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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![pital V. the surviving Trustee under Mr. M'Lean's will; in which the Court decided that the Trustees had the right to select any stocks they pleased for the trust-fund. They had appro- priated to this object insurance stock, entitled to large foreign claims, and manufacturing stocks, which shortly afterwards made large dividends for sale of patent rights and patterns and machinery. The two Corporations had offered to pay six per cent interest to the widow (three thousand dollars a year) in December, 1823 ; but their proposal was declined. The ulti- mate value of the trust-property received on the decease of Mrs. M'Lean, in the year 1834, was thus reduced to less than twenty thousand dollars for each of the two Corporations, while she herself received an income probably averaging twelve per cent per annum. It is believed that every Trustee of the Hospital and every Corporator of the College coincided in opinion, that this investment of the trust-funds, though adjudged to be legal, was not made in the exercise of a sound discretion, and with a due regard to the rights of all parties. Felbruary 20,1824. A patient was dismissed by the Visit- ing Committee for having introduced liquor privately. April 9, 1824. Thanks were given to Gorham Parsons, Esq., ybr the present of a sow of an uncommonly fine breed.'' Her weight, in the Visiting Committee's records, is stated at 273 pounds. As this gift is noticed in both records, it evidently made a great sensation. Jnne 6,1824. A cold and warm salt-water bathing-house was ordered to be erected at the Hospital. January 7, 1825. Committees were appointed to procure portraits of Mr. [Thomas] Oliver [Donor of $22,438.70] and Mr. [Abraham] Touro [Donor of $10,300]. The portrait of John M'Lean was brought in at this meeting. It is one of the happiest works of Stuart. The record says of this painting, The resemblance is striking, and the expression characteristic.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2122755x_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
