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Hospital Life Patients crowded into hospitals like this one in Hamburg in 1746 had little chance of recovery. A priest by the window administers last rites, while in the center a surgeon coolly saws off the leg of a man who had received no anesthesia. (Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg)
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. . . .Diderot’s article in the ‘Encyclopedia’ on the Hotel-Dieu in Paris, the “richest and most terrifying of al French hospitals,” vividly described normal conditions of the 1770s:

Imagine a long series of communicating wards filled with sufferers of every kind of disease who are sometimes packed three, four, five or even six into a bed, the living alongside the dead and dying, the air polluted by this mass of unhealthy bodies, passing pestilential germs of their afflictions from one to other, and the spectacle of suffering and agony of every hand. That is the Hotel Dieu.

The result is that many of these poor wretches come out with disease they did not have when they went it, and often pass them on to the people they go back to live with. Others are half-cured and spend the rest of their days in an invalidism as hard to bear as the illness itself; and the rest perish, except for the fortunate few whose strong constitutions enable them to survive.” ~ Page 654
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A HISTORY OF WESTERN SOCEITY
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