The history of the first inebriate asylum in the world / by its founder [Jonathan Edward Turner]. An account of his indictment, also a sketch of the Woman's national hospital, by its founder.

  • Turner, J. Edward, 1822-1889.
Date:
1888
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Credit: The history of the first inebriate asylum in the world / by its founder [Jonathan Edward Turner]. An account of his indictment, also a sketch of the Woman's national hospital, by its founder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prominent trustees of tlie Board to write to their influen- tial friends through the State, soliciting their influence in behalf of the Asylum. The venei-able President of tlie Corporation, in the eightieth year of his age, wrote seventy-one letters to the leading physicians of the State, declaring his full and entire faith in the future success of the hospital. The following letter will prove that Dr. Mott’s in- terest in this special work of saving the Asylum from a premature death, was of no ordinary character: Professor James H. Armsby, M. D. Dear Sir:—As a stockholder of the Asylum, as a noted lecturer on Anatomy, as a physician of large experience, and as a citizen of great influence, the Board of Trustees solicit your aid in behalf of the institution in the hour of its weak- ness. There is an extensive movement throughout the State to repeal its charter. No institution for the medical treat- ment of disease was ever founded upon a, greater necessity than the Inebriate Asylum, not even my pet, the “Hospital for Operative Surgery.” I have watched its growth for twenty years, have been familiar with all its details, have understood its classification and its therapeutics, was active in procuring its charter which gave the courts authority to commit the inebriate to its care for one year. This labor of love, which I have so cheerfully bestowed on its early and feeble years, I hope and pray will be continued by the blessing of God to its final completion, and that this great woi*k be the last of 1113^ long, successful, and happ3' life. With great consideration, I remain vour friend, VALENTINE l\IOTT. No. 1 Grammercy Park, New York, Jan. 23d, 1(S()3. With the same object in view tlie Avriter visited flft3-one counties to secure tlie influence of tlie leading citizens of the State. He either saw or sent circulars to all the stockholders of the institution, asking them to write, or to send ]Aetitions, to their membei-s in the legis- lature, praying them to ]irotect the As3dum’s intei'est.