S. f. (Police) hôpital public de malades, et particulièrement de lépreux :
A sad, noizom place, wherein are laid
Numbers of all diseas'd of all maladies !
Dire is the tossing, deep the groans ; despair
Tends the sick, busy from couch to couch ;
And over them, triumphant death his dart
Shakes, but delays to strike, thó oft invok'd
With vows, as theirs chief good, and final hope.
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