Excerpt from The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1875, Vol. 91We are glad to see a prospect that the unhealthy basements beneath the present wings may become disused and given up wholly to pur poses of ventilation, by the building of the contemplated new wards. Foreign cities are building hospitals on what they call the American plan of one-story, detached wards. The Presbyterian Hospital, of Philadelphia, building under the supervision of Dr. Mitchell, is to be entirely of this character, the Massachusetts General Hospital has similar wards. It is to be hoped that four stories of 'wounds and dis ease will no longer be superimposed, as at the City Hospital, but that a sufficient number of one-story wards will be at once erect-ed to ac commodate all proper applicants.AN improved speculum. By daniel T. Nelson, M.D., Chicago So many forms of uterine specula are now to be found in the stores, one may well hesitate to add to the number - already legion. But this variety demon strates both the progress of gynaecology and the probable fact that a perfect speculum has not yet been made.The one I now offer the profession is very well represented in the aecom panying wood-cut.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.