Identifier: harvardmedicalsc00parkuoft ( find matches)
Title: The Harvard medical school and its clinical opportunities
Year: 1916 ( 1910s)
Authors: Parkins, Leroy Edward
Subjects: Harvard Medical School Boston (Mass.) -- Hospitals
Publisher: Boston (Press of R.W. Hadley)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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others have an opportunity to see their babies. Pre-liminarv to the admission of any child to a ward on theboat it is examined on the dock to ascertain the nature ofits ailment. If a contagious disease is suspected the patientis not admitted. In 1906, the bequest of Mrs. Sarah Potter, together withother gifts, made possible the present splendid boat andequipment. The boat is a twin-screw steamboat, 171 feetIons: and 44 feet wide. The hold contains forecastle, andclothes sterilizing rooms; engine rooms with pumps, dynamo,refrigerating plant, etc. The main deck has ofifices, foodlaboratory, pharmacy, clinical laboratory, and dining roomsfor nurses and doctors. The Hospital Deck has one outdoorward, five permanent wards, and other smaller rooms. Theday patients deck has ample space for beds and seatingcapacity for mothers. Also here are staterooms for doctors. The work of the Boston Floating Hospital is well organ-ized, thorough, and scientific. Twenty doctors are on the 62 > >2 r.
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visiting staff and sixteen house physicians are in daily ser-vice. The seniors of the house physicians have had trainingin a general hospital. These doctors, together with seventygraduate nurses, give of their services to hundreds of sickbabies every summer. Opportunities are offered for the study of infant diseasesincident to the summer months. The Graduate Departmentof the Harvard Medical chool holds clinics on board. Aboutseven medical assistants and two laboratory assistants arechosen from the advanced classes of medical schools. Inaddition to the regular laboratory work on board, a biologicalchemical laboratory has very recently been established onshore for the purpose of studying the effect of milk on thedigestive tracts of young infants and other phases of infantnutrition. This laboratory, in conjunction with the bacteri-ological laboratory on beard, offers opportunities for re-search. The services of the Hospital are preventive as well asremedial. For the mothers, or other rel

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