Note 27 — Chapter XXVI

Voltaire says (p. 328 of “Pages Choisies des Grands Écrivains,” Paris, Librairie Armand Colin, 1910): “That Piarrou de Chamousset (1717–1773), a wealthy philanthropist, built a model hospital in which every patient had a bed to himself or herself. Since that time the practice of putting two patients in one bed has been abandoned.”