Experiences of a civilian in Eastern military hospitals : with observations on the English, French and other medical departments and the organization of military medical schools and hospitals / by Peter Pincoffs.

  • Pincoffs, Peter, 1816-1872.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Experiences of a civilian in Eastern military hospitals : with observations on the English, French and other medical departments and the organization of military medical schools and hospitals / by Peter Pincoffs. 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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    Government, and tlie temporary huts erected by tliem sold or otherwise disposed of. It is computed that there are nearly a million of in- habitants* in Constantinople and its ]8 suburbs com- prising many straggling small towns, villages and ham- lets on the European and Asiatic shores of the Bos- phorus. The great national differences of this motley population, Turks, Armenians, Greeks (the so called Rajahs or Turkish subjects and Hellens or Greek sub- jects), Jews, Austrians, Germans, French, Italians, Eng- lish &c., render it necessary that each nation should have a hospital, in which regard can be paid to its peculiar wants, habits, language and religious ordinan- ces. Besides various civil hospitals for the different native tribes, the Greeks, Armenians and Turks, for which last the Valideh (Sultan's mother) estab- lished one in 1847 holding 700 beds, in which women also were to be admitted, (none however have yet made their appearance), nearly every European nation has its own special hospital. The old English hospital behind the Embassy was certainly the worst of all the civil hospitals , a new one has lately been built on the high part of Galata which is said to be ex- tremely good and likely, under the able management of Dr. HoYLAND by whom many improvements have been suggested, to become one of the best Establishments of its kind. There is an excellent * This number includes the military, and the Bekiars {bachelors^ a name given to Asiatics of the interior) Avho spend a few years at Constantinople, to make a small for- tune.