Diseases of the bladder and prostate : and obscure affections of the urinary organs, with diagrams illustrating the author's treatment of stone, without cutting, and numerous successfully treated cases with the spray treatment hitherto regarded as "incurable" / by David Jones, M.D.

  • Jones, David.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Diseases of the bladder and prostate : and obscure affections of the urinary organs, with diagrams illustrating the author's treatment of stone, without cutting, and numerous successfully treated cases with the spray treatment hitherto regarded as "incurable" / by David Jones, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    STATEMENT RESPECTING the SELF-SUPPORTING HOME HOSPITAL FOR STONE and URINARY DISEASES in Men, Women, and Children, 10, DEAN STREET, SOHO, LONDON. TERMS : Two Guineas weekly, for Board, Residence and Medical Treatment, EXCLUSIVE of Special Surgical Operations. For the reasons appearing in the following statement, Dr. David Jones is desirous of making known the establishment of the above SELF- SUPPORTING HOME HOSPITAL. That there is urgent need for such a Home will scarcely be denied by any person at all conversant with the wants in times of sickness of large masses of society. There are well-endowed hospitals for the very poor. Surely there ought also to be some institution for the better class of artisans, the small tradesman, shop assistants, milliners, &c., &c., many of whom have no homes suitable for times of sickness, but who would willingly pay a small sum per week for medical or surgical attendance, good food, nursing, &c. More than thirty years' experience in London has convinced Dr. Jones that a Home or self-supporting hospital such as is here presented will when known, be highly appreciated by the classes alluded to, and preferred by them to any mere charitable institution. It is not overlooked that, since the statement, similar to the present one, appeared (appended to previous issues of the first edition of this work) the authorities of some of our great metropolitan hospitals have entertained arid practically dealt with the subject and provided pay-wards for patients. Dr. Jones cannot but rejoice in this practical adoption (though without acknowledgement) of an idea long urged by him on the attention