December 3, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



795 



Among additions to the American Museum 

 of ISTatural History is a model showing tlie 

 increased efficiency of tlie present hospital serv- 

 ice at Panama over that of the French period. 

 This model shows a hospital in the French pe- 

 riod in care of a Sister of Mercy. Puddles of 

 water were allowed to gather about the ground, 

 and the legs of the beds were placed in cans of 

 water to prevent ants from crawling up. As 

 we now know, yellow fever and malarial fever 

 mosquitoes bred in such accumulations of stag- 

 nant water and helped to keep the hospitals 

 well filled. Screens were not used and the 

 ventilation was not of the best. The compan- 

 ion part of the model shows a French hospital, 

 altered to conform to our most modern ideas 

 and knowledge of the relation of insect and 

 disease. A clean, dry cellar, well-kept grounds, 

 screens, increased ventilation and the care of 

 trained nurses serve to change an insanitary, 

 disease-breeding building into the acme of 

 sanitation. 



The Cornell University Medical College has 

 recently reorganized its surgical service at 

 Bellevue Hospital. At the head of the service 

 there is now one " visiting surgeon in charge " 

 with a continuous service. He has general 

 supervision over the entire work and is re- 

 sponsible only to the college and the hospital 

 for its proper performance. There are two 

 visiting surgeons who also have a continuous 

 service limited to some special subdivision of 

 general surgery. They are thus relieved of all 

 routine work in order to devote their time to 

 the particular work with which they are occu- 

 pied. Under the visiting surgeon in charge 

 are two associate visiting surgeons. These 

 men are on the full time salaried basis, and 

 each has the care of one half of the service. 

 They have as assistants four juniors who are 

 also surgeons to the out-patient department. 

 The organization now also includes a labora- 

 tory of surgical pathology and a laboratory of 

 experimental surgery, each under a full-time 

 salaried man. These laboratories are available 

 to all members of the staff, who there have the 

 privilege of working on their individual prob- 

 lems. The entire staff has been appointed to 

 positions in the department of surgery in the 



Medical College, and all students take a por- 

 tion of their surgical ward work under this 

 organization. The essential changes from the 

 former system consist in having one head, con- 

 tinuous service, full-time salaried surgeons 

 and laboratories under the immediate juris- 

 diction of the surgical service. Following is 

 the staff as at present constituted: John A. 

 Hartwell, M.D., assistant professor of surgery, 

 visiting surgeon in charge; George Woolsey, 

 M.D., professor of clinical surgery, visiting 

 surgeon ; John Rogers, M.D., professor of clin- 

 ical surgery, visiting surgeon; Kenneth Bulk- 

 ley, M.D., instructor in clinical surgery, asso- 

 ciate surgeon; James Worcester, M.D., in- 

 structor in clinical surgery, associate surgeon; 

 Fenwick Beekman, M.D., instructor in opera- 

 tive surgery, junior surgeon ; Benjamin Vance, 

 M.D., instructor in pathology, surgical pathol- 

 ogist; J. W. McMeans, M.D., assistant in sur- 

 gery, assistant in experimental surgery. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Objections have been filed to the probating 

 of the will of Amos F. Eno who bequeathed a 

 large sum to public purposes and made Colum- 

 bia University his residuary legatee. It is 

 said that under the will Coliunbia University 

 would receive $3,000,000 or more. 



A BEQUEST of $50,000 has been made to Cor- 

 nell University by Mrs. Sarah Manning Sage 

 to promote the advancement of medical sci- 

 ence by the prosecution of research at Ithaca. 



Professor H. L. Bowman, Waynflete pro- 

 fessor of mineralogy at Oxford, reports, ac- 

 cording to NaturSj two gifts to his department. 

 (1) Under the will of the late Sir Arthur 

 Church has been bequeathed £100 for the pur- 

 chase of apparatus and specimens, together 

 with the chemical and mineralogieal appa- 

 ratus and instruments in Sir Arthur's labora- 

 tory and his collection of mineral specimens 

 (other than cut gem-stones). (2) A collection 

 of minerals made by the late Dr. Hugo 

 Miiller, containing some 2,000 specimens, has 

 been presented by Mrs. Miiller. 



Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols has resigned the 

 presidency of Dartmouth College and will go 

 to Yale University next year to fill a new chair 



