Friendly advice to a patient: to which are added, spiritual directions for the uninstructed; The first calculated ... for the use of the sick, belonging to the Infirmaries ... The second ... is no less proper for the use of Infirmary patients, than for the uninstructed in all conditions / [Sir James Stonhouse].

  • Sir James Stonhouse, 11th Baronet
Date:
[1750?]
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Credit: Friendly advice to a patient: to which are added, spiritual directions for the uninstructed; The first calculated ... for the use of the sick, belonging to the Infirmaries ... The second ... is no less proper for the use of Infirmary patients, than for the uninstructed in all conditions / [Sir James Stonhouse]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If you are wounded, or under the Agony of a broken Bone, or in other Circumftances, that require the im- portant Aid of SuRGEoNS, Perfons feleted from many others of that ufeful and neceflary Profeflion ‘are ready to attend you with their Affiftance ;—-which would elfe,: perhaps, have been fo expenfive to you, that you might have been ruined by procuring it, or have perifhed for want of it.—So that, upon the Whole, Perfons in fu- perior Circumitances, if they have not a great deal of Command over themfelves, and do not fal] into very faith- ful Hands, may want many of thofe Advantages, which you have bere for your Comfort and Recovery. : Now, have you not abundant Reafon to ee be thankful to your Benefactors, and, above ne all, to Goo, for thefe good Things, and for that happy State, into which, amidit a!l your Afilictions, you are brought?—I fay, above all, to Gop, becaufe it is HE gives Them a Power to help you, anda Will to do it.—It is He that encourages Them to go on from Year to Year, with renewed Expence, and to take fuch /fre- guent Trouble in Attendance, as many of them do, on no other Confideration than that of doing yax Good, Methinks, za this View, you fhould be praifing God every Day, and every Day intreating that his Blefling may abundantly reft upon thofe whom He has made, in the/e . Infances, the Inftruments of his Goodnefs to you.—And indeed you fhould be very thankful to Him, not only on: your own Account, but that of others. Poor as you are, I could earneftly wifh that you might be rich in the Grace of Chriftian Charity; and if you are fo, you will be concerned for others as well as for your/elf-—You will rejoice and be thankful for the Relief which every Patient in the InFrrMaRy, or belonging to it, receives by this. uetul FounpDATION;—it will delight and comfort you to think how many fuch Houfes of Mercy there are in our Netions how many Thoufands have been already relieved and recovered by Means of them;—and what a Probability there is, that in future Times they may be more numerous, and more u/2ful too, by gaining Experi- ence in the Art of Doinc Goop ;—and your opening? Co iiiat, Heart