I cannot give you an adequate idea of the wretchedness of an hospital; every thing is left to the care of people intent on gain.

The attendants seem to have lost all feeling of compassion in the bustling discharge of their offices; death is so familiar to them, that they are not anxious to ward it off.

Every thing appeared to be conducted for the accommodation of the medical men and their pupils, who came to make experiments on the poor, for the benefit of the rich.

One of the physicians, I must not forget to mention, gave me half-a-crown, and ordered me some wine, when I was at the lowest ebb.

I thought of making my case known to the lady-like matron; but her forbidding countenance prevented me.