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MEMBER AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Chicago, 111.

January, 1938

Vol. 30, No. 1

Intern and Resident Staff of the Presbyterian Hospital, 1937

This number of our Bulletin is dedicated to the Interns and Residents, past and present, who have
received training in the Presbyterian Hospital from the time the institution opened in 1884. Twenty-eight
members of the 1937 Intern and Resident staff appear in the above picture. Nine others, whose duties to
patients prevented them from being photographed with the above group appear in a picture shown on Page 5.
Twenty-six Interns and 13 post-graduate Residents comprise our 1938 House Staff.

Front row, left to right — Paul C. Doehring, Jr., Rex B. Palmer, Roland Lincoln Kesler, Clarence A.
Darnell, S. W. Hughes, Mr. Asa S. Bacon, Superintendent of the Hospital; Michael O'Heeron, Andrew J.
Weiss, Albe M. Watkins and John E. Tysell.

Second row, left to right — Donald A. McCannel, Charles A. Barnes, T. Wilson McVety, Robert A.
Orr, Ann Huizinga, Joe R. Brown, Nathan C. Plimpton, Richard D. Pettit, Chester H. Waters, and J.
John Westra.

Top row, left to right — Willard G. Thurston, George A. Nicola, Henry E. Wilson, Fred Jensen,
Arch S. Morrow, Francis M. Lyle, Thomas W. Reul, Robert T. Bandi and Francis J. Phillips.

HOSPITAL HAS TRAINED HUNDREDS OF INTERNS i

Distinguished Names Listed

Include Those of Five

College Deans

Founded as a teaching institution,
affiliated with Illinois1 oldest medical
school, the Presbyterian Hospital of the
City of Chicago has provided intensive
training to more than 650 interns
since it first opened its doors to patients
in the late summer of 1884. In addition,
postgraduate training in various medical
and surgical specialties has been afforded
to several score who have served as resi-
dent doctors; while hundreds of Rush
Medical College students have had op-
portunities for clinical study in the hos-
pital. Others, not listed as members of
the regular intern staff, have received
training as assistants to attending staff
men or through special appointments in
various capacities.

Many Distinguished Names

Many distinguished names are found
on the list of former Presbyterian interns.
Four are deans of well-known medical
schools and one is a former dean. Two
are on the editorial staff of the Journal
of the American Medical Association.
No less than 1 3 5 hold teaching positions
in medical schools. Of these men, 66 are
on the faculty of Rush Medical College
and 54 are on the staff of the Presby-
terian Hospital. Other former interns
are nationally known as specialists in
different branches of medicine and sur-
gery and a large group are filling the in-
dispensable role of general practitioners,
in small towns as well as in large cities.
Several are officers of high rank in Army,
Navy and the U. S. Public Health Ser-
vice. Some are in foreign mission fields
and others have secular medical appoint-
ments in distant countries. And, indica-
tive of newer fields for the practitioner,
one man is a "flight surgeon" for the
U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce and sev-
eral Air Lines.

It would be interesting to be able to
list those of the same families who in-
terned in our hospital but available rec-
ords do not reveal adequate information.
Notahlc on such a list would appear the
names of O. T. Roberg and O. Theodore
Roberg, Jr., father and son, both now on
the surgical staff of Swedish Covenant
Hospital in Chicago. Data ahout other
fathers and sons, brothers, etc. on our
intern list will be welcomed by the
editor.

LIST OF INTERNS

(See page 4 for Ke;y to Symbols and
Abbreviations)

1884-85
Lawrence H. Prince — Kiln, Miss (Retired)

1885-86
H. W. Sheldon — Unknown
Alice Mitchell — Unknown

Externs, 1885-86
W. B. Marcusson — Deceased
Adam Emory Kauffman — Lesburg, Fla. (Retir.

E. J. Mellish — Unknown
A. J. Ochsner — Deceased
H. W. Thayer — Unknown

1888-89

Edwin S. Detwiler — Unknown
Charles W. Ward— Unknown
Martin M. Brown — North Adams, Mass. (S)

1889-90
Frank M. Lyman — Deceased
Harvey A. Tyler — Chicago (G). Chi. Policlinic

and Hosp. ; House of Good Shepherd
Albert C. McClanahan — Delta, Colo.

1890-91
Charles E. Albright — Milwaukee, Northwestern
Mutual Life Ins. Co.

A. C. Godfrey — Deceased

1891-92

J. C. Gill — Deceased

Frank W. Jay — Evanston, 111. (Retired)

D. Lee Shaw — Deceased

1892-93
P. R. Fox- -Deceased
Charles Ross — Unknown
T. A. Olney — South Bend, Ind.
George D. Beach — Unknown

S. R. Slaymaker — Chicago (I*), Rush; Pres-
byterian and Washington Blvd. Eiosps.

1893-94
L. S. Weeks — Unknown

B. M. Linnell — Deceased
S. C. Beach — Deceased

1895

George B. Joyner — Deceased

Rudolph W. Holmes- -Chicago (Oh.) Northwest-
ern Univ. ; I'assavanl Hosp. ; Emeritus, Rush

John L. Morris — Deceased

William R. Parkes — Evanston,; 111. (S), Emeritus
Chief of Surg. Dept.. Evanston Hosp.; Chief
of Med. Staff, Presbyterian Home

William J. Butler— Deceased

John C. Williams — Deceased

Frank W. Miller Los Angeles (Oplv*)

Charles Dewey Center — Unknown

1897
Arthur T. Holbrook— Milwaukee (1*)
Oliver S. Ormsby -Chicago (!>•). Clin. Prof,
and Chairman, Dept. of Dermatology, Rush;

Chief All. Dermatologist, Piesliytorian Hosp.
Philip Schuyler Doane — Pasadena. Calif. (C-fr)
Herman S. Judd — Port Stoilaeoom, Wash.

William C. Witte— Milwaukee

Henry S. Smith -Cudahy, Wis. (Ind. S)

J. R. Harvey -Chicago and California — Ci

M.O.K.C.. U.S.A. (S*)
Spencer D. Boebe Sparta, Wis. (S)
William Hay McLain Wheeling W. Va. Publ

Health Officor
Morley DaCosta Bates Deceased
Ellsworth D. Whiting Deceased
Walter E. Kaser Las Vegas, N. M. (T)

(Continued on Page 4, Col. 3)

REUNION IS PROPOSED BY

DR. HOLMES and OTHER

EX-INTERNS

Shortly before the retirement of Dr.
David W. Graham a group of 40 for-
mer interns of Presbyterian Hospital
held a reunion at which he was the guest
of honor. At that time beloved "Daddy"
Graham was presented with a handsome
silver loving cup and those present were
given an opportunity to express verbally
their appreciation and gratitude for the
friendly and inspiring influence of this
great man. Dr. Rudolph W. Holmes
(1895) was president and Dr. Carl B.
Davis (1904) was secretary of this nota-
ble gathering.

Dr. Holmes, distinguished Obstetrician
of Chicago and son of Dr. Edward L.
Holmes, famous pioneer Ophthalmol-
ogist, suggests that another reunion is
due. He writes that the long ago meet-
ing was such a happy occasion that it
was agreed to hold further meetings but
unforeseen circumstances prevented the
carrying out of the plan. He continues:

"Some of us believe that we should
get together for a dinner at a time con-
venient for the majority; we feel that
the meeting should be called at the time
of the June Convocation or early in
October of this year. Therefore, we
would strongly urge all who read this
notice to write at once to the Editor of
the Presbyterian Hospital Bulletin, ex-
pressing their wishes on the following
propositions:

a. Meeting in June.

b. Meeting in October.

c. Shall it be exclusively designed

for the alumni.

d. Shall we invite one or more old

staff members as honored
guests.

e. Suggest first and second choice

of the old staff.

f. Shall some sort of testimonial be

presented to such guests."
In this connection it may be of inter-
est to state that the oldest members of
our staff in years of service are Dr. John
A. Robison, Dr. James B. Herrick and
Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan.

Dr. Charles E. Albright of Milwau-
kee, 1889-91 Intern; Dr. Harvey A.
Tyler of Chicago, 1889-90, and Dean-
David J. Davis, 1907, of the Illinois
University College of Medicine are
among the other distinguished ex-interns
who join with Dr. Holmes in advocating
a reunion in the near future.

In his letter Dr. Albright says that

several reunions were held during the

first 15 years following the completion

of his internship which extended from

(Continued on Page 4, Col. 1)

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Germ Theory Termed "Myth"; Asepsis Doubtful
When First Intern Looked After Patients Here

DR. PRINCE ORIGINATED OPEN

DROP METHOD OF

ETHERIZA HON

By Lawrence H. Prince, M.D.
I matriculated at Rush Medical College in the fall of 1SS2. Educational require-
ments were a high school diploma or "its equivalent"1 and a preceptor's approval.
Classes were divided into Senior and Juniors. A special diploma of honor was awarded
to those students taking a three-year course. Credit was allowed students who acted
as assistants at clinics and in laboratories. The mornings were taken up by didactic
lectures and the afternoons were given to clinics and lectures.

Dissecting was then done before the
era of conditioning the air of the operat-
ing room and of the subject. The require-
ments for the course in anatomy were
for the student to "do" an upper and
lower in the odorful atmosphere, but I
also was one of Professor C. T. Parkes'
prosectors, and a few years later did
some teaching in the new dissecting
room. It was during this later period
that Dr. Parkes did his splendid work on
100 dogs as described in his work "Gun-
shot Wounds of the Abdomen." This
was a very valuable experience for us all.

At the request of Prof. Ross, I ac-
cepted the office of temporary intern of
the newly opened Presbyterian Hospital
in 1884, at the same time carrying on
my studies at Rush, attending as many
lectures and clinics as possible, and pre-
paring for examinations of the following
spring. Those early days were so full of
work, the facilities so inadequate, and
the hospital organisation so new that the
one intern spent most of his time, night
and day, in the institution. We had but
few medical cases and no obstetrical
work at all during my stay. As I recall
there was a staff of eight nurses but I
cannot remember the number of patients.
I know, however, that there was no time
when there were not several cases re-
quiring many dressings. The dressings
of those days were of the voluminous
kind. Abdominal operations were just
being made and asepsis was being intro-
duced.

Medical students of that time were
particularly fortunate because of the
opportunity offered to study the revolu-
tionary steps from the pre-antiseptic
days to the anti-septic methods which
were the beginning of modern aseptic
surgery. At college I heard both sides
discussed with enthusiasm. There were
those who urged "no healing without
suppuration" and talked of "laudable
pus," terming the germ theory a "myth."
On the other side, we heard about "air
borne germ infection" and other theories
which have revolutionised surgical tech-
nique. At that time the carbolic acid
spray was largely depended upon.

I remember Dr. J. A. Robison well
and was much interested in learning that
he is still on the hospital staff. I recall
how he set me right on the first dis-
pensary case he asked me to examine.

It was supposed to be a heart case, and
I hastened to ask Dr. Robison to come
and listen to a remarkable heart murmur
that I had discovered. He came m a
hurry, applied the stethescope, then left
the room, motioning to me to follow.
When outside the examining room lie
whispered in my ear "gas in the stom-
ach." That error of mine and Dr.
Robison's correction was worth a great
deal to me thereafter.

I remember Dr. D. W. Graham very
well — a fine man and an able surgeon.
I was pleased to learn that Mrs. Graham
is still living and active in the interest of
the hospital.

To compare the hospital of a half cen-
tury ago or the work done therein with
the wonderful hospital of today is sim-
ply impossible. The same is true as re-
gards the progress of any of the sciences.
But it must be remembered that there
were many men and women of those
days who were thinkers and workers —
embryonic leaders of today who did
wonderful work in establishing realities
out of their studies so that the hospitals
and the manufacturers had to hasten

Immediately following his graduation
from Rush Medical College in 1885, Dr.
Lawrence H. Prince, gave up his work
as intern in the Presbyterian Hospital
and became one of the five resident
physicians at the Eastern Hospital for
the Insane at Kankakee, 111., where he
remained for two and a half years. He
then returned to Chicago and assisted
the late Professor Charles T. Parkes for
! nearly two years, following which he
took charge of a private hospital for the
insane at Batavia, 111., where he remained
until 1891 when he went to Leipsig,
Germany, for special post graduate
study, specializing in the diseases of
women and children. On his return to
Chicago in 1893 he engaged in private
practice and was attending obstetrician
at Augustana Hospital.

It was while associated with the late
Dr. A. J. Ochsner at Augustana Hospi-
tal in the early nineties, that Dr. Prince
made an outstanding contribution to the
advancement of surgery, through his re-
search work in anesthesia. He conceived
the idea that the method of administer-
ing ether could be improved upon and
with the assistance of Dr. Isabella C.
Herb, then associated with Dr. Ochsner
as anesthetist and now head anesthetist
in the Presbyterian Hospital, succeeded
in developing the "open drop" method
of etherization, which made ether in-
duction much easier for the patient and
greatly reduced the toxic after-effects.
The new technique as first demonstrated
at Augustana Hospital by Dr. Prince
and Dr. Herb, soon became known to
other anesthetists and for many years has
been the universally accepted method.

In 1898, Dr. Prince became superin-
tendent of a sanitarium for convalescent
and mild mental cases at Palmyra, Wis.
Later he took the position of superin-
tendent of the State School for Depend-
ent and Crippled Children at Sparta,
Wis. and still later became resident
physician at the Waukesha Springs Sani-
tarium. He held the latter position for
ten years until he moved to Kiln, Miss.
in 193 3, where he now resides in retire-
ment after a long life of great usefulness
to many devoted patients.

their steps in order to keep up. And, in
another fifty years, what is being done
today will be looked upon as full of
mistakes. What we learned from the
discussions pro and con relative to all
having to do with surgery, for instance,
was responsible for many of the remark-
able things accomplished since I was an
intern in Presbyterian Hospital.

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1888 INTERN RECALLS
GREAT MEN WHO WERE
ON HOSPITAL STAFF

By Martin M. Brown, M.D.
North Adams, Mass.

I wish to thank you for the privilege
of making a brief contribution to the
January Bulletin and reviewing some of
the pleasant associations and experiences
while serving as intern in the Presby-
terian Hospital during the years 1888
and 1889. James Nevin Hyde, A.M.,
M.D., was hospital consultant and our
highly respected professor in dermatol-
ogy at Rush Medical College.

Senior Attending Surgeon David W.
Graham, A.M., M.D., was pleasant,
dignified, and a trusted friend to the
younger members of the profession. Dr.
Charles T. Parkes commanded the ad-
miration and respect of all associates and
with the assistance of our senior House
Officer, Dr. A. J. Ochsner, was the out-
standing surgeon of the community.
While assisting Dr. Parkes in a major
operation before three hundred students,
I well remember a deserved criticism.
He suddenly ceased operating, glanced
at me and in a loud voice shouted
"Brown." A profound silence followed,
"Do one thing at a time, that is all any-
one can do."

The Superintendent of the Hospital,
Dr. H. B. Stehman, was one of the most
exemplary executives it has been my
privilege to meet. The chairman of the
Board of Trustees and world renowned
philanthropist, Dr. Pearson granted me
numerous interviews, which are among
my most cherished memories. While in
his seventy-third year, he said to me
"Any man is a fool to die rich with the
possibility of relatives fighting for his
money after he is gone." At the time of
his passing twenty years later, we note
that his large fortune had been entirely
given away for educational purposes and
the uplifting of humanity.

REUNION PROPOSED

(Continued from Page 2, Col. 1)
the fall of 1889 to Apr. 1, 1891. He
recalls Dr. John A. Robison, only living
member of the hospital's first Medical
Staff very well, and states that Dr. James
B. Herrick and he were in Rush
Medical College at the same time. Dr.
Albright is physician for a large insur'
ance company.

Dr. Harvey A. Tyler recalls how the
flu epidemic of 1889 kept him and
three other interns working day and
night. Dr. Tyler was for many years
Professor of Gynecology .it the Chicago
Policlinic and Hospital, now consolidated
with Henrotin Hospital.

KEY TO SPECIALTIES

In the data published herein about former
interns, symbols used to designate specialties
are those used in American Medical Assn.
directory as follows:

S — Surgery.

IndS — Industrial Surgery.

0b — Obstetrics.

G — Gynecology.

Ot)0r- — Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Or — Orthopedic Surgery.

Pr — Proctology.

U— Urology.

D— Dermatology.

Oph -Ophthalmology.

ALR — Otology, Laryngology. Khinology.

OALR -Ophthalmology, Otology, Laryngol-
ogy, Khinology.

Pd— Pediatrics.

N — Neurology.

P — Psychiatry.

NP — Neurology and Psychiatry.

I* — Internal Medicine.

T — Tuberculosis.

Anes — Anesthesia.

CP — Clinical Pathology.

R — Roentgenology, Radiology.

Path — Pathology.

Bact — Bacteriology.
A star following the symbol indicates that the
person listed limits his practice to that specialty.

Other Abbreviations

Other abbreviations which may not be
self-explanatory are:

S-Oral — Oral Surgery.

Pharm — Pharmacology.

G-TJ — Genito-Urinary Surgery.

Res — Resident on Staff of Hospital listed.

P-R — Postgraduate.
Teaching positions in medical schools are
designated by giving the name of the Univer-
sity of which the school is a part, except that
name "Rush" is used to indicate those on the
faculty of that college, now a part of the
University of Chicago, while the University
designation indicates that the person is a
member of the South Side faculty.

Hospital staff connections, if known, are
indicated wherever names of hospitals are in-
cluded in the data.

Internship Dates

From 1884 to 1895, names are listed under
the fiscal year during which internships began.
Beginning with 189? and through 1909, the
listing is under the calendar year in which the
"term expired" as recorded in Annual Reports.
From 1909 on the beginning dates only arc
given for House Staff members in the Annual
Reports, hence the calendar year in which
each internship began is the one under which
the name is classified.

LIST OF INTERNS

(Continued from Page 2, Col.

W. F. S. Heise — Winona, Minn. (&*•)

John D. Freeman- Deceased

George T. Ayres Unknown

George W. Fox — Unknown

William W. Meloy Chicago

Alexander F. Stevenson — Chicago (I*). <

and St. Luke's llosps. ; Kcs. I'hys. I'l

terian Hosp., 1900-02

1900
Frank B. Hollenbeck — Unknown
Frank E. Pierce — Chicago (S*). Loyola I

Mercv Hosp.; Chief Surg., X.w York

tnil R.B..
Henry Dietrich -Los Angeles (Pd*), Uni

s. Calif.
Alfred D. Kohn — Unknown
Henry J. Deru -Chicago

1901

Harry W. Horn -Wn
Harry D. Wiley Gle
James H. Irwin Ore
J. P. Sedgwick- -Unl<
Adrian B. Perkey A
F. H. Russell -Decea
Harlow O. Shockley

LIST OF INTERNS

(Continued)

1902

Joseph F. Smith — Wausau, Wis. (S); was Res.

Phys. in Presbyterian Hosp. one year and

head of X-ray dept. for several years.

Karl L. Thorsgaard — Chicago. Augustana Hosp.

Frederick G. Murray — Cedar Rapids, la.

E. W. Kleinman — Los Angeles

O. Theodore Roberg — Chicago, Surgeon-In-Chief,

Swedish Covenant Hosp.
Wm. Nicholas Senn — Chicago (U)

1903
P. A. Loomis — Colorado Springs
L. W. Moore — Unknown

F. P. Boyd — Unknown

A. C. Johnson — Unknown

Leslie Rutherford — Peoria, 111. (I*)

J. A. McDonald— Unknown

Paul Oliver — Chicago (S)

Charles G. Farnum — Peoria, 111.

Robert Pearsall — Virginia, Minn.

Robert S. McGaughey — Danville, 111. (I*)

1901

Rollin T. Woodyatt— Chicago (I*), Rush: Pres-
byterian Hosp.

Carl Bernhardi — Unknown

Frank C. Robinson — Walla Walla, Wash.

James H. Fowler — Lancaster, Wis.

Carl Wm. Wahrer — Seymour, la. (S*)

Hans A. Reinhard — Milwaukee

Carl B. Davis — Chicago (S*), Rush; Presby-
terian Hosp.

John Deans Scouller — Pontiac, 111. (S)

George H. Kennett — Unknown

1905

Charles Gilham Davis — Unknown

George G. Davis — Chicago (S*). Rush; Col.
M.R.O., U.S.A., Cook County Hosp.

G. B. Smith — Unknown

J. G. Hayden — Kansas City (S*). Univ. of Kan.

C. H. McDonald — Arthur, 111. (not in practice)

Curtis H. Gephart — Kenosha, Wis.

G. B. Lenish — Unknown

Turner B. Smith — Los Angeles (Ind. S)

George W. Koch — Sioux City, la. (I*)

J. Frank Waugh — Chicago (D*), Rush; Presby-
terian Hosp.; Resident Phys., Presbyterian |

Wilber E. Post — Chicago (T*). Rush; Presby-
terian Hosp.; Cons. Internist, 111. Cen. R.R.

E. C. Rosenow — Rochester, Minn. (Bact*), Univ.

of Minn. P-G Schl. of Med.

Ernest E. Irons — Chicago (I*), Prof, and Chair-
man, Dept. of Medicine, Rush; Presbyterian
Hosp.; Dean of Rush Med. Coll., 1923-36

W. B. Fehring — Deceased

1906

N. Sproat Heaney — Chicago (ObC*),, Clin. Prof.
and Chairman, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gyne-
cology, Rush; Chief Att. Ob. and Gyn, Pres-
byterian Hosp.

Lindsay A. Beaton — Chicago, Illinois Masonic
Hosp.

G. D. Hunter — Unknown

J. D. Hill— Unknown

Robert Campbell Menzies — Chicago

John Joseph Klick — Sacramento, Calif. (Pr)

Charles F. Freytag — Los Angeles (Hollywood)

Charles A. DeLong — Gary, Ind.

Wm. Edgar Stewart — Portland, Ore.

H. A. Reque — Unknown

James H. Taylor — Chicago (ObC*), West Sub-
urban (Oak Park), American, Lutheran, Ills.
Masonic and Norwegian American Hosps.

Robert I. Rizer — Minneapolis (I*), Univ. of
Minn.

George E. Goodrich — Phoenix, Ariz.

Harry R. Beery — Port Worden, Wash., Lieut. -
Col. M.C.. U.S.A., Station Hospital

Henry Neill Whitelaw — Corvallis,, Ore.
1907

G. F. Ruediger — Unknown

David John Davis — Chicago, Dean, College of
Med. Univ. of III.; Prof, and Head, Dept.
Path, and Bact., U. of I.

Edward P. Christensen— Two Harbors, Minn. (S)

John B. Kinne Aberdeen, Wash. (S)

Walter W. Hamburger —Chicago (S*), Univ. of
Chicago; Michael Roese Hosp.

Miriam Gardner- Evanston, 111. (Mrs. Peter
Rnssoc)

F. W. Metcalf — Deceased

(Continued on Page 5, Col. 1)

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PRESENT INTERN STAFF

NUMBERS 26; HAVE 13

ON RESIDENT STAFF

ON 1937 INTERN AND RESIDENT STAFF

During its first year of existence the
hospital had but one intern. At the pres-
ent time our house staff consists of 26
interns and 13 postgraduate residents.
In earlier years the period of internship
varied in length. At the present time the
regular internship calls for a 16-month
service, while a limited number of men
who have completed general internships
in other hospitals are accepted on some
of the services or departments for
shorter periods of training in specialised
fields.

The state laws of Illinois and many
other states require an internship of not
less than one year in an approved hospi-
tal before a candidate can obtain a
license to practice medicine, although
Rush Medical College and some other
medical schools now award M.D. di-
plomas on completion of the four-year
medical course. In striking contrast to
the high school education and two-year
medical college course which prevailed
when our first intern became an M.D. is
the three-year pre-medical college course
and four-year medical course now re-
quired. Adding to this an internship of
16 months as required by many hospi-
tals, the minimum period of preparation
for the practice of medicine exceeds
eight years beyond high school, while
those who do postgraduate work in spe-
cialties spend not less than one year and
often several years as resident doctors in
hospitals approved for this advanced
type of training.

In our hospital interns work eight
months on medical services and eight
months on surgical services, giving two
months to each of four different services
classified respectively under medicine and
surgery.

LIST OF INTERNS

(Continued from Page 4, Col. 3)
1908
Homer G. Rosenberger — Whittier, Calif. (S)
B. H. Brown — Unknown

Frederick A. Speik — Los Angeles (South Pasa-
dena)
T. H. Wilson — Unknown
Joseph E. Tyree — Salt Lake City (S*)
Evarts A. Graham — St. Louis (S*), Wash. Univ. ;

Arthur J. Batty — Portage, Wis. (S)

Ransom D. Bernard — Clarion, la. (S)

Guy L. Bliss — Long Beach, Calif. (Pd*)

R. Whitman — Morris, 111. (S)

Roy L. Buffum — Long Beach, Calif.

Fred E. Ewing — Oakland, Calif. (S)

John Gustav Saam — Oakland, Calif. (ALU*)

A. E. Elliott — Unknown
Herbert B. Saylor — Pes Moines, I
George S. Barber — Lawton, Okla.
Arthur E. Lord — Piano, 111.
Samuel B. Herdman — Taylorville,,
William Hughes — Deceased
Albertus B. Poppen — Muskegon, '.
Brice R. Wallace — Albany, Ore.

INTERNS and RESI-
DENTS who could
not leave their du-
ties to be photographed
in the larger group
shown on Page 1, in-
clude those here shown.

Upper picture, left to
right — Ray F. Coch-
rane, Hugo Baum, John
H. Olwin, and Paul P.
Goodman.

Lower picture, left to
right — i Paul Hurwitz,
Philip M. Howard, Carl
W. Olander, Gurth Car-
penter, and William C.
Fisher.

LIST OF INTERNS

(1909 Continued)

Emmett L. Lee — Aurora, I'll.
F. Elias — Unknown

Homer K. Nicoll — Chicago (Path), Push; Asst.
Medical Director and Dir. Lab., People's Gas

Robert Gaylord Davis — Washington, D. C, Med.

Inspector, Commander, U. S. N., Naval Hosp.

Carl Henry Davis -Milwaukee. Wis. and Wil-

John Wesley Tope

11. (!

Lieut. -Col. M.C.. U.S.A.
Heilman C. Wadsworth — Washington, Ind. (S)
John Thomas Strawn — Des Moines, la. (1*)

1910

Granville H. Twining — Mowbridge, S. Dak. (S

George H. Steele- -Belmond, la.

Erastus S. Edgerton — Wichita, Kan. (S*)

H. R. Rogers- -Unknown

J. L. Tracy — Unknown

John G. Ryan— Denver, Colo. (I*), Uni

Johnson F. Hammond Chicago, Asst. Editor,
Journal of A. M. A.; Major, Army M.C..
U.S.A., Retired

E. G. Kirk — Unknown

Charles Wilson Lamme — Tabriz, Persia

Fletcher 0. ..McFarland — lint Springs, Ark.,
Lieut. -Col. M.C., U.S.A., Army and Navy Gen.

1911

Frank Clay Murrah -Herrin, 111.

Adelbert M. Moody San Francisco (Path*)

Milton B. Galloway- -Webster City, la. (I*)

Sverre Oftedal -Fargo, N. I). (S*)

Edgar M. Allen Unknown

John H. McClellan— Deceased

Nelson Lee Roy Heller — Dunkirk, Ind.

James Patterson- Srarxdale, N. Y. (D)

Benjamin F. Davis — Duhilh, Minn. (S*)

1912
Christian A. Fjeldstad— Minneapolis (OALR*).

Univ. of Minn.
Edward Wm. Koch — Buffalo, N. Y., Dean and

Prof. Pharmacology, Univ. of Buffalo
William F. Hewitt -Chicago (Ol.G*), III. <Vn-

Walter G. Darling Milwaukee
Fred Wm. Gaarde -Rochester, Minn. (I*), Uni
of Minn. P-G Schl. of Med.

LIST OF INTERNS

(1912 Continued)

Selim W. McArthur — Chicago (S*), Sr. Sur-
geon. St. Luke's; Univ. of 111.

Edward H. Hatton — Chicago (Path*)

Lee C. Gatewood — Chicago (I*), Rush; Presby-
terian Hosp.; Consulting G'astro-Enterologist,
U. S. Veterans' Diag. Center. Ilines, 111.

Gatewood Gatewood — Chicago (S*). Rush; Pres-
byterian and Highland Park Hosps.; Res.
Surg., Presbyterian Hosp., 1915-20

Henry J. Ullmann — Santa Barbara, Calif. (U)

Claude D. Holmes — Fort Thomas, Ky. (S*),
Major M.C., U.S.A., Station lies]..

Roy J. DeMotte — Chicago (Ind S), Chief Sur-
geon, Pullman Car Mfg. Co. ; Roseland Com-
munity Hosp.

Eugene Cary — Chicago (ObG*), Sr. Obstetri-

I*), Univ. of

Maurice C. Pincoffs — Bait)

Md.
David Mayo Berkman — Rochester (I*), Univ.

of Minn. P-G Schl. of Med.
George H. Coleman — Chicago (I*). Rush; St.

Luke's Hosp.; James C. King Home, I'hys.-

in-Charge; Capt. M.R.C., U.S.A.

1913
James H. Mitchell— Chicago (D*), Rush; Pres-
byterian and Frances Willard Hosps.
George W. Dunlap — Toledo. O. (ObG)
Russell M. Wilder — Rochester, Minn. (I*). Univ.

Minn. P-G Schl. of Med.; Res. Physician,

Presbyterian Hosp., 1916-19
Frank A. Chapman — Deceased
Fred M. Drennan — Chicago (I*), Loyola Univ.;

Mercy Hosp.
Nathan Smith Davis III — Chicago (I*), North-
western Univ.. Wesley Hosp,
Linn F. McBride -Chicago, (ALU*). Washing

ton Blvd. Hosp.; Oto-Larn., C. M. and si.

P. R. U.
Irving Wm. Steiner- -Winona, Minn.
Harry G. Pamment — Toledo. O.
Golder L. McWhorter— Chicago (S*), Rush;

Presbyterian, Cook County Hosps., Dak

Edwin C. White — Kansas City, Mo. (ObG*)
Edwin M. Miller — Chicago ( s* ) . Rush: Presby-
terian anil Cook County Hosps.
Walter F. Winholt— Deceased

(Contnmed on Page 6, Col. 1 )

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LIST OF INTERNS

(Continued from Page 5, Col 3)

1914

Gleason C. Lake— Seattle, Wash. (Path), Sr.

Surg. XT. S. Public Health Service, U. S.

Marine Hosp.
Franklin R. Nuzum — Santa Barbara, Calif. (I*).

Santa Barbara Cottage Hosp.
Wm. F. Brinkman — Des Moines, la. (S)
Clifford P. McCullough — Lake Forest, 111.
William S. Timblin — Oak Park and River

Forest (I*), Univ. of HI.
William S. Horn — Fort Worth, Tex. (I*)
Fred M. Smith — Iowa City, la. (I*). Univ. of

Burrell 0. Raulston — Los Angeles (I*), Univ.
of S. Calif.

Gilbert E. Brereton — Dallas, Tex. (Bact), Univ.
of Texas

Charles M. Bacon — Chicago (I*), Rush; Pres-
byterian Hosp. (Electrocardiograph)

Sumner Merrill Wells — Grand Rapids, Mich.
(!•)

William N. Sharp — Galveston, Tex. (Bact), Univ.
of Texas

Clifford Watkins — Unknown

Christian B. Luginbuhl — Des Moines, la. (1*)

1915
Wm. Solomon Jones — Menominee, Mich.

(OALR*)
W. Harold Stutzman — Deceased
Anders J. Weigen— Chicago (Pd)
Edmund Andrews — Chicafo (S*), Univ. of Chi.

cago ; Billings Hosp.
Fred W. Rohr — Chicago (ObG*), Ravenswood

Hosp.
Robert R. Glynn — Springfield, Mo. (S*)
Andrew M. Carr, Jr. — Minot, N. Dak. (OALR*)
Lowell D. Snorf — Chicago and Evanston (I*),

Northwestern Univ.; Washington Blvd. and

James G. Montgomery — Kansas City, Mo. (S*)
Carl Foster Snapp — Grand Rapids, Mich.

(ALR*)
Warren P. Sights — Paducah, Ky. (IndS) ; Res.

Surg., Presbyterian Hosp., 1918
Frank R. Menne — Portland, Ore. (Path*),

Univ. of Ore.
Frank P. Miller— Los Angeles (T*)
James H. Hunter- -Unknown

1916
Raymond 0. Dart — Washington, D. C, Major,

M.C., U.S.A., Surgeon General's Office
Kendal Frost — Los Angeles (D*), Univ. of S.

(!•), Ur

Wesley E. Gatewood Portlam

of Ore.
Edwin F. Hirsch — Chicago (Path*), Rush; Dir.

H. B. Favill Lab., St. Luke's Hosp.
Wm. Thomas Robison — Murfreesboro, Tenn. (S)
Clarence W. Adams — San Francisco (S)
Wm. David Sansum — Santa Barbara, Calif. (I*)
Earle Kenneth Hallock — Brooklyn, N. Y. (Oph*)
Wilmar D. McGrath — Grand Island, Neb. (I*)
John Andrew Saari — Portland, Ore.
Wm. Lee Brown — Chicago, Dir. Physicians
Radium Assn.; Radium Therapist, St. Luke's

iiosp.

Wm. Amory Taylor — Portage, Wis. (S)
Clinton D. Swickard — Charleston, 111. (ObG)
Harvey R. Basinger — Mountain Lake, Minn. (S)
Eiley A. Smedal— LaCrosse, Wis. (S)
Conrad O. Rogne — Ettrick, Wis. (ObG)
Angus L. Cameron— Minot, N. Dak. (S*)

1917
Martin Dollahan —Deceased
Carl Theige -Viroqua, Wis.
William A. Thomas — Chicago (I*), Rush; Pres-

Oscar W. Tulisalo -Rockford, 111. (S)
George E. Farman — Los Angeles (U*)
James E. Arnold Miles City, Mont.
Aaron E. Kanter Chicago (ObG*), Rush; Pres-
byterian, Cook (', unity and Mt. Sinai Hosps.
George A. Cochran- Salt Lake Cily (I*)
Lloyd L. Merriman — Dululh, Minn. (P*)
George O. Solem Chicago and Oak Park, (I*).

Rush; Lutheran Deaconess Hosp.
Peter M. Mattill Oak Terrace, Minn. (T*)

1918
Harvey S. Thatcher -Little Rock, Ark., (Path)
Vincent J. O'Conor — Chicago (U*), Univ. of

111.; Washington Blvd. and Garfield Pk.

llosps.

Wanted: Information

All former interns and others who
receive this copy of our Bulletin are
urged to send to the editor IMMEDI-
ATELY any corrections as to spell-
ing, dates of service, location and
present activities of those whose names
are printed in the list of interns. If
any names have been omitted do not
fail to send detailed information con-
cerning these persons. We also de-
sire addresses and other data about
those who are listed as "unknown."
Others not listed in A. M. A. directory
for the year 1936 (the latest avail-
able) are designated in our list as "un-
known." Some mistakes in initials and
in spelling were found in the lists as
published in our annual reports and
our failure to find data as well as
some errors in our list may be due to
such mistakes.

LIST OF INTERNS

(1918 Continued)
Horace E. Groom — Akron. Ohio (I*)
Dwight C. Sigworth — Long Beach, Calif.
Arthur Teninga — Chicago (S)

John R. Merriman — Evanston, 111. (S), North-
western Univ.; Evanston and St. Francis
Hosps.
Frank R. Doll— Whiting, Ind. (S)
Charles T. Nellans — Atlanta, Ga. (I*)
Russell C. Johnson — Berwyn, 111., Berwyn Hosp.
Hugh MacDonald — Evanston and Niles Center,

111.

Clark J. Laus— Syracuse, N. Y. (I*)
George G. Verbryck — Long Beach, Calif.
Cassius M. Coldren — Deceased
Gilbert D. Waite — Portsmouth, O. (S)
Harry L. Huber— Chicago (I*), Univ. of Chi-

Clarence E. McC. Finney — Springfield, O. (Or)
Henry C. Sauer — Fairbury, 111. (S)
Delon A. Williams — Kansas City, Mo. (I*)
C. Philip Miller— Chicago (I*), Univ. of Chi-
cago ; Billings Hosp.
Pierce MacKenzie — Evansville, Ind. (ObG*)
Joseph O. Balcar — Deceased
Clark W. Finnerud — Chicago (D*), Rush; Pres-

Hugh F. Fr

idell

larba

Calif. (I*)

1919

Loren Wm. Avery— Chicago (NP), Rush; Pres-
byterian,; Cook County and Augustana Hosps.
Leon V. Parker — Unknown

Raymond C. Thompson — Whittier, Calif (ObG)
Wallace H. Budge — Ogden, Utah
Grant H. Lanphere — Los Angeles (I*), Coll. of

Med. Evangelists, Loma Linda
Martin Carl Lindem — Salt Lake City (I*) ; Res.

Phys., Presbyterian Hosp., 1922
William G. Hibbs — Chicago (I*), Rush;
byterian Hosp. (Secy. Med. Staff) ;
dren's Memorial Hospital
Oliver M. Nesbit — Portland, Ore.
Albert Fred Clements — Evansville, Ind.

(OALR*)
Robert H. Graham — Aurora, 111. (Pd*)
George F. Sutherland- Deceased
Dean P. Crowell — North Bend, Ore. (S)
Edward D. AUen — Chicago (ObG*).

Prcs-
Chil-

Wm. John Henry
Jay M. Milligan

S. C. (!•)

1920

Clarence W. Magaret— Peoria, Ill-
Harry A. Oberhelman- Chicago (S*), Rush;
Presbyterian Hosp.; Res. Phys. Presbyterian
Hosp. i'''-i
William E. Cary — Chicago (T*)£ Univ. of Chi-
cago; Chi. Memorial Hosp.
Joseph P. Brennan — Pendleton, Ore.
John H. Fitzgibbon — Portland, Ore. (I*), Univ.
of Oregon

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I [osp.

(Ph8

(U*),
Uroloj

Prof, and

t, Loyola

LIST OF INTERNS

(1920 Continued.)
Vincent B. Bowler — Chicago and Oak Park (D),

Loyola Univ.; Cook County and Oak Park

Hosps.
Arthur G. Asher — Kansas City, Mo. (I*)
John L. Calene — Aberdeen, S. D. (I*-)
James B. Eyerly — Chicago (I*), Rush; Presby-

Floyd E. Kier — Unknown

Clifford J. Barborka — Chicago (I*). Northwest-
ern Univ.

Eugene F. Traut — Chicago and Oak Park (I*),
Rush; Cook County P-G Schl.; Presbyterian,
Cook County and West Suburban Hosps.

Lindon Seed — Chicago (S*), Univ. of 111.;
Lutheran Deaconess and Grant Hosps.

Clinton F. Palmer — Albert Lea, Minn.

Maurice A. Spalding— Chicago (01*)

Harold J. Shelley — New York City (S*)

Harry J. Veatch — Columbus, Univ. of Ohio;
Starling-Loving Hosp.

