Miami Valley Hospital School of Nursing - Lamp Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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The Miami Valley Hospital Department of X-ray JOHN T. MGGREER, M. D. A -RAY AS a diagnostic and therapeutic procedure is an accepted medical practice. It is hard to realize that this ray was unknown until 1895, when Professor Roentgen discovered a ray which passed through various substances which are opaque to ordinary light. As early as 1896 physicians began experimenting with x-rays as a therapeutic measure. The importance of x-ray in the care of the sick and injured was recognized early by the attending staff of this hospital. Just ten years after this amazing discovery, the first x-ray equipment was installed under the direction of Doctor W. H. Delscamp, one of the pioneer roentgenologists in America. The unit was placed in the Patterson Surgery building. As the hospital grew and the value of x-rays in medicine became better understood the department was moved to larger quarters in the basement of the same building. New and improved equipment was added at that time. With the completion of the New Surgical Building in 1925 the x-ray department was again moved. The new space included leaded walls for the protection of personnel, an especially designed dark room for the processing of Hlms, fluoroscopic and radiographic equipment was purchased, A well-planned therapy room was included for the future installation of such equipment. Under the able direction of Doctor Delscamp, with the assistance of Miss Mabel Sweetnam, the volume of work in the department increased rapidly. As a result Doctor Delscamp found it increas- ingly diH'icult to meet the demands of his downtown office and those of the hospitalg therefore in August, 1939, Doctor John T. McGreer was appointed full time director of the department. This last year the need of again enlarging the department was recognized by the attending staff and the board of directors. As a result new equipment was installed throughout the department. An important addition was the deep x-ray therapy unit, the space for it having been provided Fifteen years before. The work of the department is not confined to hospitalized patients, but extends to doctors and out- patients for treatment and diagnosis. The department at present includes the director, and four technicians. J' 48 -L-

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The Diagnostic Laboratories and the Kettering Institute for Medical Research WALTER M. SIMPSON, M. D. HE REMARKABLE development of the Diagnostic Labora- tories of The Miami Valley Hospital during the past decade may best be described by comparing the volume of work performed in 1930 with that accomplished in 1940. During 1930 a total of 42,74-6 laboratory tests were done. In 1940 the total had grown to 78,071. This increase of 83 per cent in volume of work- is proportionately much greater than the 20 per cent increase in the number of patients admitted to the hospital during that period. The only conclusion to be drawn from these statistics is that physicians of this community have become fully aware of the great advantages of making full use of the diagnostic facilities and the skilled personnel available to them and to their patients. This fortunate situation is reflected in the more prompt arrival at an accurate diagnosis and in the earlier administration of rational therapy. Q The motto of the Diagnostic Laboratories is: The Welfare of the Patient is the First Considera- tion. This motto is painted in large letters on the walls of both the central laboratory and the interns' laboratory. The high esprit de corps of the laboratory workers is a reflection of the implica- tions of this motto. , In addition to providing the physicians of this community with the highest quality of laboratory diagnostic service, an intensive program of medical research has gone steadily forward. Thanks to the generosity and active collaboration of Doctor Charles F. Kettering, remarkable progress has been made in the investigative work in the Held of artificial fever therapy, since the Kettering Institute for Medical Research was established in 1931. Twenty-six medical research institutions in this country, in England and in Belgium are collaborating with the Kettering Institute for Medical Research in this research program. Scores of physicians and nurses from hospitals in this country and abroad have come to The Miami Valley Hospital for training in this work. Doctor Melvin Oosting, Associate Director. of the Diagnostic Laboratories, is engaged in important researches on tularemia and on trichinosis. Doctor H. Worley Kendell, Associate Director of the Ket- tering Institute for Medical Research, and Doctor Donald L. Rose, Research Associate, have collabo- rated with the Director, Doctor Walter M. Simpson, in research studies of far-reaching importance in the control of syphilis, gonococcic infections, undulant fever, rheumatic fever, Sydenham's chorea, certain diseases of the eye and certain forms of arthritis. The Director and his associates have continued the clinical, immunologic and pathologic studies on tularemia and brucellosis fundulant feverj, begun in 1927. For these studies the laboratory workers have received the Gold Medal of the American Medical Association and the Gold Medal of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. . Another important function of the Department is to conduct Clinico-Pathologic Conferences at regular intervals. Interest in these conferences has grown steadily. The large attendance provides evidence of their continued appeal to the physicians of this community as a means of keeping abreast of medical progress. 4+ 11-7 'F

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