Our lecture room : a lecture introductory to the thirteenth annual course of lectures and evening entertainments at the Pennyslvania Hospital for the Insane, at Philadelphia / by Edward A. Smith.

  • Smith, Edward A. (Edward Alexander), 1830-1900.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Our lecture room : a lecture introductory to the thirteenth annual course of lectures and evening entertainments at the Pennyslvania Hospital for the Insane, at Philadelphia / by Edward A. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    penalty attached, for the purpose of preventing a man, were he disposed to kiss his wife on Sunday. But the law has now become obsolete. The Dr. had no fear. He seized upon and carried off a fair daughter to Wisconsin, where we are informed they now reside, caring for no law save that of mutual harmony. The course of entertainments went on to its completion, and July of 1856 came, causing us all to desert the lecture room for what makes the summer gay, With Tier green chaplet and ambrosial flowers. There we found, first of all, Tom, the fat and safe, who, for his long and gallant services, in the ladies' grounds, de- serves an honorable mention; then that respectable medi- cal gentleman, who now is travelling in Europe, waiting with no little impatience for those intending to ride on horse- back the Jplly Jack, or the amiable Rolla, deposited by John Welsh; or the venerable Bucephalus, deposited by S. Morris Wain ; and last, but no less important, the Shetland ponies, imported expressly for us, by Samuel Welsh, and for which the benevolent ladies of Philadelphia are duly and daily thanked. Again, Signor Blitz and the renowned Bobby visited us, and Wm. Welsh loaned us his rare collection of pictures for our dissolving apparatus. A gentleman, who with his famil}' is now on the continent of Europe, Samuel Welsh, laid us under obligations for a never failing source of amusement, an excellent piano, for the ladies' first ward. Of course we fully realize the value of the contributions of the last named gentleman and his excellent colleagues, in our board of management. Yet many that are now here and