Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-09-17
Baltimore Hospital, !
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IA
IRE in announcing TO the public, that
within the last eighteen months, large
and elegant addition has been made to Tins
valuable institution, in the ERECTION OF the
East wing of the building. thls wing IS
l52 feet in length and SO in width, with an
extensive Southern projection atits extreme
East end. Ii contains between 30 and 30
apartments, admirably calculated for the
accommodation of every class OF patients.
Ofthis number are several large and airy
wards, intended particularly for the recep-
ton of seamen, and well adapted to their
various diseases. These different rooms
and wards will he warmed by open fires,
and by heated air thrown into them, from
furnaces constructed on sale and improV-
ed plan. Arrangements viii 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
siciaps 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 inferior to
none in the United States. In the short
space of sly years, most noble establish
ment has been erected--a thing without
parallel in this countr-'. Ii is well known,
that above half a century has been con-
sumed, in bringing tie 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
,-lensire the whole building being now
$50 feet in leugth.
The daily increase of the sick in the
Hospital, renders il absolutely necessary
that the new wing should be furnished;
and every exertion is now making, 10 have
il completed, before the cold weather shall
set liz.
The visitors at their late meeting, exa-
mined the Institution with much care-the
apartments of the sick in the private inhr--
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 are 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 withevery other comfort which his con-
diticn may require. Indeed the agreeable
situation in which this very useful class OF
men are placed, does much credit, as well
TO the Director of the Marine Hospital. as
to the attending Physicians, to whose I'M
mediate care they are entrusted. Every
praise too which the visitors can bestow, Is
due to Mr.. Il Mrs. Gatchel, 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
tention oftheir fellow citizens throughout
the United States, to the Anatomical Cabi-
net OF Var Preparations, by ChiaPp,, which
certainly far surpasses any thing of The kind
ever exhibited in this country; and will at
ford TO those whose curiosity may lead them
TO see how 'fearfully and wonderfully they
are made" but more especially to the me-
dicaI student, fund of useful Information.
The Hospital is under the care OF the
following medical gentlemen:
Doctors Colin Mackenzie Attending
James .Smyth Physicians.
DR.. Horatio Gates Jameson, Atten'g Surg.
Doctors George Brooon q
John Coulter g
John Campbell Hhits 9
Solomon Birkhead e
John Crom1reH ~
Peter Gatord
Ashton Hereunder
John Oven
William Donaldson
By order of the Board OF Visitors,
JOHN HlLLEN, Sec'y.
August 27 lh8w
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