Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-07-19
NEW Works FREE PaYSlc.
All Sorts OF People Supplied with Drug
for All Manner Of Camp;ssrtA.


scattered over the different wards OF New
York and Brooklyn. and they vary in
character mainly in the class Of people
who p~atronize them-the very poor, who
for obvious reasons are driven to resort
to them, and the rich or moderately cir
cumstanced who know little more than
that a dispensaryjs a place TO which peo-
pie resort when they are sick To get free
medical treatment.
The oldest and largest of these free
d~ispensaries is the New York dispensary
in Center street, which has been in oper-
alton over ninety years, and has treated
over Q 200. 900 patients. The old North
ern dispensary in Christopher street,
founded in 1917. treats about 90, 900 pa
tents annually; the Eastern, in Essex
street, founded in 1882, does equally good
work, while the Demilt. founded in 1851.
the Northwestern. the German, the
Northeastern, and a host of outdoor de-
partments of hospitals, asylums, charita-
BILE societies and so on.
The Dernilt dispensary is a three story
brick building. The main reception
room is filled with wooden benches and
divided into seven or eight compartments
at one side. These and two or three or
binary rooms that also open into the main
room, are the offices of the staff Of ply
s~icians, each having his special depart
ment Of ailments 10 attend TO. The Wis
iting hours are different for different
classes of ailments; children are treated
at one hour, men at another, women at
another. and so On. Two female doctors
preside evenings to attend 10 female
patients who have TO work during the
DAYTIME. Every sort Of ailment except
contagious diseases is freely treated here.
Whatever OF misery there is in this
perpetual stream of the sick poor is not
visible in the main room. DIR. Charles
G. Currier, the house physician. says a
great many more women than men
are treated. and that women seem to be
more frequently i'll, or are more prone to
believe themselves i'll. when they are not
so, than men, who are more practical
and CONF for help only when absolutely
necessary.
The women are for the most part neatly
dressed and the majority of them look
well. il not rugged. though now and then
a cough or other sign will betoken the
fact that they are suffering. AS the peo-
pie enter the building they 60 to the first
Of the small rooms, where the house
physician sits, and tell him what the
matter ia
Il a a tooth pulled" says one.
II have rheumatism. " says another.
Others will have a headache. a backache
or a sprain, and so on. Very frequently
an inebrlated individual will enter.
i've been on a spree and want to
sober up, . a young man will say.
A dose Of bromide of potassium and
choral is given. and he is told 10 go home
and 20 10 bed and come back in a few
hours. One woman calls and saws she
has a sister with the ammonia" and
another has a friend with the ''brown
keeters," and in the course of a day
much similar perversion OF medical
nomenclature may he heard. The utmost
civility and greatest kindness are always
p~racticed toward patients at this dispen-
sary. great many painters are treated
for lead palsy at dispensaries.
'The lead that polsOns them is taken
into the system through the mouth, ="
said DR.. Starr. "When they quit work
they fall TO eating their luncheon without
washing their hands, and SO take in, lit
tie by little, enough lead to do the mis-
chief. They breathe in the head also in
warm. close rooms; but it i the stomach.
AMI not, as might bc supposed, the lungs,
that become at first affected. The
electrical Treatment applied 70 the mus
cles Is the most satisfactory, and will
soonest restore the nerves u their normal
condition.
There have been recent additions
which make the work tar more efficient
today rnan II was Ia the ~Gis'vIslry OF a
quarter of a century ago For instance
| the doctors interest tlrm=rlyes I'm secur-
ing employment f0r l.HHllrr1 disabled Al
Ilplr trade So as 90 mate lhrul unable 10
continue NJ IL, then again tiIrre are
trained nurses in constant aJtrulance at
the ilspnnslncs, who instruct friends Of
patients how 10 care for them at home
and II cases require il 10 20 10 the house.
10 nurse the SICK themselves IirI sheets.
pillow cases, Undertaking. skirts
dresses. etc. are also kept In stock ~
some Of the diSrensaries for free dIstrIbu
ton among the worthy poor
Medical eSIer1s IN all department,
serve without pay for the experience and
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uOn OF some OF the dIspensarles that
many meniuers OF their medical stall
have been called to the larger hospitals
and made faculty members Of theIl
boards.
In the annual report u the Demilt dis
pensary tor last year Il appears that 81,
800 people were treated by that lnstitu
ton for every conceivable variety OF
disease, and may more visited at then
homes by its doctors. A doctor will bt
sent 10 visit any SICK person Of whom
they are notified, Ten cents is charged
for each prescription made up only from
those who acknowledge they are willing
and able 10 pay Il. BY Tar the greal
majority pay nothing at all. 1t Is an In
teresting commentary on the genera
retail drug store prices that ten cents i
found TO be tair compensation for all pre-
scriptions For every expensive com
pound on which there Is a lois Of ten o.
fifteen cents there are two or three chenI
ones costing only two or three cents.
1t has been found impossible 90 dis
criminate IA 20 the eligibility Of indOo
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