Observations on the comparative state of medicine in France, England, and Germany : during a journey into these countries in the year 1835 / by Adolph Muehry ; translated from the German by Edward G. Davis.

  • Mühry, Adolf, 1810-1888.
Date:
1838
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    The school of medicine is in the rue de l'Ecole de Mexlecine, and in this street are also the Ecole Pratique, and the Hopital de l'Ecole. Here are found medical booksellers, instrument makers, skeleton makers, and a medical reading- room. The hospitals, however, ex- cepting that just named, are for the most part at a distance and far apart. The faculty of medicine of Paris consists of a dean (now Orfila) and twenty-five professors. The number of agreges is twenty-four ; that of the students in 1836 was two thousand. The school of medicine is a large building, containing a museum, a library, and a lecture room, capable of containing more than one thousand five hundred persons, and soon to be enlarged. Each professor lectures from twice to three times a week, and receives an income of ten thousand francs. The year is divided into two semesters. No private individual can teach or lecture without per- mission, which, however, is easily granted. The number of private courses is over sixty. The lectures and professors are:— Anatomy, Cruveilhier, (Physician to Salpetriere, now Professor of Pathological Anatomy); Physiology, Berard ; Medical Chemis- try, Orfila ; Medical Physics, Pelletan ; Botany, Richard ; Phar- macy, Deyeux; Hygiene, Desgenettes ; Practical Medicine, An- dral (Physician to la Charite), Dumeril; Surgery, Marjolin (Hopital Beaujon), Gerdy (Hopital St. Louis); Operations and Bandages, Richerand (Hopital St. Louis); Pathology and Therapeutics, Broussais (of Val de Grace Military Hospital); Legal Medicine, Adelon ; Obstetrics, Moreau (Maternite Hospital); Medical Clinics, Chomel (Hotel-Dieu), Rostan (Hopital de l'Ecole), Fouquier (Cha- rite), Bouillaud (Charite); Surgical Clinics, Jules Cloquet (Hopital de l'Ecole), Velpeau (Charite), Roux (Hotel-Dieu), Sanson (Hotel- Dieu) ; Obstetric Clinics, Paul Dubois (Hopital de l'Ecole). The lectures commence at 10 o'clock, and continue in the same lecture room in regular succession till 5. Strangers are admitted gratuitously and without ticket. With the school are connected two additional structures—one, the Ecole Pratique, situated opposite in the same street, containing several small lecture rooms, in which private courses are given, and four dissecting rooms; the other is Clamart, near the Jardin des Plantes, intended for dissection merely, consisting of four large halls, in each of which are about twelve tables, and which together accommodate two hundred and fifty students. Every one can take part in the dissection, but each subject supplies five students, and costs about six francs. All unclaimed bodies are brought out of the hospitals to one of the two places. The hospitals are :— 1. Hotel-Dieu, 1000 beds (Place Notre Dame). Here are re- ceived, as in the other hospitals, with the exception of the five to be last named, all the sick, excepting the insane, children, incurable, syphilitic, pregnant, and those suffering from chronic disease. 2. Hopital de la Pitie, (Rue Copeau,) 600 beds.