Extracts from a history of the Massachusetts general hospital, 1810-1851 / Nathaniel I. Bowditch, with a continuation 1851-1872 / George E. Ellis.
- Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch
- Date:
- [1899?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Extracts from a history of the Massachusetts general hospital, 1810-1851 / Nathaniel I. Bowditch, with a continuation 1851-1872 / George E. Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![mise. Mr. Gray knew no higher standard of right or of duty than the statute in such case made and provided. He at first refused to accept the Hospital's offer of one thousand dollars. The case was opened to the jury; and Benjamin Gorhhm, Esq., counsel for the Hospital, began to exhibit him in so unenviable a light, that he intimated his readiness to take the sum offered. The case was thereupon withdrawn from the jury. But for this arrangement, the Hospital would have been put to great inconvenience, if not loss. This possible consequence certainly goes far to justify Mr. Lowell's objec- tions, while the actual result fully warrants the decision of his associates. This estate, independently of improvements, is now [1851] probably worth at least about three hundred thousand dollars. It cost less than a twelfth of that sum. November 3, 1817. The Committee reported the draft of an advertisement, offering a hundred dollars' reward for a plan of a Hospital. November 24, 1817. A common seal was ordered to be pre- paied; and, on November 30, Colonel May laid it before the Board, —the device being an Indian with his bow in one hand, and an arrow in the other; and on his right a star, being enciriled with the inscription, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1811 ; and it was accepted accordingly. December 7, 1817. It was ordered that the Hospital be of stone, and of that kind called granite.''' January 4, 1818. Several plans were received by the Board ; and on January 11, referred to a Committee. On January 25 the Committee reported that the plan of a Hospital by Mr. Bulfinch deserved the premium ; and on February 1, Mr. Bul- finch's plan (with slight modifications suggested by the Com- mittee) was adopted, and immediate measures were directed for irettino: stone hammered at the State Prison.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2122755x_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
