text:  Would they carry out the analogy to its fair completeness and maintain that the patient from either hospital should be remitted to society with a character equally free from stain? Is the man to be received by the community with the same compassionate welcome who has gone into prison to be cured of a propensity to theft as one who has entered an hospital to be relieved of a disease? An hospital is a word of no inviting sound--and physic no doubt is sufficiently nauseous to be not inaptly compared to flogging or any other punitive discipline: but nauseous drugs are not the only means of cure; good nursing vigilant attendance sometimes generous diet have a large share in the curative process