A few hints addressed to medical students about to visit the Parisian hospitals / by a physician.

Date:
1841
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A few hints addressed to medical students about to visit the Parisian hospitals / by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    M. Richerand, they have not offered much worthy of notice. There are also Avards in this hospital for lying-in women. The baths of this establishment are on a large scale, and should be visited for the sake of infor- mation. There is no regularity as to the hours when the medical men visit their patients here: they generally suit their own convenience. Another hospital that is usually visited by students is the Hopital du Midi, or des Veneriens. This is situated at the other extx'emity of Paris, beyond the Jardin du Luxembourg, at the end of the rue St. Jacques. Here it is that M. Ricord is to be found, and here are to be seen the experiments on Avliich he founds his system. He con- siders it impossible, in certain cases, to decide whether a sore be chancre or not, and again whether the discharge in gonorrhoea proceed from inflammation of the mucous membrane or from internal chancre. In order therefore to remove all doubt, he in- oculates some other part of the body, as the