Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1598

ROBLEY DUNGLISON (1798-1869) A second appeal to the people of Pennsylvania on the subject of an asylum for the insane poor of the commonwealth. A. Waldie 1841 20 pp. 21.6 cm.

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Always active in Philadelphia medical affairs, Dunglison chaired a subcommittee that met in September 1840 to prepare a second report urging the Pennsylvania legislature to establish an asylum for the insane of the state. The first committee had been only partially successful in 1838 when the legislature approved its request but could not fund the project. It was decided that this second appeal "should embrace such portions of the former appeal, and of the report made to the legislature, and such other information as the sub-committee might think proper" (p. 3). The report is persuasive and presents a powerful argument for establishing an asylum, which was finally done in 1845.