Abstract
WHEN the Journal came into being, the Boston Dispensary was already observing its sixteenth year as New England's only organized medical facility. In the year of the founding of the Dispensary Boston was a town of about 18,000 people, a peninsula with a single street extending from about what is now Dover Street to Dock Square. Its people were largely English, Scotch and Irish, many of whom were suffering from the post-Revolutionary depression. The only recourse for the poor who were ill was the public almshouse in the Harbor.With the model of the London Dispensary before them, and similar . . .
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