The Harvard medical school and its clinical opportunities . ans. Thiscourse of studv was announced in the official catalogue of theUniversity. The purpose of this course was to give phvsi-cians opportunity to do more extensive work in laboratoriesand clinics than they had had opportunity or leisure to do,before. The programme included courses in Physiology, MedicalChemistry, Pathological Anatomy, Surgery, Larvngologv,Opthalomologv% including practically all branches ofmedicine. Thus a comprehensive plan was adopted from thefirst. In 1911. on recommendation of the Faculty of ^Medicine,the
The Harvard medical school and its clinical opportunities . ans. Thiscourse of studv was announced in the official catalogue of theUniversity. The purpose of this course was to give phvsi-cians opportunity to do more extensive work in laboratoriesand clinics than they had had opportunity or leisure to do,before. The programme included courses in Physiology, MedicalChemistry, Pathological Anatomy, Surgery, Larvngologv,Opthalomologv% including practically all branches ofmedicine. Thus a comprehensive plan was adopted from thefirst. In 1911. on recommendation of the Faculty of ^Medicine,the Graduate School of Medicine was formallv organized,with a separate Dean and Administrative Board. The neworganization took charge the following vear. From four stu-dents in 1872. the attendance of the Graduate Department hasincreased to over five hundred during the past vear. Thus the Harvard Medical School not onlv edu-ra^es mento become phvsicians. but continues to offer them opportunityto keep up with advances made in the various fields ofmedicine. 17. > OS <w X. o t-l O ca THE BOSTON DISPENSARYBy Michael Davis, Medical Director. IN September 1796, seventy-eight citizens of Bostonsubscribed their names to an agreement establishing, for the sick poor of the City, The Boston Dispensary,thus the oldest medical institution in the Commonwealth, andthe third oldest in the United States. The names of thosewho signed the parchment, which hangs today in the office ofthe Dispensary, includes some of the leading men of the time— Samuel Adams, of Revolutionary fame among them. The early plan of the institution was simply that of adrug store located on Washington Street, about whereThompsons Spa is today. Here medicines were dispensed onthe prescriptions written by the physician of the first year, Dr. John Fleet treated eighty patients. Bostonbeing a town of 20,000 population, this was one for everytwo hundred and fifty inhabitants. At the present time, ina city o
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