Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-02-03
O|L KINGS MONEY
MEDICINE BOON
HOSPITAL BUILT WITH ROOKIE
TELLER CASH MEANS 4
MUCH TO SCIENCE.
FEW GASES TREATED
viii Take Only Such Diseases as
Are Rare for Careful
Study.

New York, N. Y..-The hospital
of the Rockefeller Institute for Medi-
cal Research, which greatly enlarges
the function of tLat institution is
ready for the reception of patterns. Up
to this time work of the Rockefeller
institute has consisted of laboratory
studies OF physiology and cnem1cal
problems related to disease of prob
lens related to surgery, or of patho-
logical Investigations of sucn diseases
as cancer, spinal meningitis, infantile
paralysis, etc.
The new hospital is located at the
foot Of East 66,h street and the East
river. It is one Of the most completely
equipped establishments Of the kind
in the world In the isolation pavill.
glass doors leading co the grass in
closed rooms are opened and shut
with the elbows instead Of the hands
and the air from the room passing
to the outlet in the roof is sterilized
before it gets there.
After examining his patient in the
pavilion the doctor hurries to a small
room, where he washes his hands, and
he turns the water on, not with his
hands but with his feet.
1t has been pointed out that
the resources of a hospital must be
used primarily to treat all diseases
with which a community may be at.
dicted. This Is not the mission of the
new hospital of the Rockefeller In
stitlte. It will select a small number
Of diseases. three Or four, and only
patients suffering from those diseases
VIII be admitted during the period
that their ailments are under treat
ment and study.
No physician connected with the
hospital will be allowed to engage In
outside practice Or to consult with re-
gard to outside cases.
This concentration of the time and
skill of trained staff of physicians
it is said, will mean the enlisting of
all known forces that can fight for, the
recovery of the patient. The ocportu-
nifty for the study of selected diseases
Is said to be the greatest in the his
tory Of medicine, and the doctors NAV
be able at. times to concentrate all
their thought and effort on a single
disease.
This statement with reference to
the hospital and the work was given
out by the management of the insti-
tute:
THE purpose Of the hospital is not
that Of merely adding 70 beds to the
general hospital resources of the city
Of New York, but rather Of being q
place where on intensive study can be
made OF few selected diseases, It
has been supposed that hospital
connected with the Institute for Medi-
cal Research would be one in which
the patients were to be experimental
upon, or used in the testing of novel
remedies.
1T should be clearly understood at
the outset that this hospital would
have no right, and does not expect to
take any liberties with its patients In
this respect. The treatment and cure
of tho patient will be the prime con-
sideration in every individual case. The
advantage to science which is expect
ed from the establishment of the hos
pital, will be derived rather from the
unique opportunity of observing and
treating disease. OF course, patients
admitted to the hospital of the Rookie
Teller institute will have right to ex-
pect the advantage accruing from I'm.
portant discoveries and improvements
bearing on the treatment OF disease,
but the obligation to safeguard the
health of the individual will always
be paramount.
The diseases to be admitted to the
hospital at Its opening will be anter-
ior poliomyelitis Onfantile paralysis,
pneumonia and heart disease. The
last two are widely prevalent diseases
which, according to recent statistics
show an increase In the death rate