Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 356, 31 October 1910 — Page 2

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THE RICII3IOXD PALIADIU3I AXD SUN-TEL.EGRA3I, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1910.

L1ED1CAL SC1EHCE f.iUCll DEIIEPIIED BY THE OIL KIIIG New Hospital at the Rockefeller Institute to Be Scene of the Most Extensive Investigations.

INFANTILE PARALYSIS TO BE PROBED FIRST Research Work Will Be Conducted by a Corps .of Eminent ScientistsThis Disease Is Infectious. (American New Hrvlre New York, Oct. 31. As a result of John D. Rockefeller's latest bequest, the new hospital of the Rockefeller Institute, the most extensive investigations ever undertaken In the history of medical science will be made of the cause of mortality producing diseases. It wan started today, that the first diseases to be studied by the coterie of eminent scientists In charge of the new hospital will be infantile paralysis, a scourge that has been reaping a rich harvest throughout the large cities of the world. The disease attacks all classes of children, and even . child recovers it Is disfigured for Ufa. . ' . tie afflicted limb of the little patient ceases to grow during the ravag es of the disease while the other members continues a normal development. Mortality among those , affected is very hlgli and the increase of the scourge during the past year has been viewed with such alarm in medical circles that wealthy philanthropists have been repeatedly importuned to lend financial aid to aclence in an effort to stamp it out. Drs. flexner and Lewis, of the Rockefeller Institute, discovered in August of this year, after lengthy experiments upon monkeys that the disease was highly infectotis and could be transmitted ' from one animal to another, proving that Its cause is a living organism and not a poison or toxin. v . , . . Theraneutie Value. That human serum "derived from children who hove passed through an attack of paralysis possesses neutralising power for the vims of paralysis In animals lias been stated already. Bays Dr. Flexner: "It can now be stated that It possesses theraneutie value also. When the injections are begun tweni y-f our hours after the innffiilattan nf thm virus tha dnvlnimnt of paralysis can be entirely prevented lo a certain number' of the animals, while In another number the onset of paralysis Is much delayed. 'TSi serum' treatment "of Infantile paralysis Is as yet In Its Infancy," Dr. Flexner continued, "but with our added means for observation, together with the unequaled scientific appliances embodied In the new hospital, It Is not Improbable that we may see the last of this devastating affliction.' This new hospital will serve as a most valuable aid to the doctors in tiieir work of Investigation. In It, the patients suffering from the particular disease under Investigation will receive the best medical care that science can produce and at the same time will be objects of study to the medical savants In charge. , . Far Special Cases Only. . The science of curing the sick will be the work to which the physicians of the hospital of the Rockefeller Institute will devote their entire time and strength, to the exclusion of all outside practice. What distinguishes this hospital from others Is simply this: The ordinary general hospital must take nearly every kind of acute i ne r.

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, The new hospital of the Rockef Flexner, the American scientist, who top cut shows the methods employe diseases that offers, doing its utmost to meet the actual demand of the sick poor, a demand that usually taxes the resouces of Its supporters and the devitlou of its staff to the utmost. In performing this lndispensible function the general hospital obtains, and will always obtain, a vast amount of clinical material and experiences of great importance to medical science, but this must come as a by-product. - The resouces of the hospital must be used primarily to treat all the diseases with which the community happens to be afflicted. They cannot without breach of trust be diverted at will to the study of this or that disease which at a given time presents the most, desirable of hopeful field for research. The hospital of the Rockefeller Institute, on the other hand. will select from time to time a small number of diseases say three or four admit only patients suffering from these diseases, and consecrate the skill and entire time of its staff to the care of those patients. From the standpoint of, the sick man, woman or child, this will mean the enlisting of all known forces that can fight for his recovery. From the standpoint of medical science it will mean an almost unequaled oppor tunity for study the study of selected cases with freedom to consecrate all the resouces of medical knowledge and the most scientific methods, If need be, on a single case. Plans Long Considered. During the preparation for the plans of this newest building the architects spent nearly two years before they drew so much as a line on paper. A hospital designed strictly for the purposes of study Is an anomaly in hospital architecture. The new building has eleven floors from the riverside view, but only eight from the driveWay on the west, it stands just beyond the south end of the old building on the brow of the hill and a long driveway leading through a gateway connects It with Avenue A. The first floor is devoted to executive offices and the quarters of the medical staff. The second floor Is devoted to the bath.. On the third floor there are work rooms and small laboratories. The ' fourth, fifth and sixth floors are the ward floors. The south end of the fourth floor Js'es-

