Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-10-06
sRATTLEBORO, VT: OCT. 6, 1865.

lated, and Of which was 81 iortunute as to OBJ
tain copy. Were it mo- tespassng too much
upon your limits, | should peg you would pub
lish il entire it possesses bch interest for the
public at large. BY the d ter it is shown that
1. "In special hospill women naturally
have more privacy; mo9 essential point to
many.
@. They find more syp'pA.hy, and experience
much less offensive and impertinent curiosity
from their fellow patients; and
D. They are more likely to be under the
charge of persons constantly familiar with GER
tain forms and types of disease, than can well
be the case with most>,Eenera practitioners.
lhe argument being the same here as when an
piled to the treatment of other affections of the
eye for instance" To this letter il annended
an endorsement ot its arguments by Drs. Chan.
ming, Bowditch, Cabot and Putnam, who are
among the oldest aud most respected physuiaus
of Boston, and the first three of whom are con.
nected with the hospital as its Consulting Staff.
noticed that the hospital was partially un.
der the charge OF skilled ladies, who have been
educated tor this very work. The resident
physician, DR.. Sewall, who lives within the
hospital buildings. and who has charge more
particularly of the maternity department. pur-
sued her studies in Europe under the most fa-
vorable auspices, while the attending physician
DR.. Zakvzewska, also a lady, is German by
birth, and was formerly connected with the
great charity hospital OF Berlin. The surgical
cases under the care Of DR.. II. K. Storer,
who is said to have an extensive ;eputaton
among medical men.
was STUCK by the cleanliness ant general
orderly appearance oil the hospital ard by its
cheerfulness elements OF the very first impor-
lance for sanitary reasons.
AS alrea1v Sfatal rho hosnital has vprv ~, n ~
more applicants for beds than can be accommo =
dated, and it is intended for patents of little or
no pecuniery means. There has always been
need, Also for a wealther class Of female inva-
lids, of better accommodations than can be at
forded at hotels and ordinary boarding houses,
attended, as these must necessarily be, bv noise,
confusion, and o;her diScomforts Wealthy pa-
tients, or even those OF more moderate means,
would not OF course be like Y to b, as content
ed at a public hospital as at Spi!vdte house,
even could they there receive al the attentions
and all the comforts to which they have been
accustomed at home. To meet the necessities
of this class, the surgeon of the hospital DR..
Storer has opened private infrmary of his
own, in Boylston Place, near the Common, to
which | was also permitted access. Tois is
solely for ladies of means, who may require
special treatment. The matron in charge seems
a very pleasant and agreeable person-one who
is fully competent to her severu dnlies, and the
patients there resident were gathered from a
wide circuit of country; Wisconsin, Pennsylya-
mia, Maine and New Hampshire being each rep
resented at the time OF my visit. Indeed, learn
ed that many it not most of the doctors pa
tients were sent to him by physicians.
To this class of invalids have alluded only
incidentally. 1t was OF course the public hos
pit tal in which | was most interested, aDpealiny