The Harvard medical school and its clinical opportunities . lescent Home, which shall provideaccommodations for bed patients. The clinical work of the Hospital is comprehensive. Itcovers practically every department in medicine, except con-tagious diseases and obstetrics. There are 158 doctors on thestaflf, many of whom are instructors in the Harvard MedicalSchool. There are 28 house officers. The canacity of theHospital is 334 beds. During the past year 2,793 patientswere treated in the medical wards: in the surgicalwards; and in the Out-patient department. Over190,000 visits wer
The Harvard medical school and its clinical opportunities . lescent Home, which shall provideaccommodations for bed patients. The clinical work of the Hospital is comprehensive. Itcovers practically every department in medicine, except con-tagious diseases and obstetrics. There are 158 doctors on thestaflf, many of whom are instructors in the Harvard MedicalSchool. There are 28 house officers. The canacity of theHospital is 334 beds. During the past year 2,793 patientswere treated in the medical wards: in the surgicalwards; and in the Out-patient department. Over190,000 visits were made to the latter department. Sectionsof the second, third, and fourth-year classes of the HarvardMedical School receive instruction in the various departments. Notsble among the achievements of the Hospitals may bementioned the use of sulphuric ether for surgical first public demonstration of this was given in the Hos-pital Amphitheatre in October. 1846. at which time the anaes-thetic was administered by its discoverer, Mr. W. T, G. 30. Morton. The following inscription is copied from the wallof the famous old room: On October 16. 1846, in tliis room, then the operatingtheatre of the hospital, was given the first public demonstra-tion of anaesthesia to the extent of producing insensibility topain during a serious surgical operation. Sulphuric ether wasadministered by William Thomas Green Morton, a Bostondentist. The patient was Gilbert Abbot. The operation w^asthe removal of a tumor under the jaw. The surgeon wasJohn Collins Warren. The patient declared that he had feltno i)ain during the operation, and was discharged well De-cember 7. Knowledge of this discovery spread from thisroom throughout the civilized world and a new era for sur-gery began. The anniversary of this event is fittingly ol>served on the sixteenth of October each year. Other important contributions to science havebeen: Dr. Henry J. Bigelows ingenious treatment of vesicalcalculu
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