The medicalisation of the hospital in Enlightenment Edinburgh , 1750 – 1800 : the case of Janet Williamson ( 1772 )

whose Duty it is to attend upon this very thing. And as an Hospital is supplied with Patients from all parts, it must needs be, that a Spirit of Religion and Gratitude will be gradually spread throughout a whole Country. For We can never hope to secure their Affections, soften their Passions, reform their Manners, and possess them with a sense of their Duty to God and Their Superiors so effectually as by this feeling way to Instruction. 16. It is the most comprehensive of all Charities; because there is scarce any One Species of doing good which is not promoted by it. For the Sick are visited and relieved; the Stranger is taken in; the Ignorant instructed; the Bad reclaimed; present Wants are supplied, and future ones prevented; and (by easing Families of the burden of supporting their sick Friends) it is also a Means of feeding the Hungry, clothing the Naked, cherishing the industrious Poor, and preserving a multitude of useful Members to the Public Etc. Etc.