Remarks upon medical organization and reform (foreign and English) / by Edwin Lee ; with an appendix.

  • Edwin Lee
Date:
1846
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Credit: Remarks upon medical organization and reform (foreign and English) / by Edwin Lee ; with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as well as in the other states of Germany, upon the political division of the country into provinces, districts, and cantons. All the individuals employed receive salaries from the state; the salary depends not only upon the rank but also according to the length of time during which services have been ren¬ dered. Between the physician-inspectors of the cantons on ^he one hand, who receive about 1,200 or 1,500 francs, and the members of the supreme medical council on the other, who have from 10,000 to 12,000 francs annually, are placed the district physician-inspectors and the members of the pro¬ vincial colleges, who have proportionate salaries. These appointments are not obtained by concours. But in order for a practitioner to enter upon this career, and to aspire to them, he must have undergone a special examination, These functionaries are distinct from the instructing bodies in the faculties. The faculties confer academical degrees; the state alone, represented by the committee of the staats- eocamerii grants the licence to practice.* Apothecaries (pharmaceutists) of the first class have to undergo two examinations before the committee of the staats-examen, viz. one upon chemistry, botany, pharmaceu¬ tical manipulations, toxicology, forensic medicine, and chemi¬ cal analysis; the other, entirely oral, has reference only to the knowledge which is requisite for the practice of pharmacy in general. Hospitals in most parts of Germany are chiefly supported by a tax on parishes and districts, and by contributions from servants and others of the working classes. Masters are obliged to pay beforehand for two months’ support of their servants when these are admitted. The inhabitants of Berlin have to pay for one month beforehand. Those from other towns or countries pay for two months. If the patient is alto¬ gether indigent, the parish in which he is born is charged with the expense. The management of the hospital affairs is usually vested in a committee, of which the members of the