The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20
EUROPEAN HOSPITALS.
BY DIR. c. H. Villas, OF CHICAGO.

the buildings was $2,500,0O0; they are
seven in number, detached, yet CON
nected by corridor, are built of red
brick four stories high, 1875 feet apart,
and we're formally opened in June,
1871. It's annual income is about
100000: its capacity SOB beds, and it
receives about 5000 in and $4,000 out
patients year. In it's faculty we dis
Germ familiar faces and recognize we'll
known names.
st. Bartholomew Hospital in Smith
field, the Oldest III London, was founded
in 1547, though dating as far back as
1902. 1t contains 676 beds in constant
occupation, about $50 nurses, and treats
about 5000 in-pahents year. Seven
hundred gallons of cod-liver oil, nearly
800 pounds of castor oil, lightweight of
salts, and from 1920 to as high as 10000
leeches have been used in year. Har-
vey, the discoverer of the circulation of
the blood, was long time physician to
this hospital, and the Pitcairns and
Abernethy once lectured there.
In Great Ormond street we enter
the well-appointcd wards Of the London
Homeopathic Hospital,an excellent insti-
tuition, with a weu-appointed room for
lectures, and we see the names Of many
of the best-known men as lecturers.
The school attached to this hospital is
designed to be supplementary to courses
of instruction elsewhere previously
taken, and does not teach the elementary
and fundamental branches, gsa@a
And so day after day we may pass
slowly and patiently among the various
hospitals, spending the forenoons at the
London Ophthalmic Hospital. COM
monty known as the Moortields' Eye
Hospital, q great charity, the largest eye
clinic in the world, and for advantages
to the advanced student or practitioner
unexcelled, if equaled, by any. We see
Guys Hospital, world-renowned; the
Bethlehem, for the insane; St. Georges,
where John Hunter died; Chelsea,
Kings Gross, and others and simply re-
marking that several of similar charities,
but smaller size, are known to exist, we
pass to Edinburgh, rival seat of learn
ing, and there briefly glance at its mag
nihcently built institutions.
Foremost stands George Heriot's Hos
pitaI celebrated by Scott, in the Fort
unes of Nigel') and the new City Hospi-
tai now in process of completion. Both
are fine structures, and, like everything
built at Edinbnrghy we'll built % a m
Dublin,% Cork, Liverpool, Glasgow,
Manchester, Nottingham, and Leicester
(where the British Congress Of Homeo-
pathy met this year-a fine body are
all provided with not only general but
special hospitals, each of which is
worthy of special attention. In Liver
pool especially, and in Birmingham,
are homeopathic dispensaries worthy OF
all cOmmendation.
Paris, the goal of most Americans
ideas of pleasure gay giddy Paris -the
scene of so much that is good and beau
tiful, and whose by-ways rival the world
in crime, has indeed need of the
magnificent hospitals which grace her
splendid streets. 81.
We stand before the great Hotel
Dieu, with its imposing front and COM
Portable arrangements Within % 81
1t stands on the Isle du Palais, occu-
plying in extent the quay of the Seine
from the Point Notre Dame to the Pont
dArcole, opposite the Notre Dame
Cathedral, covers space of nearly five
and one-half acres, and cost 25,000,OO0
of francs ($5, 000000).- 1t contains 514
beds, is arranged in wards, and in it's
mercies and charities is appropriately
named the House of God. & .@'-. =
The great Saltpetriere $50 called from
having once been asaltpetre factory
perhaps next attracts most attention. 1T
is home for incurable or aged female
patients, and the insane and nervous,
but has other patients as we'll It has a
length of 1850 feet, is composed of As
different buildings, and occupies
space of 32,542 square metres. The
number of beds is 5,204, of which 2,9T
were actually occupied when I was
there.
Of homeopathic hospitals there are
two, the San jacques and the Hahne-
mann, both receptive of all maladies,
and both fairly appointed
Among others, we note the HoDital de
La Pitie, 727 beds; de la Charlie, 504
beds; Beauion, AIT beds, and many
others. The most carefully compiled
figures show the number of beds in all
to be about 10000. 1t is the rarest OK
ception that they are not well kept and
exceedingly comfortable.
The Vienna hospital, the Allege-
meines Krankenhaus, has long enjoyed
a great reputation, from it's valuable
clinical opportunities. It is large,
regularly built hospital, with many and
vast courts. nr ar
At one time Berlin exceeded Vienna
in its reputation as a medical center.
It's largest and principal hospital, the
Royal Charlie, intended for the poor
only, has capacity for 400 patients,
and is much arranged as the Vienna
hospital ...4 ...
Other hospitals, however, are numer-
GUS, and some of the finest of the eye
clinics. I need hardly say that it was
here that our great master in ophthalmic
practice, the learned and lamented Won