Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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be CBQnecoIogicaI Iinic rl A HIS clinic was inaugurated by Dr. Etheridge in ' 1889, when he was elected to the chair of 9 24 V Gynecology, and since that time has formed a IK, g '59 A I distinctive feature of the teaching in that great P branch of healing. Properly speaking, it is a Gynecological Surgical Clinic. and in it every year are performed almost every surgical procedure for the relief of diseases peculiar to woman. A prominent feature of the clinic is the large number of laparotomies, which is the largest of any clinic in America, comprising every operation on the uterus and append- ages from Czesarian section to simple hysterorraphy. Scarcely a clinic goes by without an abdominal section, and several clinics have seen three, While on occasions the time has been too short to operate on the waiting fourth. Lacerated perinei and cervices, carcinomata, hstulze, prolapsus uteri, endometritis, metritis, receive their proper operative treatment, and many minor operations are demonstrated, the knowledge of which is indispensable to the general practitioner. Not only the operations, but the antiseptic preparations, are thoroughly and exhaustively discussed, the history of each case pre- sented, and all the technique of dressing, the treatment of post- operation complications and sequelae, the removal of sutures, and subsequent precautionary measures are described and explained. DR. L. C. NVEEKs. +7

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r. 1bamiIton's Surgical Iinic .HOROUGH aseptic operations, rapidity of manipulation, and true conservatism, are the characteristic features of this clinic. Prof, Brainard, who held the chair of Surgery from 1843 to 1867, was the father of the Saturday clinic. It was cradled in his office, where all the operations of the session of '43-'44 were performed. It is interesting to note how small were the beginnings of this the oldest surgical institution in the city. The third annual announcement of the college, with evident pride, pub- lishes the fact that during the preceding session thirteen operations had been performed in the clinic, z'. u., Removal of Tumors, 31 Removal of Nasal Polypus, IQ Operation for Strabismus, 4, Blepharoplasty, IQ Obstruction of Lachrymal Duct, IQ Tonsilectomy, 1. After the death of Prof. Hrainard in 1867, Prof. Moses Gunn was called to fill the vacant chair, and to this great surgeon is due the honor of having given the clinic a national reputationg of having made it an institution which drew its clientele from all parts of the country. Those who once saw him will never forget his appearance: a large man, with keen blue eyes and white flowing hair, an imposing figure indeed as he entered the arena exactly at two o'clock, fwe used to call him the llZlillZlfL'g'ZHl on account of his promptnessj followed by his corps of assistants, and with a rapidity and dexterity unequaled performed operation after operation. His death in 1887, of a disease which he had himself so often relieved, was a blow from which Old Rush could hardly have rallied, had she not had among her sons Dr. Charles T. Parkes, Professor of Anatomy. Under the management of Prof. Parkes the clientele became so large that Saturday afternoon was too short, and first Tuesday and finally Thursday afternoons were set aside to accommodate the large amount of material which poured in from all parts of the United States. After the sudden death of Prof. Parkes in 1891, the Saturday clinic was left without a head, and the Faculty naturally turned to Surgeon-General john B. Hamilton, an alumni of Rush, a man not only of American but international reputation, who has been repeatedly recognized for distinguished public ser- vices renderedg a man whose personality is such as to gain the confidence of all his colleagues, and whose reputation is such as to assure the per- manence and development of the Saturday clinic. Nine hundred and sixty-four surgical cases were operated on in this clinic from june, 1891, to April, 1894. WM. H. Maacussox, A. M., M. D., Chfqf Assisfmzz' to fha Sf1f1n'n'Q1' C!z'11z'r. 49