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A TRIBUTE OF GRATITUDE.
TO TITK EDITOR.
Sir—Affairs at the Hospital have now
reached a point at which expressions of
opinion, or even of sympathy, might be wore®
than useless, but a few words of gratitude can
neveT be out of place, I am myself under
deep obligations to a member of the honorary
staff for his kindness to one of my little
daughters when she was ill away from home.
The care and attention bestowed on her not
very serious ailment—far exceeding anything
that the most exacting invalid could possibly
expect under the ordinary relations between
doctor a.nd patient—first led me to under
stand in what spirit those services have been
performed which the honorary staff can now
no longer render to sufferers in the
Hospital, That this was not a fancy picture I
have had since my return convincing proofs.
A friend of mine had lately some business with
one of Dr. Way's former Hospital patients;
who was very indignant on account of the
notorious Noarlnnga speech. 41 How," she ex
claimed, "could anybody say such a thing
about that dear Dr. Way?" She went on to
tell my friend that, being a great sufferer, she
had been operated upon 110 less than four times
by Dr. Way, and on each occasion "his kind
ness was beyond everything." She only
wished that she had been able herself to write
to the papers of all his goodness to her. A
neighbour, for whom I have the highest esteem
and regard, spent seven weeks of last year in
the ward that was once Dr. Way's. She had
to undergo two operations, and it was scarcely
expected that she could survive the second,
but she is now quite well and able to go out to
work again. When I look at her bright kindly
face and listen to her racy west of England
speech I can hardly realise that not long
since she was so near the gates of death. She
is never tired of talking a,bout Dr. Way's kind
ness and his cheering influence. "The very
sight of him,11 she says, 41 would do you good if
you were dying." She, too, greatly regrets
her inability to write herself to the papers,
and it is partly in compliance with her desire
that I am writing now. Each of these grate
ful women would, I am sure, have wished to
sign her own name, and as testimony tendered
under a nom de plume loses nearly all its value,
I cannot do otherwise than give mine.
X Am, Sir, &c.,
ISABEL COCK BURN GILES.
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