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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![special vote, subsequently continued in the office of Matron till the first of April following. NOYember 3, 1839. At this meeting, the Committee upon the records of cases made their formal report which was accepted ; and the House Physician and Surgeon were directed, for the future, to record all cases in volumes to be prepared for that purpose. December 29,1839. The Visiting Committee were author- ized to procure a water-bed, if they think proper. May 17, 1840. The rules as to the admission of students at the Hospital were modified; and it was made henceforth the duty of the Physicians and Surgeons to nominate two persons as House Physician and two as House Surgeon, one of these nominees to be subsequently chosen by the Trustees. July 15, 1840. The oflScer called House Apothecary at the Asylum was ordered to be known as the Assistant Physician. niber 7, 1841. Dr. [John C] Warren transmitted a letter enclosing one thousand dollars as a fund for the purchase of religious and moral books to be given to patients on leaving the Hospital. This donation was accepted; and Dr. Warren was thanked for his early, efficient, and continued interest in this institution ; his letter being recorded in extenso. May 3, 1842. At a special meeting, it was voted, that the Trustees, under their feeling of great anxiety from the in- troduction of the small-pox and varioloid into the General Hospital, hereby recommend, that, until these diseases are ex- pelled, as few patients as possible be admitted into the Hospi- tal ; and that all patients who are admitted shall be first informed of the condition of the house; and that the Visiting Committee be requested to inform the Physicians and Surgeons of this opinion of the Trustees, and to urge upon them to give such care and directions as shall in their judgment be most effectual to prevent these diseases from spreading among the patients.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2122755x_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
