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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    STATE OF MEDICINE FRANCE, ENGLAND, &c CHAPTER I. TOPOGRAPHY OP PARIS AND LONDON. Paris.—Quartier Latin—Ecole de medecine—Lectures and professors—Hospitals and hospices—Clinics—Students—Concours—Foreign physicians. London.—Hospital—Schools—Management of these—Teachers—Pupils—Regulations for the examinations of surgeons and general practitioners in England, and curriculum of the medical faculty at Edinburgh—Climate and mode of life—Traveling physi- cians. PARIS. Paris is, as is commonly said, all France. This accounts for the fact of its immense population. This centralisation of the whole country in the capital is true also of medicine. Strasburg and Montpelier are the other distinguished medical schools, but the rivalry between the latter and Paris has long since ceased. The capital has the advantage both in point of resources and of activity. Paris is divided from east to west by the river Seine. On the north side lie the theatres, the boulevards, the Louvre, the Tuille- ries, the Champs Elysees, the Palais Royal. In the midst of the southern half is situated an old, somewhat narrow district, which, as being the resort of persons pursuing learned occupations, has long been styled Pais, or Quartier Latin. Here is the Uni- versity of Paris, here are the Sorbonne, the Ecole de Droit, the Ecole Polytechnique, most of the Colleges, and the Ecole de Medecine. On the left side is the still beautiful Quartier St. Ger- main ; on the right is a lively but dirty district of mechanics and tradesmen ; on the south is the Luxembourg, with its single large garden ; and under the ground run the old catacombs, labyrinthic passages formed by nature, now filled with skulls and bones. 23—c nine 2