1921

Byron Nixon — Indianapolis (I*)

Lester R. Parson — Elbow Lake, Minn. (U)

George M. Curtis — Columbus, O. (S*), Ohio

State Univ.; Surg. Res. U
Carl A. Dragstedt — Chicago

Carl R. Wagner — Deceased

Herbert E. Landes — Chicago
Act. Chairman, Dept. of
Univ.

Daniel B. Malan — Unknown

Henry C. Niblack— Chicago (Pd*), Chief, Bu-
reau of Child Welfare, Chicago Bd. of Health

Edward J. Stieglitz — Chicago (I-*-), Rush; Pres-
byterian and Chi. Memorial Hosps.

Carl W. Apfelbach — Chicago (Path). Rush;
Presbyterian Hosp. (In Charge of Lab. since
1924) ; Cook County Hosp.; Res. Phys. Pres
byterian, 1923

Gordon N. Best— Council Bluffs, la. (I*)

Roy E. Crowder — Sioux City, la. (ObG*)

Gerritt Cotts — Chicago (ObG), Rush; St. Jo-
seph's and Ravenswood Hosps.

Frank C. Val Dez — Chicago (I*), Loyola Univ.;
Mercy Hosp. and Dispensary

1922
Earl R. McCarthy — Deceased in 1936 (I*-). Was
on Rush Faculty and Presbyterian Hosp.

Howard M. Sheaff — Chicago (I), Rush; Pres-

Harry C. Olmsted — Unknown
Austin D. Bates — Denton, Tex. (I*)
Raul de la Garza — Laredo, Tex. (U*)
Harold T. Pederson — Spokane, Wash. (S)
John F. Tilleman — Elmhurst, 111. (Pd)
Clarence E. Johnson — Long Beach, Calif. (I*)
Carl P. Bauer — Deceased in 1936" (ObG). Was
on Rush Faculty and Presbyterian Hosp.
Staff; Dir. Out-Patient Ob. Dept. for 5 yrs.
Dean L. Rider — Chicago and Riverside, 111.
(S*), Rush; Presbyterian, Washington Blvd.,
Berwyn and Cook County Hosps.
Arthur R. Colwell — Evanston, 111. (I*), North-
western Univ.
John Histon — Unknown

Emmet B. Bay — Chicago, Assoc. Dean. Div. of

Biological Sciences, Univ. of Chicago, in

charge of Rush Medical College; Res. Phys.

Presbvterian Hosp. 1924

Leo Clifford Clowes— Chicago (S*), Univ. of

111.; Cook County Hosp.
Siegfried Maurer- Chicago (I*), Univ. of Chi-
cago; 0. S. A. Sprague Mem. Inst.
Clark O. Melick— Chicago, St. Luke's 111. Cen-
tral and South Shore Hosps.
Gilbert J. Schwartz — Kenosha, Wis. (ObG)
Carl L. Hiss — Deceased
Orwood J. Campbell — Minneapolis (S*), Univ.

of Minn.
Carl Otto Linbeck— Jamestown, N. Y. (I'd)
Jeanette Harrison — Los Angeles

1923
Hamilton Montgomery — Rochester. Minn. (D*)t

Univ. of Minn. P-G Med. Schl.
Walter L. Palmer — Chicago (I*), Univ. of Chi-
cago
Gerald Watson Hamilton — Akron, 0.
John Z. Gaston— Houston. Tex. (ObG*)
Edmund R. McCluskey— Pittsburgh, Pa. (Pd*)
(Continued on Page 7, Co!. 1)

INTERN WHO USED IT
TELLS OF OUR FIRST
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH

Dr. Fred M. Smith, Professor and
Head of the Department of Theory and
Practice of Medicine, State University of
Iowa, Iowa City, operated the first elec
trocardiograph installed in our hospital
and in any Chicago institution while
serving as an intern, 1914-16. The first
crude machine installed in 1914 and the
improved electric cardiograph installed
two years later were given to the hospi-
tal by the late Mrs. Cyrus Cormick, Sr.
Dr. Smith writes :

The electrocardiograph of the Presby-
terian Hospital, during my internship,
1914-16, was the first installed in Chi-
cago. It was one of the earlier makes,
and as I recall, was either an Edelmann
or Hut-Nicolai. This was replaced in
1916 by a Cambridge instrument and it
was my good fortune to have charge of
it. This, and the one in Doctor Her-
rick's office, were the only electrocardio-
graphs in Chicago at that time. These
two machines established land marks in
the electrocardiographic incident to coro-
nary thrombosis. The one at the Pres-
byterian Hospital was the first to record
the changes following the experimental
ligation of the coronary arteries of the
dog and paved the way for the recogni-
tion of the electrocardiographic altera'
tions in man following coronary throm-
bosis. The machine in Doctor Herrick's
office was the first to record a curve
which was recognised as being distinctive
of coronary thrombosis. Doctor Herrick
made these developments possible. It
was through his influence that the elec-
trocardiographic laboratory was estab'
lished at the Presbyterian Hospital and
that the fund was obtained for research
in this field. Moreover, it was through
his particular interest in coronary throm-
bosis, and encouragement that this prob-
lem was investigated.

LIST OF INTERNS

(1923 Continued from Page 6, Col. 3)

Clarence F. G. Brown — Chicago (I*), North-
western Univ.; St. Luke's Hosp.

Ralph L. Harris — Chicago (I*),, Rush; Cook
County Hosp.

Elmer J. Boyd — Unknown

Myra I. Mead — Detroit (Mrs. Henry Erwin Cope)

Joseph E. Schaefer — Chicago (I*), Northwest-
ern Univ. Dental Dept. ; Cook County, Uni-
versity and Wesley Hosps.

Andrew J. Sullivan — Chicago (U*), Rush;
Mother Cabrini, Englewood, Evangelical, St.
Bernard and Woodlawn Hosps.

Knowlton E. Barber — Chicago (U*), Rush;
Presbyterian, Children's Memorial and Muni-
cipal Contagious Dis. Hosps.

Heyworth N. Sanford — Chicago (Pd*), Rush;
Presbyterian and Cook County Hosps.; Med.
Dir., Infant Welfare Society of Chicago

Bertrand 0. Woods — Portland,, Ore. (I*)

Albert J. Bowles — Seattle, Wash. (S*)

John F. Kelly — Indianapolis (ObG*), Indiana
Univ.

Beatrice R. Lovett — Oak Terrace, Minn.

LIST OF INTERNS

(1923 Continued)

Evans W. Pernokis — Chicago (I*), Rush; Pres-
byterian Hosp. ; Res. Phys. Presbyterian
Hosp. 1925

Willis J. Potts — Chicago and Oak Park (S*),
Rush; Presbyterian, Cook County, Children's
Memorial and West Suburban Hosps.

1924

Ray M. Bowles — Hempstead, L. I., N. Y. (U*)

Ernest R. Burnight — Los Angeles, Calif.

Clifford L. Dougherty — Chicago and Oak Park
(ALR*), Rush; St. Luke's and West Sub-
urban Hosps.

John V. Lawrence — St. Louis, Mo. (I*), Wash-
ington Univ.

Paul S. Rhoads — Chicago and Evanston (I*) ,
Rush

William W. Robinson — Spokane, Wash.

John J. Zavertnik — Chicago (Pd), Rush; Pres-
byterian and St. Anthony's Hosps.

Eben J. Carey — Milwaukee, Dean and Prof.
Anat.,| Marquette Univ.

Everett N. Collins — Cleveland (R*)

Randolph F. Olmsted — Chicago and Park Ridge
(S-Oral), Rush; Presbyterian Hosp.; Res.
Surg. Presbyterian Hosp. 1926-27

Silber C. Peacock — Deceased

Ruth Elaine Taylor — Chicago, Univ. of Chicago

Jay Bailey Carter — Chicago (I*), Rush; Cook
County Hosp.

Herbert F. Fenwick — Chicago (ObG), North-
western Univ. ; Wesley Mem. Hosp. ; Capt.,
Reserve M.C. (Aviation), U.S.A. Plight Sur-
geon, U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce ; Res.
Surg. Presbyterian Hosp. 1925

William F. Kroener — Whittier, Calif. (Pd)

Clarence E. LaBier — Terre Haute, Ind. (I*)

Richard B. Richter — Chicago (NP*), Rush;
Billings Hospital

Frank Lowell Dunn — Omaha, Nebr. (I*)

Richard Watkins — Chicago (ALR*), Rush;
Presbyterian and Chicago Mem. Hosps.

Willard F. Hollenbeck — Portland, Ore. (I*)

Annette Mebane — Unknown

Cecil A. Raymond — Barberton, 0.

Louis P. River — Chicago and Oak Park (S),
Loyola Univ. ; Oak Park Hosp.

1925

David T. Proctor — Los Angeles, Calif. (T*),
Res. Phys. Presbyterian Hosp. 1926-27

George J. Rukstlnat — Chicago (Path*), Rush:
Presbyterian and Cook Co. Hosps.

Thomas A. Baird — Chicago^ Clinical Asst., Med.,
Rush

Arthur J. Atkinson — Chicago (I*), Northwest-
ern Univ. ; Passavant Hosp.

William M. McKay — Ogden, Utah

John S. Ashby — Chicago (I*), Rush

Mark L. Loring — Chicago (S*), Rush; Presby-
terian Hosp. ; Res. Phys. Presbyterian Hosp.
1929-30

Eleanor I. Leslie — Chicago and Evanston (Pd-*),
Rush; Presbyterian Hosp.

Samuel M. Creswell — Tacoma, Wash. (I*)

Ernest C. Janes — Hamilton, Ont., Can.

Alva A. Knight — Chicago (I*), Rush; Presby-
terian and Cook County Hosps.

Willis E. Gouwens — Chicago, Clin. Assoc, Med.,
Rush

George W. Koivun — Moline, 111.

James W. MacQueen — Birmingham, Ala., Hill-

Loren C. Sheffield — Pontiac, Mich. (U*)
Stanley E. Lawton — Chicago (S*), Rush; Pres-
byterian and Children's Mem. Hosps.
George F. C. Fasting — New Orleans, La. (Path*),
La. State Univ.

1926
Geo. Hubert Artis — Cedar Rapids (Pr)
Ivan C. Berry — Unknown
Anne S. Bohning — Chicago, Rush
Leo K. Campbell — Chicago (I*), Rush;

terian Hosp.
Ethel F. Cooper— -Peoria, 111. (ObG)
Arthur E. Diggs — Chicago (S*), Rush;

terian and Children's Mem. Hosps

M.C, I.N.G. ; Res. Surg. Presbyterii

1929-30
A. Alvin Fisher — Canton, O. (I'd*)
Norris J. Heckel— Chicago (U*), Rus

byterian Hosp.

LIST OF INTERNS

(1926 Continued)

Howard J. Holloway — Chicago and Evanston

(ObG), Rush
Ransome O. Jackson — Savannah, N. Y.
Hilger Perry Jenkins — Chicago (S*), Univ. of

Chicago
Clyde R. Jensen — Seattle, Wash. (I*)
Clayton J. Lundy — Chicago and Evanston (I*),
Rush (Asst. Prof, of Med. and in chg. Elec-
trocardiograph) ; Presbyterian Hosp.
Lome W. Mason — Evanston, 111., Northwestern
Univ.; Grove House, St. Francis and Evans-
ton Hosps.
Leslie K. MacClatchie — New York City
Lawrence L. McLellan — Philadelphia (I*)
James Edward McCarthy — Deceased
Charles D. Parker — Chicago,, Rush (G-U)
Howell S. Randolph — Phoenix, Ariz. (T). St.

Luke's Home
Mac Harper Seyfarth — Lanark, 111.
Geo. Black Stericker — Springfield, 111. (I*)
Daniel L. Woods — Los Angeles
Everett E. Kelly— Evanston, 111. (ObG)

1927
Edwin P. Jordan — Chicago (I*), Asst. Editor,

Journal of the A. M. A.
Carl F. Doehring — Rochester, Minn. (S), Mayo

Bert Van Ark — Eaton Rapids, Mich. (Pd)

Stella L. Davis — Santa Ana, Calif. (Pd)

John Dewey Skow — Toledo, O.

John P. Boland — Unknown

Chester A. Perrodin — Kankakee, 111. (U*)

Curtis Nelson — Deceased

George D. Tsoulos — Chicago (T), U. S. Marine,
Municipal Tuberculosis and Garfield Pk.
Hosps.

Ferris W. Thompson — Paia, Hawaii

Frederick G. Novy — Oakland, Calif. (D*)

Jerry DeVries — Marseiles, 111. (Ob)

J. Robert Doty — Gary, Ind. (ObG)

Robert Mowatt Muirhead — St. Louis, American
Nat'l Red Cross

Martha Bernheim — Chicago (ObG)

Frank V. Theis — Chicago (S*), Rush; Presby-
terian Hosp. (Vascular Therapy) ; St. Joseph's
Hosp.; Res. Surg. Presbyterian, 1928

1928

Stuyvesant Butler — Chicago (I*), Rush; Pres-
byterian Hosp.

Laurence E. Cooley — Dubuque, la. (I*); Res.
Phys. Presbyterian Hosp. 1930

Robert E. Johannesen — Chicago (I*), Rush;
Presbyterian Hosp.

Pat. A. Tuckwiller — Charleston, W. Va. (I*)

Roy E. Brackin — Kenilworth and Winnetka, 111.
(S)

James Harvey Crowder II — Sullivan, Ind. (S)

Donald Grubb — Asheville, N. C.

Fred O. Priest — Chicago (ObG*), Rush; Pres-
byterian Hosp.

Noel G. Shaw — Evanston, 111. (Pd), Rush; St.
Francis and Evanston Hosps.

Daniel L. Stormont — Evanston, 111.

Paul E. McMaster — Spokane. Wash.

Kenneth Rush Bell — Atlanta. Ga„ Emory Univ.

Frederick M. Doyle Kalamazoo. Mich. (T)

Huberta M. Livingstone — Chicago (Anes*),
Univ. of Chicago

Eldden J. Teeter — Cleveland, (). (I*)

John S. Wier — Fond du Lac. Wis. (ObG)

Otis O. Benson, Jr. March Field, Calif. (S),
Capt. M.C. U.S.A., Station Hosp.

Marion Minor Crane- Washington, D.C. (Pd*).
Children's Bureau, V. S. Dept. of Labor

Rodney S. Starkweather — Evanston, 111, (!'*)

Thomas Dey Wright — Newton. la.

Paul C. Samson — Ann Arbor, Mich., University

Louis James Needels — Leroy, 111. (Pd)

ANNOUNCEMENT

Names of those who have served intern-
ships from 1929 to date will be published in
the February number of our Bulletin. We
also desire to hear from any former interns
listed in this issue who may have served as
Senior House Officers in earlier years or as
Residents in later years, as we have inade-
quate records of Residents prior to 1914.

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MRS. ERNEST E. IRONS
HEADS WOMAN'S BOARD;

MRS. GRAHAM IS HONORED

Mrs. David W. Graham was re-elected
honorary president and Mrs. Ernest E.
Irons was named president of the Wom-
an's Board of the Presbyterian Hospital
at the annual meeting on Jan. 3. Mrs.
Irons succeeds Mrs. Clyde E. Shorey,
who had been the highly efficient leader
of the women for two years and whose
recent illness necessitated temporary ces-
sation of organisation activities. Mrs.
Graham is the only living member of
the first Ladies Aid Society organised to
assist the hospital 54 years ago this
spring and she still participates actively
in the work of the board. Mrs. Irons is
the wife of Dr. Irons, chairman of the
department of medicine in Rush Medical
College and former dean of the college.
Mrs. John P. Ment^er is a new vice-
president. Other officers were re-elected.

New members of the executive com-
mittee for the term ending in 1940 are:
Mrs. Horace W. Armstrong, Mrs.
George H. Bristol, Mrs. Scott Bromwell,
Mrs. H. C. Patterson, Mrs. Ralph C.
Otis and Mrs. J. Hall Taylor. The board
raised $27,563 in 1937 to aid the hospi-
tal in various ways. A detailed report
of the work of the various committees
and the hospital departments sponsored
by the Woman's Board will appear m a
future issue of the Bulletin and also in
the Annual Report published by the
hospital.

Dr. C. Rufus Rorem, Ph.D., Director
of the Hospital Service Committee of the
American Hospital Association, gave an
informative talk on "Hospital Care
Insurance."

HOSPITAL BED PATIENTS
TOTAL 12,108 IN 1937;

920 BABIES ARE BORN

NEW "IRON LUNG"

The Presbyterian Hospital recently in-
stalled an improved type of respirator or
"iron lung." Miss Mary Dee McTag-
gart, 17 year-old infantile paralysis vic-
tim is the first patient to use it. Miss
McTaggart became ill in July and was
admitted to the Municipal Contagious
Disease Hospital, where her life was
saved by the iron lung belonging to that
institution. When transferred to Pres-
byterian on Dec. 1, she had improved so
that it was necessary for her to stay in
the iron lung only part of the time and
doctors believe that the paralised muscles
of the diaphragm eventually will be re-
stored to normal function so that the iron
lung can be. dispensed with. The new
lung just installed at Presbyterian is an
improvement over those previously used,
a principal feature being that the portion
on which the patient lies can be rotated
to change his position, whereas in the
old type the patient had to lie in one
position continuously.

On Wednesday, Jan. 19, the Presby-
terian Hospital Society will hold its 5 5 th
annual meeting in the hospital chapel,
following luncheon at 12:15 P.M.

The reports to be presented will re-
veal that 12,108 patients were cared for
in hospital beds in 1937, an increase of
605 over 1936. Visits of ambulatory pa-
tients to our examining and treatment
rooms totalled 31,350. Of the bed pa-
tients cared for 1,998 were children un-
der 14 years old, of whom 786 were en-
tirely free. Most of these free child pa-
tients occupied Cheer-up and Tag Day
beds endowed through the efforts of the
Woman's Board.

Births m the hospital numbered 920
an increase of 86 over the preceding
year. The Out-Patient Obstetrical de-
partment maintained jointly by the hos-
pital, Rush Medical College and Central
Free Dispensary, delivered 5 53 babies in
homes. As usual only about one-third of
the total number of patients admitted to
hospital beds paid in full the charges for
care received, others being admitted as
free or part-pay patients.

38th CHRISTMAS HERE

Mr. Asa S. Bacon, superintendent of
the Presbyterian Hospital, spent his
38th consecutive Christmas in the hos-
pital. Since his first Christmas in the
hospital in 1900, it has grown from an
institution of 140 beds to one having 400
beds for patients. Its attending medical
staff, all of whom are appointed from
the faculty of Rush Medical College, has
increased from 29 to 114. More than
300,000 patients have been admitted to
the beds of the hospital since 1900 and
as many more ambulatory patients have
been cared for in the examining and
treatments rooms of the hospital.

SPREAD CHRISTMAS CHEER

Twenty-nine Christmas baskets, 365 toys
and many other gifts and delicacies were
distributed to needy families by the Hospital
Social Service department. The Chicago
Rotary Club donated 1 5 baskets, the Good
Fellows provided 10, and Mrs. Baird, Mrs.
Shorey, Mrs. Irons, Mrs. A. B. Deck each
gave one basket. Toys were donated by the
Frances Parker school, the Junior League, 12
churches and several Woman's Board mem-
bers. Others donated oranges, candy and
clothing. Junior League volunteers trimmed
trees for three wards, wrapped packages and
otherwise assisted with Christmas activities.

Ice cream and cake were served and toys,
candy and fruit distributed to 1 JO children
at the annual Christmas party given by the
nurses .it Spraguc Home. Guests included
children of hospital employes and Irom the
community.

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CHRISTMAS BABIES ARE GIRLS;

NEW YEAR ARRIVALS ARE BOYS

Santa Claus prefers girls while Father Time
is partial to boys if our Christmas and New
Year babies, respectively, are any criteria.
Two baby girls were born in our maternity |
department on Christmas day as follows:

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pachter, Belmont Sta- j
tion, Downers Grove, daughter, Carol Jean,
was born at 4:58 A.M. Weight — 7 lbs., 4|/2 !

OZS.

Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Kroncke, 363 5 W.
Shakespeare Ave., daughter, Mary Jeanne, {
born at 7:25 A.M. Weight — 7 lbs., 12 ozs.

Our first 1938 babies born on New Year
day were boys as follows:

Mr. and Mrs. Einar Peterson, 103 5 N.
Lamon Ave. are the parents of our first 1938 ]
baby, born at 2:43 A.M. He weighed 7 lbs., j
9 ozs. and has been named Niel Einar Krogh.

At 9:00 A.M. a son weighing 6 lbs., 14'
ozs. was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Hutchins
of 707 Hill Road Winnetka, 111.

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL

OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

1753 W. CONGRESS STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Telephone: Seeley 7171

OFFICERS and MANAGERS

JOHN McKINLAY President

HORACE W. ARMSTRONG Vice-President I

CHARLES B. GOODSPEED Vice-President

SOLOMON A. SMITH Treasurer •

KINGMAN DOUGLASS Secretary

FRED S. BOOTH Asst. Secretary

A. J. WILSON Asst. Secretary

Arthur G. Cable Fred A. Poor

Alfred T. Carton Theodore A. Shaw

Albert B. Dick, Jr. Rev. John Timothy
John B. Drake Stone, D.D.

James B. Forgan, Jr. R. Douglas Stuart

Albert D. Farwell Robert Stevenson

Alfred E. Hamill J. Hall Taylor

Charles H. Hamill John P. Welling

Edw. D. McDougal, Jr. Edward F. Wilson

CLERICAL MANAGERS

Rev. Harrison Ray Anderson, D.D.

Rev. Harold L. Bowman, D.D.

Rev. Alvyn R. Hickman, D.D.

Rev. W. Clyde Howard, D.D.

MEDICAL BOARD

VERNON C. DAVID, M.D. President

WOMAN'S BOARD

MRS. CLYDE E. SHOREY President

ADMINISTRATION

ASA S. BACON Superintendent

HERMAN HENSEL Asst. Superintendent

M. HELENA McMILLAN ... Director, School of Nursing

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL BULLETIN
Florence Slown Hyde, Editor

The Presbyterian Hospital of the City of
Chicago is an Illinois not-for-profit corpora-
tion, organized July 21, 1883, for the purpose
of affording surgical and medical aid, and
nursing, to sick and disabled persons of every
creed, nationality, and color. Its medical staff
is appointed from the faculty of Rush Medical
College of the University of Chicago.

The Board of Managers call attention to
the need of gifts and bequests for endowment
and for the general purposes of the hospital.

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February, 1938

Vol. 30, No. 2

NEW IRON LUNG AIDS RECOVERY OF GIRL PATIENT

Physical Therapy Also Used in

Treatment of Infantile

Paralysis Victim

With the aid of the new rotating, tilt
type "iron lung" installed a few weeks
ago, Mary Dee McTaggart, 17-year old
victim of infantile paralysis, is making
excellent progress toward recovery. The
breathing function has been sufficiently
restored so that Mary Dee could get
along fairly well without being placed in
the respirator at all but, in order to car-
ry out the strenuous physical therapy
program needed for the reconditioning
of other affected muscles, doctors have
found that she relaxes and sleeps more
restfully if placed in the respirator each
night.

In addition to the paralysis of the
muscles of the diaphragm which pre-
vented normal lung action but which has
now been overcome to a large extent,
both arms have been practically useless
and other body muscles affected to some
extent.

Physical therapy consisting of heat,
massage and manipulation of the joints
is being used and special appliances have
been constructed to exercise hands and
arms in a normal manner. A special
tank has been installed to afford exercise
of the body in water of a suitable
temperature.

Has Many Uses

The "iron lung" also is useful in vari-
ous other types of respiratory failure
such as result from monoxide poisoning,
suffocation, electric shock, drowning or
rare cases of post-anesthetic collapse. It
is equally useful in cases of temporary
paralysis of the respiratory center re-
sulting from injury to the spinal column.
'By employing this mechanical means of
compressing the lungs and forcing the
air in and out, the life of the patient is
saved until surgery relieves the paralysis.

NEW TYPE OF IRON LUNG IS INSTALLED

The above picture of the new respirator or "iron lung" recently installed in Presbyterian
Hospital shows how it may be tilted to lower or raise the head of the patient. The patient lies
comfortably with only her head protruding. A sponge-like rubber collar fits around the neck.
The part on which the head and body of patient rests may be rotated to one side or the other,
enabling the patient to lie on either side. In the old type of respirator the patient had to lie on
the back continuously. The bellows underneath the cylinder is operated by electricity so that air
is rhythmically pumped into and out of the cylinder. If power should fail at any time, the lever
shown on the floor in front of the respirator can be attached to pump the bellows by hand. The
nurse is Miss Dixie Schmidt. Mary Dee McTaggart is the patient and the intern is Dr. Joe E.
Brown.

Her superb courage and charming per-
sonality have endeared Mary Dee
McTaggart to all of the nurses who have
ministered to her needs since she was
admitted to our hospital Dec. 1. During
the recent drive in the interest of the
new National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, 100 of our student nurses con-
tributed a penny each to pay for a
Founders membership which was pre-
sented to Mary Dee as a tribute to her
courage and cheerfulness.

Wolter - Nathans

Miss Elisabeth Wolter and Mr. Roy
C. Neuhaus were married on Feb. 6 at
Calvary Presbyterian Church, Chicago,
by the Rev. Eldon A. Brown. They
have gone to Glendale, Calif, to reside.
Miss Wolter has been employed as
secretary to the Director of Nursing for
three years. Her successor is Mrs. Lois
Gotthart.

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING IN SPECIALTIES IS GIVEN

Hospital Approved by American

Medical Association for

Advanced Teaching

With the advances made in specialised
branches of medicine and surgery oppor-
tunities for hospital training in these
specialties are being utilized by graduate
students, who accept positions as resi-
dents in our hospital, which is one of
those approved by the American Medical
Association for giving such training.

In the early days of the hospital there
was a Medical Superintendent under
whose direction Senior House Officers
(Interns) did the work now done by
postgraduate residents. Later doctors
who had previously completed intern-
ships covering the regulation period, con-
tinued as residents but in most of the
annual reports prior to 1914 they were
not designated under this title, but
merely listed as members on the House
Staff.

Those designated as residents prior to
1914 were as follows:

1901-1902
Alexander F. Stevenson (Chicago), Resident

Physician
Harry W. Horn (Wichita), Resident Surgeon

Joseph F. Smith (Wansau, Wis.). Resident
Physician

1902-1909
Peter Bassoe (Chicago), Asst. Resident Pathol-

1906-1908
J. Frank Waugh (Chicago), Medical Examiner

Resident Pathologists listed between
1909 and 1923 were:

David J. Davis (Chicago), 1909-11
A. M. Moody (San Francisco). 1911-14
Homer K. Nicoll (Chicago), 1914-15
Burrell O. Raulston (Los Angeles), 1915-21
Harry A. Oberhelman (Chicago), 1921-23

From 192 3 to the present time, Dr.
Carl Apfelbach has been in charge of
our pathology laboratory, various resi-
dents and interns being assigned as
assistants from year to year. Dr. Apfel-
bach was resident physician on the 1922-
23 staff and became resident pathologist
in 192 3 instead of 1924 as stated in the
intern data in the January Bulletin.

Second Resident Surgeon

The second resident surgeon whose
name appears in an annual report was
Dr. Gatewood who served from 1014 to
1919. Dr. Donald P. Abbott (Deceased)
and Dr. Russell M. Wilder (Rochester,
Minn.) were listed as resident physicians
from 1915 to 1919.

Due to lack of space information
about others, who served as residents
following internships here, is included in
that given in the List of Interns, pub-
lished in the January Bulletin and con-

tinued in this issue. Residencies often
overlap from one year into the next but,
for the sake of brevity, an attempt has
been made to list only the year in which
the service was completed in the case of
one-year appointments, while inclusive
dates are given for those serving two or
more years.

Of 30 interns who are known to have
served as residents following completion
of internships, 1 1 are members of our
present Medical Staff. Residents who
came to us after completing internships
elsewhere and who are now on the
Medical Staff are as follows:

Francis H. Straus, Resident Surgeon, 1920-23
Edgar C. Turner, Resident Surgeon, 1926
Frank V. Theis. Resident Surgeon, 1927-28
Earle Gray, Resident Physician, 1931
A. Louis Rosi, Resident Surgeon, 1932
Linden J. Wallner, Laryngoiogist and Otologist,

1930-31
George E. Shambaugh, Jr., Laryngoiogist and

Otologist, 1932-34

Other residents whose names do not
appear in the List of Interns included
the following:

Leland C. Shafer, Res. Phys. 1920 — Chicago

(I*-) St. Joseph's Hosp.
William J. Gallagher, Res. Surg. 1923-24 — Chi-

Bemard P. Mullen, Res. Surg. 1924-25 — Seattle,

Wash. (S*)
Jacob Holderman, Res. ALR. 1925 — Deceased

about two years ago.
Alva H. Gibson, Res. Pd. 1927 — Deceased in 1929
Lewis W. Woodruff, Res. Phys. 1928 — Joliet, 111.
Joseph P. Sparks, Res. Surg. 1928 — Peoria, 111.
Alfred D. Biggs, Res. Pd. 1928 — Chicago (Pd*)

St. Luke's Hosp.
Lawrence E. Henderson, Res. Oph. 1928 — Water-
town, N. Y. (Oph*)
Byron K. Rust, Res. Pd. 1929 — Indianapolis

(Pd*)
Elmer A. Vorisek, Res. Oph. 1928-29 — Chicago

and Oak Park (Oph*) Children's Mem.

Hosp., First Lieut. M.R., U.S.A.
Ernest S. Watson, Res. Pd. 1930 — Elmhurst ami

Glen Ellyn, 111.
George P. Guibor, Res. Oph. 1930-31 — Chicago

(ALR*) Northwestern Univ.
Arthur E. Boysen, Res. Pd. 1931 — Pharr, Tex.

(I'd)
Merlyn George Henry, Res. Surg. 1931 — Los

Angeles (IndS)
Clifford C. Fulton, Res. Sm-g. 1931 — Oklahoma

City (S)
Job T. Cater, Res. Oph.

Ala.
Philip A. Mulherin, Res. Pd.

William D. Irwin, Res.

Mich. (OALR*)
Samuel Brown, Res. O

111. (OALR)
Arthur Allan Scharf, Res, Oph.

-Montgom
-Augusta.
—Kahuna

1933 — East Moline,
1934 — Saskatoon,
Archibald O. Olson, Res. A.LR. 1935— Hendricks,

Minn.

Fred B. Cooper, Res. ()ph. 1935— Kansas City,
Mo.

Joseph M. Cameron, Res. Neurologist and Neuro-
surgeon, 1936 — Pittsburgh, Pa.

George V. Hermann, Res. I'd. 1936 — Kansas
City. Mo.

Ben W. Bird, Jr., Res. AI.R. 1936 — Princeton,
W. Va.

Sol Rome, Res. Oph. 1936 -Chicago. Ml. Sinai
Hosp.

In the 1924 Intern List (January
Bulletin) we inadvertently failed to in-
clude in data about Dr. Richard W.

Watkins, the fact that he was resident

laryngoiogist and otologist, 1926-29, in-
clusive.

Completed Service in 1937

Following are those who completed
residencies m 1937:

Frank W. Blatchford, Resident Physician

H. Sidney Heersma, Resident Pediatrician

Philip Shambaugh, Resident Surgeon

Paul S. Woodall, Resident Obstetrician and

Gynecologist
Clarence A. Darnell anil Milton R. Rubin, Re

dent Laryngologists and Otologists
Otto L. Siewert and Perry W. Ross, Resident

Ophthalmologists
Gurth Carpenter, Asst. Resident Pathologist
Paul Doehriiig, Asst. Resident Pathologist
Robert Rutherford, Asst. Resident Pathologist

Present Resident Staff

Roland L. Kesler, Resident Physician
Erhard R. W. Fox and John Olwin, Reside

Andrew J. Weiss, Resident Pediatrician
William C. Fisher, Resident Neurologist andi|

Paul Hurwitz and Gerald E. Schneider. Resident'

Ophthalmologists
S. W. Hughes and Ralph W. Rucker, Resident!

Laryngologists and Otologists
Hugo Baum, Resident Obstetrician and Gynecol--

Henry H. Halley, Jr., Asst. Resident Pathologist
Russell C. Hanselman, Asst. Resident Pathologist
Norbert Lilleberg, Obstetrician on Out-Patient

Service
Dr. Rex Palmer was substitute Resident Surgeon

from Sept. 1, 1937 to Jan. 1, 1938.

KEY TO SPECIALTIES

In the data published herein about former
interns, symbols used to designate specialties
are those used in American Medical As
directory as follows:

S — Surgery.

IndS — Industrial Surgery.

Ob — Obstetrics.

G — Gynecology.

ObG — Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Or — Orthopedic Surgery.

Pr — Proctology.

U— Urology.

D — Dermatology.

Oph — Ophthalmology.

ALR — Otology, Laryngology. Rhinology.

OALR — Ophthalmology, Otology, Laryngol-
ogy, Rhinology.

Pd — Pediatrics.

N — Neurology.

P — Psychiatry.

NP — Neurology and Psychiatry.

I* — Internal Medicine.

T — Tuberculosis.

Anes — Anesthesia.

CP— Clinical Pathology.

R — Roentgenology, Radiology.

Path — Pathology.

Bact — Bacteriology.

A star following the sy
rson listed limits his pr

idicates that the
to that specialty.

Other Abbreviations

Other abbreviations which may not be
self-explanatory are:

S-Oral— Oral Surgery.
Pharm —Pharmacology.
G-U — Geni to-Urinary Surgery.

Res — Resident on Staff of Hospital list.
P-R— Postgraduate.

Teaching positions in medical schools are
designated by giving the name of the Univer-
sity of which the school is a part, except that
name "Rush" is used to indicate those on the
faculty of that college, now a part of the
University of Chicago, while the University
designation indicates that the person is a
member of the South Side faculty.

Hospital staff connections, if known, are
indicated wherever names of hospitals are in'
eluded in the data.

LIST OF INTERNS

Those who served as interns in the
Presbyterian Hospital from 1884 to 1929
were listed in the January Bulletin,
which was dedicated to our interns, past
and present. The list of interns from
1929 to date is presented herewith. For
Key to Symbols and Abbreviations see
page 2. The following names are listed
under the year in which each internship
began :

1929
Horace G. Scott — Minneapolis (S)
Henry K. Jacobs — Chicago,, Univ. of Chicago

Clinics
Ralph W. Beardsley — Livermore, la.
John A. Fisher — Cincinnati (U*)
Warren Matthews — Atlanta, (ia.. Emory Univ.
Ralph H. Fouser — Chicago (S), Rush; West

Suburban, Oak Park and Garfield Pk. Hosps.
Harry Bunyan Burr — Houston, Tex.
James R. Shamblin — Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Libuse Kostelecky — Unknown
James I. Wargin — Los Angeles
Wayne Gordon — Chicago, Univ. of Chicago
Elbert Van Buren — Atlanta, (ia. (I*). Emory

Frederic R. Isaacs — Lawrence, Kan. (ObG)
Adelbert L. Dippel — Baltimore, .Johns Hopkins

Hosp. (Res.)
Ivanoel Gibbons — Ambala, Punjab, India
Ernest L. Stebbins — Albany, N. Y., State Dept.

of Health
Evan Mansfield Barton — Chicago, Rush; Presby-

John Wesley Foster — Chicago (I*)
Lawrence A. Williams — Indianapolis, Ind. (I-*)
William J. Kirby — Chicago (I*), Rush; Pres-
byterian Hosp.
Thomas D. Masters — Springfield, 111. (I*)
John Allen Wilson — St. Paul, Minn. (I*)
Willard L. Wood— Chicago (I*). Rush; Pres-

M. Meredith Baumgartner — Janesville, Wis. (I*)
Sarah Elizabeth McFetridge — Shepherdstown, W.
Va. (Anes)

1930
Carl Edwin Carlson — Aitkin, Minn.
William S. Elliott — Newark. 111.
Martha Kohl — Eau Claire, Wis. (ObG)
William Stauffer — Allentown, Pa.
John Talbot Gernon — Chicago (U*), Univ. of

111.; Lake View Hosp.
Theodore H. Gasteyer — Oaklawn, 111.
Frances E. Wynekoop — Chicago (Anes), Rush
John C. Bennett — Deceased

John M. Dorsey — Chicago (S*), Rush; Presby-
terian and Cook Co. Hosps.
Hugh A. Edmonson — Pasadena, Calif.
Glenn G. Ehrler — Downers Grove, 111.
G. William Fox — Milwaukee. Wis. (S*)
R. Kennedy Gilchrist — Chicago (S), Rush;

Presbyterian Hosp.; Res. Surg. Presbyterian

Hosp. 1932-34
William P. Harbin, Jr. — Rome. Ga. (I*)
Henry Nelson Harkins — Chicago (S), Univ. of

Chicago
Wm. Roy Hewitt — Tucson, Ariz. (I*)
Paul H. Herron — Spokane, Wash. (Pd), Res.

Pd. Presbyterian Hosp. 1933
Luke W. Hunt — Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Clin.
Edward K. Martin — Frankfort, Ky. (ObG)
Elwood W. Mason — Milwaukee, Wis., Res. Phys.

Presbyterian Hosp. 1932-34
Howard J. Morrison — Savannah, Ga. (Pd*)
Wilmot F. Pierce — Oak Park, 111.
William I. Sadler— Unknown
Robert F. Sharer — Chicago (S), Loyola Univ.
Glenn Wm. Toomey — Devils Lake, N. D.

1931
Eugene A. Ockuly — Toledo, O. (U*)
Ralph E. J. Le Master — Marion. Ind.
Harry Boysen — Chicago (ObG), Rush; Presby-
terian Hosp.
Lemuel C. McGee — Elkins, W. Va., Davis Mem.

Hosp.
James R. Webster — Chicago (D*), Rush; Cook

County Hosp.
Cornelius B. Wood — Clare, Mich. (S)

(1931 Continued)

Myron M. Weaver — Indianapolis, Ind.

John M. Waugh — Rochester, Minn. (S*), Mayo

Clinic
William M. McGrath— Grand Island, Nebr.. Res.

Phys. Presbyterian Hosp. 1934-35
Arvid Johnson — Rockford, III. (I*)
Clarence K. Elliott — Lincoln, Nebr. (I*)
John M. Scott- Canton, O. (ObG*)
Theodore M. Ebers — Los Angeles
Virginia Trelease — Iowa City, Ia. (Mrs. Frank

Huff), University Hosp.
O. Theodore Roberg, Jr. — Chicago (S), Swedish

Egbert H. Fell— Chicago (S), Rush: Presby-
terian Hosp.; Res. Surg. Presbyterian Hosp.
1935-3fi

Chester B. Davis — Lincoln, 111.

James W. Hubly — Rochester, Minn., Mayo Clin.

John W. Peelen — Kalamazoo. Mich.; Res. ObG
Presbyterian Hosp. 1931

1932
Armin F. Schick — Chicago
Charles W. Eisele — Chicago, Univ. of Chicago

Clinics
Frank A. Remde — Bottineau. N. Dak.
Robert P. Lytle — Cleveland, O. (U*)
Arthur W. Burgess — Iowa Falls, Ia. (S)
H. Weston Benjamin — Boston, Mass.. Boston

Dispensary
Louis J. Geerlings — Picher, Okla.
John Harold Mills — Rochester, Minn., Mayo Clin.
Fred M. Marquis — Waterloo, Ia.
Bernard S. Kalayjian — Indianapolis, Methodist

Episcopal Hosp. (Res.)
Hamilton H. Greenwood — Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Clarence W. Monroe — Oak Park, 111.; Res. Surg.

