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...members, taxing its resources. The change in the kind of care hospitals are now expected to afford has rendered it still more inadequate. Whereas it is now common hospital practice that bed patients should be rolled out into the open air and sunshine, or down into the operating or X-ray rooms, this is not possible. at Stillman Infirmary. Neither the room doors nor the elevator allow a bed to pass through. And there are no balconies...
...absolutely inadequate for the needs of the University. Chiefly through his efforts it has become at least serviceable. All this reconstruction was done under the burden of an inexcusably small budget. But even now the laboratory facilities are confined, the waiting room is crowded, there are no X-ray machines, and the whole quarters are too small for the personnel which inhabits them. That Wadsworth House has been found wanting is conclusively proved by the fact that several years ago plans were suggested for a new and modern medical centre. This building has been held in abeyance because the donor...
...Kaplan was more cheerful than usual last week as he strode from room to room in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, smiling at patients and fussing with x-ray machines. He had just received word of a European loan. Next month will arrive a $280,000 package addressed to him. Stripped of its wrappings it will weigh exactly four grams-about as much as a new U. S. penny-and it will make Dr. Kaplan guardian of more radium than anybody else in the Western Hemisphere. Of the 100 grams in the U. S. & Canada, 40 grams will be combined...
...Jones; "The Role of Water in the Body" by Dr. M. I. Gregerson; January 31, "Pneumonia" by Dr. H. L. Blumgart '17; February 7, "The 'Glands' of internal Secretion" by Dr. R. G. Haskins; February 14, "Alcohol" by Dr. T. M. Carpenter; February 21, "What the X-ray Can and Cannot Do" by Dr. G. W. Holmes; February 28, "Rheumatic Heart Disease in Children and Adults" by Dr. T. D. Jones; March 6, "The White House Conference and Oral Hygiene" by Dr. L. M. S. Miner; March 13, "Asthma, Hay Fover, and Allied Conditions" by Dr. F. M. Rackemann...
...X-ray photographs revealed that the heart of Paavo Nurmi, Finnish distance runner, is three times normal size- which, in an ordinary person, would indicate grave disease. The Nurmi heart requires so much room to work in that it makes a quarter turn each time the diaphragm pushes up in respiration...