Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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A 3 xl 1 1 , , I 5 41,5 af? W -a , itil: 'All this was sixty-four years ago. Since then, what marvelous changes have taken place! Our new college building, erected in 1898, is well provided with executive ,W offices and ample lecture 'rooms-a fine museum-an excellent and growing library of over 9000 volumes, with a reading room and all modern library facilities. PIM' In the adjoining, imposing Laboratory Building, erected in the same year, ti we have sixteen laboratories instead of the single one of my day. But the dis- W5 secting room now is a part of an entirely separate building+the Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy, for both instruction and research. his At Third and Pine Streets we have a separate Department for patients with M diseases of the chest. ll We have also an active, separate Maternity Department, with a splendid record of life-saving to both mothers and children. g till' l l .yt it rl 1,151 ,Fl li ill all A Private Room, 1925 An Accident Department, which affords relief, on an average, to one case every thirty minutes, day and night, the year through. A Training School for 160 nurses unsurpassed in its opportunities, and soon to have its own large building on land already owned by the Trustees. ' ,ll A Social Service Department, with a staff numbering over a dozen faithful 'I Women. At Ivy Croft Farm, at Wayne, our convalescents have all the advantages of country air and country surroundings, with all the care a citylcan supply, while regaining their normal health. The o-riginal hospital, on Sansom Street west of Tenth, was built in 1877. ,M The second-the present hospital, at the corner of Tenth and Sansom Streets, was opened in 1907. The third hospital-the Samuel Gustine Thompson Annex, dedicated today, occupies the site of the first. The combined hospitals will give Ali us the means of serving a far larger clientele of the poor, the well-to-do, and the rich. In the early hospitals, the poorest were well provided for, but the half rich and the rich had to be content with the insufficient facilities of their homes, i. e., houses built and equipped for health and not for sickness. .lgf 'ut ll Page Twenty-llzree

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s l ., ,I ,! ,, V ,, A-ig? .32 lx ' As to a hospital, we had that which by courtesy we called a hospital. It con- sisted of two robms-one for men and the other for women and children, with il' about half a doaen beds in each. All patients, after operations, unless the oper- 'Ml ation was a very serious one, were sent to their homes in carriages, where the clinical assistants attended them. ill The Sacred Seven Courses of lectures all began at once, and there were only two annual courses Which consisted of almo-sttidentical lectures. We were only examined at the end of the second year and only orally, not seldom by only half My a dozen simple questions. Each year as it was called ironically, extended from W October to February. Deducting liberal holidays, the lectures actually covered 'li only a little over four months. During the first year some, like Charles Lamb, coming late made up for it by leaving early. We were handed our diplomas early in March and then let loose to learn by experience, that is to say, learning by our mistakes on our earlier patients, to do better by our later ones. In-Ill' ffl T T flll Q-'le ll' ffl ffl fll vll The Out-Patient Department, 1380 lil That those of us who passed through this startling inadequate training ever ill amounted to anything has been due to hard work, constant reading, and intensive yu, study by gallons of midnight oil- astral oil was actually then the chief means of lighting for students. You see that literally we hitched our wagon to a star. M When I entered in 1860, the jefferson Medical College was only thirty-five li if years old. I have, therefore, known its development and taken some part in its L growth for two-thirds of its entire life. McClellan, the elder Chapman, the elder Mitchell QWeir Mitchell's fatherj and Miitter had passed off the stage, but we had Dunglison, the first Meigs, Pancoast, the elder, the elder Gross, and Dickson in the Faculty. The first W3 Da Costa, the younger Gross, Brinton, Wallace, etc., were professors in the making ll' -later, all names to conjure by. l ' The classes-730 in my day-were unwieldy, and entered without any llllfl examination. The students might literally come directly from the plow, the anvil ll, and the clerk's high stool, to the study of the difficult, learned profession of if medicine. On graduation, the lives and health of the community were at our mercy. ml xg - i lil Page T-zuwzty-two

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l I I v pm 'l x x 'I lf .5 ,ly Sv l I l X it ,ll lil I I l I K. l l A . dj - Nl N' ill gf! Ng' rl, ,I -How widely diffused all over the earth is the clinical training received in ul this hospital by our jefferson students is shown by the fact that, when I made a ,FQ tour around the World in 1901-1902, I travelled in sixteen different 'countries I 5 exclusive ot Euro e , and in all but four-the Straits Settlements, java, the U lr I P ' 'J Caucasusand Turlcestan-I found Jefferson students everywhere, and not seldom ll' fl in large numbers. , .I Wliat' changes aman can see in a lifetime! ,lik my WILLIAM VV. KEEN. fm Nil ,I - ,l ll lil , 1 0 .ku ' W in gl till 'l' S lil u 1 'lg SOME STATISTICS ls ffl The Out-Patient service of the Ieffer- We HM son Hospital is one of the largest in the world. The Surgical Division, including W 'M Surgery, Gynecology, Ophthalmology, iff Laryngology, Bronchoscopic Clinic, Otol- if ,wilt ogy, Proctology, Orthopedic Surgery. ill Fifi. Genito-Urinary Surgery, Oral Surgery, will 15,1 and the Department of Roentgenology, ill All received 80,733 visits. The Medical Divi- li ,I l . . I B tm sion, including two Medical Clinics, the til Clinic for the Dispensary Treatment of ll g Tuberculosis and the Departments of 'lilly Neurology, Dermatology and Diseases of fi l Children, received 37,282 visits, giving a '11 total Out-Patient service of 118,015 visits. Q M42 These, added to the 22,992 visits made to -lx Mil' the Accident Department and the 9,268 M cases treated in the Wards and Private ill! lf Rooms of the Institution, give a total of IN ' f 150,272 visits made by patients during the , Y 6 -,W Wy' N N5 year. wg, lin' 15 ill rlll itil llllj all ll? mu V5 ls X iff' W WI lllfi lil I .W 1' sq 'llll' ,4 , it llir Slllll .lx X . 'V pill' , I gi gli! S I Page Twczzty-four' l P 5