gratis, but have made their visits with even greater assiduity and constancy than is sometimes used to their richer patients; and that the managers have attended their monthly boards, and the committees the visitations of two days in every week, with greater readiness and punctuality than has been usually known in any other publick business, where interest was not immediately concerned; owing, no doubt, to that satisfaction which naturally arises in humane minds from a consciousness of doing good, and from the frequent pleasing sight of misery relieved, distress removed, grievous diseases healed, health restored, and those who were admitted languishing, groaning, and almost despairing of recovery, discharged sound and hearty, with cheerful and thankful countenances, gratefully acknowledging the care that has been taken of them, praising God, and blessing their benefactors, who by their bountiful contributions founded so excellent an institution.

N. B. All persons who shall be disposed to contribute to the support of this Hospital by will, are advised to do it in the following manner.

Item, I give and bequeath to the contributors to the Pennsyvania Hospital, the sum of

to

be paid to their treasurer for the time being, and applied towards carrying on the charitable design of the said Hospital,

CONTINUATION

OF THE

ACCOUNT

OF THE

PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL;

FROM THE FIRST OF MAY, 1754, TO THE

FIFTH OF MAY 1761.

WITH AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE CONTRIBUTORS, AND

OF THE LEGACIES WHICH HAVE BEEN BEQUEATHED,

FOR PROMOTION AND SUPPORT THEREOF, FROM

ITS FIRST RISE TO THAT TIME

If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother.

Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, thou shalt open thine hand wide anto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land-Deut. xv. 7, 10, 11.

I was a stranger, and ye took me in: I was sick, and ye visited re.-Inas. much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.-Matt. xxv. 36, 40.

1

ACCOUNT

OF THE

Progress of the Pennsylvania Hospital,

CONTINUED.

AT an anniversary meeting of the contributors, held the sixth of the fifth month, May, 1754, the following members of this corporation were chosen managers and treasurer for the year ensuing, viz.

Managers-Joshua Crosby, Hugh Roberts, John Smith, Israel Pemberton, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Morris, Isaac Jones, Samuel Rhoads, John Reynell, Evan Morgan, Joseph Fox, William Grant.

Treasurer-Charles Norris.

On the tenth of the same month the said managers met, and observing that the term for which the rules made for the choice of physicians and surgeons was expired, and being willing to give the contributors a fresh opportunity of manifesting their sentiments on this matter, which in the early establishment of the institution had been a subject of divers consultations and debates, they gave publick notice in the Gazette hereof, and concluded, in the meantime, that the same rules should be observed and maintained, until any twenty of the contributors should desire they might be reconsidered at a general meeting; but as no application was made for this purpose, nor any dissatisfaction appeared,

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