April 6th, 1835

April 1835

/55v cont'd/ Wednesday April J. The weather has quite changed very beautiful today quite as warm as one wld. ever /56r/ wish. Went down to the Hotel Dieu followed M. Chomel this morning. I like the manner of questioning patients which Physicians have at Paris there is so much system' with them. Very superior to the method of the English Physicians. There can be no doubt that Paris is a most adm...

June 1835

/69r cont'd/ Monday June Jst. Come to the last month of my stay in Paris. Went to the Hotel Dieu-Roux has a case of pistol wound in a young man 1-ball entered anterior to the tendon achille's /69v/& passed out at the outer ankle, breaking the malleolus2 Tapirus[?]-the treatment is the constant application of cold-he has a case of tumor in the internal aspect of thigh three or four inches above ...

May 1835

Went down to Hotel Dieu this morning. Sanson's case of operation going on very well. Roux has several cases ofstrumous affections ofthe carpus1-he has also a carcinomatous affection ofthe lower lip under his care-this is an awkward case-he will operate tomorrow morning-the tumor is broad at the inferior as at the superior edge-hence a V shaped incision cannot be practised-the tumor besides is o...

March 1835

Snowed very hard all the morning & miserably cold. Went to the R. de Bouloi twice-capi. sermons. The Boulevards crowded with fools in masks.' Monday 2nd. Went to Sanson's-saw nothing new-but I hope, learned something. Saw a good case of fractured radius completely cured without deformity. He did not lecture today, nor did Chomel, I presume, on account of the Carnival. C. had a good case of diss...

February 1835