The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-26
ADDRESS IN MEDICINE,
By PROFESSOR KEEN AT ANN
VERSARY or MEDICAL SCHOOL.

Hadley--Degree of Doctor Of Medi-
cine, cum laude, Awarded to Five
Herbert Leopold Kennedy Awarded
the Gold Medal--The Reese Prize
Awarded to Max Ruskin Smirnow---
Members OF Graduating Glass.
One Of the principal addresses Of yes
terday was given at the College street
hall at o'clock, at the celebration Of
the ninety-third anniversary Of the
medical department Of Yale university.
Professor William Williams Keen de-
| liyered the annual address in medicine,
which was very interesting. About 300
attended the exercises, among whom
were professors, graduates and friends.
| Professor Keen is a graduate of
Brown university in the class Of 1859.
| He was awarded the degree of LII. ID.
| by both Brown and Northwestern uni
versities in 1891 He graduated from
| Jefferson Medical college in 1862 and
was acting assistant surgeon in the
Union army from 1862 to 1854 The two
following years he studied in Europe,
and, returning to this country, started
practice in Philadelphia, where he has
since lived. He has conducted the Phil
adelphia School of Anatomy since 1889.
He has been a trustee and fellow Of
Brown university since 1873 He has
been president Of the American Surgi-
cal and American Medical associations,
as wen as of the College Of Physicians
and Surgeons at Philadelphia. DR.. Keen
is an honorary fellow Of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons of England and of the
lDeutsche Gesellschaft Chirurgie, and is
an associate fellow Of the American
| Academy Of Arts and Sciences. He Is
the author Of many medical works and
has introduced many new ideas into
surgery. Outside of his profession DR..
Keen has always expressed the liveliest
interest in the subject of education and
its problems, and in subjects Of public
| interest.
Before commencing his address DR..
Keen alluded in a kindly way to the
\ death Of Professor John Slade Ely and
referred to the fact that George Nc
Clellan, the great surgeon and founder
of Jefferson Medical college, and Sam
uel III. Dickson, the scholarly professor
of medicine in that institution, were
both graduates of Yale.
The subject he chose was THE Com
munity OF Interest Of the Medical
School and the Public" The medical
school Of Yale had provided all Of the
four means of medical instruction
ldidactic lectures, recitations, laborato-
ries and clinical instruction, The ex-
pense of the first two can readily be
paid out of the income from students,
but laboratory teaching and clinical
teaching in a hospital are so individual
that the cost both of the plant and the
teaching corps is enormously expensive,
far beyond the possibility Of being met
by the fees Of the students. In the JEFF
ferson Medical college there are four
teen laboratories, every one of which
requires a large teaching staff. In 1860
as was usual in all medical colleges
| there were less than score Of teachers
Of all grades at the Jefferson, whereas
now there were over eleven-score of in
structors, an increase of over LOO pei
cent, and the thirty-six weeks Of the
entire two years course had been mul
tiplied four-fold, yet the fees had beer
increased less than 100 per cent. Like
!, the department of arts or the technice
school, the deficit caused by this expen
sive plant and corps Of teachers mus
: be met by broad-minded liberal citizens
The same might be said of the clinica
E instruction in a hospital, which is s.
very important as the application of tn
theoretical knowledge otherwise Oh
tanned.
He pointed out that the objection tina
: New Haven is too small place to pro
: vide enough clinical patients coul
!. hardly be true, for Wurtberg, in 19Ot
had only a population Of $4,000, Bon
/, had SC, 900, Heidelberg 10000, Gottinge
10000, Jena 10000, Tubingen only 1900
as against a population in New Haver
f in 1900, of los, 900, yet every one Of thes
:, little German towns had a prosperou
9 clinic with famous teachers.
The work of teaching hospital is ia
q more important than that of an ord
# nary hospital, and their afflliatio
n should be very intimate, so that tn
q teachers in the one should be the teach
q ers in the other.
n He pointed out also that medic;