The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-30

The infections are begun twenty-four
hours after the incubation of the
virus, the development of paralysis
can be entirely prevented in certain
number of the animals, while IN an
other number the onset of paralysis
is much delayed.
The serum treatment of infantile
paralysis is as yet in its infancy" DIT.
Flexner continued. but with our
added means for observation, tOgeth-
er with the uneQualed scientific ap-
uliances embodied in the new hospi-
tai. it is not improbable that We may
see the last Of this devastating anlic-
tiOn."
This new hospital viii serve as a
most valuable aid TO the doctors in
their work of investigation In it the
patients suffering from the particular
disease under investigation viii re-
Ceive the best medical care that sci
ence can produce, and at the same
time viii be objects of study TO the
medical savants in charge.
Curing the Sick.
The science of curing the sick will
be the work to which the physicians
of the hospital of the Rockefeller in
stitute viii devote their entire time
and strength, TO the exclusion of all
outside practice What distinguishes
this hospital from others is simply
this:
The ordinary general hospital must
take nearly every kind OF acute dis
ease that offers, doing its utmost TO
meet the actual demand of the sick
poor a demand that usually taxes the
resources of its supporters and the
devotion of its STAFF TO the utmost. In
performing this indispensable function
the general hospital obtains, and viii
always obtain. a vast amount of elm
ical material and experience of great
Importance TO medical science. but
this must come as a by-produet.
The resources of the hospital must
be used primarily TO treat all the dis
eases with which the community hap
pens 10 be afflicted. They cannot,
without breach of trust. be diverted
at viii 10 the study OF this or that dis
ease, which at a given time presents
the most desirable or hopeful field for
research. The hospital of the Rookie
felier institute. on the other hand,
Will select from time to time a small
number Of diseases-say, three or four
admit only patients suffering from
these diseases, and cOnsecrate the
skill and entire time Of its staff TO the
care of those patients.
Enlist All Forces.
From the standpoint OF the sick
man, woman or child, this viii mean
the enlisting OF all the known forces
that can tight for his recovery. From
the standpoint of medical science, il
win mean almost unequaled oppor-
tunity for study-the study of selected
cases with freedom TO cOnsecrate all
the resources Of medical knowledge
and the most scientific methods, il
need be, on a single case.
During the preparation for the
plans Of this newest building the
architects spent nearly two years be-
fore they drew so much as a line on
paper. A hospital designed strictly
for the purposes of study is an anon
aly in hospital architecture The new
building has eleven floors from the
riverside view. but only eight from the
driveway on the west. 1t stands just
beyond the south end Of the old build
ing on the brow Of the hill. and long
driveway leading through a gateway
connects it with Avenue A.
No Expense Spared.
No expense has been spared in the
erection and equipment of this mod
ern foe TO disease.
Zach one Of the seventy beds in the
hospital represents an expenditure
according 10 the estimated erection
cost Of the hospital-of $4,000.
John d. Rockefeller's grief over the
loss of his grandson. little Jack" Nc
Cormick. first caused him 10 become
interested in the advancement Of
se,ence. The chld's death was caused
by cholera infantum, and when the
fact that the little enc had passed
away was broken 10 him. Mr.. Rookie
teller was ast0unded to find that the
physicians did not know anything
about the germ of this ordinary sum
mer complaint of children. and had
no adequate means of contending
with il.
ii was then that the seed was sown
whose fruitiln was the founding of
the Rockefeller Institute in 1901.
At the institute there are depart
ments Of pathology and bacterioioey,
OF chemistry. and Of physiology and
Thus it viii be seen that the ener-