Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER Lin. TRIUMPHANT DEATH SCENES. An extract from my journal may furnish an idea of what poor patients in the City Hospital had to suffer in the year 1849, and early part of 1850. The city paid five dollars per day for the care of each patient; but bedding, and provisions, and medicine, and nurse hire, were all enormously high; and the profits of the contracting physician would be great or small, in proportion to his outlay for those appliances of comfort for the sick. The nurses too, in most cases, were exceedingly reckless. The visiting committee of the city did not go in unceremoniously, at all hours, as I did, and hence saw less of how things were managed. Many of the facilities of comfort now enjoyed in the hospitals here, however, could not then be obtained. But to the extract: "Sunday, January 13, 1850.--Visited the hospital to-day, (after class-meeting, at which more than fifty persons were present, and a glorious season we had.) Two poor fellows whom I visited, and with whom I prayed yesterday evening, were in their coffins. Another, by the name of Pitenger, a member of the Baptist Church, from New-York, where he had left a clerkship, at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per year, was very low. He is quite an interesting young man, but confessed with great sorrow his backslidings. He expressed his confidence in Christ, and hope of heaven, but feared that his unfaithfulness would shut him out." I believe Pitenger went to heaven. S. SWITZER, OF ROXBURY. "Poor S. Switzer, from R., was dying. He had been very penitent for some weeks, and professed to experience some peace, though not a clear evidence of pardon. He did not think his end so nigh. There was a peculiarly mournful, yet hopeful interest, attached to the case of...
