THE HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL. 37 



The Harvard Medical School has numbered among its faculty 

 from the first some of the most eminent physicians of our country. 

 The professors have not been practitioners only, but men of high scien- 

 tific attainments who have made notable contributions to the science 

 of medicine. Among the most important things accomplished in the 

 recent studies by the Harvard medical faculty may be mentioned dis- 

 coveries concerning congenital dislocation, cancer, acetonemia, blood 

 pressure, small-pox and scarlet fever. 



The contributive activity of various departments of the Harvard 

 Medical School is indicated by the list of publications made during 

 the year from October 1, 1903, to October 1, 1904. Anatomy, 7; 

 physiology, 9; histology and embryology, 3; bacteriology, 7; pharma- 

 cology and therapeutics, 2; pathology, 22; comparative pathology, 4; 

 surgery, 14; hygiene, 8. Probably nearly as many more investiga- 

 tions were being carried on but were not published within the period 

 mentioned. 



The school is about to enter upon a new and distinct period in its 

 history as the possessor of the finest equipment for medical study of 

 any medical school in the world. In its new location the Harvard 

 Medical School will be enabled to carry on in the most satisfactory 

 manner the study of medicine in theory, practise and laboratory in- 

 vestigation. It, of course, remains to be seen how thoroughly the con- 

 ditions will be utilized by the faculty and students in furthering the' 

 advance of medical knowledge and medical study, but the excellent 

 work done with limited facilities bespeaks a great future activity. 



The provisions made in the new buildings for the study of medicine 

 are those that are demanded by the medical knowledge and the ad- 

 vanced methods of the times. Apropos of this it has been well said 

 that the advance in medicine during the past thirty years has been 

 greater than in all preceding time. 



The distribution of the buildings, which are being erected at an 

 expenditure of about $2,000,000, and their general style of archi- 

 tecture is shown in the accompanying illustration, from a photograph 

 of a model that was exhibited at the St. Louis Fair, in which the 

 administration building appears in the center at the head of the court, 

 while on the right (facing the picture) the front building is to be 

 devoted to the subjects of hygiene and pharmacology, and the second 

 one to physiology and physiological chemistry. The front building on 

 the left is to be occupied by the departments of surgery, bacteriology 

 and pathology; and the one behind it to anatomy, histology and 

 embryology. 



Work upon these new buildings was begun in September, 1903, but 

 it is not expected that they will be completed until towards the close 

 of 1905. which will preclude their being occupied until the fall term 

 of 1906. 



