an appendix, on animal magnetism and homoeopathy / by Edwin Lee.

Date:
1835
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Credit: Observations on the principal medical institutions and practice of France, Italy, and Germany : with notices of the universities, and cases from hospital practice : to which is added an appendix, on animal magnetism and homoeopathy / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and fifty females studying midwifery, reside in the house, and assist in the practical part of the duties; after a certain period they undergo an examination, and take out a iicence to practise. About three thousand five hundred accouchements take place annually ; the average mortality is one in twenty-two cases. Visitors and students are' not admitted, in order that the inmates may be more sure of concealment. Near the former, and situate in an open and healthy part of the suburbs, is the Hospice des Enfans-trouveSi where between five and six thousand infants are annually received on pre- sentation, The admissions, at night, take place by means of a revolving box, communicating with the porter's lodge and the street; the in- fant is placed in the box, and a bell rung to apprize the porteress; the box is then turned round, and its occupant becomes a protege of the establishment. Most of the infants remain but a short time in the house, being sent into the country as soon as nurses can be procured for them. In this there is no difficulty, as there are al- ways several women in attendance. During their stay, healthy infants are suckled by resident nurses, and are placed in a large ward termed La Creche, containing one hundred cradles. The sick are transferred to the wards of the infir- mary, which also contains about one hundred cradles. The wards are airy, and great atten-