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RICHARD KNOX: Dr. Ralph Metson of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is doing surgery on a woman with non-stop sinus pain.
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The Camp Infirmary is very well arranged, it comprises a ward of 16 beds, an isolation ward containing two beds, a dressings room and an examination room.
Work Camp 107 GW 2010
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RICHARD KNOX: Dr. Ralph Metson of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is doing surgery on a woman with non-stop sinus pain.
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Could you call the Infirmary and ask about the child?
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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We have Truro (ph) Infirmary, which is uptown, which is a hospital that is ready for re-entry and ready to be repopulated.
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The Workhouse '- always a word of shame, grey shadow falling on the close of life, most feared by the old (even when called The Infirmary); abhorred more than debt, or prison, or beggary, or even the stain of madness.
Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959
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In his day the episcopal court was said to rival that of the King, and he built the great tower of the castle or episcopal palace, which was probably erected by Bishop Bondington and stood with the garden in the open space between the cathedral and the present Castle Street, now called Infirmary Square.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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The Infirmary is a noble institution, and always has two hundred patients in the wards; two thousand were received last year, and eight thousand out-door cases received treatment.
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To the south of the Infirmary is another ancient house, though much modernised.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See W.D. Sweeting
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The doctor, after inveighing loudly against 'men totally ignorant of medical science,' who flood the country with quack nostrums backed up by 'fabricated proofs of miraculous cures,' proceeds to enumerate the diseases to which his 'Infirmary' is open, and to which his practice will be mainly confined.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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