Excerpt from A History of the First Quarter of the Second Century of the Pennsylvania Hospital: Read Before the Board of Managers at Their Stated Meeting Held 9th Mo; 25th, 1876 In the year 1851, Dr. George B. Wood prepared, at the request of the Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, a history of the first hundred years of the Institution. At the close of the year 1875, the Managers, in view of the approaching celebration in the year 1876, in this city, of the hundredth year of the nation, deemed it wise to have the history of the Hospital continued to that period. The following sketch of the first quarter of the second century of the Institution(1851-1876) is the fruit of this action of the Managers. In preparing this history, the writer has endeavored to demonstrate to the reader the strict integrity and the close economy with which the affairs of the Institution have been administered. By doing this he hoped to show that to this Hospital, the charitable might safely entrust their gifts, in the sure confidence that their offering would not be lost nor misapplied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.