Address delivered before the Governour and council, members of the legislature, and other patrons of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Subtitle: At King's Chapel, Boston, June 3, 1819
By: ... Published by order of the Trustees of the hospital
Contributors: Channing, Walter, 1786-1876, former owner; Massachusetts General Hospital; Asylum for the Insane at Charlestown
Publisher: Wells and Lilly
Published: 1819
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Notes: In portfolio.

A statement of the objectives of and the need for a general hospital, and a plea for financial support.

The "Appendix" (p. [22]-32) includes a report, dated Mar. 22, 1819, of the consulting physicians of the hospital's Asylum, opened in Charlestown in 1818; a circular letter signed by Dr. Isaac Rand and Dr. John Warren, dated June 1811, urging the establishment of the general hospital; and three unsigned letters by physicians addressed "to a member of the Board of Trustees," which had been subjoined to the hospital's "The Trustees ... to the public," published in 1816.

Also issued on microfilm. Bethesda, Md., National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm.

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1838

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy includes ms. notes on p.8.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) bound volume ex libris (inscription): Dr. Walter Channing.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) bound volume includes ms. table of contents bound in.

Bound volume includes: 1. Act : an act to incorporate certain persons by the name of the Massachusetts General Hospital -- 2. Address of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital to the public -- 3. The Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital, to the public --3a. The Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital earnestly request of their fellow citizens a candid perusal of the following address -- 4. Civil, religious, and Masonic services, at the laying of the corner stone of the Massachusetts General Hospital -- 4a. Address delivered before the Governour and council, members of the legislature, and other patrons of the Massachusetts General Hospital -- 5. By-laws of the Massachusetts General Hospital -- 6. Rules and regulations for the government of the Asylum for the Insane -- 7. .Address of the trustees of the Massachusetts general hospital to the subscribers and to the public.