Influenced by these considerations, the Surgeons have thought that more uniform success in treatment could be secured by the improvements now being put into effect. After his death, the bed will remain free for the use of poor patients and will bear the name of the donor inscribed upon it. The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary stands forth as not only a relief but a preventative of pauperism. Though ignorant, she was a shrewd woman and, in consulting with the gentleman whom she desired to be her executor, she freely discussed the claims of the several objects of charity with which she was acquainted, and among others she mentioned this infirmary.