The Harrison times., 1915-09-04

service which a medical school can give
to the community, with the cooperation
of the Medical Faculty, reOrganized the
school in all departments and appointed
heads of departments aud instructors IN
anatomy, physiology, biological chemiS-
try, pathology. preventive medicine, med
iCne, surgery, and padiatriCs, who de-
vote themselves to teaching and research,
and associated with this staff clinical IN
structOrs chosen from the medical pro-
fessiOn Of St. Louis. These changes were
made with the aid of funds donated by
phianthropic citizens Of st. Louis.
An affilia tiOn has been established be
tween the Barnes Hospital and the St
Louis Childreu's Hospital and Washing
ton University by which the University
agrees to provide the medical stafs OF
she hospitals. and the hospitals agree to
permit the University to use the hospitals
for purposes of teaching and research.
These hospitals have erected buildings
on kingshighway, overlooking Forest
Park, which became available for use
in the autumn Of 1914 Adjacent to the
hospitals buildings, large, thoroughly
equipped laboratories have just been com
pleted With this equipment and with
the use of other hospitals in the city, the
teaching staff of the University will be
able to give laboratory and clinical in
struction, and to conduct and direct re-
search in all branches Of medicine.
OEnOOI SSNhOlCo ~N'N''3S'
The Medical School occupies three
buildings, in which the greater part OF
the work of the school is conducted, 1t
has exclusive use of the teaching priv
ileges of three hospitals, readily acces-
sble from the Medical School and has
clinical privileges in the various CITY
Institutions.
on November I, 1914, Washington Uni
versty at the invitation of the authOri-
ties of the City Hospital, assumed con-
troll and became responsible for the med
ical care of one third Of the patients IN
the CITY and Infectious Hospitals, ana
agreed further to render such profes-
sional service in the other municipal IN
stitutions as the Hospital Commissioner
might request.
The relationship Of the hospitals and
the Medical School, the changing con-
ditions in the medical world calling for
such affiliations and the advantages
of such affiliations to the sick as we'll
as to society at large, were explained
by Robert S. Brookings, president OF
the Corporation of Washington Uni
versity, on the occasion of the dedica-
ton of Barnes Hospital, as follows;
Germ Theory RevoIutionizes Medicine.
The recent development Of the germ
theory Of disease has brought medicine
for the first time into the realm ci what
are known as the exact sciences, and
has placed enormous emphasis on the
laboratory service, both in diagnosis and
treatment Coupled with this is the
great advance made in the use of ap'
paratuS, such as you Will find In the
X-ray department, the department Of
metabolSm. the heart station and other
dana rtnpDts of the hospital
While there are certain simple labora-
tory tests which can be made by prac.
tcally any young graduate student OF
modern medicine, the maximum labora-
tory service can only be secured through
such extensive laboratories and elaborate
staffs as are m2intalned by the highest
class medical schools where the service
Is given to research and hospital work,
as well as to teaching.
Then, again. the training OF nurses
must necessarily keep pace with the ad-
vance in medicine and the development
Of hospital social service work, so that
the university or medical school for
nurses becomes an important FACTOR in
such training,
In summing up the entire situation, we
find that such successful and well-llnOWn
hospitals as Johns Hopkins of Baltimore
the Massachusetts General Of Boston, and
the Presbyterian Hospital OF New YORK.
have adopted practically the same af1ilia-
! ton or association with some hlBh CLASS
medical school Di exists today between
the Washington University Medical school
and the Barnes Hospital which provides
| that the medical school train the nurses,
and through the nomination Of the hos
ptal staff assume all responsibility for
! the care Of the sick 1t uses the patients
| in the wards for teaching and research
| purposes in such manner as proves not
| only OF enormous benefit to the public
in the training Of its doctors and In add .
ing, through research, 10 the sum OF the
| worlds knowledge Of medicine hut
also unduestionably Of the greatest ad-
vantage to the patient
With an Intimate personal knowledge
| OF medical schools and hospitals on both
sides OF the water. feel justified In say"
| ing that the Barnes Hospital and the
washington University Medical school
taken IN their entirety buildings, equip
mont and scientific stalfs-oifer facilities
for research the teaching OF medicine
and the diagnosis and treatment OF diS
ease unsurpassed In this or any other
| country