New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-02-22
TO BUILD HERE AT ONCE.
PROF FLEYNER 4THE4D
laboratory Plans of RocketeAet
Medical Institute Announced

teller Institute for Medical Research whose site
here has not yet been definitely decided on. were
announced yesterday. through DR.. L. Emmett
Holt. the secretary, together with a statement
Of what has been accomplished since it's in
ception, over q year ago.
single laboratory building SO arranged as To
permit of such extension as the growth of rba
work may need is to be built at once In this
building viii be provided equipment for in
vestlgat1ons in physiological chemistry, hygiene
and preventive medicine. pharmacoogv and
therapeutics normal and pathological nhvsi-
ology. and the study of bacteria and other pIero-
organisms.
The stat or the laboratory will consist of q
chief director and directors of the different de-
partEents mentioned. each with his narn,s,er.
assistants Besides there will he =. c1ass %
workers whose association will he less ner
nlanent These Will be termed fellows scholars
ETC. 10 "hon grants Of money Of varying
amounts win be given. There Will thus be ouita
large corps of permanent well-traine5 nersons
whose entire time Will be devoted to research
work
Il Is also expected that provision will be made
Tor voluntary independent workers who may
wish TO avail themselves of the resources of the
institute 10 work out their own special prob
lens under such supervision as NAV he afforded
70 them The plan OF assisting promising in
Nesigauons, TO be conducted in other places
mas yielded such good results that it will be con-
unued IN the future to some extent, although
this VIII assume place secondary in inpor-
lance
a HOSPITAL TO BE BUILT
In order to ally the research work of the in
s1ltnIe closely with practical medicine it is the
purpose Of the directors 10 erect in the near
future hospital where special groups of ma
uenfs may be treated. as il is one of the f,,nc-
tons OF the institute not only to discover the
causes Of disease, but to develop new methods
II treatment This hospital will not be large
but viii be fully equipped, so that the best DOS
slbe care can be given to the special cases under
treatment Plans for this new building are al
ready Under consideration. and it is expected
mat the nrst laboratory viii be ready for work
by October, 1904
The plans for the future are much broader
than is indicated by the foregoing II is the
conviction OF the directors that such an instf-
rute OF research night wisely have as its aims
NOT only increasing knowledge Of the cause and
cure OF disease, but the education of the people
IN hygiene This, it is hoped may be promoted
by popular lectures. a hygienic museum. the
diffusion of suitable literature etc
The fully developed institute will have much
IN common with the great institutions for re-
search in Europe, particularly with the Pasteur
institute in Paris but ii viii have some features
which VIII be its own.
DR. SIMON FLEXNER DIRECTOR
Professor Simon FIexner viii have charge of
the new work which will be centred here. He
is now professor of pathology at the University
Of Pennsylvania He has already achieved an
international reputation pathologist and
investigator. He was pupil Of DR.. WEIGH at
Johns Hopkins University, and was successfully
fellow in pathology and associate professor in
Johns Hopkins until 1900, when he W. called
70 Philadelphia Since that time he has ZEN
9 professor OF pathology the University Of
Pennsylvania and director of the clinical lab
oratory of the Pennsylvania Hospital DR..
Flexner was one OF the government commission
sent to the Philippines to study army dysentery
? few years ago, where his first important dis
coveries in that disease were made He VIII
begin his work with the institute next July,
AM 7yill spend the greater part Of the first
year in Europe during the construction Of the
laboratory building here.
Il WAS thought wise by the directors not TO
concentrate the work or the first year IN
single place but TO enlist the cooperation Of
various investigators in different parts of the
country There we're many promising inVesti-
cations in progress, which could not be con-
tinued for lack Of funds Again. II was thought
that there We're q considerable number OF ca
pa Die men and women in America anxious TO de-
vote themselves 10 research work but Tor Whom
no sufficient support could De p1ofldeo WITH any
existing fund. With the double purpose. there
fore, OF discovering such persons. and of aid
ing At once some urgent investigations. 1t was
decided that the funds TO be expended the first
year should be divided into series OF fellow
ships. These fellowships, yielding from S5OO to
81 600 were granted individuals in different
institutions, on the basis of the importance OF
the problems proposed for investigation, the op-
portunities afforded for research study, and the
character and ability of the workers available
A large number of applications for such fellow
ships were received from institutions all over
this country. From among them somewhat over
twenty were granted They were placed in the
universities Of Columbia. Nev-York. Harvard
Yale Johns Hopkins. Pennsylvania. Chicago.
Michigan MoGin. Wesleyan. California and
western Reserve. The research workers of the
first year, and names Of persons under whose
directions Investigations have been conducted,
are: Under Professor T N Prudden in Column
bia William Salient. NJ D.. and Clara Meltzer.
IL D: under Professor A C Abbott. University
Of Pennsylvania Nathaniel Gildersleeve; under
Professor Simon FTlexner. University of Penn
s,jxanIa r p Cay, NJ. D., E B. Vedder and
2 " T3rvaI; anGer Professor II " Conn, Yves
lezsn William y. Esten. under Professor F. G.
Now. Ann Arbor @. D. K. Hendry, b S; under
Professor Y c. Vaughan, Ann Arbor, May
Wheeler: under Professor W. 7. Howard, Jr-,
Western Reserve Roger @. Perkins NJ D.; un-
der Professor Theobald Smith, Harrard, A l.
Reagb NJ. D.: unde. Professor w I. Council
mar. Harvard. e Z Tyzzer and W. r. Brinck-
eY4,off. under Professor II. c. Ernst, Harvard,
6 + VaIbacb: under Professor H. H. Chitten-
den. Yale Leo F. Rettger; under Professor
F,-5--;,~ 4Ias,+oan (bicag 90 J. c. Friedman;