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On the Condition of the Insane, and on the Treatment of Nervous Diseases in Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

R. F. F. Foote*
Affiliation:
Imperial Medical Society of Constantinople; Her Majesty's Service, attached to His Highness Omar Pasha; Norfolk County Asylum, England

Extract

The English Hospital at Constantinople, is a good one, and situate near the Tower of Calata, overlooking the ancient Chalcedon, the modern Kadeköui, the ancient Byantrum, the modern Stamboul, with its elegant minarets, and well proportioned mosques; in the distance is the snow-clad Olympus, and within a few hundred yards, the Golden Horn, crowded with ships from all parts of the Globe. What a magnificent site, as far as view is concerned, would this offer for a hospital for the insane. But the ground is too valuable to afford any opportunity to enclose proper courts for exercise, and gardens for occupation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1860 

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