The Graphical Representation of the Movements of the Chest-Wall in Inspiration
A. Ransome · BMJ · 1874
& -t.em all lhonour for their spirited conduct; but I do not see the b_-i inl-of the above history on the general question of the propriety of i i. i acute surgical cases in hospitals, which is the real question bsd hy the word "'hospitalism".Every reader of Sir J. Siimpson ] is).v-s t!-is; nil(I it xNvas in order to raise this question that the N-ord wvas i ;l ted.If Mr. Erichsen mean to continiue the use of the word in o. ' to impress on theimind of the profession the important but surely f. illiar truth that care ought to be used in the construction anld manage- r of hospitals in which acute disease is treated, my only objection vo-oil be to the confusion thus inevitably produced in the public mind, ;a-1 to) the unfair prejudice so created against all hospitals, whether prOp)erly coinstructedi or otherwise.The fact that many of our smaller a-d older counitry hospitals are not fitted for the reception of acute caies, at least in any considerable number, and that they are liable to be v.xsited by fatal outbreaks of septic (or, as wve then called them, "se- condary'") disea.ses, is fully dwvelt on in the Report above alluded to (see