Cottage hospitals, general, fever and convalescent : their progress, management and work : with an alphabetical list of every cottage hospital at present opened : and chapters on mortuaries, the relative mortality of large and small hospitals, and cottage hospitals in America : many plans and illustrations including a portrait of Albert Napper / by Henry C. Burdett.

  • Burdett Henry C. (Henry Charles), Sir, 1847-1920.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Cottage hospitals, general, fever and convalescent : their progress, management and work : with an alphabetical list of every cottage hospital at present opened : and chapters on mortuaries, the relative mortality of large and small hospitals, and cottage hospitals in America : many plans and illustrations including a portrait of Albert Napper / by Henry C. Burdett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to bring in the hour of sickness a skill and a ripe experience, which must tend to strengthen the tie which necessarily exists between practitioner and patient. Nor do we consider that the country practi- tioner and the country resident have alone benefited by the cottage hospital movement; for we find that it is not an uncommon practice amongst the staff of these small hospitals to invite the surgeons of the county hospital to meet them in consultation, before deciding upon an operation in difficult cases. Thus the name of the town surgeon becomes familiar through- out the county in which he resides, his reputation is proportionally increased, and his practice is thereby extended, at a much more rapid rate than formerly. As a natural result of this state of things, country people are beginning to have more faith in their own surgeon, and are gradually being persuaded that, after all, if one has to undergo an operation, it is much better to have it performed at home, by one of the country surgeons, with all the advantages of pure country air and complete quiet, than to secure the services of the most eminent surgeon, if, in order to do so, it is necessary to take up one's residence in London, with all its attendant disadvantages. Although, at first sight, this may seem to be likely to reduce the income, and to lessen the reputation and fame of the urban surgeons, we doubt if it will not rather prove the means of building up a greater reputation amongst those very members of the profession. The country surgeon will not feel justified, even under