Presbyterian Hosp. 1935-36
Harvey C. Roll — Chicago, Clin. Asst. Med., Rush
Harry L. Schwartz — Kenosha, Wis. (ObG)
Carl A. Smith — Los Angeles (Path*)
Frank B. Papierniak — Cleveland
Paul G. Schmidt, Jr. — Cottonwood, Minn.
Wm. Mary Stephens — Chicago (NP), Children's

Mem. Hosp. (Res.)
Harold Judd Noyes — Chicago, Rush: Presbyterian

Hosp.
Carl Geo. Ashley — Portland. Ore. (Pd*)
Edgar Andrew Rygh — Highland Park, 111. (ObG)
K. M. Grant — Halifax, Nova Scotia
Paul Gordon Tobin — Elgin, 111.
Philip O. C. Johnson — Seattle, Wash.
W. R. Albus — Fort Sheridan, 111.
David Frank Loeweu — New York City, Bellevue

Hosp. (Res.)

1933

Allen K. Cameron — Detroit
Edwin F. Neckermann — Elmhurst. 111. (I*)
Frederick B. Zombro — Los Angeles (U)
C. Jack Harrison — Chicago (Pd). Rush; Presby-
terian Hosp., Res. Pd. 1935
Stanton A. Friedberg — Chicago
Marvin Merton Dickey — Richmond, 111.
Ralph L. Hawkins — Boston, Mass. Eye and Ear

Infirmary (Res.)
George W. Warrick — Birmingham, Ala.
Walker B. Henderson — Kemmercr, Wyo.
J. Harrrs Timermap — Chicago
George A. McNaughton — Toronto. Ont., Can. ;

Res. I'd. Presbyterian Hosp. 1934
Roger C. Henderson — Clifton,; O.
Matthew McKirdie — Iowa City, Ia. University

Hosp. (Res. Surg.)
Reuben B. Gaines — Chicago (U*), Alexian

Brothers and 111. Masonic Hosps.
Kenneth R. Nelson — San Francisco, P. A. Surg.,

U. S. P. H. S., U. S. Marine Hosp.
Oram C. Woolpert— Columbus, O. (Bact), Ohio

State Univ.
Carl Fred'k Hammerstrom — Detroit, Henrv Ford

Keith S. Grimson— Chicago, U. of C. Clinics
Max Marvin Goldstein — Fresno, Calif.
Cecil Charles Draa — Chicago (ObG), Clin. Asst.
Rush; Asst. to Dr. E. I). Allen

1934
John W. Devereux — Honolulu. Hawaii
Frank W. Blatchford — Winnetka, 111.
Wm. Lorenz Haltom — Durham, S. C.

Diik<

Robert Lee Currie — Houston, Ter. (ObG)
Louis H. Kermott, Jr. — Rochester, .Mayo Clinic
Robert S. Westpahl — Bingham Canyon, Utah
Robert W. W. Phillips— Wheeling, W.Ya.
Henry Herman Young — Rochester, Minn.. Man
Clinic

(1934 Continued)

Herbert C. Breuhaus — Chicago (Beverly Hills),
Clin. Asst. in Med., Rush

James W. Merricks — Chicago, Asst. to Dr.
Robert H. Herbst

Ashley M. Brand — Chicago

William C. Smail Meridian, Idaho

Lucian A. Smith — Rochester, Minn., Mayo Clinic;
Rochester State Hosp.

Hollis F. Garrard— Brooklyn, N. Y., Kings Coun-
ty Hosp.

Henry S. Dickerman, Jr. — Chicago

E. Seymour Burge — St. Anthony, Newfoundland,
(irenfell Hosp.

John R. Durburg — Chicago

John T. Hauch — Preston, Ont.. Can.

Wm. Garrett Winter, Jr. — Holland, Mich.

Roland L. Kesler — Chicago, Res. Phys. Presby-
terian Hosp.

Randall G. Sprague — Rochester. Mayo Clinic

1935

Edwin Simon Murphy — Joliet. 111.

John H. Olwin — Chicago, Res. Surg. Presbyterian
Hosp.

William E. Looby — Highland Park, 111.

Keitt H. Smith — Greenville. S. C.

Hugo Carl Baum — Chicago, Res. ObG, Presby-
terian Hosp.

Willard G. DeYoung — Chicago

William D. Warrick — Chicago, Asst. to Dr. H.
L. Kretsclimer

Gilbert B. Greene — Birmingham, Ala.

Sidney P. Waud — Chicago

Charles P. Brown — Norfolk, Va.

John Edward Tysell — Chicago. Asst. to Dr. J. B.
Eyerly

Rex H. Wilson — Akron. 0.

Bert G. Nelson — Chicago. Asst. to l>r. Wilber

H. Sidney Heersma — Kalamazoo, Mich.

Felix S. Alfenito, Jr. — New York City

Joseph R. Bennett — Chicago

Franklin K. Gowdy — Brooklyn, N. Y., Kings

County Hosp.
Robert B. Cragin — San Jose, Calif.
Arthur W. Fleming — Chicago. Clin. Asst. Med..

Rush
Robert B. Rutherford — Boston. Mass. Gen. Hosp.
Charles P. Catalano — New York City

1936
Robert C. Ranquist — Chicago. Asst. to Dr. 0. S.

Ormsby
Isaiah Wiles— Chicago. Central Free Dispensary
Moses John Holdsworth — Grand Rapids, Mich.
Paul C. Doehring, Jr. — Rochester, Minn., Mayo

Clinic
Lamont R. Schweiger — Rochester, Minn., Mayo

Russell C. Hanselman — Chicago, Asst. Res. Path.,

William T. Black, Jr. — Memphis, Tenn.

Harry E. Brown — Chicago

Milton H. Ivens — McLeansboro, 111.

Gurth Carpenter — Chicago, Billings Hosp.

Richard D. Pettit — Chicago, Billings Hosp.

Donald A. McCannel — Minot, N. Dak.

Travis A. French — Boston

Willard G. Thurston — St. Louis

Louis A. McRae — Chicago, Asst. to Dr. N. S.

Heaney
Heinz 0. E. Hoffman — Rochester, Minn., Mayo

Clinic
Kempton L. German — Joliet, 111.

Interns whose service began in 1930 and has
not yet been completed are: Francis M. Lyle,
J. John Westra and Chester H. Waters, Jr.

1937

Those who began i
still on the stair are:
Francis J. Phillips
Fred Jensen
Thomas W. Reul
Charles A. Barnes
Robert A. Orr
Joe R. Brown
Michael O'Heeron
Carl W. Olander
Wesley H. Anderson
Henry E. Wilson, Jr.

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Arch S. Morrow
Robert T. Bandi
T. Wilson McVety
Ann Huizinga
Nathan C. Plimpton
Albe M. Watkins
Paul Goodman
Philip M. Howard
Ralph Hibbs
Rollin Bunch

Franklin B. Mead Robert Augustine

Michael Joseph Dardas

New Equipment, Furnishings and Repairs Cost
#95,426 in 1937 — More Improvements Planned

New equipment, furnishings and repairs involved an expenditure of $95,426 in
1937 according to the report presented at the annual meeting of the Hospital Society,
Jan. 19, by Mr. John McKinlay, president of the Board of Managers. Mr. McKinlay
also announced that additional improvements and replacements have been scheduled
for the near future. Important among the latter will be a newly remodeled and equip-
ped suite for pre-mature and other immature infants, 40 new cribs of an improved
type for the infant wards, two additional

examining rooms on the first floor, new
canopy of fitting design for the main en-
trance, and refurnishing of at least 12
private rooms. Other replacements, im-
provements and repairs also are planned.
New equipment installed in 1937 in-
cluded an improved type of respirator
(iron lung), four new X-ray units and a
new electro-surgical unit. Infants and
children's wards were equipped with
glass cubicles as a safeguard against
spread of infections. Six private rooms
were redecorated and refurnished. Re-
decorating or other improvements were
carried out in several departments.

Expenses Total #1,056,275

Bequests and other contributions to-
ward endowment and in the form of
special gifts amounted to $85,241. The
hospital expended $1,056,275 for all pur-
poses in 1937, of which $165,428 repre-
sented the cost of care given to free
patients.

Highlights from the report of Mr. Asa
S. Bacon, superintendent, were published
in our January Bulletin. Others who
spoke briefly at the annual meeting were
Dr. Emmet B. Bay, dean of Rush Medi-
cal College; Dr. Vernon C. David, presi-
dent of the Medical Board; Dr. E. Z.
Irons, former dean of Rush Medical Col-
lege and head of the hospital medical
service; Dr. George W. Duvall, super-
intendent of Central Free Dispensary;
Mrs. Ernest E. Irons, president of the
Woman's Board; and Miss M. Helena
McMillan, director of the School of
Nursing.

All officers and board members whose
terms expired this year were reelected.

GIVES PUPPET SHOW

ible

Patients who were well enough to asse:
in the chapel Saturday afternoon, Jan. 2 2,
were delightfully entertained with a puppet
show, presented by Mr. Burr Tillstrohm, pro-
fessional puppeteer and his troupe of small
performers. The entertainment was arranged
by Mrs. Clement Pollock, chairman of the en-
tertainment committee of the Woman's Board,
who with members of her committee pushed
wheel chairs and otherwise assisted patients
from wards and rooms to the chapel.

public 1
23 unde

Dr. Ernest E. Irons gave
at Goodman Theatre, Jan. 23 under the
auspices of the Chicago Medical Society on
the topic "The Problem of Arthritis and Its
Causes."

SCHOOL OF NURSING

WILL ADMIT SPRING

CLASS IN LATE MARCH

In her report at the annual meeting
of the Hospital Society, Miss M. Helena
McMillan, director of the School of
Nursing and superintendent of nurses
in the hospital, announced that a spring
class will be admitted to the school the
latter part of March. A special course
in public health nursing was added to
the curriculum last fall.

April 3 is the date selected by the
School of Nursing Committee for the
annual benefit bridge party to be given
at Sprague Home. This is the only bene-
fit affair given during the year under the
auspices of the Woman's Board, which
raises its funds mainly through direct
contributions. The bridge party is an oc-
casion for friends of the school to gather
socially and assist in providing funds for
scholarships and loans and to pay the
salary of a director for the Florence
Nightingale chorus. The chorus, di-
rected by Mr. Birch will present a group
of songs for the entertainment of those
who attend the party. Reservations for
tables at $5 each will be received at the
Woman's Board meeting on March 7,
by Mrs. Alva A. Knight, chairman, and
members of the committee.

Corrections and Additions

Following are some of the corrections and
additions which should be made in the List of
Interns as published in the January Bulletin:

E. J. Mellish (1886-87)— Deceased
Charles Dewey Center (1896)- Deceased in 1934
Frank W. Miller (1896) — Deceased, Dec. L937
following a stroke in his home in Los Angeles.
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WHO WANTS REUNION?
Attention of all former interns and resi-
dents is called to the article on page 2 in the
January Bulletin suggesting that a reunion
be held during 1938. We have received a
number of responses to date but should hear
from many more before taking further steps I
looking toward such an event. Read the
propositions as outlined by Dr. Rudolph
Holmes (1895) in the above mentioned
article and send your views at once to the
editor of the Bulletin.

SPECIAL NOTICE
All former interns and others are urged
to send at once to the editor of the Bulletin,
corrections as to spelling, dates, present loca-
tion, etc. pertaining to names appearing in
the List of Interns published in this and the
January issues, such data being desired for
our permanent records.

INTERNS ORGANIZE

Our present Intern and Resident Staff re-
cently formed an organization of which Dr.
Thomas W. Reul is president and Dr. Joe E.
Brown, secretary. Dr. Reul, Dr. Frances J.
Phillips and Dr. R. L. Kesler comprise the
executive committee.

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL

OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

1753 W. CONGRESS STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Telephone: Seeley 7171

OFFICERS and MANAGERS

JOHN McKINLAY

HORACE W. ARMSTRONG
CHARLES B. GOODSPEED

SOLOMON A. SMITH

KINGMAN DOUGLASS

FRED S. BOOTH

A. J. WILSON

President

...Vice-President

.Vice-President

Treasurer

Secretary

..Asst. Secretary

Asst. Secretary

Arthur G. Cable
Alfred T. Carton
Albert B. Dick, Jr.
John B. Drake
James B. Forgan, J
Albert D. Farwell
Alfred E. Hamill
Charles H. Hamill
Edw. D. McDougal

thy

Fred A. Poor
Theodore A. !
Rev. John Tir
Stone, D.D.
R. Douglas Stuart
Robert Stevenson
J. Hall Taylor
John P. Welling
Edward F. Wilson

CLERICAL MANAGERS

Rev. Harrison Ray Anderson, D.D.

Rev. Harold L. Bowman, D.D.

Rev. Alvyn R. Hickman, D.D.

Rev. W. Clyde Howard, D.D.

MEDICAL BOARD

VERNON C. DAVID, M.D President

WOMAN'S BOARD

MRS. ERNEST E. IRONS president

ADMINISTRATION

ASA S. BACON Superintendent

HERMAN HENSEL Asst. Superintendent

M. HELENA McMILLAN Director, School of Nursing

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL BULLETIN
Florence Slown Hyde, Editor

The Board of Managers call attention to
the need of gifts and bequests for endowment
and for the general purposes of the hospital.

Fine PreslMMaffiL Hospta

ojv trie City <yy Skicagcy

BULLETDN

MEMBER

AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Chicago, 111.

March, 1938

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This number of our Bulletin is devoted mainly to presenting information about the personnel, equipment and procedures
of the operating rooms in the Presbyterian Hospital, where last year a total of 12,275 patients were cared for. While the
! skillful work of the surgeon is the axis on which everything else in this department revolves, the assisting personnel, facilities
land materials provided by the hospital are indispensable factors in the accomplishment of the surgeon's task.

The group of 38 persons shown in the above picture comprises the staff on regular duty in our surgical department on
the sixth floor. In addition two cleaning women on the staff of the housekeeping department are assigned for full time duty
Jin the department, and many other departments serve the operating room patient in various ways.

First row, left to right — Florence Johnson, Frances Ross and Virginia Ray, graduate nurses; Bertha Ellingson, graduate
nurse in charge of the department; Dorothy Schafer, graduate nurse assistant to nurse in charge; Dorothy Hassinen, Ruby
Alvig and Clara Koenig, graduate nurses.

Second row, left to right — Jeanette Grube, secretary; Jeanne Strom, student nurse; Karla Jensen, Kathryn Harris,
Elizabeth Kempers, Marie Kolbus, Louise Matthews and Margaret Jackson, graduate nurses; Ruth Stauffcr, student nurse;
Ethel Burkhardt, telephone operator.

Third row, left to right — Dorothy Provine, Ruth Butterfield. Jane Clark, Doris Gates, Miss Angie VandenBerg, Jane
Simons, Elizabeth Giles, Cleon Meythaler, Gladys Duvall and Vianna Simolin, student nurses.

Fourth row, left to right — Rose Schramek and May Garrity, helpers; Arthur Chaisson, Franklin Higgins, Roy Jacobson
and David Foulkes, orderlies; Hazel Cloud and Violet Paez, helpers.

OPERATING ROOM PATIENTS AVERAGE 40 DAILY

Careful Management Necessary

in Carrying Through

Day's Schedule

Caring for a daily average of 40 pa'
tients was the task performed by the
surgical department of the Presbyterian
Hospital last year. Of 12,275 patients
cared for, 1,935 had major operations
and 10,540 came to the operating rooms
for minor operations and various other
surgical procedures.

To provide space, equipment, nursing
and other service for an average of 40
patients per day in eight operating room
units requires careful management,
equipment that is well selected so that it
can be used interchangeably in different
units for any operation, and well trained
personnel having not only a knowledge
of operations and surgical technique but
a working ability gained only through
practical experience. Five of these eight
units are equipped for major surgery and
three for minor surgery.

Ready for Emergencies

Emergency operations have the right
of way at any hour of the day or night
and one operating unit is in readiness at
all times for this purpose. All other
operations are scheduled the preceding
night in a book kept for this purpose in
the doctors1 study room. The operating
surgeon's intern usually attends to this
in the late afternoon or early evening.
The resident surgeon then checks over
the list, assigning units to be used and
making any necessary adjustments as to
the hours that have been scheduled so as
to avoid any conflict. When the sched'
ule is unusually heavy with operations,
each of which may be of long duration,
it may be necessary to confer with sev-
eral surgeons by telephone in order to
work out a satisfactory schedule.

Unit Heads Organize Work

The operating schedule is typed in
duplicate early in the morning and a
copy is posted on the operating room
bulletin board so that when the surgical
nursing staff reports for duty, the head
of each unit knows by looking at the
schedule what part is assigned to her
team. She proceeds at once to get the
unit in readiness, assembling the neces-
sary instruments and supplies. She also
takes note of the order of operations and
organizes the work of her team so that,
by the time one operation is finished,
others may follow in rapid succession.
While one patient is being operated, the
next patient is made ready and anes
thetised in an adjoining room. Often

HERE'S WHAT IT TAKES!

Surgical supplies bought for use in

operating rooms and on the nursing

floors last year included the following:

^80,000 small folded squares of

gauz,e, called surgical sponges

22 5,000 yards of new 36-inch

gauze for dressings, bandages,

etc.

4,170 new pairs of rubber gloves

20,760 sets of catgut sutures, each

set consisting of five lengths

For aseptic purposes we used:

120 barrels of green liquid sur-
gical soap

100,000 bichloride of mercury
tablets

1000 gallons of alcohol

4 barrels of cresol, which is diluted
20 to 30 times in our pharmacy

Smaller quantities of numerous
other antiseptics and disinfec-
tants

ON CONGRESS PROGRAM

Dr. Burrell O. Raulston, professor of medi-
cine in the University of Southern California
School of Medicine, was one of the speakers
at the annual Congress on Medical Education
and Licensure, at the Palmer House, Feb. 14
and 1 5. Dr. Raulston is a former Presbyterian
intern (1914) and was resident pathologist
in our hospital for six years.

DR. GRAHAM IN CHICAGO

Dr. Evarts A. Graham, of Washington
University, St. Louis, gave a lecture at the
University of Illinois College of Medicine on
Feb. 16. While in Chicago Dr. Graham
visited his mother, Mrs. D. W. Graham,
honorary president of our hospital Woman's
Board and widow of one of the founders of
our hospital. Dr. E. A. Graham is a graduate
of Rush Medical College, a former Pres-
byterian intern (1908) and former member
of our surgical staff. He is widely known for
his development of a chemical compound used
in making X-ray films of the gall bladder and
for other contributions to the advancement of
surgery, including several outstanding books.

the patient just operated is taken out of
one door while the one to be operated
next is brought in through .mother door.

If, as happens frequently, an opera-
tion requires more time than had been
anticipated, further adjustments must be
made in the schedule and perhaps
changes made in the operating unit as-
signments as originally listed. The time
required for an operation varies, of
course, according to the kind of opera-
tion and many other factors. Often the
surgeon can accomplish his work in a
few minutes. Many major operations are
done in less than au hour. Others re-
quire more time and in some instances
this may extend to five or six hours.

SURGICAL NURSES HAVE

SPECIAL TRAINING IN
OPERATING TECHNIQUE

All of the 14 graduate nurses in the
surgical department of the Presbyterian
Hospital have had special training in the
operating technique of surgical nursing.
The nurse m charge of the department
has had broad training and wide experi-
ence in this field. Her assistant is a fully
trained surgical nurse. Five of the grad-
uate nurses are qualified to head nursing I
teams and assist at any kind of opera-
tion. Others have special training in
certain types of operating technique and
are receiving training which eventually
will make them proficient on all surgical
services. Other personnel in the surgical
department includes 12 student nurses,
one secretary, one telephone operator,
four orderlies, four women helpers and
two full time cleaning women.

Personnel Requirements

Each patient cared for in the operat-
ing rooms requires the services of at
least one nurse and one orderly to assist
the patient and the surgeon. Some cases
require as many as two graduate nurses
and two student nurses. Other hospital
personnel usually assisting includes one
or more interns and a resident surgeon.

Four distinct responsibilities are as-
sumed by the surgical nurse in our oper-
ating rooms. Her responsibility to the
patient consists of attention to his mental
and physical comfort while he is awake
and protection from mishap or injury
while he is asleep. Her obligation to the
surgeon involves an intelligent selection
and preparation of materials, efficient
assistance at operations, and the proper
care of records and specimens. Her third
responsibility is that of giving to the
student nurse instruction and supervision
m the practical application of her studies
on the different services. Her fourth re-
sponsibility is to the hospital for effi-
ciency in every detail of her work.

Network of Activity

With the exception of the attending
surgeon and the anesthetist, the hospital
provides all professional and other per' I
sonnel required to serve the patient
while he is in the operating room as well
as all equipment and supplies used. In
advance of the carrying out of the day's
operative schedule there is a veritable
network of activity not only in the sur-
gical department itself but reaching also
to the sterile supply department, the
splint room, hospital laundry, hospital
pharmacy and other departments

EIGHT OPERATING UNITS

ARE EQUIPPED FOR

VARIED SERVICES

Asepsis Rigidly Observed

The surgical work of the Presbyterian
Hospital embraces every type of surgery,
classified under ten different services as
follows: general, bone and orthopedic,
neurological, plastic, urological, gyneco-
logical; ear, nose and throat; eye, oral,
and chest. General surgery includes
stomach and intestines, gall bladder, ap-
pendix, hernia, spleen, etc.

Each of the five major operating units
consists of an operating room, sterilising
room and preparation room. Minor units
have their own sterilising rooms or are
near those attached to other operating
rooms. Also on the operating room floor
are the office of the surgical nurse in
charge of the department, two work
rooms used for the care of soiled mate-
rials and instruments and the prepara-
tion of supplies, a linen room and four
dressing rooms for surgeons, anesthetists
and department personnel.

Equipment Is Expensive

Operating room equipment is expen-
sive as are also surgical instruments. An
operating table costs from $300 to $1000,
according to type. A new lamp for one
of the large operating rooms costs up to
$750.

After each using, surgical instruments
require special care in the way of cleans-
ing, sorting and sterilizing. Equal care
is necessary in the assembling of the in-
struments for an operation. Not only is
accurate knowledge required as to the
instruments the surgeon will use in a
given operation, but the operating room
nurse must know how to handle the in-
struments aseptically both in preparation
for and during the operation. Water
used at an operation is filtered, sterilised
and cooled.

Care of Operative Linen

All linen used in the operating room
is sent to the laundry in bags and is
washed separately from other hospital
laundry after being rinsed in cold water
and treated with a germicide solution
which removes stains and bacteria. After
being laundered, it is sent to the linen
room in the operating department, where
it is sorted, folded in a special way,
placed in bags and sterilised. The method
of folding is designed so that when the
nurse takes the articles out of the bag
for use in the operating room, a mini-
mum amount of handling is possible.
She can unfold a towel at one flip, un-
fold a sheet quickly by touching only
the corners which hang toward the floor
and never come in contact with the pa-
tient, and slip into a surgical gown her-

NEW ELECTRO-SURGICAL UNIT

-!■■ i , ■

Our new electro-surgical unit presented to the hospital recently by Miss Anna Williams is
the best unit of its kind now on the market. It is readily adaptable for use in all types of
surgery in which it is desirable to cauterize, fulgurate (heat thermally) or excise (remove)
tissue. It is used in general surgery as well as in the surgical specialties such as nose and throat,
genito-urinary, neuro-surgery, bronchoscopic and other delicate surgical procedures. The new
unit replaces a less efficient machine formerly used in our general surgery operating room and
supplements other units which some of our surgeons provide for their own use in specialized work.

self or assist the surgeon into his gown
by touching only the tie strings in the
back.

Dressings and Bandages

Gause dressings of different sises, rolls
of bandage m different widths and
lengths are prepared in the sterile sup-
ply room, being cut from yard gause and
folded so that all raw edges are inside
the dressing or bandage strip. Here also
are prepared the gause covered cotton
pads used as outside dressings. These
and other supplies prepared in the sterile
supply room are sterilised after reach-
ing the operating room floor. Eight
women are employed full time in the
sterile supply department to prepare sup-
lies used in the operating rooms, on the
nursing floors and in the obstetrical de-
partment of the hospital.

Other Aseptic Measures

Pitchers, basins and other granite arti-
cles used in our operating rooms are
scoured and rinsed after being used,
placed in bags and sterilised.

Floors in all operating rooms are
scrubbed thoroughly once in 24 hours.
After each operation the floor of the
operating room is washed and if the case
was infectious, the floor is treated with
deodorants and antiseptics.

Articles used in an average operating
day in our hospital include 900 pieces of
linen, 800 instruments, 115 pairs of rub-
ber gloves, 215 pieces of granite ware
and many special supplies such at catgut
| sutures, surgical sponges, dressings, etc.

ETHYLENE ANESTHESIA

HAD BEGINNING HERE

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO

Because of the function of anesthesia
in the practice of surgery, it is fitting
that attention be called to the fact that
March 14, 1938, marked the 15th anni-
versary of the first use of ethylene-oxygen
as an anesthetic. The first operations in
which ethylene-oxygen was administered
were performed by Dr. Arthur Dean
Bevan in the Presbyterian Hospital,
March 14, 192 3, with Dr. Isabella C.
Herb as the administering anesthetist.

Dr. Arno B. Luckhardt, professor of
physiology at the University of Chicago,
with the assistance of Dr. J. Bailey
Carter, discovered the anesthetic property
of ethylene when separated from other
constituents of illuminating gas. Then-
extensive experiments culminated in a
demonstration at the University of Chi-
cago on March 11, 1923, witnessed by a
group of surgeons and anesthetists. In
the 15 years that have since elapsed,
ethylene-oxygen has replaced other anes-
thetics in hundreds of hospitals through-
out the world and has been administered
in several million operations.

In the Presbyterian Hospital ethylene-
oxygen has proved highly satisfactory in
a majority of the operations for which
general anesthesia is desired. It is used
extensively alone and with excellent
results in conjunction with ether or local
anesthesia.

Reunion of Presbyterian Interns Is Set for

June 6 — Rush Alumni Banquet On June 7

Because of the numerous expressions of interest and approval received from
former interns, an instructive and gay reunion is being planned for Monday, June 6,
1938. Arrangements are under the general supervision of Dr. Gatewood. Although
several reunions of ex-interns were held in earlier years, the 1938 plans contemplate
a reunion such as has never been held at the Presbyterian Hospital, and is expected
to bring a large number of former interns here, including many eminent physicians
and surgeons from different parts of the country.

The Intern Alumni Reunion will be

held in conjunction with a two-day pro-
gram of Rush Medical College Alumni
clinics and ward rounds. Ward rounds
will be conducted in the hospital on
Monday, June 6, from 9:00 to 11:00
A.M. From 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M.
an assembly will be held in the south
amphitheatre of Rush Medical College,
at which time short presentations given
by a large number of staff men will em-
brace all phases of the practice of medi-
cine. These presentations will be concise
summaries of current investigations and
will contain information of value.

At 1 :00 P.M. all ex-interns will be
our guests at a buffet luncheon to be
served in the chapel, along its entrance
corridors or elsewhere if the number at-
tending is too large to accommodate in
any given location. Clinics in the various
specialties will be conducted in the hos-
pital that afternoon. In the evening a
gala banquet will be held in a downtown
hotel, details of which will be announced
later. It will be a gala occasion long to
be remembered.

The following day, Tuesday, June 7,
the Rush Medical College Alumni clinics
will be held, and in the evening the Rush
Alumni banquet will be served at the
Drake Hotel.

CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS

Former interns and others who received
copies of the January and February Bulletins
are again reminded of the importance of re-
porting to the editor of the Bulletin immedi-
ately any corrections or additions that should
be made to the list of interns as published
therein. We appreciate the corrections that
have been sent and regret that among these
must be reported several recent deaths.

George W. Fox (1 *!>'.•) Deceased

Alfred D. Kolm (1900)— Deceased

Lewis A. Moore (1903) — Monroe, Wis. Dr.
Moore has been located in Monroe for thirty
years. Our failure t" find the name and loca-

Carl Bernhardi (1904) Deceased
George H. Kennett (1904)— Deceased
Albertus B. Poppen (1909)- Deceased

Muskegon, Mich.
James E. Hunter (1915) Seattle <h
Eiley A. Smedal (1916) Deceased in

1938, La Ciossr. Wis.
Austin D. Bates (1922) Deceased

MEDICAL STAFF NEWS

Members of our staff who presented
papers at the February meeting of the
Chicago Laryngological and Otological
Society were: Dr. Louis Curry, "Diverti-
culum of the Esophagus"; Dr. E. W.
Hagens, "Congenital Dermoid Cyst and
Fistule of the Dorsum of the Nose"; Dr.
Linden J. Wallner, "Presentation of
Radical Mastoidectomy with Reference
to Status of Hearing"; Dr. George E.
Shambaugh, Jr., "Recent Advances in
the Diagnosis and Treatment of Deaf-
ness."

Dr. Herman L. Kretschmer attended the
annual meeting of the Clinical Society of
Genito-Urinary Surgeons in Boston m Jan-
uary. Dr. Kretschmer was president oi the
society, which held its clinical meetings at the
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.

At the January scientific meeting of the
Evanston branch, Chicago Medical Society.
Dr. Carl Apfelbach discussed "Pathology"
and Dr. Adrien Verbrugghen, "Late Compli-
cations" pertaining to head injuries.

Dr. Clifford G. Grulee addressed a special
meeting of the Union, Perry and Jackson
Counties at Pinckneyvillc, Feb. 3, on "Care
of the Newborn."

Dr. Vernon C. David and Dr. R. Kennedy
Gilchrist took part in the scientific program
of the Chicago Surgical Society, Feb. 4, on
the subject "Diverticulitis of the Colon on
Abdominal Surgery and Especially on Sur-
gery of the Large Bowel."

Dr. VVillard Wood addressed the Du
Page County Medical Society Feb. 16, at
Wheaton. His topic was "Bronchial Asthma."

Dr. A. E. Kanter was one of the speakers
at a recent meeting of the Hancock County
Medical Society. His topic was "Difficulties
of Obstetric Diagnosis."

ENTERTAIN HOSPITAL PATIENTS

Patients who were able to assemble in the
chapel on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 19, were
delightfully entertained by a program fur-
nished by the Lakeview Musical Society. Miss
Zazella BalagO, soprano, sang a group of
Hungarian songs in costume. Miss Elisabeth
Percy, violinist and Miss Marian Hall, pianist,
were the other artists taking part.

Paul C. Samson (1928)-

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Dr. Snapp Here As Patient

Dr. Carl Snapp (Intern 1915), who has

been a patient m our hospital lor the past
several weeks, is planning to return to his
home in Grand Rapids. Mich. soon. Dr.
Snapp is he. id ol the Oto-Laryngological de-
partment at Blodgett Memorial Hospital and
on the attending stall of St. Mary's Hospital
in Grand Rapids.

Peterson - Rupp

Miss Erma Peterson and Mr. Paul
Rupp were married, March 6 at 6:00
P.M., in the Third Presbyterian Church,
the Rev. Alvyn R. Hickman officiating.
They will reside in Chicago. Mr. Rupp
is the inside night policeman at the Pres-
byterian Hospital, having been appointed
to this position a few months ago after
being employed here in other capacities
for eight years.

RESEARCH SURGERY CHAIRMAN

Dr. George M. Curtis (Intern 1921-22)
has recently been made chairman of the newly
created Department of Research Surgery at
the Ohio State University in Columbus, where
he also is professor of surgery.

HOUSE STAFF CHANGES

Dr. Ann Huizinga, Dr. J. John Westra and
Dr. Francis M. Lyle completed internships,
March 1. New interns are Dr. J. Lin wood
Smith and Dr. Richard R. Owens.

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL

OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

1753 W. CONGRESS STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Telephone: Seeley 7171

OFFICERS and MANAGERS

JOHN McKINLAY President

HORACE W. ARMSTRONG Vice-President

CHARLES B. GOODSPEED Vice-President

SOLOMON A. SMITH Treasurer

KINGMAN DOUGLASS Secretary

FRED S. BOOTH Asst. Secretary

A. J. WILSON Asst. Secretary

Arthur G. Cable Fred A. Poor

Alfred T. Carton Theodore A. Shaw

Albert B. Dick, Jr. Rev. John Timothy

John B. Drake Stone, D.D.

James B. Forgan, Jr. R. Douglas Stuart

Albert D. Farwell Robert Stevenson

Alfred E. Hamill J. Hall Taylor

Charles H. Hamill John P. Welling

Edw. D. McDougal, Jr. Edward F. Wilson

CLERICAL MANAGERS

Rev. Harrison Ray Anderson, D.D.

Rev. Harold L. Bowman, D.D.

Rev. Alvyn R. Hickman, D.D.

Rev. W. Clyde Howard, D.D.

MEDICAL BOARD

VERNON C. DAVID, M.D President

WOMAN'S BOARD

MRS. ERNEST E. IRONS President

ADMINISTRATION

ASA S. BACON Superintendent

HERMAN HENSEL Asst. Superintendent

M. HELENA McMILLAN Director, School of Nursing

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL BULLETIN
Florence Slown Hyde, Editor
The Presbyterian Hospital of the City of
Chicago is an Illinois not-for-profit corpora-
tion, organized July 21, 1883, for the purpose
of affording surgical and medical aid, and
nursing, to sick and disabled persons of every
creed, nationality, and color. Its medical staff
is appointed from the faculty of Rush Medical
College of the University of Chicago.

The Board of Managers call attention to
the need of gifts and bequests for endowment
and for the general purposes of the hospital

Oie PtelbyiHMini frtospita

trie Gity oy Gkicagc^

BULLETttN

MEMBER AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Chicago, 111.

April, 1938

Vol. 30, No. 4

SEEK EASTER OFFERINGS FOR MINISTRY TO SICK

Presbyterian Friends, Others

Help Provide Hospital

Care for Needy

Last year an average of 1,000 patients
per month were admitted to beds in the
Presbyterian Hospital. The total for the
year was 12,108, an increase of 605 over
1936 admissions. It cost $1,056,275 to
maintain the hospital and the nurses1
school and home m 1937. New equip-
ment, improvements and repairs involved
an outlay of $95,426.

Of the 12,108 patients admitted, 2,2 36
were cared for entirely free and 6, 1 1 8
were able to pay only a part of the cost
of the care they received. The total
cost of free care amounted to $165,428.
This figure does not include the free ser-
vices generously given to these patients
by the physicians and surgeons on the
Medical Staff of 115 men and women
appointed from the faculty of Rush
Medical College. Nor would our ever
expanding ministry of mercy to those
without means to pay for hospital care
be possible without the generous support
:of many public spirited men and women,
.the most rigid economy consistent with
efficiency, and the devoted service of
every hospital employe.

Each year on Easter Sunday, churches
and Sunday Schools of the Chicago Pres-
bytery receive special offerings to help
support the charity work of the hospital.
The Sunday School offerings are added
to the endowment fund which supports
rfree beds for sick children, while the
offerings taken at church services help to
].pay the cost of free care given to adult
patients, many of whom are referred to
us by churches. While making no dis-
tinctions as to race, color or creed in its
ministry of mercy, the Presbyterian Hos-
pital regards as a gracious privilege its
tservice to the righteous who, despite lack
of means, are not forsaken in time of
illness or accident.

This charming nine-month old
baby girl, who lived in an
oxygen tent for five weeks, and
the children shown in the lower
picture are among those whose
lives were saved and health re-
stored in recent months through
prolonged hospital care made
possible by the Easter offerings
of the Presbyterian Sunday
Schools. The amount needed to
complete the endowment for
the support of Cheer Up Bed
No. 9 is $933.26. It is hoped
that this year's Easter offering
will not only complete this en-
dowment but also give us a good
start on Cheer Up Bed No. 10.
Last year 786 children were
cared for entirely free in the
Presbyterian Hospital.

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CHURCH WOMEN AID HOSPITAL IN MANY WAYS

Free Beds for Children One of

Numerous Projects of

Woman's Board

Accomplishments of the Presbyterian
Hospital Woman's Board during 1937,
as in previous years, were made possible
through capable and unselfish service by
the women who represented forty-one
churches on the board, the public spirited
women comprising the board's general
membership, and the splendid coopera-
tion of hundreds of other women who
have participated in the varied activities
sponsored by the board.

Beautiful in its conception and in-
estimable m the resultant benefits to the
"least of these," is the plan of giving to
the well and happy children in the Sun-
day Schools an opportunity to contribute
their small offerings to provide hospital
care for little sick children. The unselfish
gifts of the Sunday School children have
inspired their elders to also give gener-
ously, so that today in the Presbyterian
Hospital a row of tiny cribs in one of the
wards for babies, and a row of some-
what larger beds in one of the children's
wards are designated as "Cheer Up" beds
dedicated to care for sick children whose
parents are unable to pay for the hos-
pital care needed.

On 1938 Committee

For several years the chairman of the
Child's Free Bed Fund committee has been
Mrs. William A. Douglass, whose husband
was the first secretary of the Board of Man-
agers of the hospital (organized in 1883),
which office he held continuously until his
death in 1935. Mrs. William B. Neal is vice-
chairman, and the members of the 1938 com-
mittee are: Mrs. Perkins B. Bass, Jr., Mrs.
Lincoln M. Coy, Mrs. Halford H. Kittleman,
Mrs. George B. McClary, Miss Isabel McNab,
Mrs. John P. Mentzer, Mrs. Heber H. Smith,
Mrs. E. G. Lindberg, and Mrs. Addison C.
Hoof. Many others cooperate in promoting
interest in the offering. Last year offerings
from 49 Sunday Schools and special gifts
from several individuals added a total of
$1,196.36 to the Cheer Up Bed Endowment
Fund.

Three Tag Day Beds

When the annual Children's Benefit League
Tag day comes in early October each year,
scores of church women and their interested
friends are called upon to serve as taggers on
street corners and other locations assigned to
Presbyterian Hospital. Money collected on
tag day has been used to endow three tag day
beds for free care of children and helps pro-
vide a full time social worker for the chil-
dren's department. Mrs. William R. Tucker
is chairman and Mrs. H. C. Patterson, vice-
chairman of this committee. Receipts last year
were $1,654.

Many Donate Delicacies

Mrs. John P. Mentzer and Mrs. G. G.
Olmsted are co-chairmen of the Delicacies
committee. Through the efforts of this com-
mittee, 6,479 glasses of jelly, 81 quarts of
fruit and preserves, 28 pints of grape juice

The Easter Joy

By Annie Johnson Flint
Spring calls to earth,
"Awa\e from thy dreaming
The winter is over
Thy death was but seeming.
In place of the shadows,
The cold and the gloom,
Bring brightness and warmth
And the flovjers in bloom;
Stir the sap in the trees,
Loose the streams from their prison —
Oh, the joy of the world
That her Savior has risen!"

