Annals of medical history . Medical Record, July 4, 1908. 62 Annals of Medical History With hands that grope their way, return halt come limping to this tomb, and allCrying bosanria, dance and leap)—and listening deaf approach—and hear no Pucelle—9—III—63. In Voltaires time, hospitals were in anovercrowded and unsanitary condition; filthwas everywhere, contagion flourished, and,as Bass says of them, even physiciansdeclined hospital service as equivalent to asentence of death. Voltaire perceived themenace of the huge ^^^^^^^^^^^^Hotel Dieu and want-ed it split up int
Annals of medical history . Medical Record, July 4, 1908. 62 Annals of Medical History With hands that grope their way, return halt come limping to this tomb, and allCrying bosanria, dance and leap)—and listening deaf approach—and hear no Pucelle—9—III—63. In Voltaires time, hospitals were in anovercrowded and unsanitary condition; filthwas everywhere, contagion flourished, and,as Bass says of them, even physiciansdeclined hospital service as equivalent to asentence of death. Voltaire perceived themenace of the huge ^^^^^^^^^^^^Hotel Dieu and want-ed it split up into anumber of smaller pa-vilions, scattered indifferent parts of thecity. Of hospitals ingeneral he said: There is hardlya city in Europe to-day without hos-pitals. Turkey hasthem for animals,which secnis an ex-travagant would be betterto forget animalsand save more great mass ofcharitable institu-tions proves a truthto which little at-tention is paid—itis this, that man-kind is not so bad as. Marqi isi di Brinvillii rs trying out her poisons on the patients in the H6td Dieu. it is painted; that, in spite of all the falseopinions that he holds, in spite of thehorrors of war, which change a man intoa brute, it is easy to believe that thisanimal is really kind and only ugly whenaroused, like other animals. The troubleis that he is teased too much. ModernRome- has almost as many houses ofcharity as antique Rome had triumphalarches and other monuments of In- I limtc in Rome once maintained 445,000 pilgrims for three days—but per-haps that is an encouragement to vaga-bondage more than an act of charity, aspilgrims are usually tramps. Of all hos-pitals, the Hotel Dieu of Paris receivesdaily more poor patients than any are often from 4000 to 5000 at atime. In this case, the number defeats thepurpose of the charity. At the same timeit is the receptacle of all terrible humanmiseries and the temple of the true virtuewhich tries to su
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