THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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It is four stories higli, of reinforced 

 concrete, faced with brick, and complete 

 in all its appointments. The building 

 contains laboratory rooms, a balance 

 room, a library, photographic rooms, 

 rooms for individual investigations, a 

 refrigerating room, rooms for conduct- 

 ing studies in the nutrition of animals, 

 store rooms, workshops and the office 

 of the director. 



The H. K. Gushing Laboratory will 

 fill an important place in the field of 

 medical research and education. So 

 long as medicine was a comparatively 

 simple science it was possible for the 

 physician, while actively practising his 

 profession, to keep himself sufficiently 

 in touch with the fundamental medical 

 sciences such as physiology, anatomy 

 and pathology. The rapid advance, 

 both in the practical arts of medicine 

 and surgery and in the underlying sci- dr. William H. Welch, 



ences on which they depend has ren- Professor of Pathology in the .Johns 

 dered it impossible for any one man to Hopkins University, who delivered the 

 J ■ , j_ .1 n ^J mi. e j.i principal address at the dedication of 



dominate both fields. Therefore the ,, rTT-/-.!,- rt * ^t^ 



the H. K. Cushmg Laboratory of Ex- 

 time seems to have come for improving perimental Medicine of Western Reserve 

 the means of coordinating practical University. 



medicine and the medical sciences. It 

 is proposed to accomplish this at the 

 Western Reserve University by the 

 establishment of a laboratorj- and chair 

 of experimental medicine, the occupant 

 of which and his assistants shall be 

 expected to keep themselves in touch, 

 so far as is possible, with clinical work, 

 on the one hand, and physiology and 

 pathology, on the other, and to en- 

 courage and direct investigation having 

 a bearing upon both. The new founda- 

 tion is intended to form a link between 

 the knowledge of the laboratory and 

 the knowledge of the hospital. 



The researches which in the future 

 may be carried out in this laboratory 

 are planned to have, as far as possible, 

 a direct practical bearing upon clinical 

 questions. For example, some light has 

 been thrown by experimental investi- 

 gation on the pathology of such condi- 

 tions as goitre, diabetes, gout, the 

 anemias, ulcer of the stomach, etc.. 



Dr. Neil Stewart, 



of Experimental Medicine and 

 K. Gushing Laboratory 



Professor 

 Director of the H 

 of Experimental Medicine 

 Reserve University. 



of Western 



