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

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Considerable difficulty was encountered under the limited accommodations in Caring for infants and those afflicted with chronic diseases. The Board of Managers ruled that the hospital would be intended for “charity cases that need medical or surgical treatment and still further for acute cases only.” Chronic and contagious diseases were to be treated in the dispensary but not admitted to the hospital. During its first year, the Samaritan admitted 202 patients and cared for 1,028 cases in the dispensary, at a cost of just over $6,000. Recorded in the admissions reports was the amusing statement that in March. 1892, “10 patients were discharged; 8 of them cured, I relieved, and 1 eloped.” On December 8, 1893, application was made to the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County for a charter which was subsequently granted. Among the listed objectives of the Hospital was the provision of facilities “to train young women of good moral standing and common school education to nurse the sick, and thus educate them to a position of honor and great usefulness in the community.” Thus, the Samaritan Hospital School for Nurses was established. Pastor Con well himself selected the cherry red and white colors for the student nurses’ uniforms, these being the colors of Temple College. In 1898, a second brick building adjacent to the Hospital was purchased. For a time this was used as a maternity department known as the Greatheart Hospital. It was named by Dr. Conwcll for the noble figure Greatheart of John Bunyan's “Pilgrim Progress.” When the maternity division was later moved into the main hospital building, Greatheart was occupied as a nurses’ home. During the spring of 1901, the Board of Trustees of Temple College decided to open an evening medical school. A faculty was organized and a circular printed announcing that a course consisting of five years evening instruction would be given. The first year’s faculty consisted of 20 professors, lecturers, demonstrators, and instructors under the leadership of Dean W. Wallace Fritz, D.D.S., M.D. The curriculum was so arranged that the same number of hours would be devoted to ii as in a day-school. This was the first co—educational medical school in Pennsylvania. Clinical instruction was given at Samaritan Hospital. In 1904, two men who had entered with advanced standing, Frederick C. Lehman and Frank E. Watkins, became the first graduates. Although there were no women among the 31 students enrolling the first year, in 1907 the school awarded medical degrees to its first Female graduates, Sara Allen and Mary E. Shepard. The capacity of the Samaritan Hospital rose to 60 beds in 1902, and during 1903, Dr. Haehnlcn resigned as Obstetrician—Gynecologist. His position was filled by Dr. W. Wayne Babcock, who was to become Surgeon—in—Chief later that year upon the retirement of Dr. Edmund Wales Holmes, a man who had served as Samaritan’s Surgeon—in—Chief for a decade. Dr. Babcock gained international fame as a pioneer in the technique of spinal anestbcsca and for bis surgical skill as well as his invention of surgical instruments, such as bis sump drain and alloy steel wire sutures. Neighbors of the Hospital were still propagating its interests. One of many such efforts to answer the needs of the ever -growing institution was the organization of street fetes, sponsored by the community, with the proceeds donated to the Hospital. These gifts, together with appropriations from the state legislature, provided for the erection of a new building in 1907. Located at 3401 North Broad Street, it provided much needed room for larger wards and a more suitable place for the rapidly growing dispensary service. Temple College was granted the title of Temple University by the Philadelphia courts in 1907, thus the School of Medicine became a department of a university, to go forward hand in hand with the University’s steady progress. Also in 1907. by mutual agreement, the Philadelphia Dental College was added to Temple University. The Garreison Hospital, a 75—bed hospital located in one of the largest manufacturing districts of Philadelphia at that time, afforded unusual facilities and material for teaching “Traumatic Surgery-”, probably not surpassed by any other medical school in the United States. This institution, together with Samaritan Hospital with a capacity of 125 beds, supplied all the needs of the Medical School for clinical leaching. By 1908, a total of 2000 patients were being admitted to Samaritan Hospital yearly, while 28.000 dispensary eases were being treated. Throughout this period Samaritan Hospital continued to grow and the interest of the community was served. When Dr. Gmwcll died in 1925, the whole city of Philadelphia mourned the loss. This dynamic man had founded Temple University on the principle that education should be made available to any person 22

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21 DR. CHEVALIER JACKSON’S CLINIC

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