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Title: The Harvard medical school and its clinical opportunities
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Parkins, Leroy Edward
Subjects: Harvard Medical School Boston (Mass.) -- Hospitals
Publisher: Boston (Press of R.W. Hadley)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lescent Home, which shall provide accommodations for bed patients. The clinical work of the Hospital is comprehensive. It covers practically every department in medicine, except contagious diseases and obstetrics. There are 158 doctors on the staflf, many of whom are instructors in the Harvard Medical School. There are 28 house officers. The capacity of the Hospital is 334 beds. During the past year 2,793 patients were treated in the medical wards: 4.036 in the surgical wards; and 29.213 in the Out-patient department. Over 190,000 visits were made to the latter department. Sections of the second, third, and fourth-year classes of the Harvard Medical School receive instruction in the various departments. Notable among the achievements of the Hospitals may be mentioned the use of sulphuric ether for surgical anaesthesia. The first public demonstration of this was given in the Hospital Amphitheatre in October. 1846. at which time the anaesthetic was administered by its discoverer, Mr. W. T, G. 30
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Morton. The following inscription is copied from the wall of the famous old room: On October 16. 1846, in this room, then the operating theatre of the hospital, was given the first public demonstra-tion of anaesthesia to the extent of producing insensibility to pain during a serious surgical operation. Sulphuric ether was administered by William Thomas Green Morton, a Boston dentist. The patient was Gilbert Abbot. The operation was the removal of a tumor under the jaw. The surgeon was John Collins Warren. The patient declared that he had felt no pain during the operation, and was discharged well December 7. Knowledge of this discovery spread from this room throughout the civilized world and a new era for surgery began. The anniversary of this event is fittingly ol>served on the sixteenth of October each year. Other important contributions to medical science have been: Dr. Henry J. Bigelows ingenious treatment of vesical calculus by litholapaxy, and his method of reducing the dislocatio

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