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ST. BARTHOLOMEWS HOSPITAL. 167
The other principal docks at Rotherhithe, Deptford, &c,
have been previously noticed in our description of the
localities where they are found.
CHAPTER XI.
THE HOSPITALS.
The word hospital in this country has a very general
meaning. It signifies an asylum for the old or young, very
superior in its resources to a workhouse; a place for the
reception of lunatics; and, perhaps, in its most extensive
sense, a receptacle where those suffering from illness,,
or from bodily injury, are lodged, and their complaints
treated in the best manner which medical science can
devise. Having already sketched Greenwich and Chelsea
Hospitals, and the Lunatic Hospitals, we propose to con-
fine ourselves to a description of those where medical aid
is afforded, and of these the number is so great, which
public liberality or private munificence have founded, that
we can only particularise a few.
The metropolis contains 38 hospitals of a medical
and surgical character; 21 medical institutions, and 35
dispensaries.
The most ancient hospital in London is that of St,
Bartholomew, in West Smithfield. Habere, minstrel to
Henry I., like modern saints, when the tastes, inclina-
tions, and powers of youth had departed, waxed religious,
making an offering to heaven of the dregs of his faculties,
and the remnant of his days. He established a priory of
black canons, in Smithfield, dedicated to St. Bartholomew,
and became himself its first prior. In 112.2 he annexed
to the priory an hospital for the reception of the poor and
sick, granting to it an endowment of j£305. In the course
of time other benefactions augmented the usefulness of the
The other principal docks at Rotherhithe, Deptford, &c,
have been previously noticed in our description of the
localities where they are found.
CHAPTER XI.
THE HOSPITALS.
The word hospital in this country has a very general
meaning. It signifies an asylum for the old or young, very
superior in its resources to a workhouse; a place for the
reception of lunatics; and, perhaps, in its most extensive
sense, a receptacle where those suffering from illness,,
or from bodily injury, are lodged, and their complaints
treated in the best manner which medical science can
devise. Having already sketched Greenwich and Chelsea
Hospitals, and the Lunatic Hospitals, we propose to con-
fine ourselves to a description of those where medical aid
is afforded, and of these the number is so great, which
public liberality or private munificence have founded, that
we can only particularise a few.
The metropolis contains 38 hospitals of a medical
and surgical character; 21 medical institutions, and 35
dispensaries.
The most ancient hospital in London is that of St,
Bartholomew, in West Smithfield. Habere, minstrel to
Henry I., like modern saints, when the tastes, inclina-
tions, and powers of youth had departed, waxed religious,
making an offering to heaven of the dregs of his faculties,
and the remnant of his days. He established a priory of
black canons, in Smithfield, dedicated to St. Bartholomew,
and became himself its first prior. In 112.2 he annexed
to the priory an hospital for the reception of the poor and
sick, granting to it an endowment of j£305. In the course
of time other benefactions augmented the usefulness of the