| Show e A NOTED INSTITUTION Th ire was a noted anniversary cele brated rln Philadelphia last Saturday It was tho one hundredth and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Pennsylvania hospital the first In America the charter for which was dated May 11 1751 The Press says the hospital has oc cupied the same square for He years aud that for all that time it hag con tinued with undevlatlng fidelity the work which it undertook when the city was a mere green country town and its site an open pasture The Press delivers a panegyric on the hospital work there performed and a few lines of it will be found most Intereqtlnq as follows Suggested hy Dr Thomas 1Jijn thc1y Urged 11 Benjnmln Franklin ac great hnSiitfll this through nllll its aUlI id I l In OJr mccHcal early yearn HeW It first lo 111Jly a clnLUle rnllonnl IS anti the merciful cain to tha InMan treatIng In sanity mt n disease < < and bnlllInlnJ what Dl Andrew D WhlLco hus lhl Ju8tiy culled filial struggle and victory once Cllnlcal or sd ical h hiCtlld lenchlnS hcglln In Its walls allcl Its 1 mdho K first raised mcl1lcnl slud study trom cCperltt1cm more empiricism to The besi anti most success CUI method of treating fractures use oC animal the lIJt1tureH In surgery the destruction of lllhold ever In this Country 09 a iOparal f1lsoase the earl IIHt and sllll SOlO of the best l Ilmera LIon oC remittent fever tilt treatment ot mnslrolw lation h With Ice and the Intimate re hClIcn on a diseased Jplno and dry nffectlors ot the Joints WJLU Bun all worlcil out III its nrdu J 11 exteud < l line of greatphysicians frOm lho d cltys of Benjamin wallcel Rush 1 hove Its cQrrhlorB Phf4lclt J K J ijtchell 11 G B Yood Viiiiam Gerhard Melb5 Da costa Vllllom POPIT and J M Their dlscovell and this wcllmullltnfn d apostolate or healing aro are Its chic glory I I hewn The Press elose S its article aa fo i Its mcrclca I to the sick tho wounded I and tho insnno have been fresh every morning and renewed every evening The square act apnrt to Ito use lIve ccncni Lions ago to covered with its bulldlnsa each a monument to some now River A woit army of patients linn passed through Its walls Once In great miasuro supported by tho fees di those who sought Iw cure It lion become almost a tree hospital ltt annual rccolptH arc now nigh throequarters of a million and tholr Increase keeps pace with tho Growth of population I The modern hospital has become the refuge alike of the welltodo and tho I poor It furnishes ono a care which no home however sumptuous can supply It relieves tho other of the worst disaster I disas-ter of poverty wonting disease It adds dallv If wisely conducted to tho clrclo of knowledge f and thereby of healing One can wish no more for the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania hospital than that In tho half con tury now opening It shall accept recognize recog-nize and discharge this last duty by research re-search nnd by publication by teaching and by delivery with the same relative energy and success as In Its earliest years Other hospitals arc today nlllng the Held of discovery and publication Its work will not bo well and fully done unless to nil Its euro of patients It adds a cern of the advance of medical knowl 1 edge edgeThat I That Is all very splendid It IB much more than a statement of what has been done in that hospital and of the I spirit which controlled and still controls con-trols It It is a clear Illustration of the worlds advancement In all the literature of the ancients there Is no nccount of anything like that where science and mercy worked side by side for ono hundred and fifty years to relieve re-lieve prtin and to minister to the worlds afflicted ones When that Insti I tution was founded tho chain and II I I I the whip were the symbols ot treatment treat-ment for the Insane the knowledge of I the human frame was limited the remedies rem-edies for sickness were few there wero neither anesthetics nor antiseptics the modern conveniences for warming and cooling houses were unknown to patients pa-tients consumed fever no cooling draft was permitted there were but few Instruments for the surgeon and those were crude and bungling and at I first not many poor people could get attendance there for there wero no funds supplied for such unfortunates I But the thought behind the work was right from the first and as the people peo-ple have been educated and as the country has grown rich an Increasing interest has attached to the hdspllo l 1 until It Is now as perfect an Institution Institu-tion as up to date has been devised The spirit which prompted Its founders has spread abroad until every considerable has Its hospitals hospi-tals every new discovery made in each one is heralded to all the rest until the hospitals of our country are among the things to bo most proud of most thankful for most deserving of endowment I I dowment They have exalted medical I and surgical science until It begins to look as though every disease would be caught and dissected and its 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