The institution of the Merrimack Humane Society : with the methods of treatment to be used with persons apparently dead from drowning or injured by accidents.

  • Merrimack Humane Society
Date:
1880
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Credit: The institution of the Merrimack Humane Society : with the methods of treatment to be used with persons apparently dead from drowning or injured by accidents. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    MERRIMACK HUMANE SOCIETY, The considerations winch led to the original institution of the Merrimack Humane Society, more than three-quarters of a century ago, are stated in its charter to be ''the promoting of the cause of humanity by pursuing such means from time to time as shall have for their object the preservation of human life and the alleviation of its miseries, and are more fully set forth in the pamphlet pub- lished by the society at the time of its formation. It was organized on the 10th of Aug. 1802, by the election of the following officers, viz:— MICA J AH SAWYER, M. D., Peesident. DUDLEY A. TYNG, LL. D., Vice-Peesident. EBENEZER STOCKER, TreasueePw NATH'L BRADSTREET, M. D., Cokres. Sec'y. WILLIAM WO ART, Esq., Recording Sec'y. Rt. Rev. EDWARD BASS, D. D., ] Rev. THOMAS GARY, Rev. JOHN ANDREWS, D. D. Rev. SAMUEL SPRING, D. D. Rev. DANIEL DANA, D. D. Rev. ISAAC SMITH, WILLIAM COOMBS, Esq., NATH'L SALTONSTALL, M. D., [►Trustees Application was subsequently made to the Legislature for an act of incorporation, and this was granted the 7th of March, 1804, and is still in force. Eor many years in succession the general interest in the society was manifested by public addresses on the occasion of its anniver- sary, at which collections were taken in aid of its funds.
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