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A descriptive and tabular report of the medical and surgical cases treated in the Kent and Canterbury Hospital; from Oct. 16, 1840, to June 1, 1842, ... future prospects, illustrated by tables of - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ...second, with the purification of the Christian Church at the time of the Reformation. They are thus intimately connected with the religious history of the Christian world, whilst they have peculiar claims upon the Farre's Essay. f Works, vol. ii., p. 430. Protestant portion of it, from being, as it were, the children whom it separated from their original parents, with the view of bringing them up to more profitable purposes than those which they were otherwise destined to fulfil. It has been already seen how the suppression of the religious houses entailed extreme distress upon the indigent sick, whilst it has been said that the evils naturally arising out of such a state of things were, in the end, the cause of its amendment. The citizens of London, famed in all ages for their munificent charities, were the first to represent to the state authorities the deplorable condition of the sick poor, now deprived of asylums for their ' sustentation;" and they proposed to the Crown that some of the monasteries, then vacant, should be allowed to be put once more to the better part of their former uses, by affording a home to the friendless. In the year 1538, '. e. between the date of the Act for the suppression of the leessr monasteries (27th Henry VIII., cap. 28), and the last act of dissolution in this reign (37th Henry VIII., cap. 4.), a petition was presented to the King by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of London, stating, "that there were near and within the said city three Hospitals, called St. Mary's Spittel, St. Bartholomew's Spittel, and St. Thomas Spittel; and one Abbey, called the New Abbey, at Tower Hill, founded of good devotion, and endowed only for the relief, comfort, and aid of the poor and...
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