— Moody Bible Institute Monthly

and. cash donations amounting to $3 31.90
were contributed last year by 3 1 churches and
wives of 17 members of the Medical Staff.

Social Service Department

The Woman's Board supports the Social
Service department of the hospital, paying the
salaries of the medical social workers, pro-
viding clothing and other articles for distribu-
tion by the department, and giving much
volunteer assistance. Volunteer service of
board members was supplemented last year
by that of a group of Junior League volun-
teers headed by Mrs. John Oliver, a member
of the Woman's Board. These young women
did clerical and other routine work which
proved very helpful.

All child patients who receive free care and
many of the adult free patients are known to
the Social Service department which takes
such steps as may be needed to adjust home
conditions and problems, provide necessary
clothing, arrange convalescent care and other-
wise assist these patients so that the greatest
possible benefit will result from hospitaliza-
tion. Last year 2,083 articles of wearing ap-
parel, plus four complete layettes, were do-
nated by the Woman's Board, churches, in-
dividuals, the Baby's Valet Service, and three
branches of the Needlework Guild in Chi-
cago, Oak Park, and River Forest. Mrs. Mark
Oliver is chairman of the Social Service com-
mittee. Mrs. Frederick R. Baird is vice-chair-
man.

Library Serves Many

The patients' library of 6,000 volumes is
in a charge of a full time trained librarian
whose salary is paid by the Woman's Board.
Volunteer assistance is given by board mem-
bers and other capable persons. Last year
20,658 books and magazines were circulated
among hospital patients, an average of 300
different patients being served each month.
Many new and recent books are donated, also
many current magazines. Donated books,
which, for any reason, cannot be utilized by
the library are disposed of at bargain sales
held in the hospital lobby. Receipts are used
to buy new books, rebind worn books and
provide miscellaneous supplies for the library.
Several hundred books were donated at book
showers held recently and book sales held so
far this year have netted $150, while many of
the books received were welcome additions to
the library shelves. Mrs. Wilber E. Post is
chairman of the Library committee.

Thanksgiving Offering

Through silver offerings collected at teas
and other gatherings and special donations
from churches and individuals, the 1937
Thanksgiving offering amounted to $746.74.
Mrs. W. B. McKeand is chairman and Mrs.
Kellogg Speed, vice-chairman of this com-
mittee.

Sewing for Hospital Enlists

Efforts of Groups in

33 Churches

Sewing articles for hospital use was
one of the important activities of the
women who, in May, 1884, formed a
Ladies Aid Society to help the Presby-
terian Hospital then nearing completion.
The Ladies Aid Society found numerous
other things to do for the hospital as has
its successor, the Woman's Board, but
throughout the years sewing for the hos-
pital has enlisted the efforts of large
numbers of church women and other in-
terested friends. At the March meeting
of the Woman's Board, Mrs. John W. j
Bingham, chairman of the Needlework
Guild and Silver committee, reported
that since October 1937, groups in 33
different churches had finished a total of
7,779 articles — an average of 1,550 per
month — for use in the hospital and for
distribution by the hospital Social Ser-
vice department and the Rush Medical
College Baby Clinic. First Presbyterian
Church women took first place in the
number of articles sewed, their total be
mg 1,062.

Use Left-Over Wool

Mrs. Bingham exhibited a child's sweater,
woman's shoulderette and other knitted arti-
cles which had been made from odds and ends
of wool yarn donated by members of the
board. Those present were urged to solicit i
their friends for donations of any small ''
amounts of yarn left over from their own i
knitting projects and Mrs. Bingham said that
her committee could find a use for all such
donations, which may be addressed to Mrs.
Bingham and left at matron's office in the
hospital.

In a previous report for 1937, presented at
the annual meeting in January, Mrs. Bingham
reported that church groups had sewed or
knitted a total of 19,205 articles for hospital i
use and 764 articles which were given to the
Social Service department and the Baby
Clinic. Mrs. William B. Neal is vice-chair-
man of hospital sewing.

Associate Memberships

Presbyterian church women are privileged to
share in the work of the Woman's Board
through associate memberships, which range
from $1 to $100. These memberships brought
in $983 last year. This money is used as
needed to support any of the activities spon-
sored by the board. Miss Lucibcl Dunham,
Shore Crest Hotel, is chairman.

Solicit Special Gifts

Two other committees whose accomplish-
ments loom large in providing support for the
board's projects are the Pledge Fund commit-
tee headed by Mrs. R. Douglas Stuart and
the Contributors' Fund committee of which
Mrs. Charles S. Reed, 12 Scott St., is chair-
man. The former solicits special gifts from
board members and other Presbyterian worn-
en, while the latter seeks contributions from
public spirited women who are not Pres-
byterians.

CHRISTIAN IDEALS ARE

UPHELD IN SCHOOL

OF NURSING

Observe 35th Anniversary

PLAN TO WORK IN MISSION FIELDS

Thirty -five years ago on April 1, 1903,
the School of Nursing of the Presby-
terian Hospital admitted its first class.
Graduates now total 1,441. Of these,
275 are known to be doing institutional
work; 200, private duty nursing; 112,
public health nursing; 40, industrial
nursing; 21, missionary nursing in home
and foreign fields; and 21, miscellaneous
work including hourly nursing, medical
social service work, physiotherapy,
X-ray, editorial, and other individual
work. One is an airline stewardess. Two
continued their studies in medical schools
and are practicing physicians. The 35th
anniversary was observed by a special
dinner at Sprague Home.

Miss M. Helena McMillan organized
the school and is still its director. She
also is superintendent of nursing in the
Presbyterian Hospital. In 1936 Miss
McMillan received the Saunders Medal
for distinguished service to the cause of
nursing. She has held important offices
in national and state nursing organiza-
tions and is widely known because of
her advocacy of high standards in nurs-
ing education.

Throughout its history the School of
Nursing has upheld Christian ideals of
character and service. Its graduates have
found, in varied fields of professional
activity, abundant opportunity to ex-
emplify these ideals. Outstanding among
those who have chosen to utilize their
nursing education in a special way are
the 35 graduates who are known to have
become missionary nurses in either home
or foreign fields, and the 14 members of
the present student body who plan to
"go and do likewise."

Serve in Many Countries

Of the 3 5 graduates who became missionary
nurses, 21 are now in home or foreign mis-
sion fields. Some earlier graduates have re-
turned to this country after serving for a
number of years in mission fields, and some
of those now in mission fields have been there
for many years. Within the last few months,
two graduates went to India and one to
China. Two graduates have been in Shanghai
throughout the Japanese invasion. Several
are in other parts of China. Others are in
India, Siam, South Africa, West Africa,
Ethiopia, and Central America. Home mis-
sion work employs others in Alaska, the
Southwest and other parts of the United
States.

Mrs. Helen Donner Whiley (1935) and
her husband, the Rev. Albert Whiley, have
just been appointed by the Presbyterian Board
of Foreign Missions to the West Africa Mis-
sion and will leave this country the coming
summer. Miss Mary Taylor (1936) has re-
ceived an appointment to the same field.

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These 14 students in the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing are preparing for
work in home or foreign mission fields. Eight are members of the Class of 1938. Four are
daughters of missionary parents and one is a niece of a famous missionary.

Front row, left to right — Ronnie Seline, Elizabeth Wagoner, Hila Richards (niece of Dr.
Hugh Taylor), Catherine Ollis, Carrie Belle Burgess, Charlotte Krug, and Agnes Rodgers.

Back row, left to right — Winifred Hoekstra, Margaret Corliss, Florence Ingram, Fern
Darling, Georgia Ruth Wuerding, Lois Marsilje, and Mary Louella Allison.

Miss Helen Christensen (1931), who was
sent to Santiago, Chile, by the Presbyterian
Board of Missions, recently was asked by the
government of that country to organize a na-
tional program of public health nursing.
* * *

Mrs. George Thorne (Winona Hayenga,
1928), who is the only missionary nurse sta-
tioned at Central Hospital, Cameroun, South
Africa, writes in a letter recently received:
"This has been the busiest year in the history
of Central Hospital. Over 13,000 came to
the clinics for examination and over a thou-
sand major operations were performed."

Among the groups which help to create
and maintain a Christian atmosphere in the
School of Nursing is an active branch of the
Young Women's Christian Association and a
Christian Nurses Fellowship group. The lat-
ter is affiliated with the Christian Youth
League composed of various professional
groups.

MISSIONARY DOCTORS

In its 5 5 years of existence as a medical
teaching institution, Presbyterian Hospital has
given training to more than 700 interns and
residents. Many of these have become general
practitioners in remote places, carrying on the
tradition of the family doctor in its broadest
sense. Some have become superintendents of
church hospitals. Others are serving in home
or foreign mission fields. Among the latter
is Dr. Charles W. Lamme (1910), who is
stationed at Tabriz, Persia, under appoint-
ment of the Presbyterian Board of Missions.

Dr. Ann Huizinga, who completed her in-
ternship here March 1, plans to go to China,
where her father is now stationed under the
board of the Christian Reformed Church.

Entertainments for Patients

Mrs. Clement L. Pollock, 5 32 North Pine
Street, is constantly on the lookout for talented
entertainers who are willing to donate their
services to provide entertainment for hospital
patients who are well enough to assemble in
the chapel for this purpose. Mrs. Pollock and
the members of the Woman's Board Enter-
tainment committee, not only arrange frequent
programs of this kind but come to the hospital
and assist patients, many of whom arc in
wheel chairs, to the chapel.

SCHOLARSHIPS HELPED

MANY TO PREPARE FOR
WORK AS MISSIONARIES

The Woman's Board of the hospital in-
augurated, in 1910, the plan of awarding
scholarships to assist School of Nursing stu-
dents who were preparing for the mission
field. During the 28 years since, approximately
$8,500 has been expended for this purpose.
Twenty-five young women have received such
scholarships, most of them covering the period
from completion of the six-month preliminary
course to graduation from the school. Those
selected as eligible for scholarships receive up
to $120 per year which need not be repaid.
With some exceptions, three scholarships have
been awarded each year. Because of the in-
creasing number of young women wishing to
prepare for work as missionary nurses but
lacking sufficient funds to do so, it may be
necessary to increase the number of scholar-
ships if funds for this purpose can be ob-
tained. Many of those to whom scholarships
have been awarded were daughters of mis-
sionary parents.

Have Loan Fund

Mrs. Alva A. Knight is chairman of the
School of Nursing committee of the Wom-
an's Board. Mrs. Edwin M. Miller is vice-
chairman in charge of scholarships and loans.
Mrs. David W. Graham is an active member
of the committee. It was while Mrs. Graham
was president of the Woman's Board that the
scholarship and loan plan was adopted at the
suggestion of Mrs. Graham and Miss McMil-
lan, director of the school. Students other
than those receiving missionary scholarships
or studying for the mission field are granted
loans when referred by the director of the
school as in need of assistance to complete
their course. These loans are repaid within
a reasonable period following graduation.
Three scholarships totaling $360 and 13 loans
amounting to $487 were provided last year.

The School of Nursing committee also
raised funds last year to install indirect light-
ing in the school library, buy $125 worth of
reference books, contribute $100 toward a
new rug for the reception room at Sprague
Home and pay the salary of a director for
the Florence Nightingale chorus. This coin
mittee also is responsible for providing volun-
teers to assist at the Rush Medical College
Baby Clinic.

Hospital, Rush College, Central Free Dispensary
Cooperate in Broad Program of Service to Sick

Though conducted under separate and distinct managements, Presbyterian Hospital,
Central Free Dispensary, and Rush Medical College constitute a triumvirate of insti-
tutions which cooperate closely in a broad program of service to the needy sick. Last
year Central Free Dispensary provided out-patient medical care to 29,271 different
persons who made a total of 177,977 visits to its various clinics. Of those cared for,
17,696 were new patients. Dr. Robert H. Herbst is president of the Central Free
Dispensary board of directors and Dr. George W. Duvall is superintendent.

The dispensary is maintained primarily
to provide medical care for the indigent
and, in order to restrict this care to those
who actually are unable to employ a pri-
vate physician, applicants other than
emergency patients are investigated by
the Social Service department of the dis-
pensary, which has a staff of 1 1 medical
social workers. Standards set up by a
committee of the Council of Social Agen-
cies, and revised twice a year to conform
to changes in living costs, are the basis
on which the dispensary applicant's eco-
nomic inability to pay for medical ser-
vices is determined, giving consideration
to any special circumstances and prob-
lems of the individual or the family.

Hospitalization for 682

Presbyterian Hospital provides free hospi-
talization for dispensary-referred patients to
the extent that its facilities and funds permit.
Last year 682 such patients were admitted to
beds in our hospital.

Out-Patient Obstetrical Work

Central Free Dispensary, Rush Medical
College, and Presbyterian Hospital cooperate
in maintaining an Out-Patient Obstetrical de-
partment which provides medical and nursing
attendance for mothers in their own homes.
Prenatal and postnatal care also are provided
in the clinics at Central Free Dispensary. This
department reported 443 births last year, in-
cluding four pairs of twins. Thirty-two
mothers and 15 infants whose condition re-
quired hospital care were admitted to free
beds in Presbyterian Hospital through this
department.

Prenatal Clinic in Hospital

The Prenatal Clinic maintained in Presby-
terian Hospital with the cooperation of Rush
Medical College provides prenatal care and
hospitalization for mothers of moderate means,
who pay a flat rate for this service. The
Woman's Board provides a prenatal nurse-
social worker who registers patients and looks
after their welfare in numerous ways. Mem-
bers of the hospital examining room nursing
staff assist the obstetricians who conduct the
clinic. Last year 5 29 patients were admitted
for hospitalization, and the clinic took care ol
5,873 prenatal and postnatal visits of patients.

Baby Clinic Cares for 615

The Baby Clinic of Rush Medical College
cared for 615 infants and young children
during 1937. Fifty percent of the 412 ml. nils
brought to the clime regularly were kept free
from sickness of any kind and only one death
occurred during the year. There were no
deaths among the 203 children of pre-school
age who visited the clinic. Members of the
Woman's Board of Presbyterian Hospital as-

Endowed Nurses Cared

for 1,211 Last Year

Five endowed and one maintained
graduate nurses gave special nursing
care to 1,211 seriously ill ward pa-
tients in the Presbyterian Hospital last
year — patients who were unable to
pay for the special care required. The
cost of endowing a nurse in perpetuity
to give this much needed service is
#35,000. A donation of #1,500 sup-
ports a maintained nurse for one year.
Endowments so far established are:
Helen North Nurse, Gladys Foster
Nurse, Ernest A. Hamill Nurse, and
Luella Pearson Molloy Nurses (2).
The T. Kenneth Boyd Nurse is main-
tained through an annual contribution
from Mr. Boyd. More endowments
and contributions for the support of
such nurses are greatly needed.

WANTED: SOAP WRAPPERS

For more than 20 years enough silver to
replenish the supply needed for the first floor
dining rooms in the hospital has been ob-
tained by collecting and exchanging American
Family soap wrappers. April 20 is the final
date for turning in those collected since last
April, and every housewife who reads this
Bulletin is urged to cooperate because the
number turned in thus far is not sufficient to
obtain the silver that is needed. In addition
to American Family soap wrappers, coupons
from the same brand of soap flakes and those
from various Gold Medal products arc de-
sired. Last year 21,000 wrappers and coupons
were exchanged for lO'/? dozen pieces of
silver. Every wrapper and coupon helps to
swell the total. These may be mailed to the
silver vice-chairman, Mrs. Cameron Barber,
232 S. Ridgeland Ave., Oak Park, 111., or
may be addressed to Mrs. Barber and left at
the matron's office in the Presbyterian Hos-
pital by April 20.

sist the pediatrician and nurse in charge of
the clinic, which is held three afternoons each
week.

Student Nurses Assist

Nursing service in the clinics at Central
Free Dispensary is under the supervision of
the nursing department ol Presbyterian Hos-
pital. Last year, 41 student nurses assisted
the graduate nurse staff a total of 1,824 days,
an average of five students being on duty
daily in the dispensary clinics. Thirty-lour
student nurses gave 514 days' service in the
tint I', in, iii Obstetrical department, 36 gave
a total of 531 days in the Prenatal Clinic at
Presbyterian Hospital. Fifty days were con-
tributed to the Baby Clinic.

MEDICAL STAFF NEWS

Three members of our staff presented a re-
port to the Chicago Surgical Society, March
4, on the subject "Blood Changes in Thrombo-
Angiitis Obliterans." They were Dr. Frank
V. Theis, Dr. M. R. Freeland. Dr. Loren W. |
Averv.

Dr. Arthur H. Parmelee, Dr. Harry A.
Oberhelman, and Dr. Eleanor Leslie were on
the program at a pediatrics clinical confer-
ence held in the Children's Division at Cook
County Hospital, March 8.

Dr. Gatewood Gatewood, who is the medi-
cal representative of the Board of Visitors at
Ohio State University, addressed the annual
Alumni Collegiate Assembly at Columbus,
March 5. His topic was "The Needs of the
Medical College."

Dr. Heyworth N. Sanford gave an address
at the March meeting of the Woman's Board
in which he told how newborn and other
infants are cared for in our hospital. Ex-
cerpts from this address will be published in
a later issue of the Bulletin.

Dr. Kay L. Thompson and Dr. Willard L.
Wood presented a paper at the Decatur (111.)
Dental and Medical Society meeting, March
16, on "Focal Infections."

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL

OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

1753 W. CONGRESS STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Telephone: Seeley 7171

OFFICERS and MANAGERS

JOHN McKINLAY President

HORACE W. ARMSTRONG Vice-President

CHARLES B. GOODSPEED Vice-President

SOLOMON A. SMITH Treasurer

KINGMAN DOUGLASS Secretary

FRED S. BOOTH Asst. Secretary

A. J. WILSON Asst. Secretary

Arthur G. Cable Fred A. Poor

Alfred T. Carton Theodore A. Shaw

Albert B. Dick, Jr. Rev. John Timothy

John B. Drake Stone, D.D.

James B. Forgan, Jr. R. Douglas Stuart

Albert D. Farwell Robert Stevenson

Alfred E. Hamill J. Hall Taylor

Charles H. Hamill John P. Welling

Edw. D. McDougal, Jr. Edward F. Wilson

CLERICAL MANAGERS

Rev. Harrison Ray Anderson, D.D.

Rev. Harold L. Bowman, D.D.

Rev. Alvyn R. Hickman, D.D.

Rev. W. Clyde Howard, D.D.

MEDICAL BOARD

VERNON C. DAVID, M.D. Presiaent

WOMAN'S BOARD

MRS. ERNEST E. IRONS President

ADMINISTRATION

ASA S. BACON Superintendent

HERMAN HENSEL Asst. Superintendent

M. HELENA McMILLAN Director, School of Nursing

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL BULLETIN
Florence Slown Hyde, Editor

The Board of Managers call attention to
the need of gifts and bequests for endowment
and for the general purposes of the hospital.

printed by Physicians- Recobd Co.. Chic»go

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BULLETIN

MEMBER AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Chicago, 111.

May, 1938

Vol. 30, No. 5

IMPROVED PROCEDURES IN

NURSERY GIVE BABIES

GOOD START

JUST ARRIVED

Newborn Are Safeguarded

In an address at a recent meeting of
the Presbyterian Hospital Woman's
Board, Dr. Heyworth N. Sanford of the
pediatrics staff told how newborn in-
fants are cared for in our hospital and
how improved nursery procedures have
brought about a notable decrease in new-
born mortality rates. Although 359
more babies were cared for in our new-
born service in 1937 than in 1927, the
number of newborn lost in 1937 was two
less than the number lost ten years ago.

Dr. Sanford pointed out that national
statistics show that one-half of all the
deaths in infancy occur in the first two
weeks of life and that four-fifths of these
deaths occur in the first day of life. He
also stressed the importance of giving
special care to the newborn in order that
physical defects might be discovered and
corrected, and a strong foundation for
sturdy infancy and childhood might be
built.

Following are excerpts from Dr. San-
ford's address:

In the Presbyterian Hospital the new-
born is considered to be a distinct in-
dividual. This is due to the efforts of
Dr. Clifford Grulee, head of the pedi-
atrics department of Rush Medical Col-
lege and this hospital. He was one of
the first to realise that the newborn was
a special problem, and needed particular
attention and care. At the present time,
therefore, the newborn baby is removed at
once to the nursery and its own special life as
soon as it leaves the delivery room.

"Iron Lungs" Are Used

The first problem confronting the little
newborn is to learn to breathe. This may
sound rather strange, but before the baby is
born its little lungs are collapsed like an
unfolded paper bag. Just as soon as its con-

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Where did you come from. Baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into the here.

Where did you get your eyes so blue'
Out of the s\y as I came through.

Where did you get this pearly ear7
God spo\e and it came out to hear.

But how did you come to us. you dear?

God thought of you and so I am here.

— George MacDonald

BABIES' ALUMNI FUND

The Babies Alumni Fund established two
years ago by the Woman's Board is used to
help support free work in the maternity de-
partment of Presbyterian Hospital. There are
no endowed beds in the maternity depart-
ment but when human life is at stake the
hospital doors must wing open to admit those
who are desperately ill. Last year the Out-
Patient Obstetrical department brought 32
mothers into the hospital as emergency pa-
tients and not one of these mothers died.

Any person born in Presbyterian Hospital
is eligible to join the Babies' Alumni. The
dues are $1 or more per year. In several
instances mothers or other relatives who were
able to do so have contributed liberally to
this fund. Members include a number who
were born here some years ago, as well as
many who have been born in the hospital
since the Babies" Alumni was started in 193 5.
Membership blanks may be obtained from
the supervisor in charge of the maternity
floor or from the chairman of the committee,
Mrs. William A. Douglass, 317 N. Kenil-
worth Ave., Oak Park, 111.

PLANS FOR REUNION OF

INTERNS ON JUNE 6

NEAR COMPLETION

Large Attendance Expected

Elaborate arrangements are nearing
completion for the reunion of former
Presbyterian interns to be held on June 6
as part of a two-day program of clinics
and gala events planned in conjunction
with Rush Medical College. Within a
short time each former intern will re-
ceive a letter giving full details. Mean-
while, it is hoped that those who receive
this Bulletin will begin now to arrange
their affairs so that they can spend June
6 and 7 at the hospital and the college.

The reunion dinner for former in-
terns will be held at the Bismark hotel,
on the evening of Monday, June 6.
Rush Alumni banquet will be at the
Drake hotel, June 7.

The morning program on both days
will include ward rounds, general and
gynecological surgery, and conferences.
At 1 :00 P.M. on June 6, former interns
will be guests of the hospital at luncheon.
The afternoon program will be devoted
to specialities. An unique program is
being planned for the reunion dinner on
Monday night. The committee an-
nounces that there will be a resurrection
of our former heroes with a proper in-
sight into their real characters, the
candid camera revealing all quite
mercilously.

Ever since the publication of the Jan-
uary Bulletin, containing Dr. Rudolph
Holmes' (1895) suggestion that a re-
union be held, letters have been coming
in from far and near approving the idea.
Many have already announced their
intention of coming from distant loca-
tions to attend and everything possible
will be done by the former interns now
on our hospital staff and the hospital
management to m. ike the reunion an
event long to be remembered. Dr.
Rudolph Holmes, president of the last
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CARE OF NEWBORN

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nection with the mother is broken, it must
take up its own life. The little lungs are
therefore expanded by the increase of carbon
dioxide that accumulates in the blood. Usually
this takes place normally and without effort.
The astonished baby gasps, inhales the un-
accustomed air, and proceeds with a lusty
cry. Occasionally this does not happen.
Formerly, such babies were stimulated by
changing their skin temperature by hot and
cold water or by spanking them. This will
usually cause the desired effect, but some-
times the little lungs are still collapsed in a
condition known as atelectasis. These babies
formerly died. We now have an apparatus
known as the respirator. This is the commonly
called "iron lung" that has been played up
in the papers so much lately. Presbyterian
Hospital had the first infant sue respirator
in Chicago, and these respirators have been
in use in our nursery for the last eight
years. The baby is placed in the respirator
and the lungs are expanded and contracted
by means of a vacuum alternating with in-
creased pressure in the box containing the
baby's body, by means of an electric motor.

Incubators Save Many Lives

The next problem is to keep up the infant's
body temperature. The newborn is quite like
a cold blooded animal, in that he takes his
temperature from the surrounding medium.
For this reason, if left to himself the new-
born will become so cold that life is in-
compatible. I have seen newborns with a
temperature as low as 95 degrees. The child
is therefore warmly wrapped up and when
necessary placed in an incubator for the first
24 hours of life, or until the temperature has
been normal for a period of ten hours. Some
small babies have to be kept in an incubator
for several days. Premature babies sometimes
have to stay in an incubator for three months.
In our nursery we have discontinued the
large, unwieldy incubator. We now use the
smaller box type, which enables us to have
more incubators. Formerly, a nursery with
one incubator was presumed to be well
equipped. We frequently use eight incubators
at one time in our nursery.

Remedial Steps Are Prompt

If there is any abnormality or anything
about a newborn that does not seem right,
the baby is seen immediately by the attend-
ing pediatrician of the nursery if he is in
the house, or if not by the intern and resident,
who then call the attending pediatrician if
necessary. The newborn is peculiar in that
all of his troubles come on so fast that treat-
ment must be carried out immediately. Wc
have had a newborn diagnosed as having an
intestinal obstruction, operated, and returned
to the nursery within four hours after birth.

The normal newborn is given a thorough
physical examination within the first twenty-
four hours of life, by the attending pediatri-
cian. All of the findings and physical
peculiarities are noted on the infant's own
individual chart, just as are those of an adult
patient. This chart has arrived from the
delivery room with the newborn, and con-
tains his serial number, which corresponds to
that of his mother. This serial number is
witnessed by the delivering doctor and attend-
ing nurse, and fastened about the mother's
wrist as a bracelet, and about the baby's
foot .1^ ,m anklet. As a further safeguard,
the baby's footprints are printed on his own
chart and on the birth certificate. The infant
I-- also measured around the head, abdomen,
chest, and iliac crests. These measurements,
as well as his length and birth weight, are
recorded on the chart. We have never had
any cases of mixed-up identities among our

SCHOOL HAS 35th ANNIVERSARY

In the above picture, Miss M. Helena McMillan, director of the Presbyterian Hospital
School of Nursing, is shown wth the birthday cake and flowers presented by the Board of
Managers in recognition of the 35th anniversary of the founding of the school, which occured
on April 1. Miss McMillan organized the school in 1903 and still is its director. She also is
superintendent of nursing in the hospital.

The School of Nursing Committee also sent a boquet of 35 roses on the occasion of the
anniversary, and at the Woman's Board meeting on Monday, May 2, Miss McMillan was
presented with a gift of $35 to be used as a contingent fund and expended for such
purposes as she sees fit.

newborns, and with these safeguards, I do
not believe we ever will.

Graduate Nurses In Charge

The nursing care of our newborns is in
charge of a nursery supervisor who is a
graduate nurse with special training in
pediatrics nursing. Each of our three nurseries
is in charge of a graduate nurse, who is
assisted by student nurses. By this setup
each newborn is given individual attention,
and cared for by the same nurse. Individual
attention is given the feeding of each infant.
Weak babies are fed by dropper or stomach
tube, if they are unable to nurse, and their
mother's own milk is given such babies, an
electric breast pump being used by the mother
in these cases. If the breast milk of the mother
is insufficient, the baby is given human milk
from the breast milk station operated by the
hospital. This station has been in operation
for the last ten years. It was one of the first
such stations established in Chicago. The ex-
cess supply of breast milk obtained at this
Station is frozen and kept for future use as
needed,

Bacteria Free Feedings
II artificial feeding is necessary, the for-
mulas arc prepared in the milk laboratory,
winch was the gift of Mrs. James Simpson
in memory of her grandson, John, Jr. A
supervising nurse and two student nurses are

on duty in this laboratory and do nothing
else. Every formula is prepared under sterile
precautions, and is finally pasteurized before
giving to the baby. Once a week a sample
is taken of every formula and of all breast
milk being used. These samples are sent to
the laboratory of the hospital for examina-
tion and culture of bacteria. The efficiency of
milk laboratory equipment and procedures is
evidenced by the fact that no bacteria has
been found for many months in the samples
examined. Every baby in our nursery, who
requires artificial feeding, is picked up by the
nurse and led individually as a baby should
be. We never use bottle holders or carriers
because we regard these as refined instru-
ments of torture.

Guard Against Infection

Our final problem is to guard the baby
from infection. No one is allowed to enter
the nurseries except the attending pediatrician,
resident pediatrician, intern, and nursery
nurses. No one goes into a nursery without
being masked, capped and gowned. No one
toucbes a newborn infant without first
scrubbing the hands in soap and water and
antiseptic solution. After giving attention to'
one baby this disinfection is repeated before
touching another baby.

After being used for one infant, instrU'
ments in the nursery are disinfected before
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ETHYLENE ANESTHESIA

NOW WIDELY USED

IN OBSTETRICS

Invaluable in Cesarean Births

In a combined recognition of National
Child Health Day, Mother's Day and
the 15th anniversary of the first use of
ethylene gas as an anesthetic in child-
birth, the Woman's Board of the Pres-
byterian Hospital had as its guest speaker
Monday morning at the regular monthly
meeting of the board, Dr. Isabella C.
Herb, chief anesthetist in the Hospital
and associate professor of clinical surgery
at Rush Medical College of the Univer-
sity of Chicago.

Dr. Herb, who was the first anesthetist to
administer ethylene-oxygen as an anesthetic
in general and obstetrical surgery, told of the
first Cesarean section operation in which
ethylene gas was used and which took place
in Presbyterian Hospital 15 years ago, May
1, 1923. Ethylene was selected as the
anesthetic for this Cesarean operation on Mrs.
Flonan W. Weber, 8150 Oglesby Ave., be-
cause her condition made the use of ether
dangerous. The operating obstetrician was
Dr. William F. Hewitt. The results were
highly satisfactory, Mrs. Weber giving birth
to a baby girl, who is now an attractive girl
of 15 years, and who with her mother visited
Dr. Herb on April 30 and was shown the
operating room in which she was born and
the ethylene gas equipment now used in the
Presbyterian Hospital.

Commenting on the use of ethylene gas as
an anesthetic in obstetrics, Dr. Herb declared
that it is the safest and most satisfactory
form of anesthesia not only in operative ob-
stetrics but also to relieve the pain of child-
birth in all cases. She said, "It has been found
that the judicious administration of ethylene-
oxygen during labor relieves the pain with-
out retarding the natural processes of child-
birth or affecting the mother or baby in any
deleterious manner. Leading obstetricians
agree that for operative obstetric work it is
without approach among anesthetics because
it eliminates the dangers and disadvantages
of other anesthetics commonly used prior to
the discovery of ethylene."

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being used for a different baby. No one
except nurses, doctors and interns are per-
mitted to enter a ward or private room when
a baby is with its mother.

Take Other Precautions

All nurses and interns have complete
physical examinations, including throat cultures
for streptococci, Dick test for scarlet fever,
Schick test for diphtheria and chest X-ray
films for tuberculosis. No nurse or intern is
allowed on the nursery floor if they have a
cold or are sick in any way.

Every baby in our nurseries has an intern
and attending doctor, just as do adult pa-
tients in the hospital. Every morning rounds
are made, Sundays included, for the new-
born knows no holidays. Every baby is
studied and examined, his chart is studied
and he is not discharged from the hospital
until he is in good physical condition. As the
twig is bent so does the tree incline. The
newborn period is the door to childhood and
if health can be built on a strong foundation
of sturdy infancy we have given a greater
heritage to the human race.

BENEFACTORS OF HUMANITY

At least five million hospital patients in all parts of the world have had the
benefit of an easier and safer anesthetic since the first operations ever performed
under ethylene gas anesthesia took place in Presbyterian Hospital, March 14, 192.1.
On the 15th anniversary of these operations, Dr. Arno. B. Luckhardt (right), who
discovered the anesthetic property of ethylene gas, and Dr. Jay Bailey Carter,
who assisted in the experimental work, were guests of Dr. Isabella C. Herb, chief
anesthetist in our hospital, who is shown demonstrating our present efficient
ethylene-oxygen equipment. One of the
nurses donned the recently improved adjust-
able halter which holds the mask firmly in
place without discomfort to the patient. Of
course, an actual patient would be lying
down, instead of sitting on a stool as did
the nurse in this picture which shows the
equipment, rather than the actual procedure
of administering anesthesia.

Dr. Luckhardt is professor ot physiology
at the University of Chicago, which posi-
tion he held at the time of his discovery and
development of ethylene gas for anesthetic
purposes. Dr. Carter is instructor in medicine
at Rush Medical College. He was a sopho-
more medical student during the period of his
experimental work with ethylene gas. After
extensive experiments with animals had con-
vinced the university scientist and his student
assistant that ethylene gas could be used suc-
cessfully as an anesthetic in surgery, the next
step was to try it out on a human subject.
Because Dr. Luckhardt had a wife and two
children, Dr. Carter elected to serve as the
human guinea pig, thus becoming the first
person ever to be put to sleep with ethylene

gas. Dr. Luckhardt administered the gas with
extreme caution for a very short period.
When this did not prove disastrous to his
patient, the time of administration was in-
creased gradually in succeeding experiments.
Next Dr. Luckhardt became the patient and
finally, true to the tradition of all great
scientists who readily subject themselves to
experiments for the advancement of science,
Dr. Carlson, chairman of the University of
Chicago's department of physiology, insisted
on having ethylene gas tried out with him-
self as the patient.

These men then inivted a group of sur-
geons and anesthetists to a demonstration at
the university one Sunday in March. 192 3.
Three days later. Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan,
eminent surgeon, performed in the Presbyte-
rian Hospital the first surgical operations in
which ethylene combined with oxygen was
used, with Dr. Herb as the administering
anesthetist. The results were so satisfactory
that ethylene was soon used in other opera'
tions by Dr. Bevan and other surgeons in
this and other hospitals and is now used in
leading hospitals throughout the world.

HOSPITAL STAFF HOSTS
TO AMERICAN SOCIETY
OF CLINICAL SURGERY

Surgeons of Chicago and other cities
were guests of Presbyterian Hospital and
Rush Medical College on April 29, when
the American Society of Clinical Sur-
gery held an all-day clinical and scientific
meeting in the two institutions. Luncheon
was served at noon in the hospital chapel.
Members of the hospital staff who per-
formed operations in the presence of
visiting surgeons were: Dr. Vernon C.
David, Dr. Herman L. Kretschmer, Dr.
Edwin M. Miller, Dr. Robert Herhst,
Dr. Gatewood Gatewood, Dr. Adrien
Verbrugghen, Dr. E. J. Berkheiser, Dr.
Norris J. Heckel, Dr. A. Louis Rosi,
Dr. N. S. Heaney, Dr. A. E. Kanter
and Dr. Max Jacobson.

Reports and demonstrations were pre-
sented by Dr. David, Dr. Gatewood,
Dr. Miller, Dr. Harry Oberhelman, Dr.
Heckel, Dr. Mark L. Lonng, Dr. W. O.
Thompson, Dr. W. T. Potts, Dr. R. Ken-
nedy Gilchrist, Dr. Frank V. Theis and
Dr. Hanselman.

Gynecological Clinic

An all day clinical meeting of the
Chicago Gynecological Society was held
in Presbyterian Hospital, April 15. The
program consisted of operations and re-
ports by members of the obstetrical and
gynecological staff of the hospital.
Luncheon was served in the hospital
chapel to 50 visitors and staff members.

REUNION OF INTERNS

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union held about 20 years ago; Dean
David John Davis of the Illinois Univer-
sity College of Medicine; Dean Emmet
B. Bay of Rush Medical Colege, Dr.
Selim W. McArthur and many other
distinguished former interns who are lo-
cated m Chicago will join with the hospi-
tal committee in welcoming the interns of
yesteryear, who will include bald heads,
gray beards (if any), stouts and leans,
the monocled, the trussed, and others on
whom the passing of the years has placed
its inevitable mark. Dr. Gatewood
Gatewood is chairman of the reunion
committee composed of Dr. Rudolph
Holmes, Dr. Willis J. Potts, Dr. Wil-
liam G. Hibhs, and Mr. Herman Hensel,
assistant superintendent of the hospital.

CORRECTION

In giving the list of names of the School
of Nursing students who arc planning to
become missionary nurses, in the April
Bulletin, the name of Charlotte King was
printed as Krug. for which apologies arc
offered to M,ss King.

MEDICAL STAFF NEWS

Dr. George J. Rukstinat presented a paper
on "Spindle Cell Sarcoma of the Prostate
Gland" at a meeting of the Chicago Patho-
logical Society, April 1 1 .

Dr. Wilber E. Post was a speaker at a
meeting of the Chicago Medical Society, on
April 20, at which he presented "General
Principles in Bright's Disease." Dr. William
A. Thomas discussed the topic "The Relation-
ship of the Intoxication of Pregnancy to
Bright's Disease."

Dr. Rolhn T. Woodyatt addressed the
Northwest branch of the Chicago Medical
Society, April 2 2, on the topic "Phases of
the Diabetes Problem."

At a meeting of the Chicago Medical So-
ciety, March 16, Dr. Herman L. Kretschmer
spoke on the topic "Importance and Signifi-
cance of Pyuria in Children."

Dr. Clark E. Finnerud discussed "Common
Skin Diseases" at a meeting of the Southern
Cook County branch of the Chicago Medical
Society on March 15.

Dr. Bertha Klien and Dr. Elias Selingcr
were speakers on the scientific program of the
Chicago Ophthalmological Society, March 21.

Dr. Bert I. Beverly addressed the Parent-
Teacher Association of Lombard, March 15,
on "Behavior Problems of Children."

Dr. Frederick B. Moorehead gave an
illustrated lecture on "Plastic Surgery" at a
meetting of Wisconsin physicians in Apple-
ton, March 24.

Dr. William D. McNally addressed the
Exchange Club of Marion, Indiana, March
24 on "Poisons in Our Everyday Life." In
the evening he gave a talk to the Grant
County Medical Society on "Diagnosis and
Treatment of Some of the Common Poisons."

Dr. Clayton J. Lundy conducted a radio
broadcast recently in which heart beats of a
12-year old girl cardiac patient were trans-
mitted with the assistance of a cardiograph
ttethograph, after which the normal heart
beats of a child who had recovered from a
heart ailment were broadcast by way of com-
parison. Both were patients at La Rabida-
Jackson Park Sanitarium, where Dr. Lundy is
a staff member.

HOLD "CAPPING" SERVICE

Miss Dorothy Rogers (1921), associate pro-
fessor of nursing at the University of Chicago
and president of the Illinois League of Nurs-
ing Education, was the speaker at the "cap-
ping" service held at Sprague Home, March
30. Preceding the address by Miss Rogers,
the assembly repeated "A Nurse's Prayer,"
and Miss Augusta Hcncveld sang. Following
the address. Miss McMillan, director of the
school, accepted the 25 members of the class
who had completed the six-month preliminary
course. Each preliminary student was then
presented with her nurse's cap by a member
of the senior class, in a beautiful candle-
lighting ceremony.

