Report of the Chairman of the Committee on Retrenchment, 1860

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Excerpt from Report of the Chairman of the Committee on Retrenchment, 1860: Inquiries Presented by That Committee and the Visiting Committee to the Superintendent and the Physicians and Surgeons of the New-York Hospital, With Their Replies to the SameThe case books, in the library of the institution, fully substantiate this assertion, the arrangement and classification of the cases contained therein, would require much more time and space than is necessary to present their evidence.Its truth is evident-to every reader of the newspapers, and is sensibly impressed upon the minds of all persons conversant with metropolitan hospitals during the last few years. The facts asserted are topics of ordinary conversation in the office and wards of this hospital.But the question recurs - How does this change in the character of the surgery affect the consumption of animal food? It has even been suggested that the sick men in their wards eat more meat than the. Healthy ones do in prisons, refuges, and asylums, yes, even more than those suffering from the same ailments formerly. It is so. This brings me to a second circumstance - one which throws more light upon our inquiries than all others, and whose cause is a topic of great interest both in its nature and practical bearings, but is outside the range of our present inquiry.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.