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gangrene. Pastor Fleidner, with his training school at Kaiserworth, 

 and the Sisters of Charity in Paris and at the great General Hospital 

 in Vienna, had practised, if they had not preached, this doctrine for a 

 long time. It remained for the Crimean War and the dramatic demon- 

 stration of her doctrine by Miss Nightingale to convince the profession 

 at large and the public. How it was accomplished is an oft-told tale. 

 The later teaching of bacteriology in medical schools confirmed the 

 claims for hospital cleanliness; hospital gangrene and epidemic ery- 

 sipelas have disappeared. 



Now is the golden age of the hospital ; we need no statistics to con- 

 vince us of this. Every American community of any size has not only 

 a hospital, but a training school, and the old public distrust of the insti- 

 tution is on the wane with the improvement in methods and adminis- 

 tration. To-day the patient approaches it with confidence instead of 

 apprehension, with alacrity instead of with reluctance, and with the 

 hope of life rather than with the fear of death. 



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