Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Miss Snyder, our Directress, gave. us talks each year which were most helpful and instructive, She has our life-long affection, gratitude and loyalty for her advice and guidance during our course. How we all love this old Hospital! The kits'l in G and Lg the women in K, N, and the Mat, the sailors in Hg the emergencies in dear old Mg the medical cases in D and B5 the Private Floor, the Receiving Ward with its many ex- citementsg the Surgical Dispensary where Dr. B. A. Thomas presides so well, and with Dr. Birdsall and Dr. Harrison to teach you the many things that turn up during the Dispensary hours. The Clinics. Maternity Clinic, Dr. Clark's Clinic, and the wonderful General Surgical Clinic, where Dr. Frazier does such skillful brain surgery, and if you are good, allows you to look down into the dura mater, Dr. Martin wel- comes his blithe youths, and with his able assistants does such great things in his characteristic style. Here, too, Dr. Deaver yields the aseptic scalpel, and with his motto Cut well, sew well, get well, captures unruly appendices, and makes the common duct behave. 'From the time we entered here we knew of the bitter fight across the sea. At first it seemed impossible that it could touch us, but as the months rolled on it crept nearer and nearer. We dreaded it and were not prepared. Then sud- denly in the spring of l9l7 those immortal words seemed again to ring across' the States: Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition. that all men are created equal. Cur people awoke and responded, and now with true American spirit we were ready to help our allies. In the peaceful spring evenings of l9l7, our University boys drilled up and down past Houston Hall. Now those boys are gone and most of the men we worked with. Many so

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staff nurses, and had our dressing-room experience. What pleasure it afforded one to say, I had ward M dressing room. Night duty. By this time we had our first and second terms. All through life we shall remember these long hard watches in some of the larger wards. It was then we learned tokput ourselves in our patients' places, and we came most intimately in contact with them, for all responsibility was ours. P y In the fall we resumed our lectures and were given all there is to know of surgery by the brilliant Dr. Eliason. Dr. Keene gave a course' in Gynaecology, which was followed by a helpful lecture by Miss Baker, the head nurse of ward K. Then another treat followed, our lectures on contagious diseases by Dr. Ostheimer, which were most thoroughly en- joyed. Our classes in Massage, by Miss Corbin, and Dietetics, by Miss Barr, wove in and out the spaces left from lectures. I think, in some future world, Miss Barr will wear a brilliant star in her crown. She taught dietetics to the nurses in this School for several long years. Then we were treated to Dr. Llewellyn's course in lVIateria Medica. Up to date we have had 'Obstetrics by Dr. J. C. Hirst, and a most interesting and instructive series of lectures on Medicine, by Dr. Miller, which we have greatly appreciated and enjoyed. Captain Bates gave a course on First Aid, which helped to prepare us for the work in the future. During our training we had the pleasure of hearing several talks by bliss Smith. Very wonderful they were, given in her sympathetic and magnetic manner, especially the last one in the interest of The Red Cross. Our eight weeks' course in Social Service was much ap- preciated and enjoyed by all, except Miss Frantz. It has opened our eyes to new and fertile fields in which our train- ing has fitted us to work. 49

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of our chiefs and our young residents responded to the call. Our Unit was formed and it is ready. , As a class We are almost through, are almost prepared, if We are needed, in our country or abroad. We, the Class of 1918, are proud and happy to consider ourselves an offering from the University Hospital to the United States of America to be used P. R. N. y - . d y and lS a good nurse, H 530135 ur a t h C r R W e but hang around ec' J' ' said Darn, Greenie States fhat She Aclualb' but defes that Swore S C says although she Lost- heghegligl Kids, 0 is not a great one K especially against H U P Gussle at handing out the , ,Cf , is Proud Of his uit C di nified llerryP0Pl'lafffg', and Becomesiifhw he if wifhAResidenl 51