Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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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

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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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q. 1 ,. f. 1,1 ,M ,Q 'Qi if? 'lt 'mfg :T 1 'itil marines, tele hones and radios to facilitate trans ortation and communication, but 91 P p . . Nl- it was not until 1838 that the Great 'Westernn 1n1t1ated transatlantic steamship fi travel and the first ractical steam locomotive to run in America was in 1829 on . N : P ll the lines of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Com an . The tele ra -h as a means lit U P Y g P , of practical communication between distant points was first publicly demonstrated Ml by Morse at the ume of the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore in MM 1844, and the iirst Atlantic Cable was laid by Cyrus Field in 1866. Street rail- l'lflfW ways were introduced in Philadelphia on Fifth and Sixth Streets in 1858. tj, 'ls 1 fill A g?Ti7'Rh 1g'.'i -Esimi' ' T11 Tl - Hr 'P lf! 1 --fR:1' 1L ? ' - fi9l71':s'i'i-B 3 W, 'ngailk' 1 gg , A 1 E ,Z fig 1 js:-3 .- f'FE?.:'E-- A l' J- l if ll. L- a'2'M-A i'sg?'f? ??'TT'i7''fiifrkiitl -' '-Er - wi-'- :f ailklm lu ,:IzliHi .,ifi215.grg-. V pp .-- ..t, aa.. , ll 1 Colle - A E FF XL. 1 ge .1 7.va:a 3:i1-r - .TI , - g -1--sg: lg! jx 18284846 Hospital li 1876 'll iilil, Thus isolated, as we of later times would consider it, and in a city ot 150,000 lf? people, our College had its beginning in the Tivoli Theater,', now 518 Locust 'l A' Street, which had been rented' for the purpose. In 1828 it entered a new building lip on the site of the present hospital. A small clinic was here instituted also, but as late as 1841 even those who had undergone serious operations were sent to NH their homes in carriages. Until the hospital was built, in 1877, the surgical clinic ill . . . . U . WH could not accommodate more than fifteen patients. This clmfzc was the first in px A America to be instimted in comzeciion with cz college. In 1846 the College Building was somewhat enlarged and altered. ln 1860 there was but one laboratory in .till .ax :pil ...,,........ -if ,Is V I Q .... gli 1 gt. 55- 1511 !ail1l23E N11 E- all-f' --l' I 1 ' 3 ef2 ' 'Q' y ' f .. . '- W v ..,. .... , . g ., ,, ,,,,, 1879 1881 twill the College, and that was the dissecting room. A new hospital was built and opened in 1877, the college building being at the same time enlarged and improved YQ and equipped with new laboratories. C A 'Cn November 27, 1878, provision was made for the creation of a pathological EXW. museum in connection with the hospital. A collection of wet preparations, casts ,W and wax models was soon made and arranged under the direction of the curator, ell Dr Mo ' L ff 1 - - - .Mi V . p rris ongstret 1. This was the beginning of the present elaborate museum ,,il,lag Of the College, prepared and arranged by Dr. Coplin, which ranks high among 'lil .WL l mf, f . I 5 . I J . -gif X-ali Li1frE1L3aQ '27:a.e in -s-aa. sir- 'fry' ,ia , .. ,Q . 't . IX. Page Twenty-sifr