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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![December 1, 1822. Committee appointed to wait on Hon. William Phillips [President of the Corporation and Donor of $20,000], to request him to sit for his portrait. This portrait by Stuart is, it is needless to say, a fine painting and an excel- lent likeness. January, 1823. At the annual meeting, the Trustees re- ported that the interior of the west wing of the Hospital was finished, and ready for occupation ; and that the colonnade in front would be raised in the ensuing season. February 2,1823. Committee appointed to subscribe for stock in the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars. The Committee sub- scribed for the whole sum named. February 23, 1823. Messrs. Lyman and Guild were appointed a Committee for collecting a library for each depart- ment of the institution. March 9, 1823. A donation of three hundred dollars for the use of the Asylum was offered and accepted on condition, that, if the donor were ever subsequently to need it, the same should be re[)ai(l to him without interest. March 23, one hun- dred dollars more was offered and accepted on the same condi- tion. On August 10, the donor of the four hundred dollars on condition was declared to be Mr. Lambert, of Roxbury, then deceased. May 4, 1823. A mummy from Thebes was presented by Bryant P. Tilden and Robert B. Edes, in behalf of Jacob Van Lennep and Company, of Smyrna (the Hospital paying two hundred dollars out of the proceeds of its exhibition to the Boston Dispensary), which was gratefully accepted. This mummy is now [1899] an appropriate ornament of the [old] operating room at the Hospital. The profits of the exhibition of the mummy are stated to be fifteen hundred dollars. The donation-book, probably](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2122755x_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
