Boston Dispensary (first) is established.

It is located in Bartlett’s apothecary shop on Cornhill. The first permanent medical institution in Boston and third in the U.S., it is formed by a group of citizens who purchase “funding tickets” to pay for doctors to visit the poor. Nurses accompany the doctors beginning in 1814. The facility moves to Ash Street in 1856 and to a new building (third) on Bennett Street in 1883.* It establishes the first clinic, the first dental clinic, and the first lung clinic in the U.S. by 1899, and the first evening pay clinic, a well-child clinic, a preventative health clinic, and the first food clinic by 1918. It becomes part of the newly-established New England Medical Center Hospital in 1929,* and subsequently moves to its current location at 800 Washington Street.