University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Variety Club Heart Hospital The Variety Club I Iearr I lospital is equipped with 7X beds, 40 for children and 3X for adults. The first floor contains the Out-Patient Clinics, an X-ray department, an Flcctrocardiograph section. Occupational Therapy department, I Iearr Catheterization laboratories and a library, maintained and serviced by the Variety Club Auxiliary. Adult patient beds arc on second floor while the third floor is exclusively pediatric beds. The third floor also features a sun deck, a play room and a fully equipped theater offering movies every Friday afternoon and evening. The fourth floor is devoted entirely to research laboratories housing research facilities for the departments of Surgery, Medicine and Pediatrics. The newest addition, the Arthur V. Anderson floor, dedicated Jan. 11959 provided sorely needed space for the research facilities that very rapidly outgrew their fourth floor limitations. More than seventy per cent of the patients of the Variety Club I leart I lospital are from the state of .Minnesota. With few exceptions, every state in the Union has been represented as well as many foreign countries. The heart surgery itself is performed in the central operating rooms in the Mayo Memorial building of the University I Iospirals. 11

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Veterinary medicine, dairy research A current project being pursued by rhe School of Veterinary Medicine is in connection with the department of Medicine in the College of Medical Sciences. The disease being investigated is a fatal one found in cattle and concerns a sensirivity toward the ultraviolet rays of the sun. A special barn has been built at the Rosemount Research Station to facilitate rhe study. The windows are of “Golden Pane C ilass which filters out many of the harmful ravs and so prevents the development of the disease in the susceptible cattle. Detection is carried out by observing the teeth under ultra-violet light. The diseased animal’s teeth glow a bright pink instead of the usual white. Research in the Dairy department of the School of Agriculture has led to many successful contributions of scientific and practical significance. A few of these include new and improved methods of controlling brucellosis and tuberculosis in dairy herds, improved processing of milk products, the development of new-drying methods, improved milking techniques, faster milking, new dairy products including dried milk and blue and nuworld cheese. 13