The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-19
DOCTORS GAIN SKILL.
THE IMPORTANT WORK OF
THE
Post Graduate Medical and Hos
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Post Graduate Medical aud Hos
When a worthy German a few weeks
ago gave 100000 to found post grad
uate medical at Frankfort, Germany,
he advised that it be modelled after
the New York Post Graduate Medical
School and Hospital. German neWspa-
pers did not take kindly to this deli
cate compliment to the enterprise OF
New York physicians. They character
ize it as another example of the Amer
lean invasion, and ask why it is nee
essary for an Old World country to go
to the New for medical improvements.
The excellent work which this post
graduate school has been doing for
number of years has been felt not only
in all parts of this country but around
the world. England has felt its effort
in the development of physicians In all
Of her Canadian provinces. China,
Japan, Corea, India and other coun-
tries have been benefited through the
education of scores of medical mission
aries sent out by the Presbyterian and
Methodist Mission boards.
At the institution just now they are
telling of an incident which strikes the
keynote of the post gradute school.
The operating room was filled with
eager attentive students, most Of them
physicians who had been practising for
years, men of dignity and standing in
their respective communities. The OPP
Grafton was one of intubation of the
tho Uin-
tim,. A bearded man among the
students watched every move which
the trained surgeons took. He was a
doctor from a little town in Illinois,
and his time at the post graduate
school was limited. But that was not
the reason for his intense interest.
The operation ended after time. The
suffering was relieved and the child
lived. Then some one noticed that
the bearded man was crying.
Whats the matter, dcotor?'. asked
friend. ...-..
"Matter!'' he exclaimed huskily,
looking up. why, man, if I'd known
how to practise intubation I could have
saved my little child from death. Thank
heaven 1 know how now, and other
children will not have to suffer from
my Ignorance"
This is an extreme instance, perhaps,
but it tells the story better than pages
of dry facts. Lives have been saved in
all parts of the country through the
added knowledge which physicians
have secured at the efficient institu-
ton at Second avenue and Twentieth
street. Even New Workers have re-
ceived a benefit, as testifies woman
who has just given the school a gener-
Gus donation.
I'VE were in the country last sum-
mer, far beyond reach Of city physi-
cian," she said. my little boy was
severely injured, and nothing but an
operation could save his life. In fear
and trembling, for I've had experience
in these matters, sent for the village
doctor. With no other assistance than
that which 1 could give him he per-
formed his task. Never did doctor
work more shillfully, and when it was
all over I asked him where he had
studied. He named some medical
school of which I have never heard,
and then added, But I freshened up
last summer at the Post Graduate
ScnOOl In New 1Orh, anu lulS oPSAo'l
was one of many things learned
1t is no small things for man OF
years, certainly, and family, perhaps,
to leave his practice for three or six
months in order to study his profess
sion. Yet, nearly eight thousand ply
sicians have done so since this school
was opened in 1882. Some of them, it
Is true, were young men fresh from col
lege, who desired to, prepare further for
prospective practice, but every one
was legal practitioner of medicine.
The school draws students from ev-