A guide-book of Boston for physicians . ut either according to the judgment of thepatients physician, or, if he so wishes, according to the judg-ment of the medical men in charge. At the corner of Boylston Street and the Fenway is thebuilding of the Massachusetts Historical Society, founded in 1791-Besides a priceless library, the Historical Society has an inter-esting museum, which the genial secretary, Dr. Samuel , former mayor of Boston, will be glad to show to themembers of the American Medical Association. Across the Fenway from the Historical Societys building isa memorial to John
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . ut either according to the judgment of thepatients physician, or, if he so wishes, according to the judg-ment of the medical men in charge. At the corner of Boylston Street and the Fenway is thebuilding of the Massachusetts Historical Society, founded in 1791-Besides a priceless library, the Historical Society has an inter-esting museum, which the genial secretary, Dr. Samuel , former mayor of Boston, will be glad to show to themembers of the American Medical Association. Across the Fenway from the Historical Societys building isa memorial to John Boyle O Reilly, the Irish poet and patriot,who was for many years the editor of a Boston paper, the Pilot. Next to the building of the Historical Society, and facingon the Fenway, is the Boston Medical Library. This associa-tion was formed in 1875, and the first library consisted of 1,500volumes, housed in two rooms on Hamilton Place. A littlelater a house was purchased at No. 19 Boylston Place, and re- 66 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY modelled so as to give a hall for medical meetings on the first floor, around the walls ofwhich were the book-shelves. On the secondfloor was a reading-roomand office. The library re-mained at No. 19 BoylstonPlace for twenty-two years,until its building was sooutgrown that 10,000 vol-umes had to be stored inother places. In 1898 the movementwas started that resultedin the erection of thepresent building, whichsk\ I. has been occupied sinceJanuary, 1901. Besidesadequate stacks for the care of the books, there are severalreading-rooms, the largest of which is Holmes Hall. This beau-tiful hall was named after Oliver Wendell Holmes, the li-brarys first president. The library building serves as a meeting-place for most of Bostons larger medical societies, and manyof the smaller ones, and has for this purpose three halls andseveral rooms, including a supper-room. The largest hall seatsabout three hundred persons, and the other t
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