Hospitals Are Only An Intermediate Stage Of

By Mortifying Vanity We Do Ourselves No Good. It Is The Want Of Interest In Our Life Which Produces It; By Filling Up That Want Of Interest In Our Life We Can Alone Remedy It.

A Want Of The Habit Of Observing And An Inveterate Habit Of Taking Averages Are Each Of Them Often Equally Misleading.

We Set The Treatment Of Bodies So High Above The Treatment Of Souls, That The Physician Occupies A Higher Place In Society Than The School-master.

The Amount Of Relief And Comfort Experienced By The Sick After The Skin Has Been Carefully Washed And Dried, Is One Of The Commonest Observations Made At A Sick Bed.

Hospitals Are Only An Intermediate Stage Of Civilization, Never Intended ... To Take In The Whole Sick Population. May We Hope That The Day Will Come ... When Every Poor Sick Person Will Have The Opportunity Of A Share In A District Sick-nurse At Home.