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By Danielle Ofri. 246 pp. Boston, Beacon Press, 2003. $24. ISBN 0-8070-7252-4.

Bellevue Hospital, probably the oldest hospital in America, began to serve George II's New York subjects in 1736 as a Public Workhouse and House of Correction with six beds for the sick. Included in the cost of construction were 50 gallons of rum. Forced by an epidemic of yellow fever to escape the filth of central Manhattan in 1794, the almshouse–prison–hospital complex found a haven at Belle Vue, an estate overlooking the East River. Bellevue became a teaching hospital, first by shedding its poorhouse and penitentiary and then, in 1847, by opening its doors to medical students. The horse-drawn wagons . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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