Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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I I I THE CLINIC 1 9 3 1 ' II I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 'I f.GQfImHmE C' -I Q eamfsaiakgm. rv OA Q, .!'ILAnmF x Pubnshed by THE SENIOR CLASS of +he JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE Philadelphia . . . PennsyIvanIa

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THE GROSS CLENIC' Thomas Eakins U 844- I 9 fbji ROF-ESSOR SAMUEL D. GROSS, of disfinguished presence, has paused a momenf from an operafion for 'fhe removal of a sequesfrum from fhe fhigh bone fo explain 'fo fhe class fhe defails of fhe procedure. ln fhe foreground, af The leff, are fhe surgical insfrumenfs. Abouf The pafienf are grouped fhe assisfanfs in pre-anfisepfic garb. Dr. Charles S. Briggs, lafer Professor of Surgery of fhe Universify of Nashville, Tennessee, is kneeling af fhe middle in fronf of Dr. Gross. ln 'fhe lower righf-hand corner is Dr. Daniel Apple, who holds open fhe incision wifh a refracfor. Behind Dr. Apple, and using a fenaculum, is Dr. James M. Barfon, Chief of Clinic, and lafer Clinical Professor of Surgery in Jefferson. Nexf fo him is fhe efherizer, Dr. W. Joseph Hearn, lafer fo become fhe Clinical Professor of Surgery in Jefferson, holding fhe anesfhefic 'fowel fo fhe pafienf's face. ln fhe lower leff-hand corner sifs fhe mofher of fhe pafienf, shrink- ing from fhe sighf of fhe surgeon's knife, red wi'l'h 'fhe blood of her son. In fhe background, behind Dr. Barfon, is Dr. Samuel W. Gross, son and successor of Professor Samuel D. Gross, fhe operafor. He sfands in a characferisfic pose, an excellenf por- fraif in spife of fhe low fones of color fo which fhe arfisf was limifed by fhe field of shadow abouf him. ,Equally remarkable is fhe porfraif of Hughey O'Donnell, 'fhe orderly, who had served fhe college for many years, dimly seen in fhe dark doorway. ln fhe leff middleground is fhe clinical clerk, Dr. Franklin Wesf, faking nofes af a desk. ln fhe background are seafed 'fhe sfudenfs. As fhe amphifheafre made a complefe circle, some of fhe crowds xof specfafors saf behind fhe operafing fable which is placed in fhe cenfer of fhe arena. The operafing fable used by Professor Gross may be seen in fhe Pafhology Museum. This painfing faifhfully depicfs a scene familiar fo Jefferson graduafes before fhe days-of anfisepfic surgery more fhan fiffy years ago. If is fhe masferpiece of one of America's mosf famous ar-fisfs, and was firsf exhibifed af fhe Cenfennial 'Exhibifion in Philadelphia in'!876g lafer af fhe exposifions af Chicago, Buffalo, and Sf. Louis, being awarded fhe gold medal ai' fhe lasf-named exhibifion in l904. If occupied fhe place of honor in fhe loan exhibifion of fhe works of Thomas Eakins af 'fhe Mefropolifan Museum of Arf in New York Cify in l9l7. Thomas Eakins sfudied anafomy af fhe Jefferson Medical College in I873 and l874, and while 'Thus engaged, conceived 'fhe idea of painfing fhe surgical clinic as if was conducfed fhen. He sal' upon fhe benches of 'fhe old amphifheafre where fhe Jeffer- son Hospifal annex now sfands and made his arfisfic sfuclies and skefches from fhe poinf of View of fhe medical class. R. V. P.

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