The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-31

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 and instructors in anatomy, physiology, biological chemis- try, pathology, preventive medicine, med icine surgery, and pediatrics, 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 philanthropc citizens of St. Louis.
 An utilization has been established be- tween the Barnes Hospital and the St. Louis Children's Hospital and Washing ton University by which the University agrees to provide the medical staffs of the hospitals, and the hospitals agree to permit the University to use the hospitals for purposes of teaching and research. on Kngshighway, 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 search in all branches of medicine.
 School Occupies Three Buildings.
 The Medical School occupies three buildings, in which the greater part of the work of the school is conducted. It has exclusive use of the teaching priv ileges of three hospitals, readily access sible from the Medical School. and has clinical privileges in the various City Institutions.
 on November 1, 1914, Washington Uni versity, at the invitation of the authori- ties of the City Hospital assumed con trol and became responsible for the med ical care of one-third of the patients in the City and Infectious Hospitals, and ag1.,.a nla 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 well 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- tion 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 of 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 N-ray department. the department of metabolism. the heart station and other departments of the hospital
 While there are certain simple labora- tory tests which can be made by prac- tically 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 maintained 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
 Tn summing up the entire situation, we find that such successful and well-known hospitals as Johns Hopkins of Baltimore the Massachusetts General of Boston, and the Presbyterian Hospital of New York; have adopted practically the same afIilia- tion or association with some high class medical school as 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 pital staff assume all responsibility for the care of the sick It 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 it's doctors and in add ing, through research. to the sum of the worlds knowledge of medicine. but also unquestionably of the greatest ad- vantage to the patient.
 With an intimate personal knowledge of medical schools and hospitals on both sides of the water, l feel justified in say ing that the Barnes Hospital and the Washington University Medical School
 taken in their entirety-buildings equip ment and scientific staffs-offer facilities for research, the teaching of medicine and the diagnosis and treatment of dis ease unsurpassed in this or any other country.