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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![Dec. 15, 1816, Messrs. Lowell, Quincy, and Bar- nard were appointed a Committee to contract with B. Joy, Esq., for the purchase of the Barrell Place (or Joy Estate at Charlestown), to be paid for as soon as the state of the funds shall admit of it. A renewed attempt was also made to get the land west of the Almshouse for a Hospital. On Dec. 17. the Humane Society subscribed five thousand dollars for the Insane Hospital, and a snitable vote of thanks was passed. On Dec. IS. the Board decided to pur- chase part of Mr. Joy's land. Dec. 20, the several Ward Committees for collecting subscriptions were appointed, and were requested to commence proceed- ings on the 26th instant * Mr. Lowell was appointed a Committee to prepare an address to the public. This address is drawn up with the characteristic fer- * The following; gentlemen composed these Ward Committees, viz. : — WabdsI, 2, 3.—Dr. Webster, Dr. E. Eliot, N. Webb, Esq., Gedney King, Henry K. May. WARDS 4 and ■>.— Joseph Coolidge, jun., Esq., William Maekay, Edward Tuekerman, jun., R. G. Shaw, Lynde Walter, John Osborn, George [W.] Lyman, Abraham Touro. Wards 6 and 7. — Thomas Bartlett, Esq., Daniel Davis, Esq., Edmund Dwight, Gideon Snow, Nathan Appleton, Ebenezer Farley, E. Motley, Geo. Sullivan, James Prince, John Maekay, Thomas W, Sumner. Waiids S and 'J. — Joseph Tilden, Esq., Joseph May, John Tappan, Ben- jamin Russell, Josiah Bradlee, Francis Welch, Israel Munson, Samuel Park- man, jun. Ward 10. — David S. Greenough, Benjamin Rich, George Trott, Wil- liam Sturgis, William Ropes, Lewis Tappan. Wards 11 and 12. — Samuel May, Benjamin West, Joshua Davis, Joseph Richards, John D. Williams, William Brown.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21032762_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