CARD PARTY NETS #600

Mrs. Alva A. Knight, chairman of the I
school of nursing committee of the Woman's III
Board, reported at the May board meeting jji
that the annual benefit card party held at ji
Sprague Home on April 4 was the mofgj 1
successful yet held. Net proceeds were $6G I
which will be used to asisst the school in |]|
various ways. Sixty-five tables played bridge,
the Florence Nightingale chorus sang and
refreshments were served. Handsome and use-
ful prizes donated by board members and
other friends included bottles of Gray's Baby
Oil, from William Gray, hospital pharmacist,
originator of the formula for this widely used
product.

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PARTY

Mrs. J. Hall Taylor, vice chairman, and
members of the occupational therapy commit-
tee of the Woman's Board, assisted the occu-
pational therapy staff in entertaning a large
group of interns, nurses and other hospital I
personnel at a gathering held in the depart-
ment, March 30. A motion picture depicting
the work of the occupational and physical
therapy departments was shown, followed by
refreshments and a delightful social hour.

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL

OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

1753 W. CONGRESS STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Telephone: Seeley 7171

OFFICERS and MANAGERS

JOHN McKINLAY President

HORACE W. ARMSTRONG Vice-President

CHARLES B. GOODSPEED Vice-President

SOLOMON A. SMITH Treasure

KINGMAN DOUGLASS Secret.

FRED S. BOOTH Asst. Secret,

A. J. WILSON Asst. Secreta,'*

Arthur G. Cable Fred A. Poor

Alfred T. Carton Theodore A. Shaw

Albert B. Dick, Jr. Rev. John Timothy
John B. Drake Stone, D.D.

James B. Forgan, Jr. R. Douglas Stuart

Albert D. Farwell Robert Stevenson

Alfred E. Hamill J. Hall Taylor

Charles H. Hamill John P. Welling
Edw. D. McDougal, Jr. Edward F. Wilson

CLERICAL MANAGERS

Rev. Harrison Ray Anderson, D.D.

Rev. Harold L. Bowman, D.D.

Rev. Alvyn R. Hickman, D.D.

Rev. W. Clyde Howard, D.D.

MEDICAL BOARD

VERNON C. DAVID, M.D President

WOMAN'S BOARD
MRS. ERNEST E. IRONS (resident

ADMINISTRATION

ASA S. BACON Superintendent

HERMAN HENSEL Asst. Superintendent

M. HELENA McMILLAN... Director, School of Nursing

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL BULLETIN
Florence Slown Hyde, Editor
The Presbyterian Hospital of the City of
Chicago is an Illinois not-for-profit corpora-
tion, organized July 21, 1883, for the purpose
of affording surgical and medical aid, and
nursing, to sick and disabled persons of every
creed, nationality, and color. Its medical sta'
is appointed from the faculty of Rush Medic
College of the University of Chicago.

The Board of Managers call attention
the need of gifts and bequests for endowment
and for the general purposes of the hospital.

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MEMBER AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Chicago, 111.

June, 1938

Vol. 30, No. 6

iFORMER PRESBYTERIAN

S HAVE REUNION

Are Guests of Hospital at

Luncheon — 175 Here

from 18 States

The far-flung influence of Presbyterian
Hospital as a medical teaching institution
was brought into bold relief on June 6,
when 175 former interns from 18 differ-
ent states gathered at the hospital for a
reunion luncheon and clinic program.
Luncheon guests numbering 250 also in-
cluded present interns, residents, and
attending staff members who did not
intern in this hospital. The reunion
dinner in the evening at the Bismarck
hotel drew an attendance of 220.

Ill health prevented Dr. Lawrence H.
Prince, first intern after the hospital
opened in 1884, from attending. His
absence occasioned expressions of regret
from those who knew him and from
others who knew of his long service as a
practitioner and his contributions to the
advancement of medical knowledge. Dr.
Prince, now 80 years old, is living in
retirement at Kiln, Miss.

Dr. Harvey A. Tyler of Chicago was
the only guest present whose internship
began prior to 1890. Dr. Tyler, whose
vigor belies the fact that he graduated
from Rush in 1889, is a well-known
| Chicago gynecologist, still in active
practice with an office in the loop. He
I is on the staff at the House of the Good
Shepherd and was for many years pro-
fessor of gynecology at the Chicago Poli-
clinic and Hospital.

Others present whose internships date
back to the "Gay Nineties" which were
serious nineties for those aspiring young
medics, were:

Dr. Rudolph W. Holmes (1894-95),
emeritus professor of obstetrics and gynecol-
ogy, Rush Medical College; chief of obstetrics
service, Passavant Hospital; son of Dr.
Edward L. Holmes, Rush professor and
eminent eye surgeon on the first staff of the
Presbyterian Hospital, who operated on the
first patient admitted to the hospital, Aug.
20, 1884.

THEY INTERNED HERE IN THE "GAY NINETIES"

The "Gay Nineties" weren't so gay to these four men who were going about the serious
business of being hospital interns during that period. But they certainly had a gay time at
the reunion luncheon, where as the oldest ex-interns present they got the first chance at the
heavily laden buffet lunch table arranged by the chef and the head dietitian.

In the picture, left to right: Dr. William R. Parkes (1894-95), Dr. Harvey A. Tyler
(1889-90), Dr. W. C. F. Witte (1896-98), Dr. Rudolph W. Holmes (1894-95).

Dr. William R. Parkes (1894-95), emeritus
chief of surgical department, Evanston Hos-
pital; chief of medical staff, Presbyterian
Home; nephew of Dr. Charles T. Parkes,
early day Rush professor of surgery and mem-
ber of the first medical staff of Presbyterian
Hospital.

Dr. William C. F. Witte (1896-98), Mil-
waukee surgeon, formerly on the faculty of
Marquette University Medical School.

Dr. Spencer D. Beebc (1896-98), Sparta,
Wis.

(1898-1900), Wich
argcon in Presbyter

Dr. Harry W. Hoi-
Kan. — First resident
Hospital, 1901-02.

Dr. Frank E. Pierce (1898-99), Chicago
— Professor of surgery, Loyola University
School of Medicine; chief surgeon New York
Central Railway; Mercy Hospital stalF.

Dr. Harry D. Wiley (1899-1901), Glencoe,

Dr. W. F. C. Heisc (1897-99), Winona,
Minn.

Dr. Alexander Stevenson (1898-1900),
who was the first resident physician in out
hospital, 1901-02), had planned to attend but
became ill a few days before the reunion and
by an ironic coincidence had an operation
here that morning. Dr. Stevenson is a well-
known internal medicine specialist on the
staffs of Grant and St. Luke's hospitals.

Dr. Samuel R. Slaymakcr (1892-93) was
not present at the luncheon but attended tin-
dinner .it the Bismarck. Dr. Slaymaker is
professor of medicine at Rush Medic.il Col-
lege, attending physician on the Presbyterian
stalF, and president of Washington Boulevard
Hospital.

DOCTORING RUNS IN FAMILIES OF EX-INTERNS

Five Robergs, Three Gatewoods,

Three Shambaughs and Others

Exemplify Trait

Doctoring seems to run in families just
as do some others tendencies and char-
acteristics. Take the Robergs, for in-
stance. Five are doctors. Three of them
interned in Presbyterian Hospital and
were at the reunion dinner, June 6, in
the Bismarck hotel. Then there are the
three Gatewood brothers who interned
here — two were present at the reunion
dinner; the three Shambaughs, father and
two sons — both sons present at the dinner
as former residents; the three McGraths
of Grand Island, Neb. — two are former
interns and one was presenet at the re-
union; the two Davis brothers, both
former interns, and Carl B. jr. who be-
gins an internship here on July 1.

The Five Robergs

Dr. O. Theodore Roberg, Sr. of Chicago
was the first of three brothers who graduated
from Rush Medical College (1899) and in
1901-02 was the first of three Robergs to
serve internships in Presbyterian hospital.
His brother, Dr. David N. who graduated
from Rush in 1908, is located in San Jose,
Calif. Another brother, Dr. Frederick E.,
graduated from Rush in 1911 and was an
intern here 1911-12. Two sons of Dr. O. T.
Roberg are doctors, the three now having an
office together in Chicago. O. Theodore, Jr.,
graduate of Harvard Medical School, came
to Presbyterian for his internship in 1931-32.
The other son, Norman, who also graduated
from Harvard, went to Boston City Hospital
for his internship, after which he did further
work at Billings.

Dr. O. T. Roberg, Sr. is chief surgeon at
Swedish Covenant Hospital. Dr. O. T., Jr. is
a surgeon on the staffs of Swedish Covenant
and Illinois Research and Educational Hos-
pitals. Dr. F. E. Roberg specializes in internal
medicine. He is a major in the Medical
Reserve Corps, U. S. Army.

Three Gatewood Brothers

Dr. Gatewood, surgeon, and Dr. L. C.
Gatewood, internal medicine specialist, aren't
twins but both graduated from Rush in 1911
following which they served internships in
our hospital at the same time. The former
was resident surgeon from 1914 to 1919.
Both arc now members of our attending staff
and on the faculty of Rush. Dr. Wesley E.
Gatewood, Rush 1915; Presbyterian intern,
1916-17, is assistant clinical professor of
medicine at the University of Oregon Med-
ical School, Portland.

Two of the three McGraths of Grand
Island, Neb. arc former Presbyterian interns.
Dr. Wilmer D. McGrath (1916-17) attended
the reunion. Dr. William M. (1931-32) was
also resident physician, 1934-35.

Two Shambaughs Were Residents

Dr. George E. Shambaugh, Sr. has been
an atttending otolaryngologist on our stall
for many years and is emeritus professor on
Rush faculty. Dr. George E., Jr. was resident
laryngologist and otologist, 1932-34, is now

Here are three
of the five Rob-
ergs who are
doctors. These
three, who in-
terned at Pres-
byterian, attend-
ed the reunion
dinner. They
are, left to right:
Dr. O. T. Rob-
erg, Jr., Dr. O.
T. Roberg, Sr.,
and Dr. F. E.
Roberg.

TWO EARLY DAY PATIENTS

Mrs. C. V. Bressler, 6224 Wayne Avenue,
visited the hospital recently and recalled the
fact that 37 years ago she and her sister were
here as patients of Dr. Christian Fenger. They
were little girls and their names were Martha
and Marie Malon. During convalescence, the
superintendent, Mr. Asa Bacon, took the
girls to Lincoln Park, a pleasant experience
which they never forgot.

While a patient here recently, Mrs. Andrew
X. Schmitt of Crystal Lake recalled her first
experience in that role, 46 years ago. Her
doctor was th late Dr. Suydam Knox and
one of the interns was Dr. T. A. Olney, now
at South Bend, Ind. Other staff men whom
she recalls were Dr. Edward L. Holmes, Dr.
J. H. Etheridge, and Dr. A. C. Cotton. Con-
valescent patients went to the dining room for
their meals in those days. Street cars on Van
Buren street were drawn by horses, and this
section of the West Side was still the resi-
dential choice of many of Chicago's wealthiest
and most socially prominent families.

an assistant staff member on this service, and
assistant clinical professor in that department
of Rush Medical College. His brother, Dr.
Philip Shambaugh was resident surgeon here
in 1936-37.

Third Davis Begins July 1

Dr. Carl B. Davis, Rush 1903, and his
brother. Dr. George G. Davis, Rush 1904,
completed internships here in 1904 and 1905,
respectively. Dr. Carl B., Jr. was graduated
on June 9 from the University of Chicago
School of Medicine and will begin an intern-
ship here on July 1. Dr. Carl B. Davis, Sr.
is an attending surgeon on our staff. Dr. G.
G. Davis is an attending surgeon at Cook
County hospital. Both are on Rush faculty.

Dr. W. F. C. Heisc of Winona, Minn.,
who interned here in 1897-99, has brought
up five sons who either are or plan to be
doctors, though none of them have come here
for internships.

"Like father, like son" applies to many
former interns whose fathers were eminent
medical men. Some of these who took part
in the reunion are mentioned elsewhere in
this Bulletin. Lack of space prevents listing
others at this time.

WOMEN EX-INTERNS HOLD
PLEASANT GET-TOGETHER
WITH WOMEN OF STAFF '

According to available records not
more than 25 women have served intern-
ships in Presbyterian Hospital and some
of these had only shortterm appointments
for special study. Alice Mitchell is listed
as an intern in 1885-89. No other in-
formation is available concerning her.
The second woman intern was Miriam
Gardner (1907), who married Dr. Peter
Bassoe shortly after completing her
internship. Dr. Bassoe was assistant
resident pathologist at that time. Mrs.
Bassoe is an active member of the Wo-
man's Board of our hospital.

Women ex-interns had a pleasant get-
together at the reunion luncheon, where
they were seated with women members of
the Medical Staff. Those present were:
Dr. Miriam Gardner Bassoe, Dr. Ruth E.
Taylor (192 3-24), assistant clinical pro-
fessor of medicine, University of Chica-
go; Dr. Eleanor I. Leslie (1927-28),
assistant professor of pediatrics, Rush
Medical College and member of the hos-
pital pediatrics staff; Dr. Huberta Living-
stone (1928), assistant professor of sur-
gery, University of Chicago, and head of
the anesthesia service, U. of C. Clinics;
Dr. Catherine Dobson (1930), clinical
assistant in obstetrics and gynecology,
Rush Medical College; Dr. Ann
Huuenga, who completed an internship
m pediatrics. Mar. 1, 1938, and is now
at the Municipal Contagious Disease
Hospital; Dr. Isabella C. Herb, chief
anesthetist; Dr. Mary Lyons, Dr. Alice
McNcal, and Dr. Nora Brandenburg,
assistant anesthetists in the Presbyterian
hospital, all four of whom are on the
faculty of Rush Medical College.

Former Interns Who Became Medical School Deans

DR. E. E. IRONS

DR. D. J. DAVIS

DR. EBEN J. CAREY

DR. EMMET B. BAY

[INENT MEDICAL MEN
\MONG EX-INTERNS
AT REUNION

m Hospital Alumni Association

>eans of three medical schools and
former dean were among the distin-
hed ex-interns of Presbyterian Hos-
1 present at the reunion dinner in the
aarck hotel, Monday night, June 6.
y were: Dean Eben J. Carey, Mar-
ie University School of Medicine,
waukee; Dean David J. Davis, Uni-
lty of Illinois College of Medicine,
cago; Dean Emmet B. Bay, Rush
heal College of the University of
cago; Dr. Ernest E. Irons, former
i of Rush Medical College. Dean
/ard W. Koch (1911-12), University
Buffalo College of Medicine, Buffalo,
Y., was unable to be present.
)thers who hold important teaching
tions on medical faculties at North-
tern, Loyola, University of Illinois
University of Chicago (Rush and
th Side) were present to recall the
5 when they were "Pres" interns, as
e also many other eminent medical
l from nearby and distant points,
ong the latter were Dr. J. F. Ham-
id and Dr. Edwin P. Jordan, assistant
ors of the Journal of the American
dical Association and Dr. Henry C.
ilack, chief of the Bureau of Child
lfare, Chicago Board of Health.

Program Is Enjoyed

)r. Rudolph W. Holmes, who was
;ident of the last reunion held about
years ago, presided at the dinner.
George H. Coleman, of Rush faculty
St. Luke's staff, was the toastmaster.
John A. Robison, only living member

Dr. Ernest E. Irons was dean of Rush
Medical College from 1923 to 1936. He is
now professor and chairman of the depart-
ment of medicine at Rush and head of the
medical service in Presbyterian Hospital,
where he served an internship in 1904-05.

Dr. David J. Davis is dean of the Univer-
sity of Illinois College of Medicine; also
professor and head of the department cf
pathology and bacteriology. He was an in-
tern in our hospital, 1907-08, and resident
pathologist, 1909-11. (Photo by Walinger)

Dr. Eben J. Carey is dean of Marquette
University Medical School and also professor
of anatomy. He is on the staff of Milwaukee
Municipal Hospital. Presbyterian intern,
1924-25.

Dr. Emmet B. Bay is associate dean in
the department of biological sciences of the
University of Chicago and has been in
charge of Rush Medical College since July,
1936. He was an intern here, 1922-23, and
resident physician in 1924.

of the hospital's first medical staff was a
special guest and one of the speakers.
Short talks by representative former
interns, amusing skits featuring take-offs
on prominent members of the Medical
Staff, stereopticon slides presenting early
day hospital leaders and scenes, and
accordion music by Dr. Arthur R. Col-
well of Evanston were features of the
highly enjoyable program arranged by
Dr. Gatewood Gatewood, chairman, and
members of the reunion committee.

It was voted to form a permanent
organization to be known as the Presby-
terian Hospital Alumni Association.
Officers were elected as follows: Dr.
George H. Coleman, president; Dr. Gate-
wood, vice-president and president-elect;
Dr. William G. Hibbs, secretary-trea-
surer.

Many of those who were unable to attend
took the trouble to send greetings and express
regrets. Early-day interns heard from were:
Dr. Arthur T. Holbrook (1897), Milwaukee,
Wis.; Dr. Philip Schuyler Doane (1897),
Pasadena, Calif.; Dr. J. H. Irwin (1899-

BEGINS 39th YEAR HERE

On June 1, Mr. Asa S. Bacon, super-
intendent, began his 39th year here.
Prior to 1900, only 49 interns had re-
ceived training here. Since that date 600
have served internships and 77 have com-
pleted one or more years1 training as
residents in medical or surgical special-
ties. The present House Staff is made
up of 26 interns and 13 resident doctors.

MEDICAL STAFF NEWS

Officers were elected at a meeting of
the Medical Board of the hospital on
May 13, as follows:

President — Dr. Vernon C. David
Vice-President — Dr. Herman L. Kretschmcr
Secretary-Treasurer — Dr. William G. Hibbs

1884-85 EXTERN

Dr. Adam E. Kauffman, who began his
work as an extern for Presbyterian Hospital
in December 1884, was admitted as a patient
here, June 13, arriving here from California
a few days too late to attend the reunion.
He was called an extern, because he did not
have quarters in the hospital as did our first
intern, Dr. L. H. Prince, whom he assisted in
caring for patients. We hope to publish some
of Dr. Kauffman's interesting reminiscences
in a later issue.

1901), Great Falls, Mont.; Dr. W. E. Kaser
(1897-98), Las Vegas, N. M.; and Dr. W.
W. Mcloy (1897-99), Chicago.

Among others who sent greetings and
regrets were: Dr. Evarts A. Graham, professor
of surgery, Washington University, St. Louis,
and son of Dr. D. W. Graham one of tin-
founders of the Presbyterian; Dr. Burrcll O.
Raulston, professor of medicine, University of
Southern Calif., Los Angeles: Dr. Russell
M. Wilder. pimIc-..m.i ol medicine, Mavo
Foundation, Rochester, Minn.: Dr. Frank R.
Menne, professor of pathology. University of
Oregon, Portland; Dr. Paul H. Forgrave, Si.
Joseph, Mo., member of the stale hoard of
health which held examinations on that day.

RUSH ALUMNI BANQUET
ATTENDED BY OVER 500;
1938 CLASS NUMBERS 81

Rush Medical College Alumni had one
of its largest and most enthusiastic ban-
quets in recent years, on June 7 at the
Drake hotel, with 553 attending. Dr.
George W. Hall was toastmaster and the
principal speaker was Dr. Dean Lewis,
chairman of the department of surgery,
Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, Baltimore. Dr. Lewis is a Rush
alumnus, former president of the Amer-
ican Medical Association, and former
member of Rush faculty and the Pres-
byterian Hospital staff. He urged the
necessity for clinical study as a principal
factor in making the physician proficient,
saying that the laboratory should be
relied on mainly to confirm the diagnosis
resulting from a study of the patient and
the doctor's previous clinical experience.

Other speakers were Dr. Robert H.
Herbst, president of the Alumni Asso-
ciation; Dr. E. V. L. Brown, class of
1898; Dr. Robert L. Kerrigan, 1918; Dr.
George T. Wallace, 1938; and Mr.
George A. Blair.

Dr. Herbst gave a brief report on the
alternative plans now being considered
with reference to the future of Rush
Medical College, the Presbyterian Hos-
pital and Central Free Dispensary, in
relation to the University of Chicago.
It is expected that a decision will be
reached in the near future, when further
announcement will be made in this
Bulletin.

Early day graduates introduced to the
assembly were: Dr. J. C. Wright (1881),
Antigo, Wis.; Dr. J. P. Lord (1882),
Omaha, Neb.; Dr. Frederick E. Vance
(1887), Eddyville, la., and Dr. Charles
D. Thomas (1888), Peoria, 111. All are
still in active practice.

Rush Graduates 81

Eighty-one graduates of Rush Medical
College received M. D. degrees at the
University of Chicago convocation held
on June 9.

Dr. Edward D. Allen, associate ob-
stetrician and gynecologist on the Presby-
terian staff, was elected president of the
Rush Alumni Association at a business
meeting held on the afternoon of June 7.
Other officers are as follows:

First Vice-President — Dr. Joseph Smith,
Wausau, Wis.

Second Vice-President — Dr. Russell M.
Wilder, Rochester, Minn.

Third Vice-President— Dr. W. D. Sansum,
Santa Barbara, Calif.

Secretary-Treasurer — Dr. Carl O. Rindcr,
Chicago, 111.

Hecrologist— Dr. Frank Allen, Chicago, 111.

Directors to serve three years- Dr. Willis
J. Potts and Dr. A. H. Montgomery, Chicago.

Representatives to University of Chicago
Alumni Council— Dr. W. A. 'Thomas, Dr.
R. A. Watkins and Dr. C. J. Lundy, Chic igo.

iln fHmtortam

James H. Harper
1867-1938

James H. Harper, Registrar of Rush
Medical College, and universally beloved
friend of the faculty, students and the
administrative staff of the Hospital, died
in the Presbyterian Hospital on February
6, 1938, of penumonia. He was born
September 30, 1867, at New Concord,
Ohio, the fourth son of Samuel and Ellen
Harper. His brothers were William
Rainey Harper, first President of the
University of Chicago, (d. 1906), Samuel
Harper (d. 1887), and Robert Francis
Harper, Professor of Oriental Languages
in the University of Chicago (d. 1914).
He had one sister, Mary Harper Douglas.

He attended Muskingum College and
later entered business, first in Connels-
ville, Pennsylvania, and later in Chicago.
In 1898, when Rush Medical College was
affiliated with the University of Chicago,
he became the Registrar of the College
and retained this position for forty years.
For the last five years he had been
relieved of active duties but retained his
desk in the college office and insisted on
doing what he could for the institution
he had served so long and well.

For many years he was Secretary of
the Board of the Central Free Dispensary
and by his diplomacy and attention to
detail, integrated the administrative
work of the Dispensary and College.

Mr. Harper had a wide acquaintance
among business and social, as well as
medical and professional groups. He was
popular with every one, a fine companion
at golf or at dinner. Every one who
knew him loved Jim Harper.

His outstanding qualities were, how-
ever, his faithfulness and his loyalty. He
served the interests of the College as if
they were his own, and it was largely
due to his business care that the College
survived the financial difficulties of those
years. No detail of administration
escaped him. The College was his life.

He radiated friendliness. His smile
and cheery word will always be remem-
bered by students, faculty and friends.

Ernest E. Irons, M.D.

SHOW MOVIE ON JELLY-MAKING

At the regular meeting of the Woman's
Board, held in the Nurses' Home, June 6,
members were urged to enlist church women
and other friends in making jelly this summer
to be donated to the hospital. A highly
entertaining motion picture made in the hos-
pital under the direction of Mrs. J. P.
Mcntzer, chairman of the delicacies commit-
tee, and Miss Winifred Braincrd, occupational
therapy department, presented the jelly-making
message to the board.

DR. GRULEE NEW HEAD OF

AMERICAN PEDIATRIC

SOCIETY

At the meeting of the American Pedi-
atric Society in Great Barrington, Mass.,
May 5, Dr. Clifford G. Grulee, chief of
the Presbyterian Hospital pediatrics staff
was elected president of the society. Dr.
Heyworth N. Sanford associate pediatri-
cian on our staff, was elected recorder
and editor. Dr. Sanford and Dr. Arthur
W. Fleming read a paper at the conven-
tion of the society on "Vitamin C Con-
tent of the Blood in Newborn Infants."

RECENT VISITORS

Mr. H. Barrett, manager and secretary of
the Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia,
visited our hospital on June 8.

Mr. E. H. Schlitgus of Mayo Clinic, Roch-
ester, Minn, visited the hospital May 13.

Mrs. Winona Hayenga Thorne, 1928 grad-
uate of the School of Nursing, visited the
hospital m May, before returning to her work
as a missionary nurse at Elat Ebolowa,
Cameroun, W. Africa. She was to return via
Cairo, Egypt and attend the International
Congress on Leprosy.

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL

OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

1753 W. CONGRESS STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Telephone: Seeley 7171

OFFICERS and MANAGERS

JOHN McKINLAY President

HORACE W. ARMSTRONG Vice-President

CHARLES B. GOODSPEED Vice-President

SOLOMON A. SMITH Treasurer

KINGMAN DOUGLASS Secretary

FRED S. BOOTH Asst. Secretary

A. J. WILSON Asst. Secretary

Arthur G. Cable Fred A. Poor

Alfred T. Carton Theodore A. Shaw

Albert B. Dick, Jr. Rev. John Timothy

John B. Drake Stone, D.D.

James B. Forgan, Jr. R. Douglas Stuart

Albert D. Farwell Robert Stevenson

Alfred E. Hamill J. Hall Taylor

Charles H. Hamill John P. Welling

Edw. D. McDougal, Jr. Edward F. Wilson

CLERICAL MANAGERS

Rev. Harrison Ray Anderson, D.D.

Rev. Harold L. Bowman, D.D.

Rev. Alvyn R. Hickman, D.D.

Rev. W. Clyde Howard, D.D.

MEDICAL BOARD

VERNON C. DAVID, M.D. President

WOMAN'S BOARD
MRS. ERNEST E. IRONS President

ADMINISTRATION

ASA S. BACON Superintendent

HERMAN HENSEL Asst. Superintendent

M. HELENA McMILLAN Director, School of Nursing

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL BULLETIN
Florence Slown Hyde, Editor

The Board of Managers call attention to
the need of gifts and bequests for endowment
and for the general purposes of the hospital.

I tie

ID)

trie City o-y Skicagc^

BULLETIN

MEMBER AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Chicago, 111.

July -August, 1938

Vol. 30, No. 7

HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT HAS 59 ON STAFF

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KEEPING THE HOSPITAL

CLEAN IS MAJOR

RESPONSIBILITY

Hospital housekeeping involves a va-
riety of tasks and responsibilities which
touch every department and have much
to do with the welfare and comfort of
the patient. Unlike the housekeeper in
the home, the hospital housekeeper has
nothing to do with the planning, cooking,
and serving of meals. This work belongs
to the dietary department. The only bed-
making that the housekeeping staff does
is that involved in the care of the interns'
and resident doctors' quarters. Patients1
beds are the responsibility of the nursing
department.

When the word "hospital" is men-
tioned the first thought that comes into
anyone's mind is cleanliness, and keeping
the hospital clean is the housekeeper's
major responsibility. It demands careful
management, constant adjustments, and
most important of all, a staff of workers
who are loyal, adaptable and conscien-
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i h 4s*—* :

Forty-one of the 59 members of the hos-
pital housekeeping staff are pictured above.
Six women and 12 men workers were not
present when the picture was taken. In the
picture, left to right, are:

First row — Hazel Dostor, Marie Konva-
Iinka, Emily Bernat, Katie Manok, Helga
Ybarra, Kathryn Koopman, and Molly
Drahos.

Second row — Mary Hardina, Mary
Mifka, Lydia Ondracek, Mary Petricek, Mary
Kolar, Bernice Stein, executive housekeeper;
Anna Tomes, Mary Konecny, assistant house-
keeper; Frances Lobe, Anna Holan, and Josie
Penczek.

Third row — Catherine Brennan, Philo-
mene Eder, Bessie Kravchuk, Jean Mac-
Fayden, Rose Hruska, Martha Melms, Louise
Krejsa, Delia Meyer, Polly Strelecky, Doris
Bunka, Tillie Pagani, Elizabeth Hucka, and
Bessie Kucera.

Fourth row — Mary Bricks, Mary Meier,
Anna Blazowski, Agnes Balas, Elizabeth Fer-
riter, Louise Belak, Elizabeth Miculecka,
Grace Tombaugh, and Anna Korak.

Miss Mary Mifka has the distinction of
having been employed in the hospital longer
than any other member of the housekeeping
staff, having been here since 1914. She now
takes care of the cleaning on sixth maternity
floor. Twenty-two others have been employed
in the department ten years or longer.

Miss Bernice Stein has been in charge as
executive housekeeper since Mar. 1, 1937.
She is a graduate of Rockford College,
where she majored in home economics and
institutional management.

SELECTION AND UPKEEP

OF FURNISHINGS IS

IMPORTANT TASK

Selection of new furnishings is an im-
portant task of the hospital housekeeper
and one that requires special training and
good judgment. Hospital furnishings
must be chosen with a view to comfort,
utility and durability and at the same
time should have harmony of color and
line that will prove both pleasing and
restful to the patient.

The hospital housekeeper also is re-
sponsible for upkeep of furnishings.
Varnishing, painting and repairing of
furniture is referred to the paint and
carpenter shops. The carpenter shop also
makes many pieces of furniture and other
articles used in the hospital. Redecorat-
ing of walls is done by the hospital paint-
ers as is also varnishing of floors and
woodwork. The chief engineer and his
staff take care of heating and power
equipment, plumbing, lighting system
and all electrical appliances, and mechani-
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KEEPING HOSPITAL CLEAN

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tious. The housekeeping department
functions as a unit when there is coopera-
tion among the employes and with the
housekeeper.

Day Begins at 4:00 A.M.

The housekeeping department day begins at
4:00 A.M. when three men come on duty to
mop the floors of the main entrance lobby,
first floor corridors and nursing department
office. At 6:00 A.M. one woman comes on
duty to complete the cleaning in the nurses'
office. At 7:00 A.M. 9 men and 37 women
begin work. By 8 o'clock all of the offices,
examining and treatment rooms, laboratory,
X-ray and therapy rooms are spic and span
for the day's work. One or more cleaning
maids are on duty in the operating rooms
from 7:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. Operating
rooms used for night emergencies are cleaned
the following morning and are in readiness
when the operating schedule begins, usually
at 8 o'clock.

Many Adjustments Needed

Routine cleaning of patients' rooms and
wards is timed to avoid interfering with rou-
tine nursing care and visits of attending doc-
tors, and with a view to having it completed
as early in the day as possible. However, the
visit of the doctor, some special nursing proce-
dure, or the patient's need for undisturbed
rest and quiet, involve many readjustments of
the working schedule. If a room cannot be
entered when the maid is ready she must come
back later. If the routine cleaning scheduled
for a given day, such as washing up the floor,
washing the Venetian blinds or washing the
windows cannot be done in a room on that
day, it must be done another day.

Care of Rugs and Floors

Floors in private rooms are washed by a
cleaning woman routinely twice a week, and
oftener when necessary, carpet sweeper and
dust mop being used daily. Large wards are
mopped by men workers three times a week
and are swept twice daily. Rugs from private
rooms are taken down and vacuumed once a
week, a carpet sweeper being used on other
days. If rugs are found at any time to be
soiled a clean set is put in the room and those
rugs are washed or dry cleaned, depending on
the kind of rugs. All floors except those of
asphalt tile are waxed once a month, a special
waxing machine being operated by an experi-
enced man who knows how to apply the wax
sparingly to avoid slippery floors. A special
kind of wax is used on rubber tile floors.

The five stairways in the hospital have a
total of 845 steps which are cleaned every
day. It requires the full time services of two
men to wash the 1005 windows in the hospital
every other week. One man does nothing but
keep the 99 Venetian blinds clean. Two
women devote their whole time to making,
sorting, mending and changing the white glass
window curtains and window drapes. White
glass curtains are changed weekly. Drapes are
washed as needed. Screen covers are routinely
changed every two to three weeks, and in
many instances oftener, as when a room is
vacated.

When Rooms Are Vacated

It's "spring house cleaning day" in each
hospital room whenever a patient checks out,
in order that the next occupant may come
into a room that is spic and span. Furniture,
floors, woodwork, and bedsprings arc washed:
rugs are taken out and washed or cleaned;
window drapes, curtains and screen covers are
taken down and laundered. Dresser drawers

EACH DAY BRINGS

VARIETY OF CALLS

In addition to routine and special
cleaning, selection and upkeep of
household furnishings and supplies,
each day brings to the housekeeping
department a variety of special calls.
Following is a summary of a typical day:

Fix the casters on the bed in 303 . . .
send new spring to 2nd lower ... re-
pair table in 230 . . . tray table to 239
. . . new lamp in 5 57 ceiling light to
be washed . . . flower table for 434 . . .
chair from 7th X-ray to fever therapy
. . . move chest from 361 to children's
floor . . . take casters off bed in 656
. . . chair from storeroom to 618 —
change telephone in 656 . . . take table
from 433 .. . clean spring cover to 3B
. . . rubber tire for crib on children's
floor . . . cord and tape for Venetian
blind on 3d upper . . . rubber mattress
to be taken down from 5 39 ... oil over-
bed table in 2 34 . . . take floor lamp
from 453 . . . repair screen in cart room,
2nd upper . . . 6th maternity wants
extra ward bed, bedside table; wheel on
hamper to be repaired . . . repair hinges
on screen in 555 . . . clean hall after
plasterers, 4th upper — put up new
shades in 7th maternity nursery.

NEWS OF MISSIONARY NURSES

Mrs. A. E. Whiley (Helen Donner, 1935)
leaves for France this summer with her hus-
band, to study before going to Elat, West
Africa under the Presbyterian Mission Board.

Miss Mary Isabelle Taylor (1936) who has
also been appointed to a post in West Africa
is at present in the East and will sail for
Africa the end of July.

are washed inside. If the furniture has slip
covers, these are removed and washed. The
clothes closet or wardrobe is thoroughly
cleaned. If the room has a bath this is cleaned
antiseptically.

Nurses' Care for Beds

The nursing department is responsible for
the stripping of the bed, care of mattresses
and pillows and sterilizing of all utensils and
the dressing of the bed for the incoming pa-
tient. Mattresses are thoroughly cleaned and
aired. Orderlies take the mattresses to the
roof to be aired in the sun. Pillows receive
similar care. Orderlies also sterilize utensils.

One woman is on duty every evening until
9 o'clock to take care of rooms which patients
have vacated and which may be needed for an
incoming patient the following morning. Al-
though the bulk of the routine cleaning is
done on week days, it is necessary to have
some workers on duty for a few hours on
Sunday, to take care of vacated rooms and do
such other cleaning as must be done daily.
Two different groups work three hours each
on Sunday and each person works only every
other Sunday. Schedules are arranged so that
no employee works longer than eight hours in
any one day and all have a half-day off during
the week.

Housekeeping department workers not
shown in the picture on page 1 arc: Austin
Howland, head houseman; Gust Berg and
Mike Yakubovich, window washers; Anna
Holota, Anna Paul, Frances Williams, Marie
Mach, Libby Kropacek, Katie Ross, Anna
Elias, Gunnar Ahlson, Paul Forsman, Andrew
Howland, Albert Kraus, Joe Matassa, Thomas
Robinson, H. P. Nicholson, Louis Strelccky.

HOUSEKEEPING WORKERS
HAVE HEALTH EXAMS,

FREE MEDICAL CARE

Each man or woman accepted for em-
ployment in the housekeeping depart- I
ment must first have been proved physi-
cally fit through a complete physical ex-
amination, with medical history and labo-
ratory tests including Wassermann, uri-
nalysis and stool culture. If deemed
necessary X-ray chest films are taken and
throat culture made.

Free medical care is provided and em-
ployees having a cold or upper respira-
tory infection must report to the resident
physician and are not permitted to re-
turn to work until they have had a nega- i
tive throat culture for hemolytic strepto-
cocci. Free hospitalization is provided
when needed. Under the hospital em-
ployees' group insurance plan, sick bene-
fits are paid to employees starting with
the eighth day of disability.

Workers employed in the maternity
department are given additional X-ray
and laboratory tests before employment
and are subjected to frequent check-ups
as a safeguard against spreading infec-
tions to which mothers and newborn
babies are especially susceptible.

Sixth maternity floor, on which is
located the birth and labor rooms; sev-
enth maternity, where the nurseries and
rooms and wards for mothers are located;
and the children's floor, each have their
own cleaning maids, who do not work in
any other part of the hospital. Masks are
worn when cleaning the nurseries, in-
fants' wards and milk laboratory.

SELECTION AND UPKEEP

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cal equipment in the hospital. Although
much of the work of this character is re-
ported directly to the engineer by nurses
and heads of various departments, the
housekeeping staff keeps a careful check
on things that may require the attention
of engineer, such as leaky faucets, burned
out lamps and other lighting and elec-
trical replacements or repairs.

COMMENDS HOSPITAL PHARMACIST

The pioneer work done in the development
of the hospital pharmacy by William Gray,
Presbyterian Hospital pharmacist for the past
3 2 years, was commended in an article in a
recent issue of the Journal of the American
Pharmaceutical Association. The article on
"The Present Status of the Hospital Pharma-
cy" was by Edward Spease, dean of the
School of Pharmacy at Western Reserve Uni-
versity and directing pharmacist in the Uni-
versity Hospitals, Cleveland.

VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS
HAVE BEEN COMPLETED
RECENTLY IN HOSPITAL

Among the improvements recently
made in different departments of the hos-
pital are the following:

Attractive new floor covering, redeco-
rated walls, and installation of sliding
curtains in the large ward on the mater-
nity floor. The sliding curtains replace
the portable screens formerly placed
around the beds to afford privacy when
desired. New indirect lighting fixtures
have been installed also.

Remodeling, redecorating and refur-
nishing of the nurseries for newborn
babies. Of especial interest here are the
larger glassed windows affording a better
view to visiting fathers and other rela-
tives, and individual bassinet carriers
which afford added safeguards against
cross infections and are a great conveni-
ence in caring for the infants.

The waiting room in the first floor
examining room suite has been remodeled
to provide two additional examining
rooms, which were greatly needed in this
department.

The waiting room off the main lobby
has been redecorated, and has an attrac-
tive new floor covering, and new indirect
lighting fixtures.

Improvements made in the McElwee
Memorial four-bed ward on the second
floor include the installation of sliding
curtains, new lighting and an improved
type of wall outlets over each bed for
attaching electric heating pads and other
appliances used in the care of patients,
redecorating of walls, new floor covering,
new drapes, new bedside tables and other
furnishings. It is planned to remodel all
of the wards in a similar manner when
funds for this purpose become available.

Much other redecorating has been
done in corridors and rooms on different
floors and many small improvements
made.

Several private rooms have been re-
decorated and refurnished so far this
year. In some instances funds for this
purpose have been provided by the ori-
ginal donors of memorial rooms or mem-
bers of their families and it is hoped that
more redecorating and refurnishing will
be provided for in this manner in the
next few months.

Hoefer - Dorsey

Dr. John M. Dorsey was married on
June 29 to Miss Charlotte Burns Hoefer
of Flossmoor. The nuptial mass was at
St. Philip Neri's Church. Dr. Dorsey is
a surgeon on our staff.

