An appeal to the benevolent on behalf of the Women's Hospital in the State of New York / [C.R. Agnew].

  • Agnew, Cornelius Rea, 1830-1888.
Date:
1881
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An appeal to the benevolent on behalf of the Women's Hospital in the State of New York / [C.R. Agnew]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IN BEHALF OF THE U (Mourn it’s § os}) it'd! in % State of do fork. 11 In the City of New York, on the plot of ground bounded by Fourth and Lexington Avenues and Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Streets, may be seen the Pavilions of the u Woman’s Hospital in the State of New York.” The buildings are of red brick and Lockport limestone. They consist of two pavilion struc¬ tures, each four stories in height. Upon the grounds near by are three small, wooden, isolated, destructible hospital wards, devoted to such cases as may need the gravest surgical interfer¬ ence and the exclusion of every known cause of hospitalism and infection. The simple purpose of the statement which we are about to make is to show briefly the origin, growth, and some of the necessities of this hospital, that the charitable may be in¬ cited to consider the question whether it is not both a duty and a privilege to supply its urgent pecuniary wants. The treatment of diseases peculiar to women had made but little progress until 1820, when the French physician Becamier inaugurated a new era. A more advanced stage was reached in 1850, through the discoveries of Dr. Simpson, of Edinburgh. A