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d'une modique retribution. L'officier de sante est dans les
meilleures conditions pour remplir cette mission de modeste
devouement; il se fera d'autant plus aisement le con­
fident, le conseiller, le consolateur du pauvre, qu'il en est
presque le compagnon."
For all that, the number of Officiers de Sante in France
diminished year by year. In 1847 there were 7,456 of
them, in 1872 only 4,653, while the number of Doctors
, rose between the same years from 10,643 to 10,766. The
disappearance of this grade of practitioners appears,
therefore, to be only a question of time.
The medical faculty of Paris stands at the head of all
the medical schools; it has the most abundant supply of
material and appliances for teaching, and the best arrange­
ment of studies. Its teaching staff consists at the present
time of 33 professors in ordinary (titulaires) and a great
number of agreges, who correspond nearly to the Austrian
professors extraordinary.
Of the professors in ordinary, 1 represents anatomy,
1 histology, 1 physiology, 1 medical chemistry, 1 natural
history in its bearing on medicine, 1 medical physics,
1 pharmacology, 1 general pathology and therapeutics,
1 materia medica, 1 internal and 2 external pathology,
1 pathological anatomy, 1 comparative and experimental
pathology, 1 midwifery and gynaecology, 1 operative
surgery, 1 hygiene, 1 forensic medicine, and 1 the history
of medicine, while 4 conduct the surgical clinic, 4 the
medical clinic, 1 the gynaecological clinic, 1 the clinic for
diseases of children, 1 that for diseases of the sexual
organs, 1 the clinic for diseases of the eye, 1 that for
mental diseases, and 1 that for diseases of the nervous
system. They draw yearly salaries of 15,000 francs, and
are nominated, on being proposed by the faculty, from
among the number of the agreges.
The latter assist and represent the professors in ordinary
in teaching and during the examinations, and, when they
are commissioned to lecture, receive the pay of 6,ooofr. a
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