A discourse, before the Humane Society in Boston: delivered on the second Tuesday of June, 1787 ... / [John Lathrop].

  • John Lathrop
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1787
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Credit: A discourse, before the Humane Society in Boston: delivered on the second Tuesday of June, 1787 ... / [John Lathrop]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lm | - Tue Society have alfo printed and dif- perfed, a confiderable number of Pamph- — lets, containing Methods of Treatment to be ufed with. perfons apparently dead, accidents, which in a fhort time mutt _ prove fatal, if no affiftance can be had. Tue Society alfo, taking into confi- - deration the deplorable condition, in which many of our fea-faring Brethren have perifhed after fhipwreck, for want — of a fhelter from the ftorm and cold, determined to erea&t a few {mall build- ings, on the moft dangerous parts of the _ fea-coaft, in which thall be lodged mate- rials for the comfort of fuch as may be caft on fhore. Two of thofe buildings will be foon finithed, when notice will be given of their fituation. _ Tuus far has the Society proceeded : Confiderable funds may be neceffary in order to carry their defigns fully into execution. ‘They have no doubt but they fhall receive every encouragement which they can have reafon to expect, from the Government of the Common- wealth ; ; and they pee it will not be & ‘o dif-
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