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peclally designed for the practice of hydrotherapy.- That on the fifth is to be used for a general diet kitchen. The sixth has ar constant temperature room for experiments in metabolism. The seventh floor is entirely occupied by laboratories. Among other things on the eighth floor s a glass room for .photography and off from this is a dark room. There Is no con necting door but an ingenious "labyrinth" serves to shut out the light completely. The labyrinth has black walls, but the walls of the dark room itself are white. The basement floors are used for dispensary work, entrance for ambulance , patients, quarters for the servants and laundries. Isolation Building. The isolation building, a small pantheon-like structure, standing between the institute and the hospital is two stories high and has beneath it a basement entered from the Bervlce court, and below this a sub-basement. The whole side of the building is given up to a series of patient's rooms cut off the back only by glazed doors and separated from each other by glass alone. These rooms form, so far as the control of a single night nurse is concerned, one ward, yet they are absolutely separated and may each contain a patient with a different infectious or contagious disease. The ventilation of these rooms presented a difficult problem, as they had to be' germ proof. Fans were tabooed: any flue which had an elbow was objected to as difficult to keep microsophically. clean. Yet no matter how windows may be kept open it was desired to have sure measures of exhausing the air from the rooms. 'According to an original scheme devised by the late A. R. Wolff, each room has running up through one of Its corners on the corrider side, away from the windows, a vertical copper flue with rounded-corners, .which is carried straight up through the upper story and on through the roof of the shelter or roof house above. In the bottom of each of these tubes is an aspirating coil, a vertical radiator filled with high-pressure steam. Around the base of this is an ejector pierced with minute holes which causes the upward draught of air. the other controlling the ejector. - It is thus as easy for the nurse to clean

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out the whole aparatus with live steam as it is to turn on the heat. The bottom of the flue forms a bowl from which any water of condensation may be sponged out. ' No expense has been spared in the erection and equipment of this modern foe to disease. Each one of the seventy beds in the hospital represents an expediture according to the estimated erection cost of the hospital of 116,000. Grieved Over Grandson. John D. Rockefeller's grief over the loss of his grandson, little "Jack" McCormick, first caused him to become interested in the advancement of science. The child's death was caused by cholera infantum and when the fact that little one had passed teller was astounded to una mat tne physicians did . not know anything about the germ of this ordinary summer complaint of children and bad no adequate means of contending with it " : ' i . i It was then that' the seed was sown whose fruition was the founding of the Rockefeller Institute in 1901. This project was a new departure In this country although there were such institutions for the etudy of obscure questions of medical research in France, Germany, England. Russia and Japan. The list included the Pasteur Institute in Paris, opened In 1889; the Imperial Institute in St Petersburg, endowed by Prince Alexander, of Oldenburg in 1890; the Institute of the Infectious Diseases, in Berlin: an Institute for Experimental Tberapeautics 'in Frankfort, and the Lister Institute in London. But there was nothing of the sort In this country. Mr. Rockefeller's first gift to the Rockefeller Institute was S200.000. So great has been the success of the project that its future has since been assured by the gifts from its founder aggregating $3,000,000. Mr. Rockefeller bought the old Schermerhorn property on East River Don't miss seeing the beautiful Fur Coats and Fancy Neck Pieces at our store, Tuesday and Wednesday. The Geo. H. Knollenberg Co. 9

