The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-11
FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION.
Dr. Wyeth's Appeal in BehalT OF the
Polytechnic.

Dr. Wyeth's Appeal in Behalf Of the
Polytechnic.
To THE EpIroR OF THE suN-Str: The
! New York Polytechnic Medical School and
Hospital is a public educational institution
which for twenty-three years has carried
on It's work in this city. It Is chartered under
the laws OF the State OF New York. It's prop
erty Ia controlled and its business managed
by a board OF trustees composed OF we'll known
citizens. and its medical AFFAIRS are in charge
OF stan Of l2S physicians and surgeons OF
New York city, the members OF which are
laboring entirely without remuneration.
It's work is to give those already graduated
In medicine and surgery. by laboratory. hos
pital and clinical training, more thorough
! and practical knowledge OF the diagnosis
and treatment OF disease and injury. and
thus to make them more capable as guard
ans OF the health OF the individual and the
community.
Its managers claim that all possible per
lection in the theory OF medicine does not
render a graduate competent in practice
A practical training il essential The better
method Is an apprenticeship as inferno in a
hospital under the immediate instruction Of
visiting stafi. who in general are men Of
ripe experience. These hospital appoint
ments are few that not more than ten in
every hundred graduates can avail them
selves OF these privileges. The second method
is a course Of practical study under compe-
tent specialists in the various departments
OF medicine and surgery in school 10 which
Is attached a hospital uispensary and
laboratory for bactenologo and analytic
work.
study for twenty-three years and has at
tracted more than ten thousand physicians
20 New York, city in attendance upon these
clinics. In addition to its laboratory, IL main
tains a hospital and dispensary. where more
than ten thousand charity cases are treated
The experience OF twenty-three years has
demonstrated that II is practically impossible
70 make clinical and laboratory teaching
self-sustanng, for this method OF instruo-
ton is VI real value only when the classes are
30 few in number that the fees ON students
are not sufficient 10 pay for the support and
care OF the necessarily large clinical ma
terial and for the main tenanCe Of laboratories,
without which satisfactory knowledge OF
All moneys received as fees from students
and for the board Of pay patients so TO the
support OF the charity patients and the
actual running expenses Of the institution.
The annual deficit has for years been made
good 10y contributions from the medical stan,
the trustees and other friends OF medical
This institution has demonstrated that It
has a night TO exist and 70 be peTpetuated.
Its work il wholly philanthropic. as no one
connected with II has in any way any financial
interest nor receives pay Tor the work done
tele.
It Is an educational institution Of the high
est character It's books are open to inspec-
ton at all times. Despite the embarrass-
ments under which It has labored for nearly
quarter Of century its work has outgroWn
its present facilities.
Its trustees and medical stah have UNDER
taken a new building with larger hospital,
dispensary and laboratory facilities, which
when obtained will greatly increase It's USE
fllness. IL requires $500 OOO for this new
edlace, and toward this end is medical stan
subscribed this year t37, 600 and Obta. ned a
sin gle donation OF $1,000 additional
The trustees and medical stan appeal 20
The, wealthy and the philanthropic citizens
OF New York and the nation 20 aid them in
this work. JOHN A, WYEIH. NJ. ID.
NEW YORK. April 10.