Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital : from its first rise to the beginning of the fifth month, called May, 1754.

  • Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Date:
1817
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Credit: Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital : from its first rise to the beginning of the fifth month, called May, 1754. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will be of opinion with us, that a small provincial Hos- pital, erected and put under proper regulations, in the care of persons to be appointed by this house, or other- wise, as they shall think meet, with power to receive and apply the charitable benefactions of good people to- wards enlarging and supporting the same, and some other provisions in a law for the purposes abovemcntion- ed, will be a good work, acceptable to God, and to ail the good p ople they represent. We therefore humbly recommend the premises to their serious consideration. On the second reading of the petition, January 29, ♦ he house gave leave to the petitioners to bring in a bill, which was read the first time on the first of February. For some time it was doubtful whether the bill would not miscarry, many of the members not readily conceiv- ing the necessity or usefulness of the design; and ap- prehending moreover, that the expense of paying phy- sicians and surgeons, would eat up the whole of any fund that could be reasonably expected to be raised; but three of the profession, viz. doctors Lloyd Za< hary, Thomas Bond, and Phineas Bond, generously offering to attend the Hospital gratis for three years, and the other objections being by degrees got over, the bill, on the seventh of the same month, passed the house, Ne- mine Contradicente, and in May following it received the governour's assent, and was enacted into a law as follows: An Act to encourage the establishing of a Hospital for the relief of the sick poor of this province, and for the reception and cure oflunaticks. WHEREAS the saving and restoring useful and