MEDICAL STAFF MEN
ARE ON PROGRAM AT
A. M. A. CONVENTION

Several members of the Medical Staff
attended the convention of the American
Medical Association and sessions of allied
professional groups in San Francisco in
June. Dr. Herman L. Kretschmer was
reelected treasurer of the association, an
office he has held for several years. Prior
to the convention, Dr. Kretschmer was
in San Francisco to conduct examinations
under the auspices of the American
Board of Urology of which he is presi-
dent. Following the convention, Dr. and
Mrs. Kretschmer and their sons had a
pleasant vacation trip during which they
visited Los Angeles, Cedar Breaks Na-
tional monument, Brice and Grand Can-
yons, Zion National park and Salt Lake
City.

As a member of the American Board
of Internal Medicine, Dr. Ernest E. Irons
assisted in conducting the examinations
of those desiring to qualify as specialists
in that field. He also took part in the
program of the convention section on
internal medicine.

Dr. Kellogg Speed was chairman of
the convention exhibit on fractures,
which included practical demonstrations
of procedures. He also discussed Dr. M.
B. Tinker's paper on "Fracture of the
Neck of the Femur."

Dr. Daniel B. Hayden presented a
paper before the section on internal
medicine on the topic "Head Noises,"
discussion of which was given by Dr.
Willard L. Wood.

Dr. Wood and Dr. Stuyvesant Butler
took the examination of the American
Board of Internal Medicine. Following
the convention Dr. Wood and family
visited Mrs. Donald P. Abbott and chil-
dren in San Diego and were guests of
friends at Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

At the meeting of the Association for
the Study of Glands of Internal Secre-
tion, June 14, Dr. W. O. Thompson
presented a report on "The Treatment
of Addison's Disease with Adrenal
Cortex Extract." The report was pre-
pared by W. O. Thompson, P. K.
Thompson, S. G. Taylor III, and Wil-
liam S. Hoffman. Dr. W. O. Thompson
and Dr. N. J. Heckel presented a paper
on "The Present Status of the Treatment
of Undescended Testes" before the sec-
tion on the practice of medicine of the
A. M. A. convention, June 17, and were
in charge of a scientific exhibit during
the convention on "Production of Genital
Growth in the Male." The same exhibit
was shown at the convention of the
Illinois Medical Society in Springfield
in May.

MEDICAL STAFF NEWS

Dr. Disraeli Kobak, head of the physical
therapy department, has gone to Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, to investigate some new
light therapy equipment developed there.
* * *

Dr. Gatewood Gatewood was the speaker
at a meeting of the DuPage County Medical
Society in Wheaton, May 25. He discussed
diseases of the lower bowel.

Dr. W. L. Wood and Dr. George Stuppy
were speakers at a meeting of the Rock
County Medical Society in Janesville, Wis.,
June 28.

Dr. Rollin T. Woodyatt was the speaker
at a meeting of the Douglas Park branch of
the Chicago Medical Society, May 24, on
"Some Phases of the Diabetes Problem."

Dr. Herman L. Kretschmer, Dr. Michael
O'Heeron and Dr. William D. Warrick pre-
sented a paper at the annual meeting of the
Chicago Urological Society, May 26. Their
report on "The Value of Urea Chloride
Determination in the Study of Renal Func-
tion" covered a review of 1,100 cases.

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL

OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

1753 W. CONGRESS STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Telephone: Seeley 7171

OFFICERS and MANAGERS

JOHN McKINLAY President

HORACE W. ARMSTRONG Vice-President

CHARLES B. GOODSPEED Vice-President

SOLOMON A. SMITH Treasurer

KINGMAN DOUGLASS Secretary

FRED S. BOOTH Asst. Secretary

A. J. WILSON Asst. Secretary

Arthur G. Cable Fred A. Poor

Alfred T. Carton Theodore A. Shaw

Albert B. Dick, Jr. Rev. John Timothy

John B. Drake Stone, D.D.

James B. Forgan, Jr. R. Douglas Stuart

Albert D. Farwell Robert Stevenson

Alfred E. Hamill J. Hall Taylor

Charles H. Hamill John P. Welling

Edw. D. McDougal, Jr. Edward F. Wilson

CLERICAL MANAGERS

Rev. Harrison Ray Anderson, D.D.
Rev. Harold L. Bowman, D.D.
Rev. Alvyn R. Hickman, D.D.
Rev. W. Clyde Howard, D.D.

MEDICAL BOARD

VERNON C. DAVID, M.D President

WOMAN'S BOARD
MRS. ERNEST E. IRONS President

ADMINISTRATION

ASA S. BACON Superintendent

HERMAN HENSEL Ass*. Superintendent

M. HELENA McMILLAN.. .Director, School of Nursing

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL BULLETIN
Florence Slown Hyde, Editor

The Board of Managers call attention to
the need of gifts and bequests for endowment
and for the general purposes of the hospital.

SEWING AND MENDING

FOR THE HOSPITAL IS

GIGANTIC TASK

Make 140 Different Articles

It requires the services of seven
seamstresses supplemented by a large
amount of volunteer sewing done by
church groups and others, to make and
keep in repair the linens, curtains and
numerous other articles used in the Pres-
byterian Hospital. Two seamstresses
make and keep in repair the white glass
curtains and window drapes. The others
work in the general sewing and linen
room where the 140 different articles cut
out and made total many thousands in
the course of a year. In addition, from
1,500 to 2,000 pieces of mending are
handled each week.

Articles for Many Purposes

Articles made include: various kinds
of towels, tray cloths, special sheets of
varying sises and patterns for use in
operating rooms, on carts, etc.; many
different kinds of surgical binders, sur-
gical caps, gowns and masks of different
kinds for nurses, interns and doctors;
slings, patients' gowns, operating stock-
ings, eye patches, throat bag covers,
sterilising bags of varying sixes in which
articles are placed when sterilised and in
which they remain until taken out to be
used, electric pad covers, laundry bags
of various kinds, special pillow cases, bed
spring covers, rubber sheets and other
articles made of rubber sheeting, chair
and pillow covers, slip covers, back rest
covers, cart pads, green- cloth shades for
lights, aprons, table cloths, napkins and
many other articles.

Worn-out Supplies Replaced

When the laundry is sorted all linen and
other articles in need of mending is sent to
the sewing room. Here it is looked over care-
fully and any that is past mending is replaced
from new stores kept in the linen room. All
articles are stamped with the floor or the de-
partment to which they belong. This facili-
tates sorting and distribution of laundered
supplies. Each article also is stamped with the
date on which it is first put into use, thus
affording a check on wearing qualities.

Use Special Markings

Gowns and other supplies used for those
having skin diseases are stamped "Skin," to
insure that they will be kept separate from
other laundry. Pink masks are made for the
use of nurses, interns and doctors when at-
tending infectious cases, as a safeguard against
going from such a case to other patients with-
out a complete change of attire. Bedpan
covers arc hemmed with heavy red thread to
prevent mistaking theni for towels. Patients'
hand towels are plain white, and those used
in operating rooms and for other surgical pur-
poses are of red-checked toweling. Laundry
bags used in the maternity department are
labelled in red to prevent mixing the laundry
from that department with other laundry.

Mattress pads and rubber sheets are made
with wide muslin strips along each side so

HOSPITAL LINEN ROOM IS BUSY PLACE

At the left, Miss Martha Melms, who has
charge of the sewing and linen room, is
shown marking linens. Miss Melms has been
employed here 14 years and has been head
of the sewing and linen room 12 years.
Since becoming a hospital employee in
February, 1924, she has lost only one-half
day because of illness.

Below, a portion of the sewing room.
Those seated at the power sewing machines
are, left to right — Mrs. Louise Krejsa,
Mrs. Jean MacFayden and Mrs. Annai
Manok; standing — Mrs. Delia Meyer and
Mrs. Rose Hruska, who are in charge of the
curtain room; Miss Polly Strelecky.

LINEN ENDOWMENT FUND

Hospital linen supplies are replenished part-
ly through the income from a $25,000 linen
endowment fund which the Woman's Board
obtained through Thanksgiving offerings and
special gifts over a period of years. Last year
ready-made linens purchased included:
1,080 white bed spreads
1,540 sheets, ranging in sizes from

54x72 to 72x108
4,800 pillow cases, size 45x36
Smaller sheets and various special sheets are
made in the sewing room as are also pillow
cases in varying sizes.

they can be tucked firmly in place. White
felt washable sheeting is being used for many
of the rubber sheets.

Utilize Worn Articles

A useful article devised in our sewing room
and much appreciated by the cleaning maids
is a rubber knee pad filled with pieces of
worn-out wool blankets. Many other uses are
found for badly worn blankets and linens,
both for articles made in the sewing room and
those prepared in the sterile supply room.
Uniforms worn by 40 interns and resident
doctors are kept in order by the sewing room
as is also other personal laundry of the resi-
dent staff.

VOLUNTEERS SEW 16,949

ARTICLES IN PAST YEAR)

Church groups and others enlisted by
the Woman's Board sewed a total of1
16,949 articles for hospital use from June
1, 1937 to June 1, 1938. The list of 23
different kinds of articles included 9,300
towels, 2,671 tray cloths, 1,032 baby
gowns, 912 stand covers, 704 crib sheets,
348 glove covers, 312 hot water bag
covers, 276 electric pad covers, 192 in-
side pillow cases, 144 bassinet sheets, 114
cart sheets, 120 children's sheets, 120
children's pillow slips, and smaller quan-
tities of ten other articles.

Many New Blankets Needed

Blankets of different kinds are among the
supplies cared for in sewing and linen room.
Last year the hospital purchased 448 new
wool blankets in larger sizes for beds and ,|
wheel chairs, 60 baby blankets, and 864 cot-
ton bath blankets. Large quilted mattress pads
bought in 19 37 numbered 484, and 300 I
smaller pads were purchased.

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September, 1938

Vol. 30, No. 8

FIRST PATIENT ADMITTED

54 YEARS AGO HAD

EYE OPERATION

Much Progress in This Field

By William F. Moncreiff, M.D.

Fifty-four years ago on August 20,
1884, the Presbyterian Hospital of Chi-
cago received its first patient, a young
man of seventeen years, admitted for an
eye operation which was performed by
Dr. Edward L. Holmes. With this inci-
dent in mind, it may be of interest to
survey briefly the progress which has
been made since that time in opthalmol-
ogy, especially on the surgical side, and
to discuss by way of introduction the eye
defects of this pioneer patient to whom
belongs the distinction of having been the
first to be admitted to the Presbyterian
Hospital. The patient was Ulmer Parks
of Florence, Wis. According to Post-
master C. E. Rochon of Florence, the
Parks family moved away from that com-
munity many years ago. If still living
Mr. Parks is 71 years old.

Operation Is Described

Dr. Holmes was at that time the out-
standing ophthalmologist of Chicago, and
it was he who established the department
of ophthalmology at the Presbyterian
Hospital and Rush Medical College. The
patient above mentioned had been ren-
dered almost blind in both eyes at the age
of two years, by a severe ophthalmia
which rapidly produced dense scar tissue
formation of the central portion of each
cornea. The hospital record offers no in-
formation as to the nature of the disease
producing the corneal opacities and
which may have been caused by any one
of several inflammations of the cornea.
The operation which Dr. Holmes per-
formed on this patient in 1884 consisted
of enlarging the right pupil toward the
temporal side. This type of operation, the
so-called optical iridectomy, has the ad-
vantage of being one of the least hazard-
ous of intraocular operations, but usually
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PIONEER EYE SURGEON

DR. EDWARD L. HOLMES

Dl\ Edward L. Holmes, pioneer ophthalmol-
ogist of the Middle West, performed the first
operation on the first patient admitted to Pres-
byterian Hospital, 54 years ago on August 20.
He was one of the organizers of the hospital
and a member of the staff for 17 years until
his death in 1900. He served as president of
the Medical Board, 1889-1898.

Dr. Holmes was a native of Massachusetts
and a graduate of Harvard College and Har-
vard Medical School. Following his internship
in Massachusetts General Hospital, he studied
in Vienna, Paris and Berlin. He came to Chi-
cago in 1856 and in 1858 he founded the
Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary,
which he maintained largely at his own ex-
pense for ten years. It became a state institu-
tion in 1871, and Dr. Holmes continued as
its head until shortly before his death. In
1859 he became lecturer on ophthalmology
at Rush Medical College and in 1869 the
chair of ophthalmology and otology was
created for him. He held this professorship
for 30 years. From 1890 to 1898 he was presi-
dent of Rush faculty.

One of his sons, Dr. Rudolph W. Holmes,
is a well-known obstetrician and gynecologist
on the staff of Passavant Hospital and emeritus
professor at Rush Medical College. He in-
terned in Presbyterian Hospital, 1894-95, and
was active in helping bring about the highly
successful reunion of ex-interns held m June
of this year.

SEEK LARGER TAG DAY

RECEIPTS TO AID

CHILD PATIENTS

Hope to Enlist 750 Workers

Presbyterian Hospital is one of the 50
Chicago charitable agencies which will
participate in the annual Children's
Benefit League Tag Day on Oct. 3. The
Woman's Board hopes to enlist 750 tag-
gers in order to adequately cover the
locations that have been assigned to hos-
pital workers. Tag day receipts are used
to help support the work of our hospital
children's department, where last year
786 children were cared for entirely free
and many others received care for which
their parents paid only a fraction of the
cost. Tag Day affords an opportunity for
hundreds to contribute to this work who
would not otherwise be reached. The
Tag Day committee has set $1,800 as the
goal for this year.

Taggers Are Needed

More workers are needed to keep the
boxes busy from 6:00 A.M. through the
day. Friends of the hospital willing to
serve as taggers for a few hours are urged
to report immediately to one of the fol-
lowing members of the Tag Day com-
mittee :
Mrs. William R. Tucker, chairman, Evanston,

University 2870.
North Suburban— Mrs. Burton W. Hales.

Winnetka 353 3.
North Side— Mrs. Orvid R. Seller,-,

Diversey 9854.
South Side— Mrs. Henry W. Bernhardt,

South Shore 4440.
West Side—Mrs. Earle B. Fowler, Oak Park,

Euclid 314 — Mrs. William H. Rikcr,

Oak Park, Euclid 234.

Give at These Locations

Those wishing to have their Tag Day
contributions help the hospital are urged
to make their donations to workers who
will he stationed on all locations in Lake
Forest and the following locations in
Chicago :

(Continued on page 4, col. 3)

FIRST PATIENT

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produces only a limited visual improve-
ment, which is rarely sufficient for near
vision.

Corneal transplantation is our most
modern method of dealing with such
cases of central corneal opacity. This
operation consists of the removal of a
central disc or quadrilateral portion of
the full thickness of the opaque cornea
from the patient's eye, and the substitu-
tion of a clear corneal transplant of cor-
responding size and shape taken from the
eye of a donor, usually a stillborn infant.
In rare instances, a corneal transplant
may be secured from an adult eye which
requires removal because of severe injury
or malignant tumor. In the earlier years
of this work, some 20 years ago, good
visual results averaged barely more than
five per cent, while at present the oper-
ator of largest experience in this field,
Filatov of Odessa, reports almost 50 pet-
cent of good results. Much technical
progress in this procedure is still re-
quired, however, to reduce the hazards
of the operation and to increase the per-
centage of permanently good visual re-
sults. In the best instances, even now,
the central vision is restored to normal
or nearly normal.

Local Anesthesia Introduced

It was in the year 1884, just the month
following Dr. Holmes' operation, that
Koller of Vienna, later of New York, in-
troduced cocaine into ocular surgery as
the basis of the first effective local anes-
thesia. The application of local anesthe-
sia was given a still further impetus, 21
years later, by Einhorn's synthesis of
novocain in 1905 and its immediate in-
troduction by Braun into ophthalmic
(eye) and general surgery. During the
past 25 years, the innumerable technical
improvements that have been made have
deprived intraocular surgery of many of
its hazards, and eliminated pain so com-
pletely that at present we rarely resort to
general anesthesia for any eye operation,
except when the patient is a child.

Earliest Modern Eye Surgery

The earliest beginnings of modern eye sur-
gery date back to the middle of the 18th cen-
tury, and the most important development of
this period was the first extraction of the
cataractous lens by Davicl in 1747. Prior to
this time, cataract surgery was limited to the
"couching" operation, or dislocation o! the
lens downward into the vitreous. Some twen-
ty years previous to Daviel's first cataract oper-
ation, the Englishman, Cheselden, introduced
an operation on the iris for the production of
an artificial pupil. Thus the principle under-
lying Dr. Holmes' first operation at Pres-
byterian may be said to have been more than
a century and a half old at that time. The
development of this idea was retarded for
aboul :eventy-five years, and still anothei fifty
years elapsed before Von Gracfc devised
(1856) his iridectomy for glaucoma. These
early operators were handicapped and penal-
i ed only by the absence of anesthesia, but

TEN ESSENTIALS FOR THE
CONSERVATION OF SIGHT

1. Drops administered to eyes of
every child at birth.

2. The eyes of all children regularly
and periodically examined and
tested.

3. Corrective glasses scientifically
prescribed by an ophthalmologist
(eye physician, often called an
oculist), and treatment given if
needed.

4. Sightsaving classes organized for
school children with defective

5. Children's eyes safeguarded front
accidents, especially from fire-
works.

6. Campaigns for safety in industry
and explicit observance of safety
rules by all workers.

7. Prompt attention to all eye in-
juries and inflammations by a
competent eye physician.

8. Premarital health examinations.

9. Prenatal care of prospective
mothers with special attention to
venereal diseases.

10. The support of every movement
having as its aim the conservation
of sight and the prevention of
blindness.

also by the lack of any definite knowledge of
asepsis and antisepsis, a development which
began less than twenty years prior to the open-
ing of the Presbyterian Hospital. Dr Holmes'
earlier work was thus contemporary with the
beginning of eye surgery under really modern
conditions of asepsis and anesthesia.

Invention of Ophthalmoscope

The most important event of the 19th cen-
tury in ophthalmology was not, however, sur-
gical, but was the development of the first
ophthalmoscope by the Englishman Babbagc
in 1847. Since he was effectually discouraged
from reporting his invention, the credit goes
to Von Helmholtz, who invented independent-
ly a similar but rather inferior instrument in
1850. Within a few years improved models of
the ophthalmoscope were devised, and from
this period originated the development of most
of our knowledge of the diseases and defects
of the interior of the eye. Present day varieties
of this instrument permit examination of the
interior of the eye by direct vision under
magnifications up to 120 diameters.

It was not until after Dr. Holmes' time that
another outstanding instrument of basic im-
portance for the examination of the eye was
invented. This was the slit lamp and corneal
microscope of Gullstrand, about 1912, for the
examination primarily of the anterior part of
the eye. During the past 25 years the work
of Vogt and others with this instrument has
contributed a wealth of detail concerning cor-
neal diseases, the lens, types of cataract, and
inflammations of the iris and ciliary body. By
virtue of this advance of knowledge wc arc
now able to recognize the earliest stages of im-
portant inflammatory processes in this terri-
tory, and to follow more accurately their
development.

Use Electro-Surgery

Within the past 1 5 years, the most impor-
tant discovery in ophthalmology is again sur-
gical, and affords methods of electro-surgical
treatment of detachment of the retina, espe
daily types that formerly were practically
hopeless. These methods include both dia-
thermic micro-puncture and galvanic puncture
and were developed by Conn,, Vogt, Safar,

Walker and others. Some operators have se- ||
cured in the more favorable types of cases as ||

high as 70 per cent of cures.

New Non-Surgical Measures

While new methods of clinical examination l|
of the eye are of great importance, and al- !
though one's attention is likely to focus on M
new surgical procedures which relieve or cure
eye conditions that were previously almost be- II
yond help, we should not overlook the prog- ||
ress that has been made in the prevention of
certain eye diseases and of eye injuries, and I
also the effective substitution of non-surgical
for surgical measures in certain situations.

Prevention Makes Advances

Of the communicable eye diseases of in-
fectious nature which are diminishing in fre-
quency, two of the most important are tracho-
ma and gonorrheal ophthalmia. In very recent
years much progress has been made in this
country and especially in this state in control-
ling the trachoma problem, largely by per-
sistent and effective treatment of a high pro-
nortion of cases in the areas where the disease
is prevalent, coupled with measures to improve
"he hygienic and economic status of the popu-
lation groups affected. The incidence of gonor-
rheal ophthalmia in the newborn is but a small
fraction of what it was twenty years or more
ago, due almost entirely to the use by prophy-
lactic instillation of silver nitrate solution, in-
troduced by Crede in 1884, but not made
legally mandatory throughout most of the
United States until recent years. Should pres-
ent efforts to stamp out the venereal diseases
become as effective eventually as were the
measures taken against smallpox and typhoid
fever, for example, then gonorrheal ophthalmia
would become equally rare.

Safety Measures Help

The reduced incidence of eye injuries, in
spite of the increased hazards imposed by high
speed modern machinery and production and
other factors, is largely due to the widespread
adoption of safety measures by industry itself
combined with general educational propa-
ganda. Of outstanding importance in the pre-
vention of eye injuries is the increasingly
widespread use of safety glass in automobile
windshields and windows.

Less Surgery Is Needed

The concomitant strabismus (crossed eyes)
of early childhood is perhaps our most perti-
nent example of a condition which has gradu-
ally been transferred to a larger extent with
each decade, from the surgical to the non-
surgical category. Although the elimination of
neglect in the early stages of this condition
cannot produce a cure without surgery in
every instance, nevertheless effective early care
has reduced further with each passing year the
proportion of cases eventually requiring opera-
tion.

Cataract and glaucoma, two of the most im-
portant of the degenerative diseases of the eve
which seriously impair vision in the later de-
cades of life, still present many unsolved prob-
lems. Our surgical methods of attack arc im-
proving year by year in effectiveness and safe-
ty, but preventive efforts have made no appre-
ciable headway. Biochemical and biophysical
methods have produced most of the little prog-
ress which has been made toward the solution
of these problems, and further progress along
these lines is likely to follow. However, as
far as one can now predict, both of these con-
ditions arc likely to remain primarily surgical
problems for many decades to come, and the
final solution of all the underlying causative
factors may have to await revolutionary ad-
vances in basic science concerning the nature
of which wc may have at present no adequate
conception.

These Have Served on the Staff Longest

DR. JAMES B. HERRICK

DR. JOHN A. ROBISON

DR. ARTHUR DEAN BEVAN

sPITAL HAS HAD MANY
4EN OF DISTINCTION
ON ITS STAFF

Five A. M. A. Presidents

though Presbyterian Hospital admit -
;s first patient on August 20, 1884,
'uilding was not entirely completed
:urnished until sometime in Septem-
For this reason some historical ac-
:s have stated that the hospital
>d in September. According to Mrs.
J . Graham, only living charter meru-
it" the Hospital Ladies Aid Society
ii-ed in May, 1884, and widow of
jraham, one of the founders of the
tal, no formal dedication exercises
held to mark the opening of the
ution.

ie Presbyterian Hospital Society was
porated on July 21, 1883 following
i the Board of Managers took over
lospital building project which had
started through efforts of Dr.
h Presley Ross and other members
ush faculty.

iring the 54 years since its first pa-
was admitted Presbyterian Hospital
lad on its staff many physicians and
:ons of national and international
. Five presidents of the American
ical Association have been members
e Medical Staff here — Dr. Arthur
i Bevan, Dr. Nicholas Senn, Dr.
B. Murphy, Dr. Frank Billings, and
Dean Lewis. Other staff members,
and present, have held or are now
ng offices in important national,

state, or local professional organizations.
Contributions to medical literature have
been numerous and varied.

Dr. John A. Robison

Dr. John A. Robison, now a consulting
physician on the staff, is the only surviving
member of the first staff. He was secretary of
the Medical Board from 1886 to 1908. He
also was a member of the Board of Managers
beginning in 188? and assistant secretary of
that board for 21 years. He was professor of
medicine at Rush Medical College for many
years. In 1901 Dr. Robison organized the
Chicago Society of Internal Medicine. He was
president of the Chicago Medical Society in
1909 and as chairman of its publication com-
mittee in 1886 founded its first journal, The
Chicago Medical Recorder. He has held many
important professional posts including that of
president of the State Board of Health. Dur-
ing the World War he served as a Major in
the Medical Reserve Corps.

Dr. James B. Herrick

Dr. James B. Herrick, who joined the Medi-
cal Staff in 1891, ranks second to Dr. Robison
in number of years on the staff.

Dr. Herrick was president of the Medical
Board from 1908 to 1913 and has also served
as its vice-president. He has been a consulting
physician on the staff since 1919 and is best
known in the medical world for his valuable
research and clinical work on the subject of the
heart and its diseases. The first electro-cardio-
graph used in Chicago was in his office and
he was instrumental in having installed in
Presbyterian Hospital in 1914 the first electro-
cardiograph used in any hospital in this city.
He was professor of medicine at Rush Medical
College for many years and is now professor
emeritus. He was actively identified with Cen-
tral Free Dispensary for many years. He is
author ol a number oi well known medical
books and many articles which have appeared
in professional journals.

D
tending

Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan
Arthur Dean Bevan, who becam

of service as a staff member and has served
longer than any other surgeon now on the
staff. Dr. Bevan has been head of the surgical
department since 1894 and was president of
the Medical Board in 1917 and 1918. He
is still on the faculty of Rush Medical College
where he has been clinical professor of sur-
gery for many years. Dr. Bevan is interna-
tionally known as a surgeon. He is the author
of several widely known books on surgery and
numerous contributions to professional jour-
nals. In recognition of his wartime services as
president of the American Medical Association
in 1917, Dr. Bevan was made an officer of the
Legion of Honor in France.

On March 14, 1923, Dr. Bevan performed
in Presbyterian Hospital the first operations
in which ethylene-oxygen was used as an anes-
thetic. His approval and continued use of
ethylene was an important factor in bringing
about its adoption by other surgeons and hos-
pitals throughout the country.

NEW HOSPITAL CHAPLAIN

Rev. Russell L. Dicks began his duties this
month as hospital chaplain. He came here
from Massachusetts General Hospital in Bos-
ton, where he had done similar work. Rev.
E. N. Ware, our hospital chaplain for 26
years, retired this summer because of ill health.

CORRECTION

Through an unintentional error the names
of Goldie Havens and Mary Frits were omit-
ted from the list of housekeeping department
employees published in the July-August num-
ber. Both have been employed in the depart'
ment more than ten years.

VISITOR FROM ENGLAND

Mr. H. T. A. Spencely, an architect from

Engl;

mi- hospital, Sept. 1 2. to in-
ing of ward units, arrangement oi
kitchen and other departments.

SCHOOL OF NURSING WILL

GRADUATE 52; NEW

CLASS IS LARGE

Miss McMillan to Retire

Fifty-two young women will be gradu-
ated from the School of Nursing of the
Presbyterian Hospital at exercises to be
held in the auditorium of Sprague Home
at 3 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 11.
The commencement speaker will be Miss
Eula Butzerin (1914), professor of pub-
lic health nursing, University of Chicago.
Baccalaureate services will be held on
Sunday, Oct. 9 at 7:45 P.M. The ad-
dress will be by Rev. Alvyn R. Hickman,
pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church.
Other graduation week events include:
Class dinner at Sprague Home, Oct. 7
Alumna: luncheon at Palmer House, Oct. 10
Alumna; dinner dance at Palmer House,
Oct. 12

Admit New Students

Forty-one new students were admitted
to the School of Nursing on Sept. 4 and
5, and another group is to be admitted on
Sept. 24 and 25. Applicants were divided
into two groups because of the large
number desiring to enter the school this
fall.

Miss McMillan to Retire

Miss M. Helena McMillan has an-
nounced her retirement as director of the
Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing
and hospital nursing service, effective
October 15. She will retain her connec-
tion with the school and hospital as di-
rector emeritus. A detailed account of
Miss McMillan's long and valued service
at Presbyterian Hospital and in the inter-
ests of the nursing profession generally
will appear in our October Bulletin.

Pending appointment of a successor to
the position of director, the School of
Nursing will be in charge of the dean,
Miss May Russell, and the hospital nurs-
ing service in charge of Miss Harriet
Forrest, assistant superintendent of nurs-
ing.

APPRECIATION SERVICE

The first meeting of the Woman's
Board since June will be held in the hos-
pital chapel Monday morning, Oct. 3.
At this time an appreciation service in
memory of Mrs. L. Hamilton McCor-
mick will be held. Mrs. McCormick,
who died on June 26, was for many years
,ni active member and officer of the
Woman's Board of Presbyterian Hospi-
tal. A report of the appreciation service
will appear in a Liter issue of our
Bulletin.

RETURNS TO INDIA

Miss Leila Clark (1922) on furlough from
India has completed a year's rest and study at
Columbia University. She returned in August
to Punjab, where she is in charge of a native
school of nursing.

A. H. A. TO HOLD 40th
ANNUAL CONVENTION
AT DALLAS SEPT. 26 to 30

For the 40th year since its organiza-
tion in 1899, the American Hospital
Association will bring together hospital
people from all parts of the United States
and Canada, when its annual convention
is held in Dallas, Tex., Sept. 26 to 30.
Every phase of hospital planning, admin-
istration, and control will be considered
at general sessions or sectional confer-
ences.

The 18th annual convention of the
American Protestant Hospital Associa-
tion will be held in Dallas, Sept. 24-25,
and the American College of Hospital
Administrators will convene Sept. 25 and
26. Mr. Asa S. Bacon, superintendent of
the Presbyterian Hospital, has been trea-
surer of the American Hospital Associa-
tion since 1906, is a trustee of that asso-
ciation and of the American Protestant
Hospital Association, and a fellow of the
American College of Administrators.

DEMONSTRATION SESSIONS
OF HOSPITAL INSTITUTE
HELD AT PRESBYTERIAN

Presbyterian Hospital was the scene of
two of the demonstration sessions of the
Sixth Annual Institute for Hospital Ad-
ministrators, held in Chicago Sept. 7 to
17 under the auspices of the American
Hospital Association. Mr. Asa S. Bacon,
superintendent, was the coordinator for
the demonstrations given Sept. 7 by:
Leslie Reid, auditor; Miss Selma Lindcm,
librarian; Miss Ruth Smith, special serv-
ice head; Theodore Primas, information
clerk; and Herman Hensel, assistant
superintendent.

Mr. Hensel coordinated the demonstra-
tions presented on Sept. 13 by: Miss
Beulah Hundcker, director of dietetics;
Miss Lots Baker, medical record libra-
rian; Dr. Frank V. Theis, vascular ther-
apy; Dr. F. H. Squire, fever therapy; and
Miss Winifred Brainerd, occupational
therapy.

OPHTHALMOLOGY STAFF

Ophthalmology is the special branch
of medicine and surgery having to do
with the medical care and treatment of
the eye. The ophthalmology department
of Presbyterian Hospital has ten attend-
ing staff members and two resident
ophthalmologists. All of these attending
staff members have been certified by the
American Board of Ophthalmology as
specialists in this field. They also hold
memberships in the ophthalmologic.il sec-
tion of the American Medical Associa-
tion, the American Academy of Ophthal-
mology and other professional societies.

TAG DAY LOCATIONS

(Continued from page 1, col. 3)

Loop — S. side of Adams St. to N. side of
Quincy St. from W. side of LaSalle St. to E.
side of Wells St.

Randolph I. C. station (4 boxes).

N. side of Lake St. to S. side Wacker Dr.
from W. side of Clark St. to E. side LaSalle'
St. and Lower Level.

North Side — N. side of Lawrence Ave. to
S. side of Foster from E. side of Broadway to
W. side of Winthrop: including Argyle "L"
station.

West Side — S. side of Van Buren to N.
side of Taylor St. from W. side of Ashland
Ave. to E. side of Western Ave., including
Marshfield, Ogden, Hoyne, Western Ave. and
Garfield Park "L" stations; also Polk St.
Douglas Park "L" station.

South Side — S. side of 67th St. to N. side
of 75th St. from E. side of Kimbark Ave.,
including 72nd St. N. Y. C. station and Kim-
bark Ave. I. C. station, main line.

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL'

OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

1753 W. CONGRESS STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Telephone: Seeley 7171

OFFICERS and MANAGERS

JOHN McKINLAY President!

HORACE W. ARMSTRONG Vice- President

CHARLES B. GOODSPEED Vice-President

SOLOMON A. SMITH Treasure

KINGMAN DOUGLASS Secretary

FRED S. BOOTH Asst. Secretary

A. J. WILSON Asst. Secretary

Arthur G. Cable
Alfred T. Carton
Albert B. Dick, Jr.
John B. Drake
James B. Forgan, Jr
Albert D. Farwell
Alfred E. Hamill
Charles H. Hamill
Edw. D. McDougal,

Fred A. Poor
Theodore A. Shaw
Rev. John Timoth

Stone, D.D.
R. Douglas Stuar
Robert Stevenson
J. Hall Taylor
John P. Welling

Edv

rd F. Wils

CLERICAL MANAGERS

Rev. Harrison Ray Anderson, D.D.

Rev. Harold L. Bowman, D.D.

Rev. Alvyn R. Hickman, D.D.

Rev. W. Clyde Howard, D.D.

MEDICAL BOARD

VERNON C. DAVID, M.D. President-

WOMAN'S BOARD

MRS. ERNEST E. IRONS President

ADMINISTRATION

ASA S. BACON Superintendent

HERMAN HENSEL Asst. Superintendent

M. HELENA McMILLAN ..Director, School of Nursing

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL BULLETIN
Florence Slown Hyde, Editor

The Presbyterian Hospital of the City of
Chicago is an Illinois not-for-profit corpora-i
tion, organized July 21, 1883, for the purpose
of affording surgical and medical aid, ana
nursing, to sick and disabled persons of every
creed, nationality, and color. Its medical staff
is appointed from the faculty of Rush Medical
College of the University of Chicago.

The Board of Managers call attention toj
the need of gifts and bequests for endowment
and for the general purposes of the hospital

hie ftes WMaii pospfta

BULLETIN

MEMBER AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Chicago, 111.

October, 1938

Vol. 30, No. 9

RETIRING DIRECTOR

IS HONORED BY

ALUMNAE

Establish Educational Fund

Miss M. Helena McMillan, who retired
Oct. 15 as director of the Presbyterian
Hospital School of Nursing and hospital
nursing service, was the guest of honor
at the annual luncheon of the Alumnae
Association at the Palmer House, Oct.
10. The program consisted of tributes to
Miss McMillan by Mrs. Wilber Post
(Louise Morrison) member of the first
class graduated m 1906; Miss Estalene
Spears, president of the 1938 class; Miss
May L. Russell, dean of the school; Mrs.
Ernest E. Irons, president of the Woman's
Board and a graduate of Lakeside Hos-
pital School of Nursing while Miss Mc-
Millan was its director prior to joining
the Presbyterian staff; and Miss Char-
lotte F. Landt, 1911 graduate. Miss
Marie E. Harden (1929), president of
the Alumnae Association, presided.

Presents Check for #1,503

Miss Landt, who is now assistant to
the director of the Cook County School
of Nursing and night superintendent of
nursing in that hospital, was chosen to
present to Miss McMillan on behalf of
the Alumnae a check for $1,503 repre-
senting a gift of $1 for each of the 1,503
graduates of the school including the class
of 1938. She said that it was the hope
of the Alumnae that "you may enjoy to
the utmost those numerous things which
you have wanted to do in the past but
have found it imposible to do because of
the pressure of your many responsibilities
and the constant demand upon your
time."

Educational Fund Response

Preceding presentation of this personal
gift "with a warm expression of deep
gratitude and everlasting devotion," Miss
Landt told of the plan to establish the
Helena McMillan Educational Fund for
(Continued on Page 3, Co!. ])

BELOVED LEADER

M. HELENA McMILLAN

(From American Journal of T^ursing)
M. Helena McMillan, director of nurs-
ing and of the School of Nursing,
Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, Illinois,
is retiring in October after more than 35
years as director of the school which she
established in April 1903. During that
period and during her previous service
as director of the School of Nursing at
the Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio,
Miss McMillan's name has been asso-
ciated with practically every progressive
movement in nursing. Indeed, she has
been the moving and guiding spirit in
many of them, particularly in her own
state and city.

Miss McMillan received the degree of
Bachelor of Arts from McGill University
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 1)

DIPLOMAS CONFERRED

ON 1938 CLASS OF

FIFTY-TWO

Graduates Now Total 1,503

On October 11 in the auditorium of
Sprague Home for Nurses, 52 young
women comprising the last class to grad-
uate under Miss McMillan, received
diplomas. Miss Eula Butsenn (1914),
professor of public health nursing at the
University of Chicago gave the address.
Mr. Alfred T. Carton, former president of
the board of managers of the hospital,
presided and conferred the diplomas.
School pins were presented by Mrs.
Ernest E. Irons, president of the Wo-
man's Board. Miss Helen Currier pre-
sented the class gift, a book fund of
$100 given in memory of Josephine
Wagoner, a member of the class who died
during her junior year.

Miss Margaret Morgan was at the
piano for the processional and reces-
sional. The invocation was by Rev.
Russell L. Dicks, newly appointed hospi-
tal chaplain. Mr. Robert Thompson sang
two beautiful numbers.

Following the exercises parents and
friends were guests at a reception during
which tea was served in the dining room.

Excerpts from Address

In her address on "Individual Excel-
lence in Nursing Service" Miss Butserin
pointed out "that excellence of service is
not a single virtue in itself. It is a combi-
nation of virtues which emerges as a
result of conscious every day endeavor.

"Individual excellence determines the
quality of performance of the whole group
which is comprised of the many individu-
als. Knowledge, skill and desirable social
and professional attitudes, taken singly are
not enough. Knowledge to be effective
must be applied at suitable times when
occasions call for action. Skills in nursing
(Continued on Page 6, Col. 1)

MEMBERS OF WOMAN'S
BOARD, OTHER FRIENDS
ATTEND FAREWELL TEA

Members of the Woman's Board and a
large number of other guests attended a
tea in honor of Miss McMillan given at
the Fortnightly Club on October 14, by
the honorary president of the board, Mrs.
David W. Graham; the president, Mrs.
Ernest E. Irons; and four past presidents,
Mrs. Perkins B. Bass, Mrs. C. Frederick
Childs, Mrs. Frederick T. Haskell, and
Mrs. Clyde E. Shorey.

Honorary hostesses were Mrs. George
R. Nichols, Mrs. Henry C. Hackney and
Mrs. Ernest A. Hamill. Mrs. Robert E.
Ross, Mrs. Robert Stuart, Mrs. John Paul
Welling, Mrs. Arthur G. Cable, Mrs.
James B. Hernck, Mrs. Alva Knight,
Mrs. John P. Mentzer, Miss Lucibel Dun-
ham and Miss Anna P. Williams pre-
sided at the tea tables. Mrs. Charles S.
Reed, one of the vice-presidents of the
board, was chairman of arrangements.
Other officers of the board who assisted
were: Mrs. Lincoln M. Coy, Mrs. John
Mentzer, Mrs. William R. Tucker, Mrs.
Lawrence Dunlap Smith, Mrs. Earle B.
Fowler, Mrs. Edward G. Beatie, and Mrs.
Gordon B. Wheeler.

As stated elsewhere the Woman's
Board is cooperating with the Alumnae
Association in obtaining contributions to
the Educational Fund which has been
established in honor of Miss McMillan.
At the October meeting of the board,
Miss McMillan expressed her apprecia-
tion for the cooperation and assistance
extended by the board to the School of
Nursing throughout the years.

