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there feems to be a neceffity of feme 

 women going into convents. 



The hofpital, as I have before mention- 

 ed, makes a part of the convent. It con- 

 fifts of two large halls, and fome rooms 

 near the apothecary's fhop. In the halls 

 are two rows of beds on each fide, within 

 each other. The beds next to the v/all are 

 furnilhed with curtains, the outward ones 

 are without them. In each bed are fine 

 bed-clothes, with clean double iheets. As 

 foon as a fick perfon has left his bed, it is 

 made again, in order to keep the hofpital 

 in cleanlinefs, and order. The beds are 

 two or three yards diftant, and near each 

 is a' fmall table. There are good iron 

 floves, and fine windows in this hall. The 

 nuns attend the fick people, and bring them 

 meat, and other necefiTaries. Befides them 

 there are fome men who attend, and a 

 furgeon. The royal phyfician is likewife 

 obliged to come hither, once or twice every 

 day, look after every thing, and give pre- 

 fcriptions. They commonly receive fick 

 foldiers into this hofpital, who are very 

 numerous in July and Augiijly when the 

 king's fhips arrive, and in time of war. 

 But at other times, when no great number 

 of foldiers are fick, other poor people can 



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