University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - Scope Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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l 1 I Q. I F Fl I J SX X Y A P . N. Ag?-,xxx it fl af, U Uh A From its beginning until 1802 Anatomical Hall was the home of the Medi- cal School. Lectures were also held in rooms of the American Philosophical Society in Independance Square. In l802fit moved to ninth and Chestnut Streets, the site of the present post olifice. Here it shared with the College the lbuilding which had been erected by the government as an executive mansion. A Upon demolition of this building in 1829, it received a building of its own on the same site which it occupied until 1874, when the University moved to its present location in WVest Philadelphia. The' Medical School occupied Logan Hall and the Hare Laboratory. At present several courses are given l L J , l 432 N 'fl V! ll, 'il lil lv fall fill! , f 2 -.r'fi .II fL,,,,,J . .X FJ . L I fl- -. '84-if I L ja! kffl rf? 'T-. Q fl 3228! lgl 1 1311 L Xl I fm ll '. I ,J ,J I A I . W 'Ihr lg ' in the latter building to the members of the first and second year classes. In 'F ,f ' 1904 the principal department of the Medical School moved into the present pvc : I I quarters in the new Medical Laboratories on Hamilton Walk. This strip-of ' ' land was donated to the University through the efforts of the late William Q: T' I l Pepper. Q Di kg! Q Until 1874 the school was dependent upon the old Philadelphia Alms EQ . . . . l J U4 5 3 - ,J 3 House and later the Philadelphia General Hospital for clinical work. Classes I K are still held there, but in thatyear the University of Pennsylvania Hospital ga A W . - -W flu M, - W at 34th and Spruce Streets was erected and opened. This Hospital has grown 1 1 LJ rapidlytboth in size, and scope of its work, the most recent addition being the AL o 4 '1 ' . .... ' . Fl I' ldv . Z l K William White Surgical VV1ng. A - . C ' . The Medical School at present has access to the 'clinical material in the ' 'L 2 Pennsylvania Hospital at 8th and Spruce Streets, and-fthe Phipps Institute fl.. f I if I for the study of tuberculosis at Seventh' and Lombard Streets. Q ' , l . The Wistar Institute of Anatomy, containing collections of anatomical ,I L l' specimens which are unsurpassed in the United,States, was founded nad en- t l dowed by the late General R. J. VVistar in 1892. It had as a nucleus the col- is lj! - if lection from the Wistar-Horner Museum founded in l808-. ' 'il lt In 1916 plans were formed for the amalgamation of the various medical it ' ll A schools of the City of Philadelphia. This would have included the Medical at .,,.,g, School of the University of Pennsylvania, The Jefferson Medical School, the p lf? I . lvill Medico-Chirurgical College and also the Polyclinic Hospital. 'Unforseen 'M ' ' ' r d h ' ' l l ns were not carried out but the I ff'-fvll wi 1. .. complications arose an t e origina p a 0 . I , . lf,,,., Figs -. I al Medico-Chirurgical College and the Polyclinic Hospital did merge with the Universty of Pennsylvania Medical School and a Graduate Department was F',z43g-i , . . . . . Lg ll- 'Q ' wi., founded. This 1S known as the Medico-Chirurgical Graduate School of the pd l p i vi University of Pennsylvania. This graduate department has rapidly increas- I Y ed in size and scope of work, having access to the clinical material of almost ti .-fi-arg 1 I will 5 every large hospital of the City of Philadelphia. bf . ...gl xy , ,' ,ffl 7 ix .34 1 f. I N VX -5.5 :E A X 1 H ji up N. lf lp lllx 2 1. .,.,, W f Qa... 1 swf.: -.-,... Q 'px .Q VK A f f -if gh -C713 W., xp.. x, is .7 QQ Tx ,if CQ gf, ' LA, S 14 A ' 3 J r T:g,157 'Z' I23l