. Spectacles for young eyes : Boston. han Hale,Commissioners, ?<; Jajies F. Baldwin,( Thomas B. Curtis. And on the other tablet is inscribed, — BOSTON Reservoir completed November, P. Bigelovst, Mayor,r W. S. Whitwell, East , -< E. S. Chesbrough, West Div.(joHN B. Jervis, Consulting. Now I know, I said, what that countryfellow was so busy stopping to read. I was ina hurry to be at the Hospital between twelveand one; they would not admit visitors laterthan that. Are you going to be a doctor, John? saidGeorgy, from his couch, in a plaintive tone of 16


. Spectacles for young eyes : Boston. han Hale,Commissioners, ?<; Jajies F. Baldwin,( Thomas B. Curtis. And on the other tablet is inscribed, — BOSTON Reservoir completed November, P. Bigelovst, Mayor,r W. S. Whitwell, East , -< E. S. Chesbrough, West Div.(joHN B. Jervis, Consulting. Now I know, I said, what that countryfellow was so busy stopping to read. I was ina hurry to be at the Hospital between twelveand one; they would not admit visitors laterthan that. Are you going to be a doctor, John? saidGeorgy, from his couch, in a plaintive tone of 160 SPECTACLES. No, Georgy; I will not harm you; but yououglit not to bo afraid of doctors. No! tis the other doctor; I mean the oneI had first. Here mamma interrupted, for she could nothave her pet annoyed. Jolni was going to seea poor, sick man, Georgy, and was only carryingsome fruit to him, she said. Here is a littlepicture for you to see. And now we will sendthe boys away for the rest of the evening; itis time for you to She let us see the picture of the MassachusettsGeneral Hospital. It is built of Clielmsford gran-ite, and can accommodate over a hundred pa-tients. The wings of the building are dividedinto wards and rooms for the sick people. Thewide staircases and floors are of stone. Thewhole building is warmed by flues from liot-air HOSPITAL. 161 furnaces, and supplied with water by pipes car-ried over the building. The surgical operations are performed in theupper part of the building, which is lighted l)y adome ; and the officers have their rooms in thecentre. The grounds are handsome, with grav-elled walks and ornamental shrubs; but I wastoo anxious about my old friend to notice themparticularly, though I saw that a high feiichkeeps out intruders, if any of the patients arcwell enough to walk about. The McLean Asylum for the Insane is undeithe direction of the Trustees of this Hospital, as-it is a branch of this institution. Sliall I tellyou here about the in


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