Ye Storie of Sir Patrick Dun & hys hospital.

Date:
[1887]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Ye Storie of Sir Patrick Dun & hys hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital was opened for the reception of patients on the iOth June; 1808, from which time, until the year 1867, it remained an Hospital devoted entirely to the reception of medical cases,1 and the instruc- »• * » tion of Students in Medicine only. From time to time during this period of its existence, although limited in its operations to medical cases only, it rendered most important services to the citizens of Dublin, as may be estimated from the following facts: — 1 ‘ 1 *1 * that, during the frightful famine years of 1826-1828, and 1846-1848, upwards of ten thousand, one hundred and thirty-two Cases of Fever were treated in the Wards of this Hospital. From the year 1808 until the year 1866, SlR PATRICK Dun’s Hospital pursued the even tenor of its way, treating none but Medical cases, and ignoring the claims V. ! t of Surgery and Midwifery. Even with regard to Medicine it made exceptions; for in the year 1832, when Europe first felt the scourge * ■ » • *. *v* of Asiatic Cholera, the Governors of Dun’s Hospital • 1 * • •» V ► • • * t «, , . j refused to admit cases of this disease within its walls. In the year 1866, when cholera again visited Dublin, wider counsels prevailed, and the Governors’ of the Hos¬ pital opened their wards for the reception of cholera, being supported in this view of their duty by the Mater