The New Hospital

While sauntering through the new l'niversity hospital a day or two since, the neat and clean appearance ' of everything was noted. The i)atients seem to be kept very tidy. It isn't a pleasant thing to look at human beings who have been pruned and pared and amputated by the surgeon's knife, with perhaps a graft here and a pateh there, but the liopeiulness of the patients makes one feel that it is a great work that is being done for the liuman family at this institution. One man with wliom we conversed said he was injured alst December, by falling in a mine at Ouray, Col., that he went to Denver and was treated but reeeived no benefit, and having heard of this hospital resolved to come here. He had been here somc three weeks or more, and feit that he was -aining rapidly. Dr. Darling gave him credit of recovering as quickly,as any case of the kind he had ever known of. On the next cot was a little fellow who had had an operation performed for lip and eleft paalte. He was not handsome to look at but had been much benefiterï. and when he goes forth "vill not only look more presentable, but be able to talk better He was humming a tune to himself most of the time, and took his medicine like a li.tle hero when the nurse carne around to him, without even a grimace, which called forth (rom her the kind expression, "that 's a brave boy." Very trilling those words, but they were klndly spoken, and sent a sunbeam into the little iellow's heart that inimediately flashed back out of his eyes, in pleasure. Those who can remember the unrest and activity of their own chidlhood can imagine, perhaps, how hard it is for a little fellow to He in bed for three or four weeks at a time. On the next cot was a man who had been extremely unfortunate. Nonie years ago he carne to this hospital and had a cancerous tumor removed ïrom his lower jaw. He went home in good health, but in a few months another eaine, and he returned to the hospital again. A counsel of physicians agreed that the only hope for permanent cure would be to remove the entire bone of the lower jaw. After some hesitation the patiënt consented to this. The operation was suecessfully performed and the patiënt again went to his home. For a long time he was perfectly well, had a good appetite, slept well, and never feit better, and just as he was beginning to think there was some happiness in lifue for him after all, another of these terrible growths appeared. So a few weeks ago he carne back again, and had the last tumor removed. He is getting along nicely, and shows but little the severe tussel he has had with disease and the sb oiaas pinoji. en "ajiuJi soaSans though he had received his share of life's afflictions, and that he ought to be spared any further suffering iu this way. We might go on, froin cot to cot and teil some such experience for each one. Every one there is a sufferer, and every one is being benefited by medical science and surgical skill. Maj the good work go on as long as human beings have to suffer from disease. It is a grand work, that the physicians and surgeons and nurses and attendants are doing. To be sure they may get a little hardened to the sufferings of people by their constant contact with it, but aiter they seem to keep a good deal of feeling and sympathy in their breasts, and their senses are much keener to the pains and tortures of disease than are those unaccustomed to such things. Dr. Clark, the superintendent, has everything in systematic shape about the building. He sees to it that great care is taken in keeping the entire building scrupulously clean, and you may go from garret to basement, and you will find everything just so neat and tidy. He has been putting in a new refrigerator for the use of the institution, which is a perfect model of its kind, and sometime this summer, when you feel that it woiild be a relief and delight even for the world to turn it's cold shoulder, just step up there and stand in that refrigerator a few moments. You will be sure to experience a cold wave that will suggest the congealing of the marrow. Even the Dr's warm heart and genial smile eannot withstand the temperature of this spacious frigid closet any great length of time. But perhaps we are talking too much, so here ík au end to it. ■ ■