Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-09-10
Baltimore Hospital,


TINE board of visitors have much pleas
| me in announcing 10 the public, that
within the last eighteen months, large
and elegant addition has been made to this
valuable institution, in the erection oil the
East wing Of the building. This wing is
! 152 feet in length and SO in width, with an
! extensive Southern projection at ITS extreme
East end. 1t 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, and well adapted TO their
various diseases. These different rooms
and wards will be warmed by open fires,
and by heated air thrown into them, from
furnaces constructed on sale and improv-
, 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 Phy-
sicians OF the Hospital, in their attention TO
the construction of the building, and their
care of the sick, have given character to
this Institution, which is now. inferior to
none in the United States. In the short
space of six years, most noble establish
ment has been erected--a thing without
parallel in this country. Ii is we'll known,
that above half a century has been con-
sumed, in bringing the Hospitals of New
York and Philadelphia to their present
size, and ii is admitted by many gentle
men, who have visited these Institutions,
that the Hospital here, is by far the most
extensive 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 he furnished
and every exerton is now making, 10 have
il completed, before the cold weather shall
set ili.
The visitors at their late meeting. exa-
mined the Institution with much care--the
apartments of the sick in the private mfr
mary-lhose 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
humaneIy taken care of; and the sailor,
disabled by age, wounds and sickness, well
provided with suitable medical assistance,
and witheyery other comfort which his con-
dtion NAV 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 im-
mediate care they are entrusted. Every
praise too, which the visitors can bestow, IS
due TO Mr.. & 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-
my of the establishment.
Before they conclude this, account OF thes
Hospital, the visitors would invite The at
tention of their fellow citizens throughout
the United States, to the anatomical Ca5i-
net OF Har Preparations, by Ctiapp,, which
certainly far surpasses any thing OF the Kind
ever exhibited in this country; and will al
ford to those whose curiosity may lead them
to see how "fearfully and wonderfully they
are made" hut more especially to the me-
dical student, a fund OF useful information.
The Hospital is under the care OF the
following nelical gentlemen:
Doctors Colin Mackenzie Attending
lanes Smith Physicians.
DR.. Horatio Gates jameson, Atten'g Surg.
Doctors George Bro5cn q
John Coulter
John Campbell White z
Solomon Bi,ihead q
John CromUeH 80
Peter Odtord
Ashton Hereunder =
John Oocea
Ti1liam Donaldson
By order of the Beard nj Visitors,
JOHN HlLLEN, Sec'y.
Augus, y .- Th8w
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