Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Eagleville Sanatorium THE EAGLEVILLE SANATORIUM Eagleville Sanatorium was founded in 1909 by Dr. A. J. Cohen and his II associates. The site on which it is located comprises 76 acres, consisting of a modern hospital, a convalescent building, a children's pavilion, ten cottages for recu-perating patients, a nurses' training school with a nurses' home, as well as administration building, dining halls, power plants, etc. In Philadelphia in 1919 was organized the Eagleville Dispensary, located in its new building at Broad and Fitzwater Streets today, where patients are examined, studied, and classified and guided until their admission into the Sanatorium. Here, in addition, periodic examination and follow-up work is done on patients discharged from the Sanatorium. The Sanatorium today is one of the most modern and finest equipped in the country for the treatment of diseases of the chest. Everything is handled there, from the convalescing tuberculous patient to the one developing an acute surgical complication necessitating a major operation. It is probably best known for its work in the surgical treatment of tuberculosis. It was among the first in this country to test the efficacy of artificial pneumothorax and today this treatment is accepted the world over. In addition, when indicated, chest surgery is employed and the results from these treatments have proven their soundness. During the junior year Dr. Cohen gives a course of lectures on diseases of the chest and during the senior year the students are given the opportunity, in sections at the Sanatorium, to see for themselves the management and the Sanatorium treatment of tuberculosis. T urenty'Six

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the instructing personally. He has carefully checked up all cases of infectious diseases occurring in medical students and has found that only five out of nearly 7000 caught “theirs” on their visit to the hospital. The time may come when the medical profession will know the exanthemata as well as the experts at “Muni” and when the public will lx competent to care for the victims as the city is now doing, but until that day we're glad to have a “farm” at Second and Luzerne. TIHIE PHILADELPHIA GENERAL HOSPITAL By George Wilson, M.D., Philadelphia 1|-HE Philadelphia General Hospital has been situated at its present location since IB 1834, the old buildings of which few remain were built between 1830 and 1834. The Philadelphia Almshouse was first located at Third and Pine Streets and was commonly spoken of as “The Green Meadows” according to Agnew, “Green Meadows” was the oldest hospital in the country, having been founded in 1731. In 1767 the institution was moved to Tenth and Pine Streets and was called the “Bettering House.” The Legislature in March, 1828, authorized the purchase of a site and the erection of buildings suitable for a hospital, an almshouse, the children's house, and other departments. The site was located in Blocklcy township, and from the township the hospital has derived a name, which, while not official, has nevertheless clung to it persistently. There are some who feel that the name of Blocklcy should be abolished entirely, but most of those who have served as Internes and as members of the staff still prefer that old name. Dr. Gerhard, whose careful investigations established the distinction between typhus and typhoid fever, suggested to the board of guardians that the name Philadelphia Hospital” be adopted for that department of the almshouse which was concerned with the care of the sick and from that time until 1902 The Philadelphia Hospital” was the official name. In that year the three main divisions of the institution were called “The Philadelphia Home and Hospital for the Indigent,” which sheltered the paupers; the insane department was called The Philadelphia Hospital for the Insane” and the hospital proper was known as “The Philadelphia General Hospital. The original plot of land bought by the city in 1828 consisted of 187 acres and 60 perches which has dwindled to 20 acres. In 1906 a tract of land containing 874 acres was purchased by the city in Bybcrry and on that tract modern buildings have been erected for the care of the insane, feebleminded and tuberculous. Many of the old buildings of the Philadelphia Hospital have been demolished but the new structures which have been completed have entirely replaced them, only a few of the old buildings remaining. Over two thousand sick people make up the census of the Philadelphia Hospital and no patient unless he is suffering from acute contagious disease is ever denied admission. The sufferers from contagious diseases are sent to a separate department of the Hospital system located at Second and Luzerne. The resident staff of the hospital number fifty-five and the visiting staff over two hundred. Three hundred nurses and six hundred orderlies in attendance help to carry on the hospital’s work. As a hospital in which to spend one’s internship The Philadelphia General Hospital cannot be surpassed; the wealth of material in every line and the great amount of teaching which goes on within its walls assure the interne that the important post-graduate work which lie receives will equip him for the practice of medicine. Twenlyfive

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Submitted to 7 ew York, “Tribune by Kingsley Roberts TIH IE AVERAGE AMERICAN IE IE ILII EVES: That all good doctors wear beards and oxford glasses attached to black ribbons. That all doctors make love to most women patients. That lovely neurotic patients with round heels are constantly pursuing personable physicians. That aspirin is a harmless drug which may be taken by women in large doses with impunity. That blowing the nose violently will remove foreign bodies from the eye That faulty functioning of the liver is the cause of most digestive disturbances. That any doctor who has studied in Europe must necessarily be a wizard. That a doctor if he wants to, can instantly sober up a drunk. That the American Medical Association is organized primarily for the oppression of any individual who makes a great therapeutic discovery. That every woman who undergoes a major surgical operation can never smile again. That doctors, while internes, arc forced to carry clubs to keep the amorous nurses from making life unbearable, and that the opportunity for doing this is what makes most women take up nursing. That during the course of an operation the blood accumulates on the floor to the depth of about two inches. That charity patients in the hospital are used for experimental purposes. That surgeons, because of the very nature of their calling, live lives apart, and should not be allowed to indulge in the more common forms of amusement. That should a surgeon take a cocktail and be called upon to operate, he would remove the heart instead of the appendix. That every time a doctor is called to the ’phone some woman is about to have a baby. That all ambulances, whenever they appear on the street, are rushing to save the life of some unfortunate, and that unless they get there at a rate of speed which endangers at least fifty per cent, of the people they will be too late. That all doctors' wives suffer acutely from jealousy. That all doctors some time in their careers use dope. J. A. M. A. T went 'Sevn