University of Oregon School of Nursing - Lamp Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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enough to give our patient a name, it did not likewise give it any money, and thus provided our patient with Its hrst problem in life. lt was decided at the outset that the new school should be located in Portland, then a growing, busy, prospective city of 40,000 souls. Of course, it would have to compete for students with the ll1LlCl1 better established Willamette Medical School freshly moved into a new building, but, somehow, it was felt that this would be accomplished. A two-story, two-room, frame building was erected, especially for the purpose, on ground belonging to the Good Samaritan Hospital at wlIat is now the intersection of Twenty-third and Marshall streets. The lecture room was downstairs, and the dissection room wasupstairs, thus combining safety- pin utility with Napoleonic compactness. The cadavers were hauled upstairs through a trap-door by means of a pulley, and the dissecting room had two or three tables. The money for this structure was provided out of the private purses of the men making up the faculty. Two short years after its opening, the Iirst splendid class was graduated, seven in all. As though this were not effort enough for our' young patient, in the same year, Marshall street was opened, and since its path lay directly through the med- ical school, the entire structure was moved -to Twenty-third and Lovejoy streets. Here the enrollment grew and the school thrived. In 1893 our patient had its HIST serious attack of growing pains. The old building was moved to an adjoin- , ,, Mw.,,.,s2a..c. . I 1 I 4 E i ! I CLINIC IN PEOPLE,S INSTITUTE ON BURNSIDE STREET, 1908 L! l -43 I:--3' 1 . 4 'Gaim 4:33 T41 1

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MEDICAL SCHOOL ON ZBRD AND LOVEJOY STREETS, 1889 iljaistnrp bbeet Chief C0mpZai'nt.i Growing pains. Present I llness: The patient is a 53-year-old,. class A medical school, occupied in producing 48 M. D.'s and 35 R. Nfs per annum. Inasmuch as our paftient has neverlbeen entirely free from the chief complaint and has had repeated attacks of the trouble since birth, our history must start at that time. Our patient started life in 1887 with a faculty of eight, composed for the most part of actively practicing, forward looking physicians who, in the spring of that year, had resigned in dissatisfaction from the faculty of Willamette University medical department, then located in Portland. These men included Dr. S. E. josephi and Dr. K. A. J. MacKenzie. The new medical school was granted a char- terby the University of Oregon which at that time had arrived at the pre-adoles- cent age of ll years and was pioneering in Eugene. With so few professors, the subject materi-al was of necessity somewhat grouped. Among others, S. E. josephi was dean and professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, while Kenneth A. MacKenzie was professor of Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine. Now, although the University of Gregon had been good U im 355' l 40 l

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X PORTLAND FREE DISPENSARY ON 4TH AND JEFFERSON, 1916 ing vacant lot and a Hne, new three-story medical school building- was erected on the old site. The Oregonian said: The two buildings, as they stand today, the one a poor insignihcant structure, devoid of any pretense to architectural sym- metry, the other beautiful in its lines and arches without, admirably Htted to its purpose within, may almost be regarded as symbolic of the advance made in medical science and medical education since the hrst session of this college was held in the little building on borrowed ground around the corner. Progress flourished anew. The latest 'fad in theories of diseases was that they were caused by germs. The very year before, Dr. A. E. Mackey, a young physi- cian trained: in Toronto and London, who had come to Portland to establish prac- tice, was added to the faculty in the especially created position of Professor ot Bacteriology and Microscopy. The school now had the use of a microscope, that of Dr. Mackay. I-list 'scope had the only oil immersion lens in the Northwest, and he was well versed in the new work on germs. He not only treated the students, but the physicians of the town as well, to their first look at germs. Of course, there were no technicians and Dr. Mackay often spent his Sundays and spare time preparing media. I-le made the Hrst Loefller's medium and liquid culture of tuber- culosis organisms in the Northwest. ln fact, this was iust ten years after Robert Koch had discovered the tubercle bacillus and nearly lost his reputation by claim- ing that it was the cause of consumption. Dr. Mackay was diagnosing the disease by examining the sputum, remarkable goings-on 'lor Portland. Since pathology' U Q Y A ah 5 501 za 11,529 ' 'ann ux0V E421 , I