The Duchess of Kent works at the local hospital near her house in Kent in making hints with which you have favoured me and which I know from our long intimacy to be the result of your experience in the sick chamber." An engraving entitled "The Portrait of the Good Nurse," showing a lady of mature years and benign aspect, forms a frontispiece. Then follow "Recommendatory Letters" from various gentlemen, among them one William Lister, a near relation probably of Joseph Lister, the famous father of a yet more famous son. Mr. Lister states that "sick people and their friends will be greatly in your debt," and believes that "the Profession also will be much indebted to you, for the practitioner cannot fail to be excited and improved by acting under the inspection of wiser and more enlightened persons."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.