Eighteenth-century London LifeJ. Murray, 1937 - 385 pages |
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... hospital nurse was often very much as Dickens described her . She was allowed by the hospital three pints of small beer a day , and this amount was also given to the patients , besides such gin , porter or other liquors as they might ...
... hospital nurse was often very much as Dickens described her . She was allowed by the hospital three pints of small beer a day , and this amount was also given to the patients , besides such gin , porter or other liquors as they might ...
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Rosamond Bayne-Powell. HOSPITALS On the other hand , it had very good baths , and that recent invention , the water closet . St. George's Hospital was founded in 1733 , and was known at first as the " Hospital at Hyde Park Corner . " The ...
Rosamond Bayne-Powell. HOSPITALS On the other hand , it had very good baths , and that recent invention , the water closet . St. George's Hospital was founded in 1733 , and was known at first as the " Hospital at Hyde Park Corner . " The ...
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... hospital patients recovered from opera- tions , and the horror of these and of hospital treatment in general lasted well on into the nineteenth century . The only hospitals which were really well managed were the Lying - in Hospitals ...
... hospital patients recovered from opera- tions , and the horror of these and of hospital treatment in general lasted well on into the nineteenth century . The only hospitals which were really well managed were the Lying - in Hospitals ...
Contents
LONDONS ASPECTS AND CHARACTERISTICS | 8 |
MEANS OF COMMUNICATION | 26 |
THE LIFE OF THE UPPER CLASSES | 40 |
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