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 increased the sources of medical information, and opened a more extensive field for the cultivation of medical science to the young and zealous aspirants whose talents and energies are each year called into requisition to minister to the maladies of the inmates of these charitable institutions.

The hospitals of Philadelphia, besides the two large ones mentioned, are the Wills Hospital, for diseases of the eye and ear; St. Joseph’s Hospital, the Episcopal Hospital, the Preston Retreat for Lying-in Women, the Children’s Hospital, Howard Hospital, and some others lately organized.