M. HELENA McMILLAN

(Continued from Page I, Col. 2)

in Montreal in 1891, and was graduated
from the Illinois Training School, Chica-
go, in 1894. Shortly thereafter she be-
came Lady Superintendent of the Kings-
ton (Ontario) General Hospital.

She is best known, however, as having
established the school of nursing at the
Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio (now
the Frances Payne Bolton School of
Nursing of Western Reserve Univer-
sity), which she directed from 1897 to
1902, and for her work in organizing and
developing the Presbyterian Hospital
School of Nursing, Chicago, from which
she is now retiring.

To the development of both these schools
she brought an unusual vision, high educa-
1 inn. il ideals, and the willingness to abandon
old concepts and practices and to initiate new
ones with vigor and determination, This last
characteristic was clearly evidenced in the
early plans for the establishment of the Prcshy-

"ONE OF OUR OWN"

An article in the current number of
the Canadian Nurse about Miss Mc-
Millan is headed "One of our Own"
and concludes with the following com-
ment:

"Canadian nurses still claim Miss
McMillan as one of our own and are
proud of her fine record as an adminis-
trator and educator. Their best wishes
will follow her in her retirement."

In Red Cross Courier

An article in the Red Cross Courier
published by the American Red Cross,
states that Miss McMillan enrolled as
a Red Cross Nurse in 1911 at the very
beginning of that service and "was for
a number of years a member of the
National Committee on Red Cross
Nursing Service — and a very valuable
member. She has many strong friends
in the Red Cross."

terian Hospital School of Nursing, which in-
cluded such progressive elements as an eight-
hour day, the introduction of tuition fees,
and provision for a preliminary period for
affiliations. It has been apparent many times
since in Miss McMillan's courageous and per-
sistent championship of new ideas in nursing
education and in her readiness to make them
effective in her own school.

Influence Is Widespread

Graduates of the Presbyterian Hospital
School of Nursing have won distinction in
many places, thus adding luster not only to
the school, but to the hospital. That school
and hospital, however, have not been the only
field of Miss McMillan's work and influence.
During the trying period when the Illinois
nurse practice act was before the legislature,
she went to the State Capitol again and again
to work for the passage of the bill. She helped
to formulate the principles on which was
founded the Chicago Central Council for
Nursing Education, an organization of lay
persons and of nurses which has done active
work, during the postwar period and later,
in bringing nursing and nursing education
before the public.

The breadth of Miss McMillan's interests
led her to participate actively in many and
varied phases of the development of nursing.
As a member of the local (Kingston) com-
mittee, she helped to introduce into Canada
the Victorian Order of Nurses in 1896. In
1899 she was a foundation member and coun-
cillor of the International Council of Nurses.
She served on the board of directors of the
Cleveland Visiting Nurse Association in 1901.

Called to Many Offices

Possessed of unusual initiative and adminis-
trative ability, high educational ideals, and
willingness to give freely of herself and of
her time, she has been called to many high
offices in both the National League of Nurs-
ing Education and the Illinois State League
of Nursing Education. In the National
League she has held the important offices of
secretary, treasurer, second vice-president, and
director, and has served on many important
committees. These include the Committee on
Education; the Committee on Hospital Econ-
omics which guided the courses at Teachers
College before the Department of Nursing
and Health was established: the Committee

on the Department of Nursing and Health at
Teachers College; and the League's Commit-
tee on the Grading of Nursing Schools, which!
preceded the larger Committee on the Grad-j
ing of Nursing Schools the final report of]
which appeared in 1934. In the Illinois
League of Nursing Education she was presi-
dent for five terms and served as a member'
of the board of directors for more than 25 of
the 3 5 years she has lived and worked in the
state. She was a director of the Illinois State <
Nurses Association for many years.

Promotes University Courses

Notable in her contribution to nursing edu-
cation in Illinois is the service which shej
rendered through her membership on the Uni-i
versity Relations Committee. For many years,
as chairman of this committee, she guided its;
activities and helped to stimulate the interest
of professional and lay groups in university!
education for nurses. It was largely through
the efforts of this committee that courses fori
graduate nurses were established at the Uni-
versity of Chicago — a recent outstanding de-
velopment in nursing education in the Middle
West.

In 1936 Miss McMillan received the
Saunders medal "for distinguished service in
the cause of nursing."

"An Outstanding Torch"

Those who have worked with her speak 1
appreciatively of Miss McMillan's fairness ofjj
attitude, her sincerity, her downright honesty i
and her tolerance. She is always ready to
listen to her younger associates and to con-
sider and analyse new ideas presented byj
them. One such associate writes, "She never
seems hurried, her entrance or presence in a
room quiets, she has been known to save <
tense situations by her droll comments or to
decide a question of moment satisfactorily byi
her suggestion or advice."

Another observes, "Petty gossip fades fromi
conversation when she joins a group." An
associate of many years standing has said, I
"Her nurses acknowledge that she is their
best friend. She reproves on occasion and
defends them to the limit against the criticisms
of others."

Miss McMillan's signal service to the nurs-
ing profession throughout the forty-four years:
of her professional life has been a tremendous-
ly powerful influence for progress in the field i
of nursing education. Always ready to take
the initiative and to lend her support to every]
progressive movement, she is one of the out-
standing torches of our profession.

The above article is reprinted from the;
October number of the American Journal of
7iursing.

The letters sent to the alumnae, announc-
ing the luncheon and the plans for the per-
sonal gift and the Educational Fund, were I
a contribution from pupils of Miss Ida May
Stewart, many of whom have been patients!
in the hospital, and desired to show their!
appreciation.

The gift folder in which was placed the j
check for $1,503 was designed and cngraved-l
by the son of a former patient in appreciation
of the good nursing service enjoyed by the
father.

EDUCATIONAL FUND

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the school in honor of the retiring direc-
tor and the widespread response that had
been received up to that time. She also
said that the Woman's Board had
joined the Alumnae in this project and
(that contributions were being received
from members of that board, members of
the hospital Board of Managers, Medical
I Staff, hospital personnel, and other
friends. As this Bulletin goes to press
contributions from all sources amount to
$4,000 and more Alumnae and other
friends are being heard from daily. The
Alumnae committee is composed of:
Alma May Stewart, chairman, principal
of Montifiore school; Dolly Twitchell,
American Red Cross, Chicago; Ella Van-
Horn, faculty of Presbyterian School of
Nursing; Gladys Heikens and Ruth
Schmidt, private duty nurses.

High Regard Is Voiced

In her talk Miss Landt quoted from a
number of the letters that had been received
and voiced the high regard of the Alumnae
and other friends for Miss McMillan. Follow-
ing are excerpts from Miss Landt's address:

Replies to letters written by our committee
literally have poured in during the past days.
These responses have come from all sections
of the country — as far east as the Atlantic
States; as far west as California; from the
North and from the South; from our own
great Middle West; and from within the con-
fines of our own institution — Presbyterian
Hospital. Only this morning we have received
a contribution from one of our graduates in
West Africa. Replies have come from gradu-
ates just returning from China and from
Hawaii.

The sentiment expressed in these many com-
munications has been of a dual nature; one,
that of serious concern over Miss McMillan's
withdrawal from our school and hospital; the
other, an expression of loyalty, love and devo-
tion, intermingled with a deep sense of
gratitude for Miss McMillan's untiring leader-
ship, her sincerity of purpose, her fine friend-
ship, and her kindly understanding of human
nature.

Excerpts from Letters

May I quote from a few of these messages:
"My enclosure goes forth with regret and
pleasure — regret that Miss McMillan is leav-
ing us and pleasure over the thoughts of her
fine friendship through the years."

"Good luck to the Helena McMillan
Fund Committee! Miss McMillan deserves a
worthy memorial — and regardless of the out-
come of this, she is assured of one by her
far-reaching influences in the field of nursing
and by the memories which will ever link her
with our school and its Alumnae."

"She has been and always shall be the
most elevating influence in the lives of her
nurses. I am proud to have trained under
her."

"She has been a great inspiration not only
to us but to the entire profession and her
retirement means a great loss, but her ideals
will always be our guiding star."

"We can never hope to repay what Miss
McMillan has done for us all, individually
and collectively."

AT THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION LUNCHEON

Above is a snapshot taken at the Alumnae Association luncheon in the Palmer House,
October 11. At the speakers' table, left to right:

Miss Mary H. Cutler (1916), superintendent of nurses, Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati; Miss
Emma B. Aylward, house matron and dietitian at Sprague Home, who has been on the staff
since the school was established; Miss Charlotte F. Landt (1914), assistant director of the Cook
County School of Nursing and night superintendent of nursing; Mrs. Wilber E. Post (Louise
Morrison, 1903); Miss McMillan; Miss Marie E. Harden, president of the Alumnae Associa-
tion; Mrs. E. E. Irons, president of the Woman's Board, former supervisor of nursing; Miss
Estalene Spears, president 1938 class; Miss Catherine M. Buckley (1912), dean of the School
of Nursing, University of Cincinnati; Miss May L. Russell, dean of the Presbyterian Hospital
School of Nursing and a member of the staff since 1903, when she was a supervisor in the
surgical department. Some members of the 1938 class are seated at the table in the foreground.

"It is difficult to think of Presbyterian
without Miss McMillan. We will always have
the memories of the three best years of our
life with Miss McMillan. And too, wherever
we are at work we are always influenced by
her great character. She is the greatest pro-
fessional woman of this day. I am very
happy to be a Presbyterian graduate."

From a member of our own graduate gen-
eral duty staff came the following message:
"With the resignation of Miss McMillan the
Presbyterian Hospital will lose a beloved and
esteemed leader whose progressive planning,
tireless industry, and keen judgment have
helped to make our hospital one of the fore-
most of its kind. Her understanding of human
nature and her friendliness have endeared her
to all who were privileged to work with her."

Will Perpetuate Ideals

Miss McMillan's ideals and her fine leader-
ship never must be lost to our school. Her
work in nursing education and nursing serv-
ice ever must remain the watchword of this
organization; it must ever remain the founda-
tion upon which our school shall continue to
educate students and send graduates out into
the world.

During these past 35 years our school has
ranked among the best in the country. Doors
have been opened to its graduates — to Miss
McMillan's graduates — that otherwise would
have remained closed.

Miss McMillan's ideals of nursing educa-
tion must be perpetuated and what would be
more fitting than an Educational Endowment
Fund which would assist in safeguarding
those educational standards and policies for

which Miss McMillan has struggled through
the years. She would wish for no more last-
ing demonstration of our loyalty and our
earnestness of purpose than a solemn vow
from a united graduate body to uphold her
ideals and promote her standards of nursing
education and nursing practice.

What more logical group might there be to
undertake the responsibility of establishing
and supporting a Fund than we, Miss Mc-
Millan's graduates. We have been willing to
bask in the reflected glory of Miss McMillan's
accomplishments, enjoying the benefits derived
therefrom, but doing little or nothing toward
the pushing and pulling so necessary in main-
taining the high standards of our school.

Let us therefore contribute generously and
at regular intervals to this Fund that now is
being established by our Alumnae Association
for the best interests of our school and its
students in order that patients in our hospital
and in our community at large may continue
to enjoy the quality of nursing service which
Miss McMillan's past efforts and influence
have made possible.

The Alumnae Association will guard this
fund in a most dignified and business-like
manner. This organization will judge care-
fully and judiciously the use of this fund.

To you, Miss McMillan, wc wish many
years of restful happiness, superimposed by
that inner satisfaction which comes with the
thought of work well done. Wc warn you,
however, that you will find it impossible to
withdraw entirely from your lite ol service to
humanity as this group, individually and col-
lectively, will continue to seek your advice
whenever weighty decisions arc to be made.

FIRST GRADUATES AND FACULTY

Above is a reproduction of a picture of the first class graduated from the School of Nursing
in 1906 and members of the faculty. Miss McMillan is in the center. At her lower left is
Rebecca Cross, assistant principal, now living in a suburb of Montreal, Can. Just above Miss
Cross is Kate Wemp, maternity supervisor, now Mrs. William Coltart, Chatham, Ont., Can.;
directly above Miss McMillan is Myra Jones, night supervisor, now the wife of Dean David J.
Davis, University of Illinois School of Medicine. At the right of Miss Jones is Gertrude
Thompson, assistant superintendent of nurses, now Mrs. Ernest E. Irons, president of the
Woman's Board. At right, below, is Anne Letham (deceased), who was assistant superintendent
of nurses.

Graduates are shown in the outer circle. Around the circle starting at the lower left: Mae
Burtch, Honolulu, Hawaii; Elizabeth Bostater, Montpelier, Ohio; Mabel Gidding, now Mrs. L.
C. Ayers, Glenview, 111.; May Eraser, now Mrs. George T. Love, Wenona, III.; Leah M. Fish,
now Mrs. John Hayden, Kansas City, Mo.; Louise Morrison, now Mrs. Wilbcr E. Post,
chairman of the library committee of the Woman's Board; J. Alice Gerrish, Seattle, Wash.;
Julia P. Barron, (Mrs. Harvey H. Lord, deceased); Carol Martin, State Board of Nurse Ex-
aminers, Lincoln, Neb.; Rachel G. Blanchard, now Mrs. Harold Mackenzie, Watertown, S. Dak.

WILL HOLD BAZAAR

ARRANGE ALUMNAE EVENTS

Private duty nurses of the hospital will

The series of highly successful graduation

hold .t bazaar in tin- west reception room,

week events were arranged by Mrs. Marcclla

Nov. 7, starting at 1 1 ;00 A.M. Proceeds

Hunt Kurt; (1927) and Miss Helen Beck

will be added to the fund which the group is

( 1935), supervisor on sixth maternity. They

raising to provide special nursing care for

were assisted by the Alumnae officers and

nurses when they are ill.

other association members.

GOOD NURSING CARE
FOR SICK HAS BEEN
IDEAL OF LIFE TIME

Good nursing care for the sick has
been the lifetime ideal of M. Helena
McMillan, retiring director of the School
of Nursing and hospital nursing service.

No hospital patient has ever been just
a "case" to Miss McMillan. During the
nearly 36 years in which nursing service
in Presbyterian Hospital has been under i
her direction the ideal of the patient as
an individual has been realised in care
given to a total of more than 300,000
patients admitted since she began her I
work here early in 1903.

This ideal of good nursing care for the
patient as an individual has not been
realised alone by means of rules and
regulations. Nor is it entirely the result of
good nursing technique. The excellent
nursing care for which Presbyterian Hos-
pital has won universal acclaim from pa-
tients and their friends would not have
been possible except for the spirit which
has emanated from the heart of this good
woman to all members of the nursing
staff. Her rare ability to inspire loyalty
to her own high ideals among those ap-
pointed as her lieutenants and on down to
the beginning student nurses has been
the motivating force in the nursing serv-
ice of this hospital under Miss Mc-
Millan's long regime. Her unvarying
fairness and kindliness, combined with
that measure of discipline so necessary in
an institution where human life is con-
stantly hanging in the balance, are other
factors which have resulted in conscien-
tious and efficient nursing care.

With all this, Miss McMillan has not
overlooked the fact that good technique
is indispensable. Members of her gradu-
ate and student nursing staffs have been
provided with capable supervisors in
every department and the teaching in the
School of Nursing has kept pace and
often been a step ahead of the newest
developments in nursing technique re-
quired to meet the demands of advancing
medical knowledge.

M. Helena McMillan retires from
active work not only with the best
wishes and deepest appreciation from
those she has prepared for the nursing
profession, from the co-workers on her
own staff, from her associates on the
Medical Staff and among the personnel
in every department of the hospital. She
also takes with her as she leaves her hos-
pital post the gratitude of thousands of
patients most of who are unacquainted
with the quiet, forceful woman who has
seen to it that they received good nursing
care in their hours of disability and
suffering.

Class of 1938 of the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing

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First row, left to right — Madelon Reeves, Huntington, Mo.; Mary Pierce, Woodstock, 111.; Elizabeth Wagoner, Elgin,
111.; Margaret Burke, Missoula, Mont.; Estalene Spears, Shenandoah, la.; Lois Geerds, Holland, Mich.; Valentine Watts,
Detroit, Mich.; Grace Moore, Rushville, 111.; Charlotte Warren, Leland, 111.

Second row, left to right — Margaret Andersen, Park Ridge, 111.; Cleon Meythaler, Groton, S. Dak.; Raunie Seline,
Aurora, Minn.; Ruth Alderson, Brunswick, Neb.; Mary Norcross, Cristo, Oriente De Cuba; Genevieve Beier, Mcintosh, S.
Dak.; Elizabeth Warner, Marengo, 111.; Ressa Willits, Davenport, la.; Helen Currier, Shenandoah, la.; Joyce Notier, Holland,
Mich.; Hila Richards, Platteville, Wis.; Elizabeth Giles, Monmouth, 111.; Sylvia Van Antwerp, Harvard, 111.; Gladys Duvall,
Leitchfield, Ky.

Third row, left to right — Margaret King, Malta, Mont.; Ruth Bergstrom, La Grange, 111.; Clydene Cameron, Niles,
Mich.; Irene Kleis, Holland, Mich.; Mildred Richardson, Belvidere, 111.; Anne Husiak, Chicago, 111.; Margaret Corliss,
Chicago, 111.; Winifred Hoekstra, Cicero, 111.; Lois Marsilje, Holland, Mich.; Jane Clark, Maywood, 111.; Angie Vanden
Berg, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Vienna Simolin, Eveleth, Minn.; Helen Stidd, St. Paul, Minn.; Jane Simon, La Porte, Ind.

Fourth row, left to right — Amy Ingram, Mexico City, Mex.; Doris Gates, Jackson, Mich.; Ruth Butterfield, Burbank,
Calif.; Gertrude Ernst, Plymouth, Wis.; Marion Berg, Luverne, Minn.; Cornelia Lievense, Holland, Mich.; Eunice Thomp-
son, Pontiac, 111.; Jeanne Strom, Clarion, la.; Myrna Muckler, Toledo, la.; Adah Van Oss, Holland, Mich.; Anna Christen-
sen, St. Edward, Neb.; Gertrude Vreeland, St. Joseph, Mich.; Elaine Goodrick, Fond du Lac, Wis.; Mary Smith, Eldorado,
Kan.; Fern Darling, Decorah, la.

ATTEND ALUMNAE LUNCHEON

The Alumnae Association luncheon was
attended by 3 50 members and guests includ-
ing many from distance. Mrs. Wilber E. Post
was the only representative of the first grad-
uating class present. Mrs. Cora Johnson An-
derson was the 1907 alumna present. The
class of 1908 had three in attendance as fol-
lows: Mrs. Helene Edie, Lois C. Reid and
Irene S. C. Smith, all of Chicago. Most of
the other classes were well represented.

Among the well-known graduates present
who are not mentioned elsewhere in this

Bulletin were: Mabel M. Dunlap, director of
the Visiting Nurse Association in Moline,
111. and treasurer of the Illinois State Nurses'
Association; Jessie L. Stevenson, supervisor
orthopedic division, Visiting Nurse Associa-
tion of Chicago; Mary M. Dunlap, instructor
in public health nursing, University of Chica-
go; Mary Dunwiddie, superintendent, County
Home for Crippled Children, West Chicago,
111.; Mrs. Stanton Freidbcrg, who has long
been closely associated with activities in the
interest of nursing education in Chicago;
Mrs. Phoebe Rice Pixlcy, who is home on
leave from a mission station in Manaqua,
Nicaragua, Central America; Caroline Binder,

ass'stant director of nursing. Children's Me-
morial Hospital, Chicago; Eula Butzerin, pro-
fessor of public health nursing, University of
Chicago; Mrs. Jcanettc Fletcher Smith, Omaha,
Neb.; Doris Helbing, Ethel Steingraber and
Marjorie Hance who came all the way from
California.

ALUMNAE DINNER-DANCE

A feature of the Alumnae dinner-dance at
the Palmer House, Oct. 12, was an "ice
parade" in connection with serving the illu-
minated dessert. The form of a nurse was
fashioned in ice and bore the legend "M.
Helena McMillan."

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

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maybe perfectly mechanized and accurate,
but are barren if not tempered by that
quality of understanding and sympathy
which spiritualises service rendered to
one in trouble. Attitudes may lag well
behind the ability to perform; they must
be supported by the will to act thought-
fully when action is indicated. Character
emerges in a well balanced personality
only as the individual traits develop with
a nice degree of proportion in relation to
each other. There must be the harmonious
working together of these self-traits so
that at any time combinations of qualities
may be brought into unified action to
meet given situations. Individual ex-
cellence then results only, as from day to
day, m facing each problem, we become
increasingly capable of combining into
action the best we have at command of
knowledge, skill, spirit, and the will to
do."

The speaker then urged that continuing
growth, direction to this growth toward a
goal, courage in the pursuit of this goal, and
a scientific and generous spirit are four quali-
ties to be developed in the pursuit of indi-
vidual excellence. This growth, continuing
and m many directions includes: new know-
ledge, new skills, new understanding, new
abilities, new interests, new friends, more cap-
able self direction and health, and is the im-
portant educative process for you which brings
desirable changes in your life.

What Community Expects

The community, she said, expects a different
kind of service from the young graduate
nurse of today than was expected when
Presbyterian School of Nursing graduated its
first class 32 years ago. She continued:

"Mr. and Mrs. Public expect you today not
only to give efficient care to their child when
ill, but also to tell them how to keep well and
prevent disease, how to prepare for the new
baby, how to deal with Johnny when he has
tantrums, how to meet the problems of the
adolescent daughter, where to find a rest camp
for the weary mother of a large family who
needs a summer holiday, and what arrange-
ments can be made for the grandmother who
can no longer be cared for in the already busy
and crowded household. New demands come
as a result of many changes in our social
and economic life and because of the great
advances made in the fields of scientific know-
ledge affecting human welfare. The newer
knowledge of nutrition and the vitamines, of
blood chemistry and the nature and signi-
ficance of the hormones, has drastically
changed the approach to the treatment of
many hitherto mysterious maladies. New
scientific data regarding the cause and control
of communicable and preventable diseases
have given a new emphasis to prevention
rather than cure and today doctors and nurses,
wherever they serve, arc expected to assume
the role of teacher to their patients and to
the i ommunity,

"Continued growth is a first enduring value
if yon are to fit yourself for these new com-
munity demands."

After discussing briefly the purposeful activ-
ity necessary in working toward an established
goal, the qualities of courage that pursuit of

BACCALAUREATE SERVICES

Baccalaureate services for the 1938 class
were held at the Third Presbyterian Church,
Sunday evening, Oct. 9. Mr. Asa S. Bacon,
superintendent of the hospital, presided. An
organ recital by Miss Caroline Marshall pre-
ceded the processional. The invocation was
by the Rev. Russell L. Dicks, hospital chaplain.
Vocal solos by Mr. T. O. McLean, preceded
and followed the sermon by the Rev. Alvyn
R. Hickman, pastor of the church.

a worthy goal demands, and the importance
of a generous and scientific spirit in the
growth process toward excellence, Miss Butz,-
erin said that talk about "self-sacrifice" and
the "martyr spirit" of nurses has no logical
place at graduation exercises and continued :

"Have we not chosen nursing as a profes-
sion because we wanted most of all to do
this thing? And do we not find in this serv-
ice the expression of interests and impulses
which are to us satisfying and fulfilling? Is
this martyrdom and torment? Or, is it on the
other hand self-sacrifice? Ten thousand times
no. I venture to say that even with the most
excellent performance possible we each receive
in personal benefits and satisfactions far
more than ever we give. This I see not as
martyrdom but as privileged participation in
life."

Praises School and Leaders

At the close of her formal commence-
ment address, Miss Butzerin took occa-
sion to voice her estimate of Presby-
terian School of Nursing, Miss McMillan
and those who have long been associated
with her, as follows:

The story is told of a passerby who, upon
observing a workman at work, stopped him
and said, "What are you doing?" and the
worker replied curtly, "Carrying a hod of
bricks to the builders."

The passerby came to another worker and
said to him likewise, "What are you doing?"
and with a face lighted up, the worker said,
"I have got a good job; I earn a good living
for the wife and family at home."

The passerby came to still a third worker
and asked him what he was doing, and he
replied, with much fervor, "I am building a
cathedral, and it is a beautiful one, too!"

The artist-architect must be able to see the
finished cathedral before building begins, but
he is also the first one to say that the crafts-
manship of each individual builder shares in
determining the finished product.

An "Artist Architect"

For thirty-five years this school has been in
the building. Miss McMillan, its founder,
has been the artist-architect and master builder.
Her school has been her cathedral: her care-
fully selected students, faculty, and curriculum
have been her bricks and mortar; and the fine
gems of the high places have been the develop-
ing personalities of the students, who emerge
with a new sense and awareness of life un-
folding and of new ideals. From the very
beginning this school has held an enviable
place as a pioneer in nursing education. It
started out with many standards which even
today arc not realized in many schools. There
was vision and courage undaunted, and this
persevering, quiet, modest little dynamo steadi-
ly went forward, with one following another
e'er we were scarce aware.

It is unnecessary, nor do I intend to relate
again what you have heard so frequently these
past few months — the details and factors which
made this school the strong school that it
ever has been. There are, rather, points of l
emphasis I would make:

Selection of Students

Students have always been selected not only
on the basis of completed high school and
scholastic achievement, but also with a view
to personal worth and family training and
background: and to the parents here may I I
say that because of the start you gave these
young women, you too have been participants
in this building, and we very much need your
continued support and interest in the forward-
going progress of this school.

The curriculum has been not only adequate,
but enriched in many ways. These we shall
not stop to number.

Understanding Teachers

The teachers here whom I have known have
a spiritual worth I have not seen surpassed in
any other single institution. Most of us, as
young student nurses, saw our first beautiful
nursing here. The exquisite, skillful yet
tender nursing care Miss Russell exemplified
will ever be a lasting monument to her name
as it lives again in the service of her stu-
dents. It was my privilege, also, to see how
deep and real an understanding she had of the
young nurses; whether the nurse was gushingly
enthusiastic or in dire need or trouble, some-
how Miss Russell always seemed to under-
stand. If ever I have been an acceptable
nurse, I count Miss Russell as one of my first
and chief blessings.

The student health program has always
been a matter of real concern, and this has
now become a comprehensive protective plan -
for each person within the institution.

Congenial Surroundings

Happy and congenial living surroundings
have been our portion here, and to Miss Ayl-
ward we make a truly thank-you bow for her
always generous and ready assistance to make
every party and picnic a grand success. The
icebox and cupboard doors were liberally
opened.

Our school now faces a new crisis. It can
go forward temporarily on the force of its
own momentum, but for a brief time only. 'I
In meeting this crisis we must all share. Our
most genuine appreciation to Miss McMillan
will he to carry on worthily. I do not mean
by this to demonstrate a blind allegiance to
our school just because it is our school. There
must needs be intelligent understanding of
the values in our school which are to be pre-
served, and these must be preserved. There
must be strong support to any cause which
will preserve these values. There must be
support for those associates who carry on
during this difficult time. There must be a
faithful interpretation of the standards of this
school through the quality of professional
service we give and the kind of persons we
arc.

A charge to keep have we, not only to
maintain the rich heritage passed on to us,
hut with strong courage and faith to stretch!
forward the frontiers to new gains.

For and to our beloved teacher, Miss Mc-
Millan we arc deeply thankful. We hope she
will keep open the pathway to her door soj
that we may continue to sit at her feet
and learn.

Sprague Home for
Nurses

Sprague Home for Nurses,
shown at the left, was erected
in 1913 at a cost of $350,000.
It was made possible by gifts
from friends of Mr. O. S. A.
Sprague, the estate of Mr. Albert
A. Sprague and a bequest left
by Mrs. A. A. Sprague.

TWENTY PUPILS IN 1903

PRESENT ENROLLMENT

NUMBERS 172

Soon after the Presbyterian Hospital
was opened in September, 1884, a course
for nurses was inaugurated under the
direction of Miss A. E. Steere, head
nurse, but was discontinued when Miss
Steere left to take charge of the Illinois
Training School for Nurses, March 18,
1885. At that time arrangements were
made to have the nursing care in the
hospital given under the direction of the
Illinois Training School, and with the
exception of a second short interval
when the hospital had its own school,
this plan continued until 1903, when the
present School of Nursing was organized
with Miss M. Helena McMillan as di-
rector.

This school was first housed in two
residences on Ashland Ave., additional
quarters being provided as the enroll-

ment increased. In 1913 Sprague Home
for Nurses was erected.

Growth of School

During the first year the enrollment
in the school was 20. The present enroll'
ment is 172. A new class of 79 was ad-
mitted in September. The school has a
faculty of nine instructors not including
members of the hospital nursing staff and
the Medical Staff who provide clinical
and other special instruction. The gradu-
ate nurse staff in the hospital numbers
125.

Over 600 In Active Work

Of the 1,503 graduates, more than 600 are
known to be engaged in active work. These
include 275 who are doing institutional work;
200, private duty nursing; 112, public health
nursing; 40, industrial nursing; 21, missionary
nursing in home and foreign fields; and 21,
miscellaneous work including hourly nursing,
medical social service work, physiotherapy,
X-ray, editorial, and other individual work.
One is an airline stewardess. Two continued
their studies in medical schools and are
practicing physicians.

ON SCHOOL COMMITTEE

The first committee named by the Board
of Managers to look after School of Nursing
affairs is lister in the 1904 annual report as fol-
lows: Charles L. Hutchinson, chairman; Ernest
A. Hamill, Frederick T. Haskell, Mrs. Charles
D. Hamill, and Mrs. Joseph Matteson.

Mr. John P. Welling is chairman of the
present committee, other members being, Mr.
Arthur G. Cable, Mr. Alfred E. Hamill, Mrs.
Alva A. Knight, Mrs. Edwin M. Miller, and
Mrs. Clyde E. Shorey. In addition ex-officio
members include the president of the hospital
Board of Managers, the president of the
Woman's Board, superintendent of the hospi-
tal, director of nursing, president of the hos-
pital Medical Board, and a representative of
the Alumnae Association of the School of
Nursing.

HAVE SMORGOSBORD

One of the delightful events of graduation
week occurred on the evening when the
Alumnae Association had its annual open
meeting with the graduates as guests. Mrs.
William Cope, formerly Miss Klefbaum of our
physical therapy department, planned a
Swedish smorgosbord for the buffet supper.
While more restricted variety than the usual
smorgosbord, those present had an opportunity
to enjoy a delicious array of appetisers and
other Swedish dishes.

Many of the graduates hold important ex-
ecutive, supervisory or teaching positions in
hospitals in different parts of the world. A
number are directors of schools for nurses
and several hold professorships in nursing
education departments of large universities.
Two are on the staff of the American Nurses'
Association and many hold or have held im-
portant offices in national and state nursing
organizations.

Pending appointment of a successor to Miss
McMillan, the school will be in charge of the
dean, Miss May Russell, and hospital nurs-
ing service will be under the direction of Miss
Harriet Forrest, assistant superintendent ot

Entrance to
Sprague
Home and
Scene in Lobby

WORK OF HOSPITAL
CHAPLAIN EMBRACES
VARIETY OF DUTIES

The Rev. Russell L. Dicks, who recent-
ly became chaplain on the staff of Presby-
terian Hospital, came here from Boston
where he had done similar work for four
and a half years in the Massachusetts
General Hospital under the auspices of
the Boston Federation of Churches.
After graduating from Oklahoma Uni-
versity, Mr. Dicks received his theological
training at Union Theological Seminary
in New York City. Later he was lecturer
on practical theology at Harvard Divinity
School and at the Andover-Newton
Theological Seminary.

The broad religious outlook of Mr.
Dicks has enabled him to develop a new
approach in being of service to persons
of all faiths as well as those who have
no church affiliation. His books, "The
Art of Ministering to Sick" and "Medita-
tions for the Sick" have had a wide sale
among ministers and laymen of all de-
nominations. Dr. Richard C. Cabot,
famous social service leader, is co-author
of the former and wrote the introduction
for the latter. A third book by Mr.
Dicks, "When You Call on the Sick"
written especially for laymen, is soon to
be published by Harper and Brothers.

Shortly before coming to Chicago, Mr.
Dicks was married to Miss Dorothy Smith,
a head nurse in the pediatrics department of
Massachusetts General Hospital, and a gradu-
ate of that hospital's school of nursing, where
she directed the nurses' chorus for three years.

Commenting on the work of a hospital
chaplain, Mr. Dicks said:-

"The task of a chaplain in a large hospital
embraces a variety of duties. Many patients
have no church connection and while they
would like to have a minister call when they
are sick they hesitate to ask one to come to
the hospital especially to see them or do not
know whom to ask. The hospital chaplain
never takes the place of the patient's own
clergyman and one of his duties is to assist
a patient in calling a clergyman of his choice.
Clergymen of every faith visit freely in this
hospital those patients who desire their
ministrations. The hospital chaplain is avail-
able day or night to give encouragement,
spiritual counsel, and comfort to patients and
their relatives. At times he is called upon to
perform unusual service and he is never
shocked at anything he sees or hears."

The Rev. Dicks succeeds the Rev. E. N.
Ware, who has retired after serving as chaplain
here for 26 years.

Singh-Corbett

Friends here have received word of the
marriage on August 23 of Miss Kashmira
Singh and Mr. Vivian S. Oorbctt. The wed-
ding took place in Port Antonio. Jamaica,
British Columbia, to which place Miss Singh
went following her resignation as statistician
in the maternity department of the hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Corbett will reside m Port
Antonio.

NEW CHAPLAIN

-:: r

REV. RUSSELL L. DICKS

GIFTS AND FLOWERS ARE
TOKENS FROM FACULTY,
CO-WORKERS AND FRIENDS

Hospital employees, the School of
Nursing faculty, and head nurses of the
hospital were among the groups that gave
farewell teas in honor of Miss McMillan.
Hospital employees presented her with a
cleverly illustrated and autographed
memory book. The illustrations were
done by Fred Kitting a commercial
artist and former hospital employee.
The book was presented by George
Scheidel, Sr. who has been here longer
than any other employee.

The School of Nursing faculty pre-
sented Miss McMillan with a lovely
pocket watch. Head nurses gave her a
ring and private duty nurses chose a
bracelet as their token. The gift of the
household staff at Spraguc Home was an
attractive umbrella.

Flowers were sent by the Board of
Managers, Medical Board, School of
Nursing Committee, Woman's Board
and many other groups and individuals
who desired to express their esteem for
Miss McMillan.

Neville - Raymon

Miss Julia Neville and Mr. Jack B. Raymon
were married at Bcrwyn, 111. Aug. 14. Mrs.
Raymon wil continue as an instructor in the
School of Nursing. Mr. Raymon is a lecturer
on natural science in high schools and colleges.

MEDICAL STAFF NEWS

Dr. Willard L. Wood and Dr. Harry
Oberhleman were the speakers at the Septem-
ber meeting of the McHenry County Medical
Society in Woodstock. Their topic was
"Medical and Surgical Aspects of Infections
of the Intestinal Tract."

Dr. Herman L. Kretschmer read a paper
before the annual meeting of the Indiana
Medical Society in Indianapolis, Oct. 6 on
"Cystitis in Women and Children." Dr.
Kretschmer also presented two papers by' invi-
tation before the Wisconsin State Medical
Society recently and was the speaker at a
recent meeting of the St. Joseph County Med-
ical Society at Elkhart, 111.

Dr. Clifford G. Grulee gave the presidential
address at the October meeting of the Evans-
ton branch, Chicago Medical Society, on the
topic "The Newborn Infant."

DR. ROSE HERE

Dr. Cassie Bell Rose of Denver, Colo.,
formerly head of the radiology department,
visited friends here recently.

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL

OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

1753 W. CONGRESS STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Telephone: Seeley 7171

OFFICERS and MANAGERS

JOHN McKINLAY President

HORACE W. ARMSTRONG Vice-President

CHARLES B. GOODSPEED Vice-President

SOLOMON A. SMITH Treasurer

KINGMAN DOUGLASS Secretary

FRED S. BOOTH Asst. Secretary

A. J. WILSON Asst. Secretary

Arthur G. Cable

Edw. D. McDougal, J

Alfred T. Carton

Fred A. Poor

Albert B. Dick, Jr.

Theodore A. Shaw

John B. Drake

Rev. John Timothy

James B. Forgan, Jr.

Stone, D.D.

Albert D. Farwell

R. Douglas Stuart

Alfred E. Hamill

J. Hall Taylor

Charles H. Hamill

John P. Welling

Edward

F. Wilson

CLERICAL MANAGERS
Rev. Harrison Ray Anderson, D.D.
Rev. Harold L. Bowman, D.D.
Rev. Alvyn R. Hickman, D.D.
Rev. W. Clyde Howard, D.D.

MEDICAL BOARD
VERNON C. DAVID, M.D President

WOMAN'S BOARD
MRS. ERNEST E. IRONS President

ADMINISTRATION

BACON ... . Superintendent

Asst. Superintendent
School of Nursing

ASA S

HERMAN HENSEL

M. HELENA McMILLAN. Director

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL BULLETIN
Florence Slown Hyde, Editor

The Board of Managers call attention to
the need of gifts and bequests for endowment
and for the general purposes of the hospital.

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hie PresljyterlaDi jHIospte

BULLETIN

MEMBER AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Chicago, 111.

November, 1938

Vol. 30, No. 10

SELECTIVE MENU PLEASES, BENEFITS PATIENTS

Choice of Foods Is Allowed

Within Limitations of

Diet Requirements

One of the most intricate problems in
a general hospital is that of providing for
each patient the kind of nourishment
that the doctor wants him to have and
at the same time set before the patient
food that he will find attractive and
palatable.

It often is necessary that the patient's
diet include foods which he dislikes but
which he must eat for his own good.
For the same reason it also is necessary
in many instances to deny a patient cer-
tain foods of which he is especially fond.
On the other hand there seems to be no
logical reason why a person who simply
can't stand turnips should have to eat
them for dinner on a certain day or go
without a vegetable that day, when by
giving him a choice in advance, he might
have another vegetable which he really
likes.

Choice Afforded to Ward Patients

In Presbyterian Hospital the selective
menu gives to the patient an opportunity
to choose his food within limitations of
the diet prescribed by his doctor. This
privilege is enjoyed by ward patients as
well as by those in private rooms.

The floor dietitian or a diet nurse
interviews each patient every morning
except Sunday, submitting the selective
menu for three meals beginning with
dinner (noon) the following day. Menus
for both Sunday and Monday are made
out on Saturday. A mimeographed menu
list for a patient on a full tray usually
offers for dinner choices of two kinds of
soup, two meat or meat substitute dishes,
potatoes prepared in two or three ways,
two vegetables, white, graham or rye
bread, tea, coffee or milk, and at least
two kinds of dessert. Selections are made
by crossing off the items not desired.
(Continued on Page 2, Co!. 3)

Patients are given an
opportunity to voice their
food preferences when
interviewed each day by
a dietitian, or a student
nurse who works under
the supervision of the
ward dietitian.

A PRAYER FOR THANKSGIVING

By Russell L. Dicks, Hospital Chaplain

health

Eternal and Ever Present God,

Thou who art ever with us,

Thou who doth wait upon us at all times,

We give Thee than\s for many things.

