Yale University School of Medicine - Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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THIS BOOK is DEDICATED TO YALE MEDICAL COLLEGE With every best wish for her future BY THE CLASS OF NINETY-SEVEN

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Preface. With this volume the Symptom Record begins her career at Yale Medical College. A little over a year ago the question of such a publication was discussed among some members of the school, but owing to a lack of interest and the small number of Seniors, the idea was abandoned, and not until this present year was the subject brought to mind again. At a meeting of Ninety-seven held early in the year, the vote was passed and the Symptom Record sprang into existence. An editor was chosen at this time and the work began imme¬ diately. This book is the result of such action, and we humbly and modestly submit these pages to your careful study, and perhaps amusement. We beg of you not to probe too deeply, however, nor to criticise us as you would one of the great novels of the day. Some one has said that it “doesn’t take much to make a book these days;” but if he means it can be done quickly and very easily, I beg to differ with him, and I gladly offer my sympathy to any other weary editor. If, however, the man above referred to means that it requires but few facts to construct a book, I heartily appreciate his statement and join with the poet, Byron, when he sings: “ ’Tis pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print; A book ’s a book, although there ’s nothing in’t.” Such facts as appear in these pages were obtained from answers to a list of questions submitted to the class early in the year. They have been placed in a grinding machine, and with a little of what college men call “wind,” have been arranged under their various departments, and perhaps may serve for amusement. I am indebted to our beloved Dean, Prof. Herbert E. Smith, for the article on the “Yale Medical School,” for valuable data, and other innumerable ways in which he has so willingly aided me; to Dr. W. H. Carmalt for valuable assistance; to Dr. Benjamin Austin Cheney for the article on the “New Haven Dispensary,” and to Mr. John A, Starkweather for the paper on the “New Haven Hospital.”