Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1927-03-10


time and within few months the
doors OF one or the original research
units In an American university will
be thrown open to visitors and will
begin TO function In it's work OF dis
covering the secrets OF disease that
disease may be conquered. The
opening OF those doors and the death
OF the man With pernicious anemia
are linked, for the unit is the gift OF
the widow, q living, working, vital
memorial
The man was Thomas Henry
Simpson. Detroit manufacturer. and
the building is to be known as the
Thomas Henry Simpson Memorial
for Medical Research.
The building, located near the
new university hospital was erected
at cost of 1925, 900 and has an en-
dowment of $3.50, 900. Said to be one
OF the most completely equipped in
the country. The structure is nearly
finished and, it is expected, will be
formally dedicated on or about Jan.
/.
Under the terms of the gift, the
problem of pernici0us anemia is the
first to be attacked and, should it
meet with solution here or else
where, a new program of activity
will be decided upon by committee
composed of DR.. Clarence Cook Lit
tie, president of the University; DIR.
Hugh Cabot, dean of the medical
school, and DIR. Harley A. Haynes,
superintendent of the University
Hospital
The building. both exterior and
interior, is striking. While present
ing but three stories when viewed
from the front, due to it's location on
steep hill-slope, it is in reality five
full stories high.
One enters a superb reception
hall, paneled to the ceiling with
hand-rubbed American black wal
nut. The floor is tiled in squares of
green. and white marble and a
massive marble fireplace adds fur
ther dignity to the room. A bronze
bas-reIief of Mr.. Simpson set into
the paneling of the west wall is par
ticularly worthy of attention.
The library, also on the main
floor, is high-paneled and spacious.
Classrooms, Photographic dark
rooms and a workshop for the max
ing of necessary scientific appartus
have been given space in the base
ment. On the first floor, beside the
reception room, there is directors
room, library, examining room,
and x-ray department.
There are eight laboratories on
the second floor. one for bacteriol-
ogy, one for chemical analysis, one
for pathological researh and the rest
unit laboratories which may be
put to any use.
On the third floor is small OBJ
servation hospital accommodating
10 patients, two wards and several
private rooms. Each room and ward
has access to balcony running the
width of the building from which
the rolling wooded country may be
seen.
Temporarily, DIR. James D. Bruce,
director of the department of medi-
cine at the University, will function
as head of the Memorial. An advis-
ory board consisting of DR.. Cabot,
DR.. Bruce, DIR. A. S. Warthin, DR.. H.
B. Lewis and DIR. P M Hickey will
control the program of work and en-
roll the staff
Pernicious anemia, according to
DR.. Hickey, has thus far baffled
medical science. In lay terms, the dis
ease turns the blood to water.
enough, it is not so fre-
quently found among the poor as
among the wealthier. One of its
is continuing indi-
gestion and is often confused in
diagnosis with cancer of the stom-
ach.<
Research work was not the only
direction in which the golden flood
of Thomas Henry Simpson was di-
rected. A bequest to employees of
the Michigan Malleable Iron Com
pany included over $175,000. This
great sum was divided among 83
who had been associated
with the company over long peri
cd of years, and ranged in sums
from $500 to 50,000.-Detroit
Free Press.