...e of hospitals being entirely original, and a novelty, it was regarded, by many persons, wholly impracticable, and prophesied a failure, as well as insecure from insubordination and rudeness; but, in Mrs. Otis 's first report to the committee, she states that nothing could surpass the exceeding respect, deference, and boundless gratitude, with which she had been treated. A Bank of Faith was at once esta...