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145 Nursing in America H5 city poorhouse was combined with it. The Phila- delphia hospital, long known as Blockley, was next oldest (1731), and resembled a medi- aeval hospice in its conglomerate popula- first tion, for it received the poor, orphans, ^^ospitais the sick, and the insane. These two oldest hospi- tals were of a dreary, barrack type, where filth and squalour abounded, and attendants of the roughest character had charge of the sick. Of a very different type was the Pennsylvania hospital ( 1 775). This was built expressly to give the best possible treatment to those who were "physi- cally and mentally ill." It embodied the highest intelligence and humane ideals of the Friends. The New York hospital (1771) made the first attempt to instruct its nurse attendants. This distinction belongs to Dr. Valentine ° First Seaman. He gave lectures on anatomy, instruction physiology, and the care of children, *<> nurses but his courses seem to have been chiefly in con- nection with the obstetrical service. In 1839 the Friends in Philadelphia organized a service which they had begun to plan The Nurse m 1828. It was very much like Mrs. Society of Fry's Nursing Institute in England. Phila- T 1 TTT •. , delphia Dr. Joseph Warnngton was m charge of the obstetrical work and instruction. In 1855 ^