Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital: From Its First Rise, to the Beginning of the Fifth Month, Called May, 1754 |
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... require , and therefore continue in the same deplorable state during their lives ; whereas it has been found , by the experience of many years , that above two thirds of the mad people received into Bethlehem Hospital , and there ...
... require , and therefore continue in the same deplorable state during their lives ; whereas it has been found , by the experience of many years , that above two thirds of the mad people received into Bethlehem Hospital , and there ...
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... require . The prin- cipal difficulty we now labour under , is the want of a commodious lot of ground , in a healthy situation ; for ( though we have so great encouragement as we have mentioned ) we cannot flatter ourselves with speedily ...
... require . The prin- cipal difficulty we now labour under , is the want of a commodious lot of ground , in a healthy situation ; for ( though we have so great encouragement as we have mentioned ) we cannot flatter ourselves with speedily ...
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... require : We are therefore under the necessity of laying the state of our case before our proprietaries , and we hope the same motives which have induced others , will have due weight with them to promote this good work , and that they ...
... require : We are therefore under the necessity of laying the state of our case before our proprietaries , and we hope the same motives which have induced others , will have due weight with them to promote this good work , and that they ...
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... require ) and generally , for the well ordering all other matters and things , any way relating to or concern- ing the good government , estate , lands , rents , revenues , interest , monies and goods , and all other the business and ...
... require ) and generally , for the well ordering all other matters and things , any way relating to or concern- ing the good government , estate , lands , rents , revenues , interest , monies and goods , and all other the business and ...
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... require , in any of the cases aforesaid , shall proceed in their duty and office without him ; or if they think fit they shall nomi- nate another of the contributors to supply his place of a manager until the then next ensuing election ...
... require , in any of the cases aforesaid , shall proceed in their duty and office without him ; or if they think fit they shall nomi- nate another of the contributors to supply his place of a manager until the then next ensuing election ...
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Page 59 - To the Representatives of the freemen of the province of Pennsylvania, in general assembly met: The address of some of the people called Quakers, in the said province, on behalf of themselves and others.
Page 4 - THAT with the Numbers of People, the number of Lunaticks or Persons distempered in Mind and deprived of their rational Faculties, hath greatly encreased in this Province. That some of them going at large are a Terror to their Neighbours, who are daily apprehensive of the Violences they may commit; And others are continually wasting their Substance, to the great Injury of themselves and Families, ill disposed Persons wickedly taking Advantage of their unhappy Condition, and drawing them into unreasonable...
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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...