New York Hospital School of Nursing Announcement . | A ||. NEW YORK HOSPITAL A Century and a Quarter of Cancer Treatment THE Society of the New York Hospital was incorporated in1771 by royal charter from George III, but due to a fireand subsequent reconstruction, it was not occupied until 1776when several continental soldiers were hospitalized for casu-alties as a result of an engagement between shore batteriesand two British warships attempting to force a passage upthe Hudson. In 1798, the year the frigate Constitution made her maidenvoyage, two people came to the Hospital and were treatedfor
New York Hospital School of Nursing Announcement . | A ||. NEW YORK HOSPITAL A Century and a Quarter of Cancer Treatment THE Society of the New York Hospital was incorporated in1771 by royal charter from George III, but due to a fireand subsequent reconstruction, it was not occupied until 1776when several continental soldiers were hospitalized for casu-alties as a result of an engagement between shore batteriesand two British warships attempting to force a passage upthe Hudson. In 1798, the year the frigate Constitution made her maidenvoyage, two people came to the Hospital and were treatedfor cancer. These were the first definitelv recorded cases. The annual report shows that one was discharged as relieved;the other as cured. During the next two decades about thirty more cases passedthrough the Hospitals doors, and then Dr. A. H. Stevens,feeling that his experience warranted it, wrote a short paperin an attempt to characterize two species of the disease. In 1813 Dr. Stevens successfully removed a fungus tumorof the upper jaw. The early detai
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