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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![21 that Dr. Otis be requested to state in writing to this Board the circumstances which, in his opinion, constituted this a case of emergency within the meaning of second article of second chapter of the rules and regulations. October 9, Dr. Otis's answer was received, stating that he had never before seen a copy of the rules and regulations, and that he did not think the case referred to was one of emergency within the meaning of those rules. Novemlber 22, 1829. General Cobb being now a patient in the Hospital, where he subsequently died, a bill of Dr. Channing [Assistant Physician] for extra services rendered him was referred to the Visiting Committee, who, after consul- tation with Drs. Jackson and Channing, approved the same. Felbruary 21, 1830. Mr. Gurney's intended marriage was announced, and the subject was referred to Dr. Eobbins and the Visiting Committee. March 21, Mr. Gurney announced that his intended wife had consented to reside at the Hospital. The wedding was subsequently celebrated in fine style ; the House Physicians, &c., officiating as groomsmen. Many patients were present at the wedding visit. It was a gay scene, — one seldom witnessed in a Hospital. [Note, Mr. Nathan Gurney was Superintendent at the Hospital froai 1825 to 1833. His former wife had .died March 7, 1829.] Messrs. Gray, Ticknor, and the Secretary were appointed a Committee to make an entirely new draft of the rules and reg- ulations ; whose reports were accepted. May 9 and 23, for the Hospital and Asylum respectively. They were prepared with great care and labor, each paragraph being discussed and con- sidered, and the whole being finally read by the Trustees, and by the Physicians and Surgeons. These rules and regulations are recorded in extenso, occupying twenty pages. One import- ant change introduced was, that, though each Trustee should serve for two months on the Visiting Committee, one Trustee](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2122755x_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
