An Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the New South Building of the New York Hospital, on the 18th of April, 1855 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the New South Building of the New York Hospital, on the 18th of April, 1855 In their general character, as sources of medi cal relief, the temples of heathen antiquity were more nearly allied to modern dispensaries than to hospitals. It is said by a distinguished medical scholar, Professor Bartlett, in his Discourse on the Times, Character, and Writings of Hippocra tes, that The sick who visited the temples for relief, were subjected, under religious forms, to a preparatory regimen, consisting of prolonged ab stinence, or a rigorous diet, and various purifying ablutions and inunctions of the body. After these preliminaries, a night was passed in the temples, and the patients subjected to the treatment or dered by the Asclepiades. A certain number of the patients who had been cured, left in the tem ples votive tablets, grateful offerings to the gods, containing brief records of their diseases and their cure. Strabo says, 'the Temple of Epidaurus is always full of the sick, and of the tablets on which the treatment is inscribed and it is the same at Cos, and at Tricca.' 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.