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

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animals, which contains the Canine Operating Room, Instrument Room, Sterilizing Room, a Dark Room for diseases of the eye, etc. There are three large Non-con- tagious Wfards, and two separate wards for contagious diseases. The southern wing of the building contains a modern Equine Surgical VVard, with Sterilizing Room, Dressing Room and X-Ray Room. Below this are four large rooms for stabling patients, and a modern Farriery. On the second floor is a large Assembly Hall, with a large stage, open hreplace and -commodious ante- room for checking, catering, etc. The new Post-mortem Hall is to be finished with a coat of white enamel. The special apparatus for the handling of animals, water tanks for cleansing specimens, excellent tables and light, a system of water sprays so arranged as to completely flush the interior. and numerous other modern appliances will make it complete in every detail and place it far in advance of anything of its kind in this country. In January, l9l0, Dr. Louis A. Klein was appointed Dean, and in'September Dr. Karl Friedrich Meyer took the new Chair of Pathology. During the year ending December, 1910, over 5000 cases were treated at the Hospital, and this large clinic provides plentiful practical work for the students. The new home of the Department. with its modern equipment and Faculty of eminent teachers, makes it the foremost institution of Veterinary Science on this Continent. In the twenty-seven years that the school has existed it has graduated men who represent every nationality and clime, and who have won fame, both in the profession and in other walks of life. As we review its wonder- ful growth and development, consider its enviable reputation, and contemplate its brilliant prospects, we fully realize that it is an eloquent and everlasting tribute to the noble efforts of the men who have made the Veterinary Department of the University of Pennsylvania stand for all that is highest and best. May we show our appreciation by an increased devotion to the cause for which they so cheerfully and earnestly labored, and by so doing add tothe glory of our Alma Mater, and advance the standards of our profession. SEM? 5,9 '6.i?fL wat '01 S -. --..- as I4

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XVilliams was appointed to lecture, being succeeded in October, 1902, by Dr. Leonard Pearson. Dr. Zuill resigned the Chair of Surgery and Obstetrics at the end of the session of 1892-93, and Dr. john XV. Adams, A.B., V.M.D., was elected to iill the vacancy. ln 1895 Dr. Leonard Pearson became Dean. Free clinics were inaugurated in the fall of 18913 prior to that the members of the Clinical StaH charged for advice or operations. ln these buildings hospital work increased until, in the twelve months ending August 31, 1900, approximately 4,400 cases were treated in the Hospital. A separate kennel, classroom and lab- oratory, on the second floor, were erected in 1893 at a cost ot twelve thousand dollars. About 1899 the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania sought a suitable site for a new building for the Medical Department, to contain the Laboratories of Pathology, Physiology and Pharmaco-dynamics, the idea being to gradually bring all the buildings of the Medical Department together in one part of the Campus. The only ground suitable for this aggregation of buildings was that occupied by the Veterinary and Botanical Departments. The Veterinary Department relin- quished its buildings and grounds to the Trustees, who agreed to secure a suitable site for the Department and its Hospital upon a public thoroughfare, contiguous to the University Grounds, with buildings equivalent to the plant to be relinquished. During the summer of 1901 the buildings were razed and the Department moved into the old two-story street car barn on Wfoodland avenue, between Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth streets. These buildings were purchased from the Eli K. Price Estate for forty-six thousand dollars. This new site is two hundred and sixty feet along Wloodland avenue, and two hundred and ten feet deep to DeLancey street, and is far better adapted to the needs of the School. Tt was the hope of the Trus- tees that the new home would be ready for occupancy by the fall of 1903, but various hindrances delayed the prosecution of their design, and the ground was not broken for the new building until the fall of 1906, , Although the north and east wings are not as yet completed, we are enjoying the use of one-half of the building. The buildings. when finished, will form a hollow square, with a large courtyard in the center. The half completed and now in use is entirely nreproof, and its construction represents the most modern archi- tecture. The east wing, now being erected, is to contain a post-mortem hall. laboratories for anatomy and pathology, a large amphitheater and several small lecture rooms. The Thirty-ninth street side is divided by a wide archway-through which the clinical cases pass. To the north of this archway are situated the General Administrative Offices, which communicate with the public and private offices of the Dean and other members of the Faculty. On the same floor is located one of the large, commodious lecture rooms, adjoining the splendid Departmental Library, which consists of more than four thousand volumes. The second floor comprises laboratories and offices of the State Livestock Sanitary 'Board and Department of Milk Hygiene, while the third floor is elegantly litted with dormi- tories for the Resident House Surgeon and his Assistants. South of the archway is situated a most modern hospital. lt contains the Office of the House Surgeon, and- the Office of the Hospital, which connects with the large. well-furnished Pharmacy. On the same floor are two large clinic rooms, one for small animals, the other the Equine Clinic Room, thoroughly equipped with all the 'facilities of a modern hospital. On the secondfloor is a .hospital for small I3

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LEONARD PEARSON, BS., V.M.D., M.D