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Letter XX. Hospitals.
accessible to the patients friends, who, without incommoding or being incommoded,
might see the while economy of it carried in under their eye, would
lose, it is to be hoped, a great part of those repelling terrors, which deprive of
the benefit of such institutions many objects, whom prejudice in league with
poverty, either debars all together from relief, or drives to seek it in much
less eligible shapes. Who knows but that the certainty of a medical attendance,
not occasional, short lived, or even precarious, as at present, but constant
and uninterrupted, might not render such a situation preferable even
to home, in the eyes of many persons who deleted text could afford to pay for it? And
that the erection of a building of this kind might turn to account
in the hands of some enterprizing practitioner?
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