This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...degree, control, of this institution, in its earlier years, belonged to Drs. Jackson and Warren. The trustees acted by their advice, as the persons most interested hi its welfare, and best qualified by their profession to superintend it. Dr. Warren was chosen surgeon three years previous to the opening of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...degree, control, of this institution, in its earlier years, belonged to Drs. Jackson and Warren. The trustees acted by their advice, as the persons most interested hi its welfare, and best qualified by their profession to superintend it. Dr. Warren was chosen surgeon three years previous to the opening of the hospital; that is to say, on the 6th of April, 1817: and, at the same time, Dr. James Jackson was chosen physician of the institution. The first patient was received on Sept. 3, 1821. On Sept. 4, Dr. Warren was appointed by the trustees to draught an address to the public. In the year 1823 (May 4), Mr. Van Lennep sent here, from Thebes in Egypt, a first-rate Egyptian mummy, through the agency of Mr. Bryant P. Tilden. This mummy was given to the hospital; and, it being thought that some money might be made for the hospital by the public exhibition of it, Dr. Warren was desired to write a description for the " Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts." In writing this paper, he was led to study Egyptian antiquities, and especially to consult Diodorus and Herodotus. It was probably at the time the most complete description of a mummy; for no good one had as yet been carried to Europe. The exhibition was very successful, and brought in between two and three thousand dollars. The mummy remains in the hospital, unaltered, since the time it was opened. In connection with this account of the mummy, and of the mode of preservation of dead bodies, Dr. Warren alludes to the singular preservation of a gentleman's body near Boston, which had lain in the ground many years, and was still so entire that the features were at once recognized by those who knew him when living. The skin he found quite firm and strong, the flesh of the arms solid: the cellular...
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