Address delivered before the Governour and Council, members of the legislature, and other patrons of the Massachusetts General Hospital. At King's Chapel, Boston, June 3, 1819 / ... Published by order of the Trustees of the hospital.

Boston : Printed by Wells and Lilly, 1819.

32 pages ; (8vo)

Austin 1838

In portfolio

A statement of the objectives of and the need for a general hospital, and a plea for financial support

The "Appendix" (p. [22]-32) includes a report, dated Mar. 22, 1819, of the consulting physicians of the hospital's Asylum, opened in Charlestown in 1818; a circular letter signed by Dr. Isaac Rand and Dr. John Warren, dated June 1811, urging the establishment of the general hospital; and three unsigned letters by physicians addressed "to a member of the Board of Trustees," which had been subjoined to the hospital's "The Trustees ... to the public," published in 1816.