Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital: From Its First Rise, to the Beginning of the Fifth Month, Called May, 1754 |
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... proposed and begun with good suc- cess . The necessity and advantages of this institution are so apparent , that persons of all ranks unite very heartily in promoting it ; and as several of our most emi- nent physicians and surgeons ...
... proposed and begun with good suc- cess . The necessity and advantages of this institution are so apparent , that persons of all ranks unite very heartily in promoting it ; and as several of our most emi- nent physicians and surgeons ...
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... proposed Hospital in your city ; and we make no doubt but Joshua Crosby hath informed you of what his an- swer was , and also of what Thomas Hyam and Son wrote him from time to time on the subject ; and now we have the pleasure to ...
... proposed Hospital in your city ; and we make no doubt but Joshua Crosby hath informed you of what his an- swer was , and also of what Thomas Hyam and Son wrote him from time to time on the subject ; and now we have the pleasure to ...
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... proposed to aid and assist the Hospital , will by no means answer these good intentions , but are really inconsistent therewith . We must then beg leave to remark in the first place , with regard to the charter , that , as the act of ...
... proposed to aid and assist the Hospital , will by no means answer these good intentions , but are really inconsistent therewith . We must then beg leave to remark in the first place , with regard to the charter , that , as the act of ...
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... proposed any thing so inconsistent with the design they intended to promote . As to the lot that the proprietaries designed for the Hospital , it is so situated , and so circumstanced , that it will by no means be suitable for the ...
... proposed any thing so inconsistent with the design they intended to promote . As to the lot that the proprietaries designed for the Hospital , it is so situated , and so circumstanced , that it will by no means be suitable for the ...
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... proposed for the Hospital , and the terms of their grant , were such as we desired , or could accept . " Immediately after the receipt of your letter , with the copy of that you had from the proprietaries , our president waited on the ...
... proposed for the Hospital , and the terms of their grant , were such as we desired , or could accept . " Immediately after the receipt of your letter , with the copy of that you had from the proprietaries , our president waited on the ...
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Page 10 - PROVIDED ALWAYS, and it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if...
Page 5 - Town were not so discouraging, might again, by the judicious Assistance of Physic and Surgery, be enabled to Taste the Blessings of Health, and be made in a few Weeks useful Members of the Community, able to provide for themselves and Families.
Page 9 - ... he merely a creation of the Managers. Another provision of the charter, which seems to me admirable, is that in which it is declared "That no general meeting of the said contributors, nor any persons acting under them, shall employ any money or estate, expressly given or added to the capital stock of the said Hospital, in any other way than by applying its annual interest or rent towards the entertainment and care of the sick and distempered poor, that shall be from time to time brought and placed...