between Sixty-fifth and Sixty-seventh streets, about four years ago, and caused the present institute building to be erected there at a cost of $200,000. Subsequently a . ninety-seven-acre farm four miles west of New Brunswick. X. J., was acquired for raising the animals needed in the laboratories. It was this- purchase which caused such a storm among the anti-vivisectionists. At the institute there are departments for pathology and bacterology, of chemistry, and of physiology and pharmacology. Thus it will be seen that the energies of some of our foremost American Scientists backed by the best hospital equipment in the world is to bo turned toward solving some of tho great mysteries of the medical science. And, however, distant the eventual mastery of this first subject of study, in Infantile paralysis, may be. it is certain that Dr. Simon Flexner and his corps of able assistants will spare no effort to rid the world of this life destroying, infant crippling scourge.

The Fur Exhibit will be on the third floor of our store. Take the elevator. Knollenberg's. COIIVEHTIOII FOR -AMERICAN CITIES Will Be Held at Buffalo, N. Y., This Month and Will Be an Important One. START BOOM FOR F0ULKE HE IS PROBABLE SUCCESSOR TO THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT NOW HELD BY MR. BONAPARTE OF BALTIMORE. (American News Service. T Buffalo, N. Y., Oct '31. The interest of .thinking Americans will be centered on this city during the annual convention of the National Municipal League during November 14-18. The league, it Is stated, will deal with such important civic questions as municipal economy, corrupt practices In politic, direct nomination and franchise legislation. Secretary Clinton Rogers Woodruff annuonced today that he had received word from several hundred experts and workers in the good government movement, including governors, mayorsand other public officers signifying their intention to attend the Buffalo meeting. Ex-Attorney General, Bonaparte, who was a prominent member of the Roosevelt cabinet and who has been president of the League for seven years, will deliver the chief address in Buffalo, his subject being "PatriotIsm in Municipal Affairs." ; Mr. Bonaparte will retire from ' the presidency this year and his probable successor is William Dudley Foulke, of Richmond, Indiana, formerly United States Civil Service Commissioner. Mr. Foulke will speak on "Conservation In Municipalities." , Address by Woodruff. In view of the agitation everywhere for independent political action and the lessening of the power of the political machine, the. yearly review of the situation by Secretary Woodruff will be an important feature of the proceedings. William Allen White, editor of the Emporia, Kansas, Gazette, friend of Roosevelt and one of the foremost "progressives" in the west, will speak: on "The American Genius for Organization; Public and Private." George McAneny, president of the borough of Manhattan, who was elected on an Independent ticket at the time Mayor Gaynor was chosen, will discuss

"Team Work in Municipal Government." Other speakers and their themes Include: Franchises, Robert Treat Paine; Jr. Edgar N. Writlngton, secretary of the Boston" Consolidated Gas company; E. K. Hall, solicitor for the New England Telephone and Telegraph . company ; Paul Leake, of Detroit; Stiles P. Jones, of Minneapolis. "The Unearned Increment In Municipalities." Henry C. Wright, of New York; Dr. Robert C Brooks. University of Cincinnati and others. "City Finances and Budgets. Harvey S. Chase, Boston, "Municipal Statistics." Dr. William F. Wilkmghby, United States Census Bureau; Charles E. Merriam. chairman of the Merrlam commission, Chicago; Charles F. Gettemy. Boston. "Corrupt Practices in Municipalities," William Church Osbom. New York. "The Grafter at Work in American Cities. Harold J. Howland, of the Outlook; "How to

Overtake the Grafter by Municipal Accounting," W, H. Allen. New York. , A Most Potent Factor. This body has been one of the most potent -factors in arousing the people and stimulating the public interest in municipal affairs. , The league, with its accompanying conferences, for good cify government has done more for betterment of municipal administration than any other agency of - this character which now exists,- or ever did exist in this country. This-success is due to the fact that the members of this organisation have no other interest than that of improving the condition of municipal gevrnment. Its work in connection with drafting a municipal program or as it has popularly been called "A Model Charterhas won for it widespread commendation. The volume containing the program and the papers explaining and justifying it have been used by every constitutional convention which has been held since its promulgation,, and by, practically every character con-

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