Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE CLINIC NINETEEN-SIXTEEN Z' DANIEL BAUGH INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY 10

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THE CLINIC NINETEEN-SIXTEEN The present college building, devoted to the more formal part of medical teaching, was completed and dedicated in 1899. It is a modern, Ere-proof building, providing lecture and recitation rooms, amphithxeatres, laboratories, library, teaching museum, adminis- trative rooms, research rooms, and other rooms for special purposes. During the erection of the college building, the laboratory building which had been first opened and equipped for teaching chemistry, microscopy and physiology during the session 1878-79, was remodeled and new departments were added. In june, 1907, a new and large hospital was built and opened for the reception of patients. It has accommodations for about 366 patients, and affords students the greatest possible opportunities for medical observation and study. Six operating rooms are available for section teaching, and classrooms are adjacent to the wards. Immediately contiguous to the new hospital is a large clinical amphitheatre, having a seating capacity of 600. ,The out-patient service of this hospital is one of the largest in the World, 124,969 visits being made by patients during the year ending May 31, 1915, and 7725 cases treated in the wards and private rooms of the institution. Through a generous gift from Mr. Daniel Baugh, a Trustee, the Daniel Baugh 'Institute of Anatomy was completed and dedicated in September, 1911. This building is located at Clinton and Eleventh Streets, and is equipped to adequately meet the demands of the department of anatomy, including biology, histology and embryology, affording facilities in these branches which, it is believed, are unexcelled in this country. . The medical service was extended in 1913 by the acquisition of the old Phipps Institute property located at 236 and 238 Pine Street. These buildings were completely renovated and modernized, and now constitute the department for diseases of the chest. Among other men of national and international reputation who have occupied chairs in Jefferson may be mentioned Nathan R. Smith, called by French surgeons the HNestor of American Surgery, john K. Mitchell, first advocate of the cryptogenic origin of acute infectious fevers, and whose son, the eminent S. Weir' Mitchell, was also a son. of Jefferson, Robley Dunglison, the Father of American Physiology, Franklin Bache, who with VVood brought out the first edition of the U. S. Dispemazfovfy, Joseph Pancoast, anatomist and most famous surgeon of his day, I. A. Meigs, the anthropol- ogist, Samuel D. Gross, the first and greatest of modern American surgeons, J. H. Brinton, the founder of the great army medical museum, J. M, DaCosta, the foremost medical diagnostician of his day, Roberts Bartholow, eminent for his early recognition of the importance of sanitary science, VV. S. Forbes, the Father of the Anatomical Act, Drake Mutter, and many others, all of whom exercised a profound influence upon medical history in the United States, and by their associations with Jefferson made the institution famous in medical annals. At the present time there are in the College twenty-one active members of the Faculty of equal rank and responsibility, four emeritus professors and one honorary professor. These men are aided in their work by the assistance of one hundred and nineteen medical men connected with the College and Hospital. From its foundation to the end of the session 1914-15, 13,278 men have graduated from the College. V ERNEsT G. XNILLIAMSON. 9

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THE CLINIC NINETEEN-SIXTEEN Ulibt QEI1itnr's Salutatinn HE last word has been read, proof corrected, the Book is ready for your approval or disapproval. The old parable of f'The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack has often come to my mind during the construction of this work. For, in such measure as each individual member of the class has contrib- uted his support and co-operation to the production of the Book, in that measure can it claim success, in that measure has the pack been strengthened by the strong, and weakened by the weak. The whole-hearted zeal of those men who have labored with me merits greater acknowledgment than I know how to express, but sincere gratitude and admiration can I bestow upon them, and that with great measure. To myself I can attribute nothing, for the Editor's position has entailed more of aggregation of materials, organization of the work, and arrangement than of actual contribution. The Book, my classmates, as it is but echoes your interest and successful efforts. A difficult task confronted us in the selection of an appropriate name. After much search and consideration it was decided by a vote of the class that it should be known as THE CLINIC. VVe believe that the fitness of this name lies in the fact that Jefferson aims largely, by means of its clinics, to teach its students the vast and essential under- lying principles of medicine. VVith this object in view, and aided by the abundant clinical facilities which our hospital affords, combined with a staff of teachers whose names and deeds are quoted throughout the medical world, we realize that our instruc- tion is thus made more thorough and practical than measured volumes of text-books and medical literature could ever do. It has likewise been our purpose to present to our friends a few of the salient and clinical facts concerning the class, and in so doing believe the Book well merits the name we have chosen. It has been a pleasure to complete it, but, like all things undertaken as a service to a large number of people, it has received its full share of unjust criticism. We hope the reader will be more lenient and interested. , The unfailing courtesy of the publishers and the hearty co-operation of the Faculty I warmly commend, and take this opportunity to express to them my humble appreciation. THE CLINIC offers to the readers the history of the first chapter in the lives of the men of 19165 the provisional diagnosis has been made as accurately as clinical obser- vations permit, the prognosis remains a question of the future. And here we leave you, gentlemeng wishing for each individual the success which he deserves, firmly believing that the workshops of time and experience will more surely prove the gold that shall stand the test of trial, and be the pride and crown of glory to the efforts of our Alma Mater. Editor-'Ln-Clzief. 11