Description of the Butler Hospital for the insane.

  • Isaac Ray
Date:
1848
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Description of the Butler Hospital for the insane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    DESCRIPTION OF THE BUTLER HOSPITAL For the Insane. PROVIDENCE, R. I. BY I. RAY, M. D. Superintendent. [From the Journal of Insanity.] The Butler Hospital for the Insane, originated with the late Nicholas Brown, of Providence R. I., one of those merchant princes, who have shed a lustre on the mercantile character by devoting a liberal portion of the fruits of their well directed enterprise, to the cause of learning, and the relief of suffering humanity. In a codicil to his will, bearing date the third day of May, 1841, he directed that the sum of thirty thousand dollars should be appropriated towards the establishment of a hospital for the insane, where that unhappy class of our fellow-beings who are, by the visitation of Providence, deprived of their reason, may find a safe retreat, and be provided with whatever may be most conducive to their comfort, and their restoration to a sound mind. This noble purpose soon met with the requisite support from Cyrus Butler Esq. of the same city, who contributed towards it forty thousand dollars, and many others, citi- A
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