33 Metaphors for hospital

Dr. Sutherland says: "The hospitals at Scutari were magnificent buildings, apparently admirably adapted to their purpose; but, when carefully examined, they were found to be little better than pest-houses.

In the case of active war, foreign or civil, the General Hospital is usually an extemporized establishment, the building a makeshift, and the arrangements such as the building will admit.

I.Hiram's Hospital The Rev. Septimus Harding was a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of Barchester.

The great city hospital, the Stuivenberg, was a model of what a modern hospital ought to be.

Accidents among his membership were numerous, yet the nearest hospital was blocks and blocks away, a distance which meant precious minutes when with every moment life was ebbing.

This hospital which had recently been opened was the personal property of her sister's husband.

The regimental hospitals then, as frequently must be the case in war, were merely extemporized shelters, not conveniences.

Our hospitals in London are always crowded, the waiting-lists mount up till it seems hopeless to attack them, and all the time it is because we have no base hospital down in the country to which our patients might be sent to recover.

For the moment our hospital, with its ludicrous equipment, was the only hope of the badly wounded.

The hospital, however, as we see it, is a rebuilding of the seventeenth century, but it was fundamentally restored in the nineteenth.

This hospital is a noble and curious sight.

The oldest hospitals are the Hôtel Dieu, La Charité, and La Pitié.

"The Glen Point people are pretty good about sending flowers, but the hospital is an old story with them and sometimes they don't remember when they might.

Fifty years before, the Hospital of the Good Samaritan had been the pet "charity" of a residential suburb.

These hospitals are the Holyroods of Edinburgh II.

The necessary funds were collected mainly by the exertions of Miss J. Chandler and the ladies who had associated themselves with her, and the hospital became an accomplished fact.

The hospital was a long barracks, and it was full of cripples.

"That hospital was a barn.

"Yes, ef you want to be shipped out of town in a box for the student doctors to cut up, I reckon the hospital is a good place.

" Wounded were not only massacred on the field of battle, but field hospitals were also the scene of atrocities.

In fact, not only public instruction, but hospitals, establishments of science and art, libraries, and, indeed, everything appertaining to the internal welfare of the country, are just as much objects of internal improvement, or, in other words, of internal utility, as canals and railways.

His hospital is a good thing, and if my estate were clear, I should like to do something for it.

Accidents among his membership were numerous, yet the nearest hospital was blocks and blocks away, a distance which meant precious minutes when with every moment life was ebbing.

The hospital is my Mabap (mother-father).

The hospital, a heritage from the French, is a village of wooden buildings set upon a hill overlooking the Gulf of Panama, in the midst of a charming study in tropical gardening.

33 Metaphors for  hospital