The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-10


years. Students receive their board instruc-
ton and 81 a month with a bonus of $50
on graduation in return for the work they
DO in the City hosPta me- raTa h a
courses of lectures from the City Hospital
staff. Many of the graduates find abundant
work in indianapolis.
Mission Training School at the time of its
opening and assuming charge OF the nurs-
ing in the City Hospital Sept 1, 1888, was
Miss Abel Traver. Miss Traver was a grad
uate of the Bellevue Training School Tor
Nurses and had as her assistant Miss Dryer,
Traver was succeeded by Miss Hunt, now
Mrs. Peter f. Bryce, of Chicago. Mr.. Bryce
was one of the active WORKERS Win o, Dr.
1t was at the hospital he made the ac-
quaintance of Miss Hunt
OF the house physicians Drs. Wright, Ray,
Storch, Hollingsworth. Roberts, Kimberlin,
Daughters, Doan, Yoke. White. Lewis,
Thompson, Morrow, Earring, Cox. Hessler.
Charlton, c. J. Cook, Logan. Cottingham.
Ross, McAlexander, Christian, Bergener,
Schwartz. r. c. N. Cook, r. H. Ritter, n.
E. Jobes, Kistner, Petersdorf and True
blood are graduates of the Medical college
of Indiana, receiving their positions by COM
petitive examination conducted. by the
Drs. c. o. Durham, Crosse, singleton,
Churchill, Moffett, Ridpath, McClintock and
H. w. Wheeler, who also won their places
by competitive examination, are graduates
of the Central College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Indianapolis.
EDUCATIONAL VALUE.
The elimination of medical education
in Indianapolis is a course in the City Hos
pital as house physician or superintendent.
The examination for inferno is the most
impartial, thorough and exacting possible.
The house physicians prize their hospital
diplomas, with the names of the Board of
Health officers and hospital staff attached,
oh 11yo a cefh nr
pital is the only place where our medical
graduates may learn practical obstetrics
to anv nracticai sdvantage. The internes
receive their board and $3.50 year as a
bonus. They are each in care of the med
ical, surgical, obStetric, genealogical and
contagious disease wards in rotation. Bach
inferno makes personally from ten to twenty
autopSieS and records them in permanent
book in connection with the clinical history
he also observes the autopsieS made by his
associates. The value Of the hospital course
is priceless, and would be cheap if the in
terneS paid their board and worked tor
nothing. Aside from the false glory and
buncombe of the brief postgraduate courses
in New York, Philadelphia. Berlin or Vienna
the Indianapolis City Hospital course is by
far the most valuable. Much, OF course, de-
Ponds upon the superintendent, as he is not
head, but also the medical director, sup
posed to know what is the condition of
every patient in the hospital. He is the
medical guide, friend and director of the
internes and If he is only a medical effigy
the hospital fails as a practical post
graduate course in medicine. Happily, the
highest grade commanding the esteem and
respect of the internes and the profession
of medicine, as we'll as of the community.
They have been graduates ia letters and
medicine and are all teachers operators
and practitioners of note. From DIR. Wooden
to DR.. Poucher. thirty-two years. the sue
ceSSion has been one of the highest honor.
Drs. Wooden, Marsee, Hadley, Van Vorhis
Mcdonald, w. H. Davis. w. N. Wlshard,
John Oliver. Geo. Edenharter, w. NJ
Wright, Charles E. Ferguson, John Nichols
and Charles H Poucher are names held in
honor in both the lay and professional cir
cles Of indianapolis Many of them laid the
essential foundation of their medical sue
cess by their labors as internes and SUPER
intendents of the City Hospital There they
they desired, particularly surgery and the
surgical specialties which are the excusa-
bic and fascinating phantasies of the pres
There is now reaction in medical coll
leges and hospitals in favor Of interior
medicine and conservative surgery. But
in all the various phases of professional
life in indianapolis, the City Hospital has
borne leading part. OF all schools of
medical instruction, and Of all charitable
power and influence in the medical history
of the city.
NOTABLE CASES IN THE HOSPITAL.
Possibly the case best illustrating the
added power of diagnosis furnished by
meteorological study was that OF the pa
tient Day, who had a gunshot wound
which became infected with the bacillus
aerogenes capsulatus. This was discoy-
cred by DR.. Charles E. Ferguson, who saw
the gravity Of the case at once. The bub-
bles OF hydrogen gas could be lighted from
tne pleps about the wound. The hospital
stan or surgeons were present at the am
putatlon, ana the patient recovered. No
otner case with recovery is recorded ex-
cept one in Johns Hopkins Hospital Dr.
FerguSon'S case is a matter of record IN
the State Transactions.
:, The Indianapolis City Hospital is the only
hospital west of the Atlantic coast cities
in which cases of Kaposfs disease xero-
derma pigmentosum, have been presented
10 the classes This was in 1881.
The hospital has one record of life saved
by surgical procedure following incision of
the intestines.
In the last five years, in over 40 cases
OF obstetrics, there has not been a death
from puerperal sepucaemia Forceps have
not been used IN more than per cent. of
gencies.
The hospital has had a remarkable de-
gree of success in the treatment of typhoid
fever the present year under DR.. Poucher's
direction. OF .thirty-five cases since Jan.
Both of these were moribund. and died
WITHIN seventy-two hours after entering.
Tventy-one were United States soldiers.
DR., Poucher reports a double kidney
(sprfng of 1880, horseshoe shape, with two
ureters. There is one case now in the hos
pital, Carl Schuppel. with transposed Wis
side.
The faparotomies number about fifty each
year. There were three deaths last year
following ordinary laparotomy. Three died
after operation for gunshot wound of the
abdomen.
One notable case OF fracture extending
across the roof OF the right orbit, with par
tial paralysis Of left arm. leg and face,
was trepanned and recovered in July OF
this year. The recovery from the paraly-
sis was sl0w-three or four weeks There
was delirium for four days Dr. w "
Morgan a h1fffo
inch square.
LOW DEATH RATE.
OF nineteen deaths in September, 1898, I'VE
died within two hours Of admission. and
seven within forty-eight hours. The death