A guide-book of Boston for physicians . , who per-formed the first operation in which ether was used. Descending now to the ground floor, and continuing alongthe tortuous corridor, one soon comes to a large tiled hallway,through which one passes to the newer portions of the hos-pital. Turning sharply to the right, one leaves the building,crosses the driveway and enters the pathological latter is large and sunny, and complete in all its director, Dr. James H. Wright, or the assistant pathologist,Dr. Oscar Richardson, will show to visiting physicians the dif-ferent roo
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . , who per-formed the first operation in which ether was used. Descending now to the ground floor, and continuing alongthe tortuous corridor, one soon comes to a large tiled hallway,through which one passes to the newer portions of the hos-pital. Turning sharply to the right, one leaves the building,crosses the driveway and enters the pathological latter is large and sunny, and complete in all its director, Dr. James H. Wright, or the assistant pathologist,Dr. Oscar Richardson, will show to visiting physicians the dif-ferent rooms of the pathological laboratory, the animal room,the chemical laboratory, the morgue and the autopsy laboratories were established in 1896, while the morgueand autopsy rooms—together known as The Allen StreetHouse —date from 1875. In this same building is the engine and dynamo room, fromwhich all the heating and lighting is furnished, not only to thehospital, but also to the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and GUIDE TO BOSTON 95 Leaving the laboratory building and returning to the tiledhallway, the visitor, if he desires, may inspect the so-calledService Building, the doors of which open on the right. Hereinare contained the storerooms for hospital provisions and suppliesof all sorts; the apothecary department and X-ray room; thehouse officers, nurses, orderlies and servants dining-rooms,and the kitchens and sleeping quarters for the maids. MissClark, the matron, is prepared to conduct visitors through thisbuilding. One now should go down the corridor to the new surgicalamphitheatre, opened in 1901. To the right as one enters, onesees the Laboratory of Surgical Pathology, and opposite, tworooms used by the house officers and nurses, respectively, inpreparing themselves for operations. Beyond these are foursmaller rooms, three being the etherizing rooms, one for eachsurgical service, and one being a dark room for cystoscopy andthe like. Beyond these th
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