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.

Provider: 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.)

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    on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday evenings of each week, during a period of nine months. On Monday and Thursday evenings there will be an exhibition of dissolving views, with descriptive lectures and music, each picture being from fifteen to twenty feet in diameter, and thrown upon the oppo- site wall by the hydro-oxygen apparatus; and on Saturday evening, an experimental lecture. These, of course, will be varied°by concerts and other lectures, as our numerous friends come to our aid. Perhaps, upon this evening, it may not be without interest, that we trace the origin of ': Our Lecture Room, its pro- gress, and how we came to be here. Indeed, it is a duty we owe, not only to ourselves, but to that society whi< its zeal and funds to a great social want, to know from whence our benefits are derived. We all have, no doubt, read many times the answer of Christ to the lawyer, who asked him, And who is my neighbor? How a certain man fell among thieves, who robbed him, and then left him lying half dead, by the road- side ; how various persons passed by without rendering the slightest assistance ; how a Samaritan had compassion, went and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, brought him to an inn, took care of him; and how on the morrow, when he departed, he took out two pence, gave them to the host, saying, Take care of him, and whatsoever thou spen'dest mo^re, when I come again I will repay thee. This definition of And who is my neighbor, is the motto of an institution founded in the year 1751, by the benevolent citizens of Philadelphia, and called the Pennsylvania Hos- pital, being intended for the relief of the sick and insane. In reading over the records of the origin and progress of