Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-10-01
Baltimore Hospital,

q ure in announcing TO the public, that
within the last eighteen months, large
aud elegant addition has been made to this
valuable institution, in the erection of the
/ East wing of the building. This wing is
| l52 feet in length and So in width, with an
, extensive Southern projection al lis extreme
| East end II contains between 80 and 40
apartments, admirably calculated for the
accommodation Of every class OF patients.
! OF this number are several large and airy
wards, intended particularly for the recep-
ton of seamen, AMI well adapted 10 their
various diseases These different rooms
and wards will he warmed by Omen 'res,
aud by heated air thrown into tnem, from
furnaces constructed on safe and impror-
ed plan. Arrangements will also soon be
made. for lighting the apartments in the en-
tire building, with gas.
The unwearied eXertiOns OF Doctors
Mackenzie and Smyth, the attending Ply
siCians OF the Hospital, in their attention to
the construction OF the building, and their
care of the sick, have given character 10
this Institution, which is now interior to
none in the United States. In the short
space of six years, o most noble establish
ment has been erected-a thing without
parallel in this country. II is well known,
that above half century has been con-
sumed, in bringing the Hospitals OF New
York and Philadelphia TO their present
size, and il is admitted by many gentle
men. who have visited these Institutions,
that the Hospital here, is by far the most
oxtena;oe, the whole building being now
$50 feet in length.
The daily increase of the sick in the
Hospital, renders il absolutely necessary
that the new wing should be furnished;
and every cXertiGn is now making, to have
i, completed, before the cold weather shall
set ia.
The visitors al their late meeting, exa-
mined the Institution with much care-the
apartments of the sick in the private iahr-
mary-thoSe in the lunatick asylum-and
the wards of the sick and disabled seamen
in the Marine Hospital--and they assert
with confidence, that the sick and afflicted
of every description arc well accommoda-
ted and carefully attended. They have
seen at their different meetings, the private
patient comfortable the wretChed marine
humanely taken care Of; and the sailor,
disabled by age, wounds and sickness, well
provided with suitable medical assistance,
and wilhevery other comfort which his con-
diticn may require Indeed the agreeable
situation in which this very useful class OF
men are nlaced, does much credit, as well
to the Director of the Marine Hospital, as
to the attending Physicians, to whose inn
mediate care they are entrusted. Every
praise toe, (which the visitors can bestow, is
due TO Mr.. s. Mrs. Gstchel the Stewart and
Matron of the Hospital, for the neat and
clean manner in which the House is uni
formly kept, and for their care and attention
to the administration of the internal econo-
nv of the establishment.
Before they conclude this account of the
Hospital, the visitors would invite the at
tenton of their fellow citizens throughout
the United States, To the anatomical Cabi-
net OF IFar Preparations, by hi?Pp,, which
certainly far surpaSses any thing of the kind
ever exhibited in THIS country; and will af-
for' to those whose curiosity may lead them
to sec how "feariully and wonderfully they
are made" hut more especially to the me-
deal student, fund Of useful information.
The Hosoital is under the care Of the
following medical gentlemen:
Doctors Colin .Hacten-ie Attending
James Smyh I Physicians.
DR.. Horotio Gates Jameson, Atlen'g Surg.
Doctors George Broocn q
john Coulter 3
John Campbell Vhits =,
Solomon Birkhead e
John Crom;IeN IsI
Peter 0ntard
ashton alexander
John Oaren
WHiidm D0naldson
By order of the Board Of Visitors,
JOHN HlLLEN. Sec'y.
August 81 Th8w
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