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 homœopathy / by Edwin Lee.

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1837
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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 homœopathy / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBSERVATIONS, PART I. FRENCH MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS. The establishments for the relief of the sick and infirm poor are by- far on a more extensive scale in Paris than in any other metropolis. Upwards of fifteen thousand beds are occupied in the various hospices and hospitals; forty-seven thousand patients are on an average annually received into the hospitals, and nineteen thousand old and infirm paupers into the hospices or asylums. The annual revenues of these establish- ments, amounting to from ten to twelve millions of francs, are mostly derived from property upon lease, gifts and bequests, a share of the entrance duties, of receipts at the theatres, and of the profits from the Mont de Piete, an establishment for the loan of money on pledges. The annual expenditure averages about six millions. These institutions are under the superintendence of government: most of them are di- rected by a general council, under which an administrative commission is charged with the executive power. At the head of each establishment is placed a chief or superintendent, by whom its interior economy is regulated, and to whose authority all the persons employed in the establishment are subject.* The council has a central office, at which twelve physicians and six surgeons preside: these are elected by concours, or public competition of candidates. Patients obtain medical advice and relief, on application at the central office, and, if their case requires it, a ticket of admission to a hospital Hospital physicians and surgeons are usually chosen from among the members of the central office. They are in general exceedingly regular in their attendance, make their visits at an early hour every morning, and during the visit avail themselves of every opportunity of imparting clinical information 1o the students. Palients are minutely examined, and the daily progress of their case taken in writing by a clinical clerk * Formulaire des Hopitaux, par Edwards et Vavasseur. 2