The "Middlesex annual" : 1924.

  • Middlesex Hospital.
Date:
1924
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The "Middlesex annual" : 1924. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Middlesex Hospital in 1750. THE ALL HELP LEAGUE. Ladies and Gentlemen, You were warned in a previous letter that the Hospital building was in a faulty condition as regards its foundations, walls and floors. This warning, I regret to tell you, was only too well founded. More thorough examinations have followed on the discovery of the original signs of weakness, and these have not only confirmed the first reports but have revealed extensive defects throughout the whole of the Old Block, which is the part with which you are most familiar as including all the Mortimer Street frontage. In writing about a Hospital it may not be out of place to use simple medical language. The usual pro¬ fessional attendant of the Hospital had examined the patient and given his opinion that the case was very serious, some of the symptoms even positively dangerous. As is usual in such circumstances, in the case of an important patient the second opinion of a consultant was called for ; this eminent practitioner agreed as to the previous di ignosis that strenuous remedies must be adopted as soon as possible in order to preserve and lengthen the life of the patient. At such a crisis as this you know that the relatives and friends of the patient will even deny themselves with a view to providing the necessary medicines and stimu¬ lating nourishment to restore the strength and working powers of the ailing person.