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

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 The Eagleville Sanitorium IN 1909, Dr. A. J. Cohen and his associates founded the Eagleville Sanitorium for the care and treatment of patients, principally tuberculous. The sanitorium oc-cupies 76 acres, and its buildings comprise a modern hospital, a convalescent building, a children's pavilion, ten cottages for recuperating patients, a nurses’ training school and home, a dining hall, and administrative buildings. In 1919, in order to more thoroughly study and classify patients before their admission to the hospital, and in order to more effectively perform the vital follow-up work, a dispensary was established in Philadelphia at Fitzwater and Broad Streets. The sanitorium is equipped to treat any form of chest pathology, from quiescent tuberculous processes to accute surgical complications necessitating major surgery. It was among the very first institutions in the world to test the efficacy of artificial pneumo-thorax in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, a practice which now is universally sanctioned. Consequently, the sanitorium is most famous for its pioneering work in the surgical treatment of tuberculosis. The senior students, in small groups, are afforded the opportunity of studying the sanitorium treatment of tuberculosis at this splendid institution under the direction of Dr. A. J. Cohen, Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Chest at Temple University's School of Medicine. (I 24