Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-05-30
Imporlant TO Phy.rcInn. and Pa.Ien,..

The desire to benefit suffering humanity has
been the polar star to which the Managers of
the Wheeling Hospital have ever turned their
eyes for guidance. At time when the we'll
earned reputation of an eminent citizen seemed
to dictate the propriety of confding it almost
entirely to the direction of himself and gentle
men of his own selection, and cordially united
with him in purpose, all patients were placed in
care of some one of the medical Board so con-
stituted. None of our medical faculty, hOweV-
er deservedly esteemed at home, now enjoying
abroad that fame which attached so justly to
the name of DR.. Hullihen, modified system
seems at present more conclusive to the interests
and comfort of the public, for which the Hos
pital has been provided, while physician and
Surgeon of high reputation will be appointed in
ordinary to attend to such as enter the institu-
ton without their preference, the Managers have
decided to invite all respectable physicians to
adopt the Hospital, as an infTmary or boarding
house, we'll provided with kind and reliable
attendants, for that class of patients who need
nursery and care, which can rarely be found
amid the noise of the hotel, OF given with
out Inconvenience in the boarding house; no
practitioner can be insensibe to the influence Of
proper attendance, and therefore to the import
ance of such an institution; but If valuable to
those who live among us, who can appreciate
its necessity in cases wherH disease Overtakes
the traveller far away from home and friends
Last week only such case, one of many, &C.
CURED, and as the sick stranger entered the
hall of the building, feeling that his time had
come, that nature was exhausted, he thanked
God that he had reached place where all was
found that could be met away from the loved
ones of home, where he might die in peace.
No physician will be permitted to interfere
with the patients of another unless at the re.
quest of the attending physician. The rules of
the institution in this respect will he enforced.
Is it needful to add that the experience even
of private families proclaims how difficult it
often is. in the hour of need to find nurse?-
And is it not equally obvious that if the public
veal requires such an institution, it must meet
with public encouragement? 1t may not be
amiss to add that philanthropy suggested the
establishment of the Wheeling Hospital, and
brought to completion the present noble edifice
at no small cost; but few Of our citizens have
shared in this work of public utility. 1t is one
in behalf of which, in better times, the Mana
gers would feel disposed to call upon the beneV.
olent among us; even now, they cannot forbear
adding that donation Of $500, by any indiVid-
ual, gives the privilege of maintaining at the
Hospital, during the life of the donor, charity
patient. Is it too much to expect, that with
| such an opportunity of providing for an object
of VIGOROUSLY public interest and exercising
benevolence, and of supplying a great public
want, the humane citizens of Wheeling, and
especially its medical faculty, will lend their
cordial cooperation in this work of charityr
Decided to persevere in their course OF quiet,
unobtrusive and necessarily limited benevolence,
the managers address their appeal, with no
small degree Of confidence, to our men ofPublic
WHEELING, May IS, 1859.