Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . ingeducated in Edinburgh ; and the latitude we hadfor making excursions in the neighbourhood. In June, 1820, the connection ceased betweenthe school and Mr. Pillans, who, on the death ofProfessor Christison, «as awarded the Chair of was in office that the third and last High School—that magnificent building which has been describedin our account of the Calton Hill—was erected ;and the closing examination in the old school-house at the foot of Infirmary Street took place inthe autumn of 182S, and that interesting localit
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . ingeducated in Edinburgh ; and the latitude we hadfor making excursions in the neighbourhood. In June, 1820, the connection ceased betweenthe school and Mr. Pillans, who, on the death ofProfessor Christison, «as awarded the Chair of was in office that the third and last High School—that magnificent building which has been describedin our account of the Calton Hill—was erected ;and the closing examination in the old school-house at the foot of Infirmary Street took place inthe autumn of 182S, and that interesting locality,where the successive youth of Edinburgh for morethan two hundred and seventy years had flockedfor the acquisition of classical learning^a school-boy scene enshrined in the memories of manygenerations of men, was abandoned for ever. In 1828 the disused school-house was sold tothe managers of the Royal Infirmary for ^7,500,and was adapted to form part of the SurgicalHospital, externally, however, remaining unchanged. ; Street.] INFIRMARY SUGGESTED. 297. DR. ADAM. {.After the Portrait by Facbnrn.) CHAPTER XXXVLTHE OLD ROYAL INFIRMARY—SURGEON SQUARE. The Old Royal Infirmary—Projected in time of George I.—The First Hospital Opened—The Royal Charter—Second Hospital Built—Opened 1741—Size and Constitution—Henefactors Patients—Struck by Lightning—Cliaplains Duties—Cases in the Present Day—TheKeith Fund—Notabilities of Surgeon Square-The House of Curriehiil-The Hall of the and Medical Society—Its Foundation-Bells Surgical Theatre. Though the ancient Scottish Church had beenduring long ages distinguished for its tendernessand charity towards the diseased poor, a drearyinterval of nearly two centuries, says Chambers,intervened between the extinction of its lazar-housesand leper-houses, and the time when a merelycivilised humanity suggested the establishment ofa regulated means for succouring the sickness-stricken of the poor and homel
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