Excerpt from The Old Hospital, and Other Papers From time to time in the course of his profes sional life, the author of the following pages beside his regular professional work has had occasion to write upon subjects not technical, but of interest to the community at large. The papers and ad dresses in which these subjects are discussed, with a few exceptions have been published in an isolated form and have been more or less widely circulated. Some of them have even had a large audience, but others have reached only those for whom they were originally prepared. Occasional and continued in quiries for certain of these articles have induced the author to venture upon the publication of all of them in a volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.