Suggestions for the improvement of hospitals, and other charitable institutions / [Sir William Blizard].

  • Blizard, William, Sir, 1743-1835.
Date:
1796
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Credit: Suggestions for the improvement of hospitals, and other charitable institutions / [Sir William Blizard]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for ftudents in their earlieft ftatutes, the en- couragement they have afforded to medical learning has been very gradual, and limited, and _not expreffive of the i imperiangs of its progrefs to The value of medical {cience in every walk of | life, independently of its application in prevent- ing and curing difeafes, fhould be ferioufly confi- dered. AlJl men, are indebted to the difcoverers, -and cultivators, of natural truths, for fome fhare of their more ufeful knowledge, and of the felicity they enjoy. Many, therefore, are the objects, interefting to fociety, that prefent themfelves, in con- templating the profeffional concerns of an Hof- pital: and, as in commercial and other affairs of life, they will be beft underftood by men who have moit directed their att@htion to’ the | a The number of accidental, and extraordinary, cafes, admitted into the Hofpitals of the metro- polis, diftinguifhes them from all others in the kingdom: and the London-Hofpital receives an ample pepportied of them. ‘Thefe are the in- | ke a {tances