Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital
Author : Benjamin Franklin
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 1817
Category : Hospitals
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Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 1817
Category : Hospitals
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Author : Pennsylvania Hospital
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 1817
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Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 1754
Category : Hospitals
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Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 35,89 MB
Release : 1817
Category : Hospitals
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Author : Thomas George Morton
Publisher :
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
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Author : Phillip N. Thomas
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0738598275
In rare historical photos, discover the story of the hospital, her caretakers, and those cared for at Harrisburg State Hospital for over 150 years. Harrisburg State Hospital opened in 1851 as the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, the first public institution in the state. Situated atop a hill overlooking the Susquehanna River, the original building was an early example of a Kirkbride design hospital. The facility closed in 2006 after serving the commonwealth for 155 years. Harrisburg State Hospital: Pennsylvania's First Public Asylum presents a pictorial history of the hospital from the first year of only 12 patients through the peak of state care, when the population reached over 2,500 in the 1950s. Harrisburg State Hospital was an innovative leader in the treatment of the mentally ill, pioneering new methods of therapy even before they were common practice. It was a community and a home for those whom society could not otherwise care for.
Author : Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.). Ayer Clinical Laboratory
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Page : 612 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 1922
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Author : Simon Finger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801464005
By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped to create new urban forms that combined the commercial advantages of a seaport with the health benefits of the country. The Contagious City details how early Americans struggled to preserve their collective health against both the strange new perils of the colonial environment and the familiar dangers of the traditional city, through a period of profound transformation in both politics and medicine. Philadelphia was the paramount example of this reforming tendency. Tracing the city's history from its founding on the banks of the Delaware River in 1682 to the yellow fever outbreak of 1793, Simon Finger emphasizes the importance of public health and population control in decisions made by the city's planners and leaders. He also shows that key figures in the city's history, including Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush, brought their keen interest in science and medicine into the political sphere. Throughout his account, Finger makes clear that medicine and politics were inextricably linked, and that both undergirded the debates over such crucial concerns as the city's location, its urban plan, its immigration policy, and its creation of institutions of public safety. In framing the history of Philadelphia through the imperatives of public health, The Contagious City offers a bold new vision of the urban history of colonial America.
Author : Jessica Choppin Roney
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1421415275
"To what extent did the American Revolution involve ordinary people? Historians as notable as Carl Becker and Edmund Morgan famously have asked this question or versions of it, but here Roney approaches it afresh by examining local governance and civic associations in Philadelphia, the largest colonial American city. How did popular participation in charity, schools, the militia, and informal banks prepare people to adopt radical ideas and take to the streets protesting against tyranny in the 1760s and 70s? Roney's GOVERNED BY A SPIRIT OF OPPOSITION will both be an important addition to the current literature on public life in early America, and also to the wider literature on urban governance in the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. She sheds light on the powerful roles played by men acting in the political and constitutional circumstances of early Philadelphia leading up to the Revolution"--
Author : Sir Henry C. Burdett
Publisher :
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Asylums
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