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Guislain's account of his visit to the Ospedale San Giacomo in Augusta, Rome (1838) |
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| Location: Via Antonio Canova 29, Rome, Papal States | |||
| Guislain wrote about his visit to the Ospedale San Giacomo in Augusta on page 196 of his Lettres Médicales sur l'Italie avec Quelques Renseignements sur la Suisse: Résumé d'un Voyage fait en 1838, Adressé à la Société de Médecine de Gand (F. & E. Gyselynck : Ghent 1840). Guislain reported that this hospital, which dated from the fourteenth century, accommodated three hundred and fifty adult patients of both sexes. Children are housed here as well. Wearing distinctive red capes, they perform menial tasks around the hospital, such as bandaging patients’ wounds. There were no psychiatric patients at the hospital: its only medical speciality appears to have been surgery. |
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| L'Hôpital san Giacomo, dit in Augusta… fut créé… au quatorzième siècle. Il est particulièrement destiné aux maladies chirurgicales et peut renfermer un nombre de trois cent cinquante malades des deux sexes… De même qu'à San Spirito, plusieurs jeunes gens demeurent dans cet établissement et y font le service des pansements : ils portent des capotes rouges. | ||
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