ACCOUNT OF THE LONDON HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE, OPEN FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF STUDENTS IN THE MEDICAL SESSION COMMENCING OCTOBER 1st, 1838

1836 The Lancet  
6 acquainted with the leading passages of the metropolis will quickly learn the " short cuts" to particular spots, if they also know the situation of the building which is to be reached. A passenger will always find himself either in, or in the immediate neighbourhood of, one of the main arteries of the metropolis, and if he thence directs his course to the right or to the left, in order to reach another great thoroughfare indicated on the map, without paying much regard to the selection of the
more » ... respective minor turnings, provided the one chosen at each deviation lead towards the desired object, he can never, with common care, go far astray. The confusion of strangers in London generally arises from obscure impressions as to the course of the great thoroughfares. -One hospital, the London Hospital, our map does not contain. It is placed so far East, that two miles of road, undistinguished by any other similar medical establishment, must have been given on the map, with most unnecessary prolixity of its length, in order to include that institution ; and the student will see by and by, that he need not hesitate one moment in his attempts to reach it, if he bend his steps in that direction from the city, out of Cornhill. The following is a list of those medical institutions which most interest the student on this occasion, which will be found on the plan, the Loidon Hospital being included in the list, commencing from the upper part of the map, the north side of London, and proceeding, in parallel lines,towards the South, the Hospitals being first enumerated:_ 1.
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