Address delivered before the Governour and council, members of the legislature, and other patrons of the Massachusetts General Hospital : at King's Chapel, Boston, June 3, 1819 / by R. Sullivan ; published by order of the trustees of the hospital.

  • Sullivan, Richard, 1779-1861.
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Address delivered before the Governour and council, members of the legislature, and other patrons of the Massachusetts General Hospital : at King's Chapel, Boston, June 3, 1819 / by R. Sullivan ; published by order of the trustees of the hospital. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Boston : Printed by Wells and Lilly, 1819.

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32 pages ; 25 cm

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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
Film 633 reel 90 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 90, no. 1838).

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Shaw & Shoemaker 49533
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1838

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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