What ailed Vincent van Gogh? Explanations of his mental illness have covered the ground
from syphilis and heavy metal poisoning to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, Meniere's …

People are very good in sending flowers to our hospitals, so we hope, as they hear more
about their sick brethren, they will learn that the doctors would allow them to have fruit and …

Four and a half hours later, ie, at midnight, pieces of bread and cheese with coffee. Four and
a half hours later, ie, at 4.30 am, a piece of bread and dripping. Some five hours later, ie, at …

Pleased to accept at the hands of Colonel Bruce Vaughan a series of books, containing
photographs and explanatory letterpress of the picture tiles in this and other wards. The …

" But the colonies themselves must surely be hot-beds of infection, and healthy people or
children who enter them are almost bound to contract the disease." Even that I do not admit …

Florence Nightingale's, and a small leather writing-case with, an inscription by her, and also
a little note enclosed, dated September 1, 1896, which runs:" God bless our departing Home …

There is an unfortunate prejudice in English hospitals against the use of dried vegetables.
We have heard one authority condemn their use as un-worthy of a modern hospital, and …

Supper at 7.? Milk pudding or calf's-foot jelly. Whereas I, accustomed to good food, was
perfectly satisfied with the hospital fare, and, in fact, thought it excellent, the occupants of the …

THE Winterbourns came next day: he to the best room in the house, a temperature carefully
kept up to sixty-five degrees, and the daily attentions of the excellent doctor, who, Lady …