This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...and family for their kindness and assiduous attention to Dr. Lee, during the illness which terminated in his death. Attest, WM. GRAY, Secretary.'" (Boston Centinel.) "But a few weeks since Dr. Lee seemed the child of a happy and prosperous fortune. We know no one upon whom the present was bestowing more of enjoyment, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...and family for their kindness and assiduous attention to Dr. Lee, during the illness which terminated in his death. Attest, WM. GRAY, Secretary.'" (Boston Centinel.) "But a few weeks since Dr. Lee seemed the child of a happy and prosperous fortune. We know no one upon whom the present was bestowing more of enjoyment, or the future was opening with brighter and surer hopes of honorable fame and usefulness. Elevated at the early age of twenty-six to the responsible station of Superintendent and Physician of the McLean Asylum for the Insane, near Boston, enjoying the fullest confidence of the friends and Trustees of that institution; by the extended usefulness which his more successful treatment of mental disease gave to its operations, gathering, already, a rich harvest of professional reputation, by his success in one its most difficult departments of practice; happy in the love and esteem of a large and enlarging circle of friends, and thrice happy in his domestic relations, he seemed altogether fortunate in the enjoyment of worthy objects upon which to exhaust the fulness of his enthusiastic mind and soul. But death has surprised him in the midst of his usefulness and happiness, and laid low the object of our pride, our hopes, and our love. "Feeling somewhat indisposed, and hoping to shake off any disease by a temporary suspension of his labors, he left Charlestown to visit his father. Judge Lee, in Berlin, and his friends in this city. He spent the Sabbath of the 16th of October with his friend, Dr. Woodward, at Worcester, and was well enough in the morning to accompany him in his daily visit through the hospital. In the evening he retired to bed with decided symptoms of typhus fever, which in thirteen days terminated in his death. "Fr...
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Very Good+ with no dust jacket. Softcover. Side stapled facsimile reprint. Circa 1990's. No publisher listed. Rear top corner bumped. Few tiny soiled spots on lower rear cover. Else covers clean. Pages clean.; GNT14D; 149 pages.
