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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![mittee to consider the subject of procuring tablets of the names of benefactors of this institution, and to report thereon to this Board. This. Committee have never yet acted. April 17, 1844. Messrs. Rogers and Amory were appointed a Committee as to Physicians charging fees to patients able to pay, who subsequently reported in favor of the same in case of out-door patients. Messrs. Rogers, Amory, Edwards, and Andrews were appointed a Committee to solicit subscriptions for enlarging the Hospital. At the next meeting. May 19, this Committee reported an address to the public, which was adopted. Much of this address is devoted to a description of the original sub- scription which was made by persons of all conditions of life, and in sums varying from twenty thousand dollars to twenty-five cents,—the gift of a poor black, whose name, as it deserves, is recorded with others on the books of the donors. The address closes as follows : — '^' To found and maintain institutions for the sick and afflicted is not only the mark but the privilege of civilization ; and he who gives evidence of his faithful discharge of duty in this rearard will leave a memento of himself, that shall outlive his generation, and be dear to the hearts of his children and of every true man. [Note. The sum of $62,550 was subsequently subscribed for the enlargement of the Hospital.] Jnne 23, 1844. Mr. Dexter reported plans of two additional wings; the Subscription Committee reported progress; and a Building Committee of five was appointed. August 18, 1844. Five new rules and regulations were adopted, one of which was, The smoking of tobacco is pro- hibited in the premises of the Hospital.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2122755x_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
