Suggestions for the improvement of hospitals, and other charitable institutions / [Sir William Blizard].

  • William Blizard
Date:
1796
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Credit: Suggestions for the improvement of hospitals, and other charitable institutions / [Sir William Blizard]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ftances that fo often require immediate, and lead to the neceflity of frequent, vifitation; as well as to operations, in which able aiffiftance is de- manded, _ ... In moft capital operations, the operator re- quires the aid of more than one affiftant, fully acquainted with the ftructure of the human body, and capable of pointing out circumftances of danger, not, perhaps, in the anxious moment of operating, adverted to by himéelf, But bodily indifpofition, etcnmee private practice, and many other inevitable caufes, too often prevent the attendance, and affiftance, fo . neceflarily required. How are the evils, thence arifing, to be ob- viated? In the exigencies of private families, affiftance is ®matter of inftant determination, from any quarter: but no one, befide the autho- rized, will venture to ftretch forth a helping hand in an Hofpital: and, if an indefinite latitude in this refpect were given, innumerable evils, from ignorance, and prefumption, would be the confequence. : Let
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