Hahnemann Hospital School of Nursing - Hahnoscope Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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English laboratories, a temporary addition to the college, and now in 1928 the opening of The Greater Hahnemann surpassing infinitely the dreams of those who had planned its predecessors in magnificence, size and equipment. The commodious Nurses' Home has become so inadequate that the old maternity building is now remodeled as an adjunct. :Xnd such is the progress of Hahnemann. just as 80 years ago no one would have dared to prophesy that which to us is an all-too-easily-accepted reality, so who among us will dare to foretell what another four score years will mean to our present Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital. 12

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received a charter. but effected no organization. and had the name changed to The llahnemann Medical College of l'hiladelphia. This college was opened in the fall of 1867 at 1307 Chestnut Street with 61 students enrolled. ln 1869 the new llahnemann Medical College of l'hilatlelphia, and its parent institution the Homeopathic Medical College of l'hilatlelphia were united under the name of the former: in 1885 this institution merged with the Homeopathic Hospital of Plliladelpltia and first occupied the property on North Broad Street and Fifteenth Street in September, 1886. Thus step by step, learning first to creep, then to walk erect and finally to dash boldly ahead did this infant of homeopathy grow slowly and with great travail into the giant we know today. , It may be interesting also to trace briefly the hospital part of the combined corporation. Wie are told. through tradition, that as early as 1832 a llr. George Bute conducted for some time a small homeopathic hospital on Cherry Street which would make this the first homeopathic hospital in Pennsylvania, but as his institu- tion bore no direct relationship to the present one it cannot be considered as a direct progenitor. The Homeopathic Hospital of l'ennsylvania was the first of its kind in Philadelphia and was organized in .-Xpril, 1850, on Chestnut Street near the Schuylkill River. Two years later financial reverses compelled its closure, and it was succeeded by the equally short-lived Homeopathic Hospital of l'hiladelphia for Sick and XVounded Soldiers. ln 1862 a hospital was opened on Cuthbert Street in conjunction with the previously mentioned college on Filbert Street. In January, 1871, after the merger of the two schools, a fairly well-equipped hos- pital was opened on Cuthbert Street to serve the college. This building was continued until the completion of the then new and fine hospital building in the rear of the college on the present site on North Fifteenth Street. It is of interest to note that at that time we read of the vast sum of 3345834 having been raised to erect the new college and hospital. The next step was in 1890 when a Nurses' Training School was first estab- lished. Then in 1903 work was begun on what is described as a commodious nurses' home, maternity building and power house, at the time considered ade- quate for Hahnemann's present and future needs. Next came the 'lohn Clifford ll

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IIERBERT I.. NORTHROP, IIARLAN XYELLS' Sm'Se0n'in'Chief I'hysicizm-in-ChicY xYII.I.I.XM R.XY1LL1,xx1s, MD. -lumix RI. SMITH llircctm' uf IIUIIHCINZLIIII limp 13