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Letter XX. Hospitals.
If any thing could still be wanting to shew how far
this plan is from any necessary connection with severe and coercive measures,
there cannot be a stronger consideration than that of the advantage with which
it applies to Hospitals: establishments of which the sole object is the relief
of the afflicted, whom their own intreaties have introduced. Tenacious as
ever of the principle of omnipresence, I take it for granted that the whole
tribe of Medical Curators, the Surgeon, the Apothecary, the Matron,
to whom I could wish to add even the Physician, could the establishment
be but sufficient to make it worth his while, find in the Inspectors Lodge
and what apartments might be added above it, their constant residence. Here
the Physician the establishment and the Apothecary might know
with certainty, that the prescription which the one had ordered and the
other made up, had been administered at the exact time, and in the exact
manner in which it was ordered to be administered. Here the Surgeon would
be sure that his instructions and directions had been followed in all
points, by his pupils and assistants. Here the faculty in all its branches
might with the least trouble possible, watch as much as they chose to
watch, of the progress of the disease and the influence of the remedy. Complaints
from the sick might be received, the instant the cause of the complaint,
real or imaginary, occurred: though, as misconduct would be
followed by instant reprehension, such complaints must be proportionably rare.
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