Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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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

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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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v 1. .v 1, Qs til tw .V il i-KD wi' ll N, iii till 3 N Jefferson on the Skyline will rv llf Q Qllznturp uf Erngtsss NNIVERSARIES such as this naturally lead to retrospection, and I am going to ask you to pass in rapid review with me some of the con- ditions that existed at the time of the founding of this Institution and I ' during its early history. This may lead us to an appreciation of some ,. X . . . . if of the difficulties under which the pioneers of Jefferson labored, and of the way till in which Jefferson has evolved, keeping always abreast of the times if not just a little ahead, and stimulate us to emulation. Jefferson Medical -College was opened in 1825, less than Fifty years after the Ml United States became an independent country, and one year prior to the death of the illustrious author of the Declaration of Independence whose name this . . . . A lf Institution bears. The necessity of a medical college other than that of the University of Pennsyl- vania had been keenly felt I t , 1,- by a group of men, led by Dr. George McClellan, iv, and as the result of his f'-' U ' 1825 Q lf-' , - Wt : Q All un ning energy, in U ,M medical faculty of six i f , chairs was organized in lil' the City of Philadelphia, jk ? as a constituent part gf the already existing Je ferson Col ege in Canons iw burg, under the name of Jefferson Medical Col- lege. It remained under 'T ' ' ' I these auspices until 1838, ,fl when, 'by an act of the 1825-1828 Legislature of Pennsyl- vania, it became an independent corporation. 3' The year 1825 was the year of the birth of Huxley, who was destined to have W such a stimulating effect on the biological sciences. Gregor Mendel, who gave us our present ideas of inheritance, and Pasteur, who lirst demonstrated the bacterial It origin of certain diseases, were then but three years old. Lister who revolu- tionized surgery by the application of P'asteur's work was not then born. Viohow, pill? the father of modern pathology, was then but four, and it was not until 1856 that lm he published his book on Cellular Pathology, which gave an entirely new basis I for future studies in all biology. 1 5, 'i Anesthetics, antiseptics, asepsis, bacteria as causes of disease were then fig unknown and unthought of. The stethoscope was new, and the hypodermic ll, syringe, the ophthalmoscope and the laryngoscope were products of the midyears of the century. Not only were there no aeroplanes, electric railways and sub- et- .. . . refute-. - Qs 5. . . .L l .. -,sf S295 sift.-.ge-Effivielwi Page Tweazfy-ive