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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1955
He Keeps You Healthy, In Class
Dr. Ralph L. Canuteson, director of the University Health Service, has handled nearly every conceivable type of student illness. He has had plenty of time to do so since becoming head of the program nearly 30 years ago.
The doctor was born in Arcadia, Wis., a small town of about 1,300 people in the western part of the state.
He quit college to join the army during World War I and served overseas. While in France he went through officer's
training school, and was commissioned.
After coming back from the war, he attended the University of Wisconsin where he received his bachelor's degree and took two years of medical schooling.
In 1926 he finished medical school at the University of Minnesota. The next year was spent in internship back at Wisconsin followed by two years at the health service there.
Coming to KU, he became the first full time director of the Health Service. Prior to 1928, the service was run by part-time physicians or teachers.
Watkins Hospital was built in 1931. Dr. Canuteson made the first sketches of the structure.
it is nard for students to realize the growth of the Health Service which started from a very small beginning in the old hospital at 1406 Tennessee St." Dr. Canuteson said.
Today the Health Service is an educational and preventive medicine device. The primary object of the service is to keep students well. "We hope students pick up ideas as what to do to better their own health," Dr. Canuteson said.
He explained this was important because when students finish school they must make provisions for their own health and must be able to select wisely a doctor and hospital.
Dr. Canuteson has become a specialist in the Health Service field. All his efforts go into making the service one of the best in the country.
One of the biggest problems facing Dr. Canuteson is how to get students interested in their own health. The only time students become concerned about themselves is when they are feeling bad. Then all they can think about is getting back to their activities, he said.
"Unfortunately, students many times wait until they are ill before coming to the hospital," Dr. Canutson said.
The Health Service is anxious to prevent illness first, and secondly, to give treatment.
In the past 10 years the number of students requiring hospitalization has decreased and at the same time the number of students using the clinic has increased. This means more students are coming earlier to the hospital for treatment and don't have to be hospitalized.
The Health Service has everything necessary in general medicine, but not in all the specialized fields. There is no full time surgeon because the need for one is rare. However, a surgeon is on call.
The hospital has a well trained psychiatrist, a complete laboratory, trained dietician. X-ray department and a part-time ear specialist.
The physical therapy department is open to the public. It is the only one of its kind in the area except in Kansas City. Watkins is the only hospital in Lawrence where a person with a contagious disease can be quarantined.
There is also a dentention room for patients who become upset.
Some of the routine duties of the hospital include X-raying all food handlers, and faculty members at the University; giving physical examinations, and giving all types of immunization shots, as well as looking out for the general welfare of persons at the University.
Dr. Canuteson is president of the Kansas Tuberculosis and Health Association, a member of the
National Tuberculosis and Health Association board of directors, a fellow of American Preventive Medicine Association, a board member of the Douglas County American Red Cross chapter and chairman of the chapter's blood program committee.
He is a past president of the Kansas Heart Association and of the Mississippi Valley Trudeau Society. Dr. Canuteson has been president of the ACHA four times and secretary of the organization four times. In 1946 he was general chairman of the ACHA conference and chairman of the administration committee at the 1953 meeting.
Drug Bottles Given To Pharmacy Museum
Several 19th century drug bottles have been donated to the University pharmacy museum by Karl L. Roese of McCune.
The 18 blue fluid extract bottles bear impressive gold labels. The bottles had been in the Roese drug store in McCune since it was opened in 1881 by Mr. Roese's father. They are still in excellent condition, and have been placed on exhibition on the fourth floor of Malott Hall, Dean Reese said.
Michigan's coastline is equal in length to the Atlantic coastline from Maine to Florida.
Mr. Roese is a member of the class of '13.
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