UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PATHOLOGY MