Excerpt from Massachusetts General Hospital: Memorial Historical Volume The next section contains brief historical sketches of some of the departments of the institution. A history of the Massachusetts General Hospital by Nathaniel I. Bowditch was printed in 1851, and continued by Dr. George E. Ellis to 1872. At some future time it is hoped that this history will be brought up to date. This is not attempted here, except in a fragmentary way. 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.