Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Lane Medical Library

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Stanford Univcrsitv Medical Department In May, l ' ' lo. Stanf. ird L ni crsity will graduate its first class in Medicine. This event will sii nalize the coni- ]5letion i)f the tirst steps taken by the L ' niversity for the development of AJedical teaehins; ' . h ' or years Stan- lord University has L;iven pre-medical education of the hii hest grade and it was hut natural that the University should accept the property of Cooper Medical College when it was tendered to it as a Ijasis for a new Medical Schnol. Cooper Medical College has a long and hon- orable histor -. In 1858 the first medical school on the Pacific Coast, known as the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific. was organized by Dr. Coop- er, later assisted by his neiihew. Dr. Levi Cooper Lane. With the early death of Dr. Cooper in 1862 the school went to pieces but was revived in 1870. and in 1882 members of its Faculty were organized by Dr. Lane into the Faculty of Cooper Medical College, named in honor of Dr. Coo])er, and occupying the then new building erected in San Francisco l)y Dr. Lane on the northeast corner of Sacramento and Webster Streets. Later the Lane Hospital was built on an adjoining lot. and Dr. Lane left the major portion of his property for the endow- ment of the Lane Medical Library. Cooper Medical College did much to raise the standard of Medical teaching in the West. Init with the introduction of laboratory teaching it became evident that onh- endowed Medical schools could hope to do the best class of work so the Faculty of the institution offered it to the Trustees of Stanford L ' niversity with l)ut the single obliga tion that it sin mid be used as the basis of a Department of Medicine granting the M. D. degree. Since this action of the Trustees and Faculty in accepting the properties of Cooper Medical College was consummated, rai)id strides have been made in the development of Medical teaching in the Universitv. Doctor Rav Lvniaii Wilbur

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' ith the entrance rei|uirenu ' nt set of three years of University work the e lical work of Stanford bci an on a high plane. In 1909 Prof. . . W. Meyer was apjiointed Professor of Anatomy, Prof. Hans Zinsser of Bacteriology. Prof. A. C. Crawford of Pharmacology. ' rhe - were furnished with new laboratories in the Museimi buildings and together with the existing deparlinents ni Physiology and llis- loJogw Chemistry, and Zoology began the teaching of the first year and a half of Medicine at the L ' niversity. The last two and a half years of the Aledical curriculum are given in San Francisco, where the students have the advantage of academic professors not only in the laboratory sciences but also in the clinics. This is the most important advance made by Stanford in its medical teaching. It is one of the few Medical schools in this country wdiere the control ot the majority of the clinical work is in the hands of paid teachers with whom are associated so-called Clinical Professors, that is to say, men in practice who also teach. Few Medical Schools offer to the student the opportunity for close association with patients and with teachers that can be obtained at Stanford. The outpatient clinics have about 60.000 visits per year and the Lane Hospital has accommodations for 180 beds. Of these about half are clinical and used for teaching and the other half are in private rooms. The Lane Hospital Training School for Nurses is favorably known, and about eighty pupil nurses are in attendance. The beautiful new building of the Lane Medical Library has recently been constructed imme- diateh- across the street and its splendid library of about 39,000 volumes, the largest medical library belonging to a university in this country, is immediately available for students. During the year 1912-13 a complete re-arrangement of the Clinical and Laboratory Building, including Lane Hall, has been made, so that it is now well adapted to modern Medical teaching. The Medical and Surgical services at the San Francisco Hospital, the new building of which is practically ready for occupancy, are also of great teaching value. All in all, the Stanford L ' niversity Medical Department can be said to offer unusual clinical advantages, and library and laboratory facili- ties to its students, and it is hoped that it will soon develop into one of the strongest departniaits of the L niversity. Ray Lyman Wilbur. 17