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Under these circumstances, it is of interest to 

 ■watch the development at the Peking Union 

 Medical College of a medical clinic -rtrhich in 

 its personnel and equipment would take high 

 rank on any continent. 



The Peking Union Medical College moved 

 into its new quarters in the summer of 1921, 

 and the department of medicine, with its wards, 

 laboratories, offices and out-patient depart- 

 ment, is centralized in the hospital and directly 

 connected with the buildings of the medical 

 school proper. It thus has the great advan- 

 tage of being organically connected with the 

 laboratories of the preclinical sciences, so that 

 close association between clinical and preclin- 

 ical workers is facilitated. In addition, the 

 department of medicine is only a few steps 

 from the library, which contains a considerable 

 and well selected assoi^tment of books as well 

 as flies of all the more important seientitic 

 journals. The medical wards occupy three 

 floors in a large pavilion and contain 75 beds, 

 only about half of which are now in use, in 

 large and small rooms. In addition, there is 

 an emergency isolation ward of six beds, and 

 there are also medical patients, bo1;h Chinese 

 and foreign, in the private pavilion. The gen- 

 eral arrangements of the wards are exactly 

 similar to what one -finds in the best modern 

 hospitals in America. 



The nursing is at present carried on by a 

 staff of Chinese and foreign graduate nurses, 

 with Chinese male nurses under a woman 

 graduate in the male wards, but a nurses' train- 

 ing school, based on the highest American 

 ideals and standards, has been established, 

 which admits only women as pupils, and it is 

 hoped that before long most of the ward work 

 can be carried on by the pupil nurses. Con- 

 nected with each medical ward is a laboratory 

 for routine clinical examinations. Adjoining 

 the medical wards, on the ground floor, is the 

 medical out-patient department with its wait- 

 ing room, laboratory, and about a dozen rooms 

 for the examination and treatment of patients, 

 while on the two floors above are the oifices, 

 laboratories and class rooms of the department 

 of medicine. Ample quarters and complete 

 equipment are here provided for special study 

 and investigation by the members of the de- 



partment. Adjoining the office of the pro- 

 fessor of medicine, on the third floor, are 

 laboratories devoted to chemistry; and next to 

 the associate professor's of&ce are the labora- 

 tories for bacteriology. Across the hall is the 

 laboratory of neuropathology, and an ample 

 suite of rooms for the electrocardiograph, 

 which is, in addition, wired to all the wards in 

 the hospital. On the second floor is the lab- 

 oratory of clinical patholog5'', with a large room 

 for class instruction and smaller rooms in 

 which the bacteriology and serology for the 

 hospital is carried out, other laboratories for 

 special workers, and a spacious room for 

 clinical demonstrations. All the members of the 

 staff of the department of medicine devote 

 their time exclusively to hospital work and 

 teaching, and the staff is large enough to allow 

 each one to have fairly adequate time for 

 study and investigation. The professor of 

 medicine and chief of the medical service of 

 the hospital is Dr. F. C. McLean (M.D. Rush 

 Medical School) and the associate professor is 

 Dr. 0. H. Robertson (M.D. Harvard Medical 

 School), both of whom were formerly connect- 

 ed with the Rockefeller Institute. Dr. Andrew 

 H. Woods (M.D. University of Pennsylvania), 

 who was formerly on the staff of the Canton 

 Christian College, is associate professor of 

 neurology. The other members of the depart- 

 ment are Dr. C. W. Young, Dr. J. H. Korns, 

 Dr. H. J. Smyly and Dr. R. H. P. Sia. The 

 house staff is organized with a resident physi- 

 cian, three assistant resident physicians (at 

 present all Chinese graduates of American 

 medical schools) and a group of interns who 

 are for the most part graduates of medical 

 schools in China. When the new Peking Union 

 Medical College has been longer in existence 

 the majority of the interns will be graduates 

 of this school because a fifth, or intern year, is 

 required for the degree. Since the standards 

 of instruction of the school are analogous to 

 those of the best institutions in America, the 

 graduates will make highly satisfactory interns. 

 In the year 1921-22 there were only three 

 classes under instruction. Insti'uction of a 

 fourth year class will begin this fall. 



Peking has a temperate climate, hotter than 

 New York in s umm er, considerably colder than 