We than\ Thee for life;

We than\ Thee1 for that power within us which doth maintain

And which doth wor\ for the recovery of health

When we are ill.

We than\ Thee for hospitals;

For those who direct them and wor\ within them.

And for those who give of their goods to support them;

We than\ Thee for the devotion of these and many more.

We than\ Thee for the courage of families

And for the loyalty of friends when we are sic\;

We than\ Thee for all those who come unto us

With quietness and poise and friendliness.

We than\ Thee for understanding within us

And for the peace which comes from beyond us.

For the strength of the hills and the high places o\ the land.

For courage which hears us up in the quiet watches of the night.

Ma\e us to \now Thy will, our Heavenly Father.

Ma\e us to \now that Thou doth not forget us

Neither art Thou displeased with us.

Oh God, Father of Man\ind,

For all those things which have been of comfort to us during the past year.

We give Thee thanks;

~Ma\e us ever to grow in \nowledge. in patience, and in tin understanding of

Through fesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

COOK AND SERVE OVER

2,000 MEALS DAILY

IN HOSPITAL

Planning, cooking, and serving more
than 2,000 meals daily in Presbyterian
hospital is the joint responsibility of Miss
Beulah Hunsicker, director of dietetics,
and Mr. Erich Bode, chef. These two
executives plan the menus together so
that all items required for patients' diets
may be available each day.

The director of dietetics and her staff
of seven trained dietitians are responsible
for planning the diets of all patients in
accordance with the doctors' orders, and
the checking of trays before these are
served to patients. The dietary depart-
ment also supervises the food service in
the hospital dining rooms for resident
doctors, interns, private duty nurses,
office, laboratory and other hospital em-
ployees.

Cooking in General Kitchen

Most of the cooking is done in the general
kitchen under the personal direction of the
chef, and the food dispatched from there to
the adjacent central diet kitchen and the
floor diet kitchens, where the patients' trays
are set up in accordance with the individual
menus selected as explained in a separate
article. The central diet kitchen handles the
food service for the private pavilion and
seventh floor maternity department. Trays arc
sent by high speed dumb waiter directly to
each floor, reaching the patient within three
minutes after being set up in the central diet
kitchen.

Both private room and ward patients in
the Jones and Murdoch buildings arc served
from floor diet kitchens, which are under
supervision of a dietitian.

The chef orders all food -supplies and per-
sonally inspects all raw foods before they
enter the kitchen. Only first quality vege-
tables, fruits, meat, fowl, fish and dairy
products are used. The chef also inspects all
food before it leaves the general kitchen.

All Baking Done Here

All bread, cake and pastries arc made in
the hospital bakery. Ice cream is made in our
own ice cream machine and from the time
the ice cream mixture is poured into the freez-
ing machine until it is dipped out to be
served to patients, it is not touched by human
hands or exposed to bacteria from any source.

Our chef, Mr. Erich Bode, has had broad
training and experience in this country and in
Europe, and has been awarded many cups,
medals and other honors for culinary exhibits
at important expositions. He has been on our
hospital staff seven years. Miss Beulah Hun-
zicker director of dietetics, obtained her B. S.
and M. S. degrees in dietetics at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin and served an internship in
dietetics in the University of Michigan Hospi-
tal. She has been in charge ol our dietary
department since January 19 36.

Recently meals cooked and served in the
hospital have totalled more than 2, Mil) on
some days. This does not include food pro-
vided for 2 50 staff and student nurses whose
meals an- served at Spraguc Home under the
direction ol Miss Emma B. Alyward, who has
been matron and dietitian for the School of
Nursing since it was established in April 1903.

THANKSGIVING DINNER

All patients whose diet permits will
be served a turkey dinner including
all the trimmings on Thanksgiving
day, as will also all hospital employees
on duty that day.

Chef Erich Bode anticipates that
quantities needed to serve Thanksgiv-
ing d nner to patients and employ ees
will include:

600 lbs. of turkey
50 lbs. of cranberries
40 gal. of soup
40 gal. cf ice cream
and other items in proportion.

Miss Emma B. Aylward, matron
and dietitian at Sprague Home for
Nurses, plans to serve turkey and all
that goes with it to at least 200 staff
and student nurses on Thanksgiving
day. Nurses on night duty will have
the same kind of dinner at night as
the larger group has at noon.

Hours of both the nursing staff and
other hospital personnel will be ar-
ranged so as to allow everyone some
free time during the day, while some
nurses and many other employees will
have the entire day off.

INSTALL NEW EQUIPMENT
IN KITCHEN TO CLEANSE
AND STERILIZE UTENSILS

New equipment recently installed in the
main kitchen of our hospital makes it possible
to cleanse and sterilize all pots, pans and
utensils quickly and efficiently. This equip-
ment consists of two vessels for cleansing and
a sterilizer, each 4 x 2'/2 x 2 feet. They are
made of stainless steel. After being soaked
and washed in soapy water in one of the
vessels, the pots, pans and other utensils arc
again washed in clean soapy water in the sec-
ond vessel. Then they are placed in the
sterilizer which contains clean water to which
washing soda has been added. Here they are
kept at the boiling point for five minutes.
This process removes all stains and thorough-
ly sterilizes each article.

Cleanliness reigns supreme in all of the
hospital kitchens — general kitchen, bakery,
central diet kitchen, and floor diet kitchens.
Every employee, who performs any task con-
nected with the cooking or serving of focd,
undergoes a complete physical examination in
advance of employment and at regular inter-
vals thereafter. All arc required to observe
rigid rules of personal cleanliness. A careful
walch is kept so that no one reports for duty
unless in excellent health. All dishes and
silver are washed with electrical equipment,
and in accordance with the sanitary rules of
the Chicago Board of Health.

THANKSGIVING CFFERING

By the time this Bulletin is oil' the press,
several Thanksgiving teas will have been held
under the auspices of the Woman's Board in
the interest of the annual Thanksgiving offer-
ing for the hospital. Offerings also arc being
collected at regular meetings of church groups
and through individual solicitation.

The tea sponsored by the Woman's Board
group of the United Church of Hyde Park
will In- given at the home of Mrs. James W.
McCulloh, 4847 Kimhark Avenue, on Tues-
day afternoon, Nov. 29 at 2:30. Mrs. Rosctta
M. Lukcy will speak on "The Soul of Jade".
Mrs. George Gibson, wife of the new pastor,
will be the guest of honor.

TEA FOR MISS McMILLAN

Mrs. Robert Stuart of the Woman's Board
of the hospital gave a tea on Nov. 1 in honor
of Miss M. Helena McMillan who recently
retired as director of the School of Nursing.

The officers, chairmen of committees, and
the School of Nursing committee were invited.
These friends who had worked more closely
with Miss McMillan were glad of this oppor-
tunity to have a chat with her, and were
happy to meet Mrs. Stuart again.

Mrs. Stuart's beautiful home at 4850 Wood-
lawn Ave. was gay with flowers and every-
one voted it a delightful occasion.

Formerly, Mrs. Stuart worked quite actively
on the Woman's Board. In recent years, how-
ever, her place has been taken by her
daughter, Mrs. George McDonald, and her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. R. Douglas Stuart.

SELECTIVE MENU

(Ccmtmned from Page 1, Col. 1)
Minor substitutions are allowed when
deemed necessary. Patients on soft trays
are allowed certain choices of foods be-
longing to that diet. Student nurses interview
ward patients under the supervision of the
ward dietitian who is responsible for menus
of all ward patients. Special diet patients in
wards are interviewed frequently by graduate
dietitians who endeavor to include in these
more restricted diets, those foods which each
patient likes and which at the same time
conform to diet requirements as prescribed
by the attending physician.

Speeds Recovery of Patients

It has been found that this observance, in
so far as possible, of the food preferences of
patients is an important factor in their re-
covery and results in less waste due to food
coming back on trays. The old saying that
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't
make him drink," applies in considerable
measure to human beings, except that the
intelligence of the latter is expected to cause
them to eat what must be eaten for their own
good, regardless of likes and dislikes. How-
ever, few of us eat properly in every respect
when we are well and those who are ill often
find it very difficult to eat the food which
means so much in bringing about recovery.
Through its selective menu and diet confer-
ences with patients, the dietary department of
Presbyterian Hospital endeavors to make the
prescribed diet as attractive as possible to
each patient.

Whent a patient is admitted to the hospi-
tal, the attending doctor furnishes to the
dietitian a written order for the kind of diet
to be served and every variation from this
made during the patient's stay in the hospital
is done only as directed by the doctor. There
are certain standard diets which are desig-
nated as — general diet, soft diet, and liquid
diet.

Among the specific variations of the gen-
eral diet are — full meat free, full fat free,
high calorie, low calorie, ulcer and bowel
management, and those for patients suffering
from hypertension (high blood pressure)
cardiac (heart) conditions, and anemia.
There are special post-operative diets for
surgical patients. In a class by themselves are
the quantitative (weighed) diets which are
listed as — diabetic, ketogenic, obesity, and
acid ash diets. Every item on these quantita-
tive diets is weighed on scales graduated in
grams so that the specific amount prescribed
is served, while all food that comes back un-
eaten is weighed to determine the exact
amount of nourishment actually taken by the
patient.

DIETARY DEPARTMENT HAS LARGE STAFF

The dietary department of Presbyterian Hospital is in charge of a director of dietetics, who has a staff of seven graduate dietitians,
et kitchen supervisor, and a large group of helpers including tray maids, dish-washers and others who perform various duties in the
•al diet kitchen or on the floors. Several of these helpers are college students who work only part time. Student nurses also assist the
dans as part of their nursing education course.

Front row, left to right — Frances Anderson, Margaret McLaughlin, Louise Hershberger, diet kitchen supervisor; Josephine Schild-
, assistant dietitian; Beulah Hunzicker, director of dietetics; Marie Wojta, assistant dietitian; Ruth Knight, Elsie Kromolis, and Pauline
:ir.

Second row, left to right — Kermit Fish, Frank Haugh, Margaret Schlagel, Agnes Livovich, Margaret Tackett, Bessie Pertak,
h Lane, Charles Mardis, Bertha Graves, Ronald Timma, Margaret Burns, Mary Legarth, Margaret O'Connell, Emme Seeck, Ruby
tta Tate, Jean Antos, William Holland, and Irenus Jasinski.

Third row, left to right — Lester Simpkins, Mildred Shramek, Lucy Simpkins, Dorothy dinger, Mabel Hibbing, Irene Magrady,
le Bandor, Marie Mendrola, Helen Stanek, Stanley Sammons, James Odom, Anna Serak, Jessie Bandor, Antoinette Pajer, Emma Irwin,
ie Fuller, Lena Zerr, Helen Shramek, Caroline dinger, and Leslie Odom.

Five graduate dietitians, not present when the picture was taken, are: Dorothea Runge, Helen Diedrick, Charlotte Ludwig, Mary
e, and Alice Rayston.

Helpers who were absent when picture was taken are: Caroline Williams, Winifred McLaughlin, Elizabeth Mumm, Fern Seber, and
■n Ehlman.

Employees added since the picture was taken are: Margaret Hansen, Robert Rippeto, Mary Talley, Walter Casby, John Koenig,
Alexander Duffy.

GENERAL KITCHEN STAFF NUMBERS 27

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Our general kitchen staff numbers 27 including the chef, six cooks, three bakers, and 16 helpers who perform various tasks,
se in the picture are:

Front row, left to right — John Koloff, John Koch, John Fox, Erich Bode, chef; Charles Schweikert, August Moser, Gerhard Pilz.

Second row, left to right — Erwin Bussas, Sam Hauka, William Chrislaph, Edward Stratton, Frank Omishl, Julius Scheuder, Peter
ack, Max Stearker, John Kulatzki, Donald Page.

Third row, left to right — Mary Virney, Dina Markoff, Bessie Tokaskie, Barbara Martan, Frances Jaros, Albina Pctkcmeir, Vera
>ff, Julia Repischack. One employee, Esther Ryan, was not present when the picture was taken.

3« Msmatwm

Mrs. L. Hamilton McCormick
1865-1938

An appreciation service honoring the
memory of Mrs. L. Hamilton McCormick
was held at the October meeting of the
Woman's Board of Presbyterian Hospi-
tal. Mrs. McCormick, who passed from
this life on June 26, 1938, at the home
of her son in Santa Barbara, Calif., was
for many years an active and effective
member of the Woman's Board. She had
served on many committees, was a vice-
president for ten years and since 1928
had been a member of advisory council.

Commenting on the life and work of
Mrs. McCormick, Mrs. Harrison Ray
Anderson, wife of the pastor of Fourth
Presbyterian Church, of which Mrs. Mc-
Cormick was a member for over 50 years,
said:

In England, today, they are searching for
lovely old roses that once grew on British
soil. From old photographs and paintings
they have identified these roses as being native
to England, but they no longer grow there.
As the search continues, it is feared that the
early colonists brought these rose bushes or
slips, as they are called, to America. England
not only lost to America some of her beauti-
ful roses, but also in the early days she lost
a personality in the form of Miss Constance
Plummer.

Constance Plummer McCormick came over,
as many of you know, a young woman to be
married here. Some of you have known her
a great many years. In talking to you about
her I have noted a common expression among
you. "She was so friendly," many of you
said. Yes, she was friendly, in her home, in
her work at the church, in her work here at
the hospital, in her clubs and at the concerts.

But Mrs. McCormick didn't just happen
to be friendly. Friendliness isn't a matter of
temperament alone. Mrs. McCormick was
more than a friendly soul — she was a wise
woman. In her early years at some time she
definitely chose a pattern for her life. She
made a decision and followed it. Her noble-
ness as a friend was the result.

The pattern she chose was to live as a
Christian gentlewoman. This is what you and
I saw and admired in Mrs. McCormick. Her
life was a testimony to Christianity. Her go-
ing on to her Heavenly Home is a fulfillment
of her earthly pilgrimage.

Mrs. Anderson also read the follow-
ing tribute to Mrs. McCormick written
by Miss Winifred Brainerd, director of
the hospital Occupational Therapy de-
partment :

From the inception of the Occupational
Therapy department in 1917 Mrs. McCormick
was chairman of that committee. Others took
over her work while she was absent from the
city, but she always resumed her place as
chairman on her return. She was a great
believer in the benefits to be derived from
work, not only for the tangible results to be
accomplished but for the greater benefit to
the worker himself. Her own hands were
never idle: a bit of tapestry, the fashioning of
a garment from wool for a needy child, or
practical sewing for the hospital engaged her
Mil nl lingers while her keen mind and de-
lightful humor entertained her fortunate guest.

MEDICAL STAFF NEWS

Dr. John M. Dorsey and Dr. E. H. Fell
were speakers at the Congress of Railway
Surgeons in Chicago, Sept. 19-21. Dr. Dean
D. Lewis of Johns Hopkins University, Balti-
more, former member of our Medical Staff,
also was a speaker at the same meeting.

Dr. A. H. Parmelee read a paper before
the Jo Daviess and Carroll County Medical
Societies at Elizabeth, 111., Sept. 21, on "Dis-
eases of the Newborn." Dr. Bert I. Beverly
addressed the same group, Oct. 12, on "Be-
havior Problems."

Dr. Clifford Grulee addressed the September
meeting of the Knox and Warren County
Medical Societies at Galesburg on "Care of
the Premature Infant."

Dr. William D. McNally delivered an ad-
dress before the Michigan State Medical
Society in Detroit, Sept. 21, on "The Seque-
lae of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning."

* * *

Dr. N. J. Heckel was one of the speakers
at the meeting of the North Central Branch,
American Urological Association, in Peoria,
Sept. 30. His topic was "A Report of a
Papillary Cystadenoma of the Kidney."

* * *

Dr. Loren W. Avery discussed "Traumatic
Neurosis" at the second annual occupational
disease symposium at Northwestern Univer-
sity Medical School, Sept. 26.

Mrs. McCormick's belief in the value of
work found expression in her staunch sup-
port of the Occupational Therapy department.
This interest seemed always to be in her sub-
conscious mind for she never went anywhere
without an awareness of everything that would
be of use in her department. She devoted
considerable time to a study of the close con-
nection between Occupational Therapy and
Physical Therapy, and her interest and en-
couragement did much to place the Physical
Therapy department in its present quarters.
Her dream was a department in which both
active and passive treatment would be given
in cooperation for the greater benefit of the
patient.

No unkind word ever fell from Mrs. Mc-
Cormick's lips. Friendliness for everyone, the
great and the lowly alike, was her outstand-
ing characteristic. No patient or nurse or
occupational therapist ever forgot her, for her
genuine sympathy and interest made itself
manifest even in a casual meeting. She was
fond of a poem called "The Christmas Tree,"
perhaps, because it says the thing she did:

For each of us there stands

A Christmas tree, covered with all
The worth-while things in life

That we have won: each hall
Of varicolored glass is for

A friend that we have gained;
With shining words that stretch

From end to end, we hold
Them chained. Yet here and there

We watch through sudden tears
The empty space where shone

Some well-loved comrade that
The years cannot replace.

Oil, strive ever for new glories
For your tree from near and far;

Give of your life that many a
Tree may be crowned with your star.

Truly, Mrs. McCormick's star shone on
many trees.

RESUME SUNDAY SERVICES

Services in the hospital chapel were resumed
Sunday, Nov. 13, and will be held each Sun-
day at 11:15 A.M. Patients able to attend
are invited as are also visitors, nurses, medi-
cal staff members and other hospital person-
nel. Services are conducted by the Rev. Russell
L. Dicks, hospital chaplain.

Mr. Dicks gave a talk to staff and student
nurses at a well attended vesper service held
in the auditorium of Sprague Home on
November 9. He also will be the speaker
at Thanksgiving services in Sprague Home
on Wednesday, Nov. 23, at 7:30 P.M.

Dr. Herman L. Kretschmer of our Surgical
Staff read a paper at the meeting of American
College of Surgeons in New York City in
October. His topic was "Problems of Dif-
ferential Diagnosis Between Urologic Lesions
and Abdominal Lesions."

THE

PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL

OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

1753 W. CONGRESS STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Telephone: Seeley 7171

OFFICERS and MANAGERS

JOHN McKINLAY President

HORACE W. ARMSTRONG Vice-President

CHARLES B. GOODSPEED Vice-President

SOLOMON A. SM ITH Treasurer

KINGMAN DOUGLASS Secretary

FRED S. BOOTH Asst. Secretary

A. J. WILSON Asst. Secretary

Arthur G. Cable
Alfred T. Carton
Albert B. Dick, Jr
John B. Drake
James B. Forgan,
Albert D. Farwell
Alfred E. Hamill
Charles H. Hamil

Edw. D. McDougal, Jr
Fred A. Poor
Theodore A. Shaw
Rev. John Timothy

Stone, D.D.
R. Douglas Stuart
J. Hall Taylor
John P. Welling

Edward F. Wilson

CLERICAL MANAGERS
Rev. Harrison Ray Anderson, D.D.
Rev. Harold L. Bowman, D.D.
Rev. Alvyn R. Hickman, D.D.
Rev. W. Clyde Howard, D.D.

MEDICAL BOARD

VERNON C. DAVID, M.D. President

WOMAN'S BOARD
MRS. ERNEST E. IRONS President

ADMINISTRATION

ASA S. BACON Superintendent

HERMAN HENSEL Asst. Superintendent

SCHOOL OF NURSING

M. HELENA McMILLAN Director Emeritus

MAY L. RUSSELL Dean and Acting Director

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL BULLETIN
Florence Slown Hyde, Editor

The Board of Managers call attention to
the need of gifts and bequests for endowment
and for the general purposes of the hospital.

Iftie PirestbytetriaDii ftfospfila

BULLETIN

MEMBER AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Chicago, 111.

December, 1938

Vol. 30, No. 11

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The above pictures taken last year afford a few glimpses of the happy ways in which Christmas is observed in Presby-
terian Hospital. Upper left — An after-Christmas scene in one of the children's wards. Upper right — Christmas tree at
Sprague Home and some early arrivals for the Children's party given by the nurses. Lower left — A busy scene at "Informa-
tion" in the main entrance lobby. Lower right — A lighted Christmas candle on each head nurse's desk spreads cheer.
(See story on page 2).

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GOODWILL AND CHEER TO

ABOUND IN HOSPITAL

ON CHRISTMAS

Many Activities Are Planned

Christmas in the hospital will be a new
experience for most of those patients who
must remain with us during this season.
As usual everything possible will be done
to spread cheer and goodwill among our
patients, and among our nurses and other
personnel who must remain on duty.

Student nurses will go through the cor-
ridors early Christmas morning singing
the old and loved Christmas carols. The
chef and dietitian will provide appropri-
ate favors for the Christmas eve supper
trays and the Christmas dinner trays. A
turkey dinner will be served to all pa-
tients whose diet permits and to all em-
ployees on duty Christmas day. The
dietitian will make a special effort to plan
attractive menus for patients on restricted
diets.

In Children's Wards

Gaily decorated Christmas trees will brighten
the children's wards, to which Santa Claus
will find his way on "the Night Before Christ-
mas." Through the assistance of the Woman's
Board and other generous friends child and
adolescent patients will be the objects of spe-
cial consideration as will also other present
and former patients known to the Social
Service department.

Baskets for the Needy

Christmas baskets provided by the Chicago
Rotary Club, hospital employees and other
friends will be distributed to needy families
known to our Social Service department. At
the December meeting of the Woman's Board,
Mrs. Mark Oliver, chairman of the Social
Service committee asked for donors of baskets
and donations of suitable gifts for children,
adolescents, and aged persons.

A Candle on Every Desk
The Occupational Therapy department will
provide a candle in an attractive holder for
every desk in the hospital, including those of
head nurses on each floor, department heads
and office employees. Our carpenter shop
makes the candle holders. A sprig of ever-
green and a block-printed Christmas greeting
will adorn each holder as shown in the pic-
ture on page one, made from a snapshot taken
last Christmas of Miss Mary Watson, super-
visor on 7th maternity.

Patients Make Gifts

Occupational Therapy also has brightened

the Christmas season for many patients dur-
ing recent weeks by assisting them in making
attractive Christmas gifts. Several cut their
own linoleum block designs for Christmas
cards. Others made belts, bill folds, purses
and other articles of leather and many made
cloth elephants, Scotties and other animals as
Christmas gifts.

At Nurses' Home
Children oi employees and oilier invited
youngsters will be entertained at the annual
party given by the nurses at Sprague Home
on I >ei 23. Mrs. Ernesl A II. .mill has sent
hei usual gift of $225 to provide the Christ-
mas dinner at Sprague Home for staff and
student nurses.

TOLERANCE

Excerpts from an Address by Dr. Herrick

Dr. James B. Herrick, a practicing
physician for more than 50 years and a
member of the Presbyterian Hospital
Medical Staff since 1891, was the speaker
at the Sunday morning service m the
chapel of the University of Chicago, Sun-
day, Nov. 13. Some excerpts from his
inspiring address on the subject of "Tol-
erance" are especially appropriate at this
season when we are reminded of the
angels' song of peace and goodwill on
that Christmas night of long ago.

After pointing out that the doctor has
an unusual opportunity of seeing life
both good and bad, because "he sees
people just as they are," Dr. Herrick said
that "a true doctor has a dual personali-
ty. Toward diseases he must be impartial-
ly, even coldly, scientific. What is the
nature of the illness? What can be done
to ameliorate or cure it? Can it be pre-
vented in the future? Toward the pa-
tient, however, the doctor must be
sympathetic, in the derivational sense of
the word — suffering with the afflicted
one, whom he views not alone as a 'case'
but as a thinking, feeling, timorous human
being."

"Tolerance" said Dr. Harnck, "is for-
bearance; it is the exercise of patience
and charity toward one whose opinions
or acts we do not approve. While we
may condemn the deed, we do not neces-
sarily condemn the doer. Though we
believe our opinion and behavior are
right, we do not, except by persuasion,
education, or example try to induce him
to give up his own view or to adopt our
practice; unless, it must be added, he is
periling society, for there is a limit even
to tolerance. Intolerance, on the other
hand, is offended by, and unwilling to put
up with, opinions that differ from our
own.

"But many of the differences that
estrange people are not serious; they are
largely due to the accident of when and
where one was born; they are matters of
race, country, custom, environment.

"Surely there are more common char-
acteristics that should unite people than
differences that should separate them.
No one nation, no one race, no economic,
intellectual or social group has a monop-
oly of the higher attributes such as
honesty, kindness, idealism.

"So the doctor, as he grows older, learns to
look upon people as, after all, very much alike.
The question is not whether one in trouble is
of this race or religion or that; whether he is
cultured or ignorant. The question is whether
the individnu.il is ill or thinks he is. If so,
the doctor tries to help him. Should not
others, even those in high authority, have
some such view of people as has the physi-
cian? A more liberal recognition of the
brotherhood oi man would help solve some of
the troublesome problems of the day."

HOUSE STAFF CHANGES

From July 1 to Jan. 1, inclusive, 13
interns and 10 residents in specialties
will have completed their training inj
Presbyterian Hospital as follows:

Interns

July 1— Chester Waters, Jr.; F. J. Phillips,,
T. Wilson McVety, Robert T. Bandi, and :
Wesley Anderson.

Sept. 1— Rollin F. Bunch and Thomas W.
Rcul

Oct. 1— Robert Orr

Nov. 1— Charles A. Barnes and Arch S.
Morrow

Jan. 1 — Joe R. Brown, Henry E. Wilson,
Jr., and Michael J. Dardas

Residents

July 1 — Sidney Hughes, oto-laryngology; i
Paul Hurwitz,, ophthalmology; Andrew Weiss,
pediatrics; Hugo Baum, obstetrics and gyne-
cology; Thomas Broderick and Michael O''
Heeron, urology

Jan. 1 — John Olwin, surgery; Ralph W. \
Rucker, oto-laryngology; N. J. Lilleberg, ob' i
stetrics and gynecology; Henry H. Lalley,
pathology

Those appointed to fill the vacancies are as I
follows :

Interns

July 1- — Carl B. Davis, Jr.; Josephine
Chapin, Paul Hausmann, Charles E. Muhle-
man, Walter Schamber, Albert Reaven.

Sept. 1 — Gustav G. Kaufman and Russell
Jackson

Oct. 1 — Richard K. Hausmann

Nov. 1 — George Pelkey

Jan. 1— Albert W. Hilker, Donald C.
Sharpe, George T. R. Fahlund, and Frank
W. Van Kirk, Jr.

Residents

July 1 — Wesley Anderson, pediatrics; David
E. Brown, oto-laryngology; Alfred G. Schultz,
ophthalmology; Ray F. Cochrane and George

B. Haydon, obstetrics and gynecology; R. F.
Hedin and Wm. Warrick, urology

Jan. 1 — Russell Hanselman and Francis M.
Lyle, surgery; Thomas W. Rcul, pathology
and X-ray; Vernon C. Volts, ophthalmology;

C. O. Paradis, oto-laryngology. Dr. Hansel-
man is being transferred from pathology to
surgery.

MEDICAL STAFF NEWS

Dr. N. J. Heckel read a paper before the
Woodbury County Medical Society at Sioux
City, la., Nov. 11, on "Pyuria: Its Causes and
Treatment."

* * *

Dr. A. E. Kanter addressed the North Shore
branch ol the Chicago Medical Society, Nov.
1 on "Diagnosis and Treatment of Lesions
of the Cervix."

An illustrated lecture on "The Diagnosis
and Treatment of Common Skin Diseases" was
given by Dr. Clark W. Finncrud at a meet'
ing of the Englewood branch of the Chicago
Medical Society, Nov. 1.

Dr. W. O. Thompson and Dr. N. J.
Heckel presented a paper before the annual
meeting of the Central Society for Clinical Re-
search in Chicago, Nov. ?. Their subject was
"Variations in Genital and Somatic Develop'
ment with Bilaterial Cryptorchidism."

BELL BOYS SERVE PATIENTS I

ANY WAYS

Courtesy is One of Many

Qualities Required

In Their Work

Services performed for patients by our
hospital hell boys are numerous and
varied, and are in the main quite different
from those one expects from a bell boy
in a hotel. The hospital bell boy not only
takes charge of luggage and escorts to
their rooms patients who are able to walk
but is frequently called upon to transport
a patient in a wheel chair from the room
clerk's office or the ambulance entrance.

Assist Incoming Patients

Patients who are too ill to walk usually
arrive at the ambulance entrance in a
private car, taxicab or ambulance. When
necessary, as in the case of accident
victims or those who are seriously ill, a
stretcher or cart and the services of
orderlies are available promptly. In many
instances, however, the patient is not too
ill to be assisted into a wheel chair (sev-
eral of which are kept near the entrance
at all times) by a bell boy. If a reserva-
tion has been made in advance, the pa-
tient is taken directly to the proper floor.
In other instances he is taken to the desk
in the examining room adjacent to the
ambulance entrance. The nurse in charge
then arranges for examination and ad'
mission, after which the bell boy takes
the patient to his room or ward.

Most of the patients admitted between
7:30 A.M. and 9:30 P.M. are escorted
to their rooms or wards by bell boys.
During the night, the inside policeman
answers the ambulance entrance bell and
also assists any patients who come in via
the main entrance.

Many Other Duties

Among the other routine duties performed
by bell boys are the delivering of mail and
packages for patients to the different floors,
collection of outgoing mail from the floors,
sending of telegrams, and many special errands
for patients, such as making purchases at
stores in the neighborhood.

Bell boys also do many errands for the hos-
pital both within the institution and outside.
When they have a little spare time not occu-
pied with these errands and services to pa-
tients, it's quite likely to be used up folding
Bulletins or other printed matter, running the
mimeograph, or doing some other routine
clerical work. Hours of the four bell boys
are arranged so that two or three are on duty
during the greater part of the day.

Courtesy, reliability and industry are among
the qualities required of a hospital bell boy,
as well as an appreciation of the fact that his
job consists mainly of service to those who arc
ill or disabled. It is interesting to note in this
connection that some of the men who now
hold positions of responsibility in our hospital
began as bell boys, and that a number of
well-known business and professional men
were once bell boys here.

In the picture at the left, Clifford Friedle
is shown bringing a young patient into the
examining room from the ambulance en-
trance. Above, Raymond Ray (left) captain
of the bell boys is shown giving instructions
to Albert Bending (center) and Thomas Tran-
chita (right) about the delivery of the array of
packages on the receiving desk. During the
Christmas season this desk is often piled high
with Christmas packages to be delivered to
patients.

INFORMATION DESK IN
MAIN ENTRANCE LOBBY
IS CENTER OF ACTIVITY

Theodore Primis (right) and Walter
Schacht are the two busy persons shown
in the information desk scene in the pic-
ture layout on Page 1. "Teddy" as he
is familiarly known has been employed at
"Information" for almost 15 years and
Walter has been with us for 12 years.
They work alternate shifts so as to take
care of the desk from 7:30 A.M. to
9:30 P.M.

Information in the main lobby is not only
a reception desk serving most of the patients
and visitors entering the hospital but also
keeps track of the comings and goings of
attending physicians and surgeons and keeps
an up-to-the-minute card index record of name
and room number or ward location of every
patient in the hospital. Numerous telephone
inquiries are taken care of at this desk.

All mail for both hospital personnel and
patients is delivered here and after being
sorted is dispatched by bell boys to the dif-
ferent floors and departments. Passes are
issued to visitors calling on ward patients and
a check kept of the number of passes issued
for each patient as not more than two visitors
are permitted to visit a ward patient at one
time. Recently visitors on week day after-
noons have numbered from 250 to 300, on
Sundays from 400 to 600, and during evening
visiting hours around 200.

Miss Olivett M. Walker is in charge of
"East Information" which serves pavilion
visitors. She also takes care of a large amount
of statistical work. Miss Walker will complete
her 19th year in this position next May.

TAG DAY NETS #1,391

Through the efforts of 314 volunteer tag-
gers from 3? churches, who worked a total
of 796 hours on Children's Benefit Tag Day,
the sum of $1,391.76 was raised to help sup-
port our free work for child patients. Total
receipts were $1,446.86 from which was paid
expenses of $5 5. Taggers from Drexel Park
Church turned in the largest single box which
contained 584 coins. Lake Forest taggers col-
lected the largest amount — $310.

HOLD SUCCESSFUL BAZAAR

Private duty nurses raised $750 at a bazaar
held in the west reception room of the hospi-
tal on Nov. 7. Liberal donations were received
from many individuals and the following busi-
ness firms: Mandel Brothers, Fair Store, Scars,
Roebuck and Company, Peacock Jewelry Store,
and Carson. Pirie, Scott and Company. The
money will be added to the fund which is
used to provide special nursing care for pri-
vate duty nurses when they are ill.

YES, WE KNOW WHERE JAMAICA IS

The editor knows that Jamaica is in British
West Indies but unaccounatably located it in
British Columbia in the October issue report-
ing the marriage of Miss Kashmira Singh to
Mr. Vernon S. Corbctt at Port Antonio,
lamaica. Apologies to our readers and to Mi-.
Corbett.

At the Midwest Clinical Society meeting in
Omaha, Oct. 24 to 28, Dr. Heyworth N. San-
ford presented a paper on "Hemorrhagic Dis-
eases of Infancy and Childhood:" a paper "ii
"Cerebral Hemorrhage of the Newborn:" and
conducted a clime on "Anemias ,,nd Metabolic
Disorders of Infancy and Childhood."

A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

By Russell L. Dicks, Chaplain

What would you say if you were told
that 2,000 years from now there would
be shrines of worship, cathedrals, schools,
and hospitals built and dedicated in your
name? What would you say if you were
told that millions of people who spoke
languages you could not understand and
had control over machines the like of
which you had never dreamed would bow
daily in memory of you and that the date
of your birth would be the occasion of a
great festival annually when there would
be good cheer upon the land as at no
other time? I suspect that you would be
somewhat surprised.

And yet that is essentially what hap-
pened in the case of one called Jesus,
whose beginning upon this earth probably
was more humble than that of anyone
who will read these lines. He was born
of people so poor and with so little
influence that they could not even secure
a room in a house at the time of Hi;
birth, but had to make down a bed m a
stable. How many upon casually hearing
that story would suspect that that little
boy would move across the pages of his-
tory more significantly than any other
single child that has ever been born,
would raise up brother against brother
and would bring peace and good will to
the lonely, embittered, and discouraged.

At the time of that little boy's birth m
a tiny village in a remote part of the
world at a not very important time in
history, there were no public schools of
learning, no printing presses, no radios,
and no hospitals for the care of the sick.
That little boy as a man never traveled
over eighty miles away from his home,
probably never went to school, never saw
a large city, and was known intimately
by perhaps fifteen or twenty people and
one of them so misunderstood Him that
His death was brought about prematurely.
And yet, 2000 years later, at this season
of the year, people all over the world are
turning their minds to Him, saying as did
a soldier who watched Him die, "Surely
this man was a. Son of God."

And we too, as we pass our minds over
the strangness of His life bow in silent
meditation in memory of His birth.

CHRISTMAS SERVICE IN CHAPEL

A. Chri tmas comes on Sunday this year,
the usual service in the hospital chapel at
11:15 A.M. will be devoted to the Christmas
theme. Rev. Russell L. Dicks, hospital chaplain
will conduct the service. All patients who are
able to attend are invited as are also visitors
and hospital personnel. Student nurses not
on duty on the floors serve as volunteers who
.i i i patients to the chapel for Sunday scrv-

CHRISTMAS CAROL

By James Russell Lowell

All round about our feet shall shine
A light li\e that the wise men saw;

If we our willing hearts incline

To that sweet life which is the law.

So shall we learn to understand

The simple faith of shepherds then,

And clasping \indly hand in hand,

Sing, "Peace on earth, good will to men."

And they who do their souls no wrong,
But \eep at eve the faith of morn.

Shall daily hear the angel-song,

"Today the Prince of Peace is born."

HOSPITAL LIBRARIAN WILL
GO TO NEW YORK CITY TO
ORGANIZE LIBRARY PLAN

Miss Selma Lindem, hospital librarian,
has been granted a six months leave of
absence, to take charge of the organisa-
tion of a new central library plan for hos-
pitals of New York City under sponsor-
ship of the Junior League of that city.
During the nine and half years, since
she became librarian in our hospital, Miss
Lindem's outstanding record of service to
hospital patients has attracted much
favorable comment from leaders in both
the hospital and public library fields. A
more detailed account of her work here
and the library which has grown from
500 to 7,000 volumes largely through her
efforts will appear m the next issue of
our Bulletin.

Miss Lindem will leave Chicago the
latter part of this month and begin her
work in New York, Jan. 1. During her
absence, Mrs. Virginia Bonnici, a trained
librarian who has had experience in Po t
land, Ore. and Chicago public libraries
will be in charge of our hospital library
service.

His 39th Christmas Here

Mr. Asa S. Bacon, superintendent, w 11
spent his 39th Christmas in the hospital.
Since Mr. Bacon first came here in 1900, he
has followed the custom ol spending Christ-
mas in the hospital and giving his personal
attention to the carrying out of plans for
making the day a happy one for patients and
personnel.

ANNUAL MEETINGS

The 56th annual meeting of the Presby-
terian Hospital Society will be held on
Jan. 18, 1939 in the hospital chapel.
Luncheon will be served at 12:15 and
the business meeting will follow immedi-
ately.

The 55 th annual meeting of the Presby-
terian Hospital Woman's Board will be
held on Monday, Jan. 9, 1939. The meet'
ing will be held on the second Monday
this year because the first Monday is the
day after New Year's day. Mrs. Edward
H. Smith, 190 East Chestnut Street, has
been appointed to compile the unified re'
port of committees, and chairmen are
urged to send her their reports as soon
as possible.

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL

OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

1753 W. CONGRESS STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Telephone: Seeley 7171

OFFICERS and MANAGERS

JOHN McKINLAY President

HORACE W. ARMSTRONG Vice-President

CHARLES B. GOODSPEED Vice-President

SOLOMON A. SMITH Treasurer

KINGMAN DOUGLASS Secretary

FRED S. BOOTH Asst. Secretary

A. J. WILSON Asst. Secretary

Arthur G. Cable Edw. D. McDougal, Jr.

Alfred T. Carton Fred A. Poor

Albert B. Dick, Jr. Theodore A. Shaw

John B. Drake Rev. John Timothy
James B. Forgan, Jr. Stone, D.D.

Albert D. Farwell R. Douglas Stuart

Alfred E. Hamill J. Hall Taylor

Charles H. Hamill John P. Welling
Edward F. Wilson

CLERICAL MANAGERS
Rev. Harrison Ray Anderson, D.D.
Rev. Harold L. Bowman, D.D.
Rev. Alvyn R. Hickman, D.D.
Rev. W. Clyde Howard, D.D.

MEDICAL BOARD

VERNON C. DAVID, M.D President

WOMAN'S BOARD

MRS. ERNEST E. IRONS President

ADMINISTRATION

ASA S. BACON Superintendent

HERMAN HENSEL Asst. Superintendent

SCHOOL OF NURSING

M. HELENA McMILLAN Director Emeritus

: AY L. RUSSELL Dean and Acting Director

THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL BULLETIN
Florence Slown Hyde, Editor

The Board of Managers call attention to
the need of gifts and bequests for endowment
and for the general purposes of the hospital.

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