Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital, for the Year 1839 I cannot however, for our own convenience allow the pre sent opportunity to pass without presenting a brief View of the internal economy of the Asylum, although it will be little be yond a recapitulation of what has been heretofore presented. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.