Excerpt from Address of the Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital to the Subscribers and to the PublicThe subscription was attended with uncommon suc cess, and is perhaps, the most remarkable evidence of liberality and public spirit, upon record in this part of the country. One thousand and forty seven individu als subscribed, either to the Hospital, or the Insane Asylum, (many subscriptions were received for both, ) in Boston, Salem, Plymouth, Charlestown, Hingham, and Chelsea, including a few subscriptions in some other towns, and of this number, two hundred and forty five contributed to the amount of one hundred dollars and above that sum - the sum required by the by-laws, to constitute a member of the corporation.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.