Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Hospitals, Patronage, Medical Treatment, Medical Practitioners, Surgery

    Upholding the importance of subscribing to hospitals, discusses the case of a London surgeon, Mr Edwards, who brought legal action against a gentleman named Mr Sharpe for failing to meet the costs of an operation on a man in his service. Explains that Sharpe wished he had sent his servant to St Mary's Hospital, and describes the advantages of patronising a hospital rather than an individual medical practitioner.