8 APRIL 1865, Page 21

Two Months in a London Hospital. By Arnold J. Cooley.

(Groom- bridge.)—A little work of some interest. The author, a surgeon, was struck down by an omnibus while walking in the Strand, and carried to Charing-Cross Hospital. Ho remained there nine weeks, and describes his own sensations and the interior economy of a hospital with the same careful fidelity. He recounts even the visions which rose in an imagi- nation disordered by pain and weakness, some of which are striking though all injured by a somewhat artificial description, mere ideas or germs of ideas having evidently been worked u2 into narratives. The only point on which Mr. Cooley seriously animadverts in the manage- ment of hospitals is the carelessness with which medicines are dispensed.

The dispenser is not always qualified, there is too much hurry in the distribution, and time is not adhered to with sufficient strictness. He would also pay the nurses better, and confine their work more strictly to the care of their patients.