The hospital founded and supplied by free grace : with an account of the different disorders treated therein, and the methods of cure / by a Steward.

  • Yates, Thomas.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: The hospital founded and supplied by free grace : with an account of the different disorders treated therein, and the methods of cure / by a Steward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    This spacious Hospital, though superintended by the great Physician, is also attended by watchmen in an inferior capacity, who are appointed to attend the sick, and to treat them according to the established rules of the House, which the great Architect has writ- ten in large letters of gold over every door leading into the different Wards. As I had the happiness to be admitted into the House as a patient, and after I was in a measure restored to health, the honour of being appointed to minister to the sick, I had a good oppor- tunity to acquaint myself with the different disorders of the patients, and to observe the methods made use of for the removal of them: and for the information of those who are strangers to these things, this short account is given. WARD THE FIRST. When you enter the first Ward, you find yourself amonor the Broken-hearted. Now these complain of an uncommon load lying on their spirits, so that under the pressure they groan deeply, and sigh aloud, cry- ing, ^'.Woe is me, I am undone! my iniquities testify against me! I have destroyed myself! what must I do? Damnation stares me in the face, and hell is moved to meet me at my coming. They toss to and fro on their beds, and watch for the morning, saying, When will the. night be gone?'' When they dose, they start, and with the utmost anxiety cry, Who