Account of the rise and progress of the asylum, proposed to be established, near Philadelphia : for the relief of persons deprived of the use of their reason : with an abridged account of the Retreat, a similar institution near York, in England.

Philadelphia : Published by Kimber and Conrad ..., 1814 (Merritt, printer)

76 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (engraving) ; 17 cm

Directed to be published at the annual meeting of the Contributors to the Asylum, March 1814

Includes "Plan of an asylum" (originally distributed in December 1812) constitution of the Contributors to the Asylum (adopted in 1813) list of "Monthly meetings [of the Society of Friends] that have subscribed," list of personal contributors, and financial report

The asylum was established near Frankford (now part of Philadelphia) and opened in 1817

"Description of the Retreat ... near York ... abridged from the account ... by Samuel Tuke": p. [19]-76. The complete work was published in York in 1813 and was reprinted in Philadelphia in the same year

Illustration caption: View of the northeast front of the proposed asylum near Philadelphia

Plate signed: Drawn & engraved by W. Strickland, Philada

Film 633 reel 27 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 27, no. 525).

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 525

Shaw & Shoemaker 32484

Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1960. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)