A history of the Massachusetts general hospital : (To August 5, 1851.) / By N. I. Bowditch ... (Privately printed in 1851.).
- Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch
- Date:
- 1872
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A history of the Massachusetts general hospital : (To August 5, 1851.) / By N. I. Bowditch ... (Privately printed in 1851.). 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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![MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CHAPTER I. Ubgeri Need of Hospital.— Bequest of William Pini.Lirs.ls04.— Circular Letter, 1810. — Charter, 1811. — Subsequent Acts to 1851. — Rights under Life-Insurance Charters. — Grant of Prov- ince House. — Lease of Same for One Hundred Tears, &c. More than a third of a century* has elapsed shire the establishment of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Its endowments amount to, and perhaps exceed, one million of dollars. Its building for the sick, erected in a spacious enclosure of four acres, is one of the most imposing edifices of the city of Boston. Its Asylum for the Insane is beautifully situated on a rising ground within the quiet precincts of the adjoin- ing town of Somerville. Nearly fourteen thousand patients have received the benefits of the former department of the institution, and more than thirty- three hundred have been inmates of the latter. The |* Written in 1851.] 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21032762_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
