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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 11: Paris.—its schools.—January and February, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
hibited to him their ailments and received gratuitous attention, the students forming a circle around, and of course observing the patient. Feb. 11 (Sunday). Dined with Mr. Ticknor. After dinner an Italian came in, who was a literary man of some rank,—Ugoni. Camillo Ugoni, 1784-1856. He was a translator of Horace and Caesar; but his chief work was a History of Italian Literature. He was an exile from 1821 to 1838. He was upwards of fifty, and spoke with a strong Italian accent. Feb. 12. This morning rose before seven o'clock; first went to that immense receptacle of all diseases, the Hotel Dieu, where I witnessed, for a second time, the rapid and fierce manner of Roux in his surgical wards, and the slow and exact philosophical examination of Louis. From the Hotel Dieu I passed through the Ile de la Cite, and the part of the city in front of that to the Hopital St. Louis, situated at the other extreme of the city, and devoted chiefly to diseases of the skin. Feb. 13.