658 THE FOLLOWING LETTER FROM SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE ACT Broome Park, Betchworth, Suny Agreeing in the views expressed in the paper which you s sent me, I am happy to add my signature to it. An exception, indeed, may be made, on grounds which with the general concurrence of the profession and the publ regard to Ophthalmic Infirmaries. Otherwise it seems to me the are very great objections to the establishment of special hosp for the treatment of particular diseases. First.-Diseases generally are so connected with each other, an a knowledge of one is so necessary to the right understanding another, that no one who limits his attention to any given diseas. can be so competent to investigate its nature, and to improve th method of treating it, as those are who have a wider field of obser vation, and who are better acquainted with general pathology. Secondly. The effect of establishing special hospitals a infirmaries is to abstract particular classes of diseases from the general hospitals, and thus to prevent the students of th hospitals from having the opportunity of studying certain branches of their profession, an acquaintance with which is necessary make them useful practitioners afterwards. Thirdly. The system of establishing special hospitals, which w prevails, is a source of much unnecessary expense to the blic; each one of these, however humble it may be, requiring a parate house, and a separate establishment of matrons, nurses, id servants. At least two-thirds of the expense thus incurred ould be saved, if the patients who are there admitted were sent the existing general hospitals instead; and it cannot be said at in these last there is no room for their reception, there being everal which are languishing for want of funds, with their wards mpty because the means of supporting them have been drawn way to other institutions. END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. LONDON PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO. NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON, June 1864. GENERAL LIST OF WORKS, NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS, PUBLISHED BY essrs. LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, and GREEN. The History of England from VOLS. I. to IV. the Reign of Henry VOLS. V. and VI. the Reigns of Edward VOLS. VII. and VIII. the Reign of The History of England from Revolutions in English History. The History of England during Lives of the Queens of England, Lectures on the History of Eng- A Chronicle of England, from B.c. History of Civilization. By HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE. 2 vols. £1 178. VOL. L. England and France, Fourth Edition, 218. The Fall of the Roman ! public: a Short History of the Lan tury of the Commonwealth. Br CHARLES MERIVALE, B.D. 12m) VOL. II. Spain and Scotland, Second Critical and Historical Edition, 168. contributed to the Edinburgh Bris the Right Hon. Lord MACAULAY. LIBRARY EDITION, 3 vols. 8vo. Ka TRAVELLER'S EDITION, in 1 val. Er In POCKET VOLUMES, 3 vols, fep PEOPLE'S EDITION, 2 vols. Cros The Biographical History Philosophy, from its Origin in Geel the Present Day. By GEORGE Ert LEWES. Revised and enlarged L 8vo. 16s. History of the Inductive Scie BY WILLIAM WHEWELL, D.D. FRS of Trin. Coll. Cantab. Third Edition 1. crown 8vo. 24s. Egypt's Place in Universal E tory; an Historical Investigation C. C. J. BUNSEN, D.D. Transie C. H. COTTRELL, M.A. With many trations. 4 vols. 8vo. £5 8 TeTh nearly ready. Maunder's Historical Tressary comprising a General Introductory On of Universal History, and a Series of Sp rate Histories. Fep. 8vo. 10s. Historical and Chronological E cyclopædia, presenting in a brief and ar venient form Chronological Notions of a the Great Events of Universal History, B. B. WOODWARD, F.S.A. Librarian to the Queen. [In the press History of Christian Missions their Agents and their Results. By T.W.1 MARSHALL. 2 vols. 8vo. 24s. History of the Early Church from the First Preaching of the Gospe the Council of Nicæa, A.D. 325. By Author of 'Amy Herbert.' Fep. 8vo. 4 & History of Wesleyan Methodism By GEORGE SMITH, F.A.S. New Edina with Portraits, in course of publication a 31 parts, 6d. each. |