The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-21
EUROPEAN HOSPITALS.
BY DIR. C. H. Villas, OF CHICAGO.

romlnent among all IN Londol
stands st. Thomas. The total cost O
the buildings was $2,500,O00; they ar,
seven in number, detached, yet con
hected by corridor, are built of rec
brick, four stories high, 1876 feet apart
and were formally opened in June
1871. It's annual income is abou
100000; its capacity COS beds, and i
receives about 5000 in and "a, 900 out
patients year. In its faculty we dis
Germ familiar faces and recognize well
known names.
st. Bartholomew Hospital in Smith
field, the oldest in London, was founded
In 1547, though dating as far back as
l1O2. 1t contains 676 beds in constant
occupation, about 100 nurses, and treats
about 5000 in-patients year. Seven
hundred gallons of cod-liver oil, nearly
800 pounds of castor oil, 200 weight OF
salts, and from 1000 to as high as 30, 0OC
leeches have been used in year. Har
vey, the discoverer of the circulation OF
the blood, was long tine 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, IAN excellent insti-
tuition, with wel-appointed room for
lectures, and we see the names of many
of the best-knOwn men rs 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
And so day after day we may pass
slowly and patiently among the various
hospitals, spending the forenoons at the
London Ophtkalmic Hospital, COM
monty known as the Moorfields' Eye
Hospital a 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 Cross, 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 it's mag
niticently built institutions.
Foremost stands George Heriot's Hos
pital celebrated by Scott, in the Fort
unes of Niger) and the new City Hospi-
tai now in process Of completion. Both
are fine structures, and, like everything
built at Edinburgh. well built.
Dublin, Cork, Liverpool, Glasgow,
Manchester, Nottingham, and Leicester
(where the British Congress of Homeo-
patty met this year-a fine body are
all provided with not only general but
special hospitals, each of which is
worthy Of srecial attention, In Liver
pool especially, and in Birmingham,
are homeopathic dispensaries worthy OF
all commentator.
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.
We stand before the great Hotel
Dieu, with its imposing front and com
Portable arrangements within.
1t stands on the Isle du Palais, occu-
plying in extent the quay of the Seine
from the Pont Notre Dame to the Pont
d'Arcole, opposite the Notre Dame
Cathedral, covers a space OF nearly five
and one-half acres, and cost 25,000,000
of francs (S5, 0O0,0OO). 1t contains 514
beds, is arranged in wards, and in its
mercies and charities is appropriately
named the House of God.
The great Saltpetriere $50 called from
10 haa,, Ca1tratra fontnrul
perhaps next attracts most attention. 1t
is home for incurable or aged female
patients, and the insane and nervous,
but has other patients as well. 1t has
length of 1850 feet, is composed of 45
different buildings, and occupies a
space of 32,542 square metres. The
number of beds is 5,204, Of which 2,917
were actually occupied when / 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 Hopital de
La Pitie, 727 beds; de La Charlie, 504
beds; Beaujon, 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 ex-
ception that they are not well kept and
exceedingly comfortable.
The Vienna hospital, TIE Allege-
meines Krankenhaus, has long enjoyed
a great reputation, from its valuable
clinical opportunities. 1t is large,
regularly built hospital, with many and
vast courts.
At one time Berlin exceeded Vienna
in its reputation as a medical center
Its largest and principal hospital, the
Royal Charlie, intended for the poor
only, has capacity for 1,40O patients,
and is much arranged as the Vienna
hospital.
Other hospitals, however, are numer-
GUS, and some of the finest of the eye
clinics. need hardly say that it was
here that our great master in ophthalmic
practice, the learned and lamented Won
Graefe, won his great and well-deserved
reputation. Guided by an old patient
of his, visited the scene of his former
labors. 1t is now given over to other
uses, his clinic is divided and his pa
tiepts are scattered, but the fame of his