The trial of Ebenezer Haskell, in lunacy, and his acquittal before Judge Brewster, in November, 1868 : together with a brief sketch of the mode of treatment of lunatics in different asylums in this country and in England, with illusrations, including a copy of Hogarth's celebrated painting of a scene in old Bedlam, in London, 1635.

Haskell, Ebenezer.

Date:: 1869

Credit: The trial of Ebenezer Haskell, in lunacy, and his acquittal before Judge Brewster, in November, 1868 : together with a brief sketch of the mode of treatment of lunatics in different asylums in this country and in England, with illusrations, including a copy of Hogarth's celebrated painting of a scene in old Bedlam, in London, 1635. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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hereby for ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, remise, release, and forever quit-claim unto the said Robert H. McGrath, trustee, his certain attorney, executors, administrators, and assigns, all and all manner of error and errors, misprisions, misentries, defects, and imperfections whatever, in the entering of the said judgment, or any process or proceedings thereon or thereto, or anywise touching or concerning the same. In witness thereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, the 29th day of Juno, A. D., 1869. WILLIAM HASKELL, [l. s.J GEOEGE W HASKELL, [l.s.] HENEY HASKELL, [h. s.] ADELAIDE A. HASKELL, [l. s] Sealed and delivered in the presence of Joiin D. Groves, C. D. Partridge. A BRIEF HISTORY OP THE PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL IN PHILADELPHIA. At the close of the year 1750, the first step was taken towards the establishment of a hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Bond began the enterprise by soliciting subscriptions. Among the subscribers was Benjamin Franklin, who highly approved of the project. Franklin first prepared the public mind by publishing a series of articles in the newspapers, and thus succeeded in increasing the number of subscribers. A memorial was addressed to the Provin- cial Assembly, setting forth the urgent necessity then existing for a hospital, and asking for a charter to the contributors, and for pecuniary assistance. After some hesitation on the part of the country members, a bill was finally passed on the 7th of February, 1751, without a dissenting voice, incorporating the contributors to the Pennsylvania Hosjiital, and appropriating two thousand pounds currency, towards the erection and furnishing of a building, to be paid (when an equal amount should be subscribed by individuals,) to a permanent fund. The members of the Assembly concluded that the inhabitants of the city ought exclusively to bear the expense. Thus it appears that legislators in those times were not more far- seeing than in our own. A little management was necessary. Franklin's sagacity found a remedy for the difficulty. He told the

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