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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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reated through other gifts.Thus was started a Hospital for the treatment and study ofa long neglected disease. The great objects served by such a liospital as set forthin the first annual report of the Commission are: First, astudv of cases of human cancer by the same laboratory meth-ods as have been applied to the tumor problem in animals;Second, the grouping of certain special cases of cancer to pro-cure more adequate material for investigation than is avail-able in the general hospitals; Third (but by no means least),a provision for the continuous attendance and nursing of in-curable cases of cancer, of whatever class of Hfe. in the ter-minal stage of their disease when tliey can be but inadequatelycared for elsewhere. The Hospital is located at the corner of Huntington Ave-nue and Van Dyke Street. The building is of three stories,built of brick, and trimmed with limestone. Although theHospital is not large, four hundred fifty-nine patients were cz c H c > r O -0 H>
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treated in the Out-patient department, and fifty in the Houseduring the past year. The capacity of the Hospital is twenty-five patients. Two house ofScers and a resident physician arein constant service. Seven graduate nurses avail themselvesof this opportunity to get special training in the care ofcancer patients. The purpose of the Hospital is to find the cause of cancerand the best means of treating it. Extensive research isbeing carried on by the Commission. Just at this time radiumand its effects on cancer is being carefully investigated. TheCommission has not reported any positive cure for cancer,. but some very striking results, in selected cases, have followedthe use of radium. The Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hos-pital is doing a work which is of great interest and importanceto every person in the land. 70 o H O z oc

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