Excerpt from Address in Commemoration of the Founding of the Pennsylvania Hospital, May Eleventh, 1751Not in a spirit of boasting, but with an honest pride in the achievements of the Pennsylvania Hospital during the century and a half of its existence, coupled with profound thanksgiving to Him who is the author of all good, have its Managers deemed its foundation worthy of commemoration at this time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.