PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 

 OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 



Vol. III. 



New York, April, 1896. 



No. 4. 



LIBRAR 



NEW YOI 

 JOTaNIC, 



aAHDE^ 



THE BRIGHT AND DARK SIDE OF HOSPITAL LIFE. 



Bv DR. WENDELL C. PHILLIPS. 



Ladies and Geyitlemen : — old sexton, who was deaf and who didn't 



I rarely ever commence to speak upon quite understand her, and he put it on 



any one of the subjects upon which I the pulpit, and so when the young min- 



lecture that I do not think of a little ister got to the church he found the note 



anecdote that is told of a young- woman 

 who was an organist in a church. She 

 was a very young woman and unmar- 

 ried, and in that church they had a very 



on the pulpit and it read like this : "You 

 keep on blowing till I tell you to stop." 

 Now you may have that experience with 

 me to-night, if I do not get at my sub- 



old pastor, and she was not so much in- ject and commence to talk to you right 

 terested in the old pastor, and the music away. 



didn't always go just right. Sometimes 

 the boy that blew the organ did not do 

 his duty. He knew better than she did 

 when it ought to stop, and all sorts of 

 things happened in that church. But 

 one time there was a very fine young 

 minister came to exchange with the old 

 minister, and that day she was particu- 

 larly anxious that the music should be 



I suppose that to most people the ques- 

 tion ot hospitals is rather uninteresting, 

 except to those who are curious enough 

 to desire to know many things that go 

 on inside of hospitals ; but there is a 

 peculiar history to hospitals and one that 

 to my mind is interesting and at the 

 same time very instructive. You know 

 that hospitals have not been brought to 



good, and so she made special prepara- the perfect condition in which we find 

 tions and took every possible precaution them now until a very recent date, al- 

 that the music should be perfect that though we have a history I believe of a 



day. In order to carry out all of her ideas 

 she thought that it would be a good plan 

 to send a little note to the boy that pump- 

 ed the wind into that organ, giving him 

 some directions as to what he should do. 

 She did so and handed the note to the 



hospital in Caesarea as far back as the 

 third century ; but in the fifth or sixth 

 century — no, I think, it was in the 

 seventh century — the first hospital was 

 founded in Paris, the Hotel Dieu, which 

 still stands, and has grown from time to 



