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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![The result of this period, then, was that subscriptions were secured to the amount required by the condition of the charter, and the estates were purchased where the two departments of the institution are now situated. [The M'Lean Hospital has since been moved to Waverley.] The subscriptions had been extremely generous. William Phillips, as we have seen, in- creased his father's legacy of five thousand dollars to the sum of twenty thousand. The importance of this donation can hardly be over-estimated. It encouraged the friends of the project, and awakened a corresponding liberality in others. It is not too much to say, that it was the one circumstance which insured the success of the undertaking. The Humane Society gave five thousand dollars ; Messrs. James Perkins, Thomas H. Perkins, and David Sears, each gave the same sum. There were in all one thousand and forty-seven subscribers, residing in Boston, Salem, Plymouth, Charlestown, Hingham, and Chelsea (including a few residents elsewhere) ; and 245 of this number, by giving one hundred dollars and upwards, became members of the Corporation. A donation-book, prepared in 1828 by Colonel Joseph May, includes these subscriptions, and some subsequent ones, making in all the truly magnificent total of more than a hundred and forty thousand dollars. March 15, 1818. The Board decided that it is expedient to unite in one person the offices of Physician and Superintendent of the Asylum. July 4, 1818. The corner-stone of the Hospital in North Allen Street, was laid in Masonic form by the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. [Pages 38 to 44 (inclusive) of the History are devoted to the proceedings on this occasion.] September 15, 1818. Visiting Committees were arranged, each to be of three members, and to serve for three months. November 15, 1818. The Visiting Committee were directed](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2122755x_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
