The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-15
Suateo at galveston Texas-Munfcenty Endowed-Masnh.
Gently Equipped-Faculty UNSURPASSED in Abl
lty Erudltlon
Every Facility and Appurtenance Necessary
In All Its Branches, According to the Most
Advanced Ideas.
operations to make room for the Uni
versity.
FACILITIES FOR TEACHING.

operations to make room for the Uni
versity.
FACILITIES FOR TEACHING.
The trustees feel just pride and graf
itication in announcing that arrange
ments have been completed to make
the institution first class from the be-
ginning. Every facility and appur-
tenance necessary for teaching medi-
cine in all its branches, according to
the most advanced modern methods,
will be furnished. They have acquired
lease, at a nominal rental, for ten
years, of the City Hospital building,
whose commodious wards will be trans
formed into amphitheatre, lecture
rooms. chemical laboratory, museum
and dissecting room. This building is
commanding in appearance, beautiful
ly situated and admirably adapted for
its new use.
The public spirited business men Of
Galveston have manifested their I'M
qualified endorsement of the undertake
ing by the most liberal contributions
of money, and ample income from this
source for the maintenance of the
school is derived annually. The ag-
gregate of such subscriptions is large
sum-reaching several thousand dol
lars-ample in amount to fully equip
the chemical and physiological labora-
tories, and provide apparatus for the
illustration of lectures in all depart
ments of medicine, surgery, obstetrics,
anatomy and materia medica. A MEM
Der of the faculty will be selected at
an early date to purchase the appli-
ances, and everything will be ready for
use at the opening OF the session next
fall
This sealy Hospital, now approach
ing completion, will be ready to re-
ceive patients about the LIST of August,
prox. When completed it will be one
of the most handsome and perfect es-
adjustments of the kind in the south.
1t will occupy the same block with
the college, standing about sixty feet
distant, and will accommodate $50
students.
The faculty will constitute its medi-
cal and surgical staff, rendering pro-
fessional services gratuitously, that
its clinical material may be utilized to
the best possible advantage for the
benefit of the students. A spacious
clinical amphitheatre will be con-
structed on the third floor, and rem
dered easy of access by an elevator.
Galveston being a seaport and the
terminus of several railroad systems,
her hospitals draw patients from a
large floating foreign population, and
from different parts of the state
since it is the nearest point where re-
lief can be procured-as we'll as from
her own citizens.
During the last six years an aver
age of $500 patients annually have
been treated in the Galveston hospi-
tails, and this number would have been
largely exceeded if hospital permits
had been Unfortunately granted.
Taking the last year of the series,
FOG surgical cases were admitted, and
embraced fractures, dislocations, every
variety of wounds, surgical diseases Of
bones and joints, blood vessels, viscera,
eyes, genital organs, skin, etc. Numer-
Gus operations were performed. The
medical cases included the various
types of fever, bowel diseases, diseases
of the circulatory, respiratory, diges-
tive, genito-urinary, muscular, cutane-
nf
ear, and, in fact, almost every affection
comprised in the nosology, excepting,
of course, certain epidemic and infec-
tious diseases. With this vast amount
of material which will be available, it
is readily perceived that better facili-
ties for clinical instruction and study
can scarcely be offered anywhere.
Approaching the fact that clinical
teaching forms one of the greatest
factors of medical education, nothing
shall be wanting to aid the student in
gaining practical knowledge. The
professors will make daily rounds
through the wards of the hospital, ac-
companied by the students who, being
brought into direct contact with pa
tients, will be afforded opportunity to
learn practically the various methods
of diagnosis, and the application of
surgical dressings.
The curriculum shall be comprehen-
siye, and the standard of requirement
on plane that will insure the recog-
milton of its diploma as a patent of
merit.
The faculty have been selected with
view to their fitness for the different
chairs, and which, it is believed, will
deserve the confidence and support of
the profession of the state.
1t will be our aim to keep the char
acter of teaching in this institution
abreast of the progressive age of med
ical thought. Nothing less will satisfy
our aspirations or crafty the demands
of the medical profession of the state
of Texas.
The faculty feel no apology no apol-
ogv, nor need OF an APOLOGY in empha-
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