Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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ROBERT XVALLACE HARDON, M. D. Instructor in Laryngology and Diseases of the Chest ...z FRANLQ A. STAHL, M. D Dcmonstrator of Obstetrics. 1 1 L. A. XXAUE, NI. IJ. Assistant io thu Clinic fur Discnsus of Children.

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.MK . .MK . vue..- .MK - .aes . be linic . i'99'i3'ii'i'i FTER the medical student has completed his elementary and labo- ratory work, he is introduced to disease at the bedside of the patientfthe clinic. A clinic means instruction given at the bedside, or in our more modern methods, means the study ot disease as illustrated by cases in the amphitheatre. The value of clinical instruction can hardly be exag- gerated. It far overshadows didactic lectures, and in some institutions has entirely supplanted them. At Rush the value of limited didactic work is still recognized. It affords the instructor an opportunity of giving a syllabus of his subject: but clinical work is given the more prominent position. Lasting impressions of great value to the young graduate are photographed ou his mind at the clinic. ' It is at the clinic that he sees and learns to interpret the gait of locomotor ataxia, the gestures of chorea, the cachexia of carcinoma, the deformity of Colles' fracture, the emphysematous chest with its labored breathing, the pallor of chlorosis, the puffy eyelid of the nephritic. It is in the clinic that he sees practiced the art of medicine, the exhaustive cross-examination of the patient, the searching investigation, the judicial diagnosis, the scientific treatment, the skilled handling of instruments. The clinic is the stage upon which he sees performed the part which he hopes to play in his life's work. The importance of a medical school can be best judged by its clinics. At Rush the amount of clinical material atyforded by the Central Free Dispensary, by the Presby- terian Hospital and by the college clinics is greater than can be utilized. The largest surgical clinic in the world, both in point of attendance and number of cases operated upon, can be seen at Rush. The immediate connec- tion with the Presbyterian Hospital makes it possible to present all classes of cases in the large amphitheatre of the college, which has a seating capacity of five hundred. The gynecological clinics, the medical clinics, and clinics in special branches-eye and ear, chest and throat, skin and venereal, and diseases of childrenfafford unsurpassed opportunities for the study of disease both to the student and post-graduate. The PULSE presents this year photographs of the clinics of Professors Senn, Etheridge, Bridge and Hamilton. 43