Medical notes on climate, diseases, hospitals, and medical schools, in France, Italy, and Switzerland : comprising an inquiry into the effects of a residence in the south of Europe, in cases of pulmonary consumption, and illustrating the present state of medicine in those countries / by James Clark, M.D.

  • Clark, James, Sir, 1788-1870.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Medical notes on climate, diseases, hospitals, and medical schools, in France, Italy, and Switzerland : comprising an inquiry into the effects of a residence in the south of Europe, in cases of pulmonary consumption, and illustrating the present state of medicine in those countries / by James Clark, M.D. 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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    ON HOSPITALS and MEDICAL SCHOOLS. iN submitting the observations con- tained in tills part of the work to Medical Men, 1 feel still stronger misgivings than in that which relates to climate. My short residence at several of the medical Schools, of which I have ventured to speak, may expose me to the imputation of presump- tion, in attempting to give any account of them. I am, nevertheless, not without the hope tha^t the English medical reader will find some in- formation in the following pages, which, if not very useful, will, at least, be interesting from the deficiency of knovv^ledge that at this mo- ment exisls in England concerning several of those places ; and thus may feel himself repaid for the trouble of perusing them. 1 cannot certainly ilatter myself that my observations will be received in the favourable manner which the partiality of some of my medical friends, in whose judgment I have the highest confidence, and whose friendship is an honour