Caring for the working man : the rise and fall of the dispensary an anthology of sources / edited with an introduction by Charles E. Rosenberg.

New York ; London : Garland, 1989.

291 pages ; 24 cm.

Consists of facsimile reprints of articles previously published in various sources

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: BNA

"Hints designed to promote the establishment of a dispensary, for extending medical relief to the poor at their own habitations / John Coakley Lettsom.--An address delivered before the contributors of the Boston Dispensary, at their seventeenth Anniversary, October 21, 1813 / John G. Coffin.--Plea for the industrious poor and strangers, in sickness : an address delivered at the opening of an edifice erected by the Trustees of the New York Dispensary; January 11, 1830 / John Frederick Schroeder.--Medical relief to the poor / William Lawrence.--"The abuses of medical charities : a paper read

"Abuse of medical charity : discussion by Drs. Hasket Derby, J.W. Elliot, Alfred Worcester, Farrar Cobb, John C. Munro, Frederic A. Washburn, Jr., E.W. Cushing, Samuel Crowell and Charles Cook" / George W. Gay.--"Dispensary ideals : with a plan for dispensary reform based upon the adoption of the principle of restricted numbers" / S.S. Goldwater.--"Suggestions for the reorganization of hospital out-patient departments, with special reference to the improvement of treatment" / Richard C. Cabot.--"The functions of a dispensary or out-patient department" / Michael M. Davis, Jr.