point for this development.  We are greatly indebted to those who have taken part in it both as speakers and as audience.  We are especially indebted to those who came across the sea to be with us.  It is peculiarly fitting that representatives of France and of England should have been here, for to Pinel, the Frenchman, and to Tuke, the Englishman, are due more than to any others whose names we know the foundations of the modern institutional treatment of mental disorders.

The Chairman: This, ladies and gentlemen, concludes our exercises.  As the representative of the Governors, I find it quite impracticable, in supplementing what Dr. Russell has just said, to express adequately our admiration of and gratitude to these eminent scientists and apostles of light for their presence here and for their inspiring addresses.  These, if I may be permitted to appraise them, seem to make a notable addition to medical literature, and, with the permission of their authors, we purpose, for our own gratification and for the benefit of the profession, to have all of the addresses preserved in a volume recording this centenary celebration.  In due course a copy of this volume will be sent to each of our guests.  The celebration itself, I think you will all agree with me, has been a moving one, with an underlying note of philanthropic endeavor as high as the stars.  You heard its refrain in the pageant on the lawn this afternoon.  As I have listened to-day to these words of profound wisdom, uttered in so noble a spirit of human ministry, my mind has gone back to the sentence from Cicero’s plea for Ligarius,[18] which formed the text for Dr. Samuel Bard’s eloquent appeal in 1769, mentioned this morning, for the establishment of the New York Hospital, and which may be freely rendered, “In no act performed by man does he approach so closely to the Gods as when he is restoring the sick to the blessings of health.”  And surely when that restoration to health consists in “razing out the written trouble of the brain” and reviving in the patient the conscious exercise of divine reason, it is difficult to imagine a more Godlike act.

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 18:  Homines enim ad Deos nulla re proprius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

THE TABLEAU-PAGEANT

[Illustration:  SCENE FROM THE TABLEAU PAGEANT PRESENTED ON THE GROUNDS OF BLOOMINGDALE HOSPITAL, MAY 26, 1921]

SYNOPSIS

While the Symbolic Father Time bears witness, the Muse of History, as the Narrator, after alluding to the remote past, briefly summarizes the incidents leading up to the establishment of the Society of the New York Hospital by Royal Charter in 1771.  The succeeding scenes are self-revealing.  The familiar picture of Pinel at Salpetriere depicts conditions in that period.  Several portraits of personalities