Author: American Medical Association

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-19

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780266492344

Excerpt from The Transactions of the American Medical Association, 1873, Vol. 24: Instituted 1847 Finally, I have to regret that we cannot conduct you through the wards of hospitals so capacious as are to be found in some of the older cities. True, we have many valuable hospitals here valuable to the sick, and valuable for clinical teaching. These are generally under the control of communities, such as the Hospital of the Sisters of Charity, the Sisters of Mercy, St. Luke's, St. Vincent's, the Good Samaritan, etc. But our great charity, the City Hospital and Supplement, the Quarantine Hospital, is behind the times. When it was built, about twenty years ago, it was deemed a magnificent building, well adapted to its designed use. Then our population was about Now, since it has swollen to near half a million, we have outgrown our hospital facilities. I am glad, however, gentlemen, to be able to say that it is contemplated soon to construct a general hospital, under the auspices of both the State and city, which will doubtless be ample for all our wants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.