Excerpt from Proceedings on the Occasion of Opening the New Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, at Philadelphia, 1859 The pennsylvania hospital for the insane, at Philadelphia, is a charitable institution, deriving no assistance from city or State, but entirely dependent for its vested resources upon the benevolence of private individuals. It devotes all its income to the relief of the indigent who are suffering from mental disease, and is resorted to by patients of every shade of reli gions belief, of all professions and callings, from every position in life, and from many of the States of the Union. The Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane now consists of two distinct structures - that heretofore in use being styled the Department for Females, that just opened the Department for Males; - both, how ever, being under the charge of the same Board of Managers and Physician. 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.