Some observations and facts respecting the establishment of an infirmary at Maidstone: addressed to the inhabitants of Kent and Sussex / [G.D. Yeats].

  • Yeats, G. D. (Grant David), 1773-1836
Date:
1833
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Credit: Some observations and facts respecting the establishment of an infirmary at Maidstone: addressed to the inhabitants of Kent and Sussex / [G.D. Yeats]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dangerous. These considerations alone, if any vindi* cation was wanting, show at once the decided supe- riority of a hospital over a dispensary. I take the liberty, therefore, of suggesting the advantage to be derived in every way, from circumscribing the distance from the infirmary, from beyond which out-patients should not be received : a good plan, perhaps, would be to specify at the bottom of the printed cir¬ culars, the names of the diseases, suffering under which patients would not be received except into the house ; this would save time, trouble and expense. From Maidstone and its immediate vicinitv, where there is a population of above 10,000, there w ould be an abundant supply of out-patients, which, under emergencies, wonld be visited by the house apothecary. Time and its usual attendant infirmities, are pressing close upon my heels; and after thirty-four years of prac¬ tice, both in private and at several public institutions, the honours and emoluments of the profession have less attractions for me. Thoroughly impressed with the conviction that all of us, of every rank, in our several vocations, with whatever talents of usefulness we may be gifted, whether they be many or few, whether of power, of wealth, of influence, or of cha¬ racter, will, ere long, be called upon to yield up an awful account of the employment of them ; the weight of this responsibility has urged and encouraged me thus to address you, under the hope of engaging your feelings in behalf of those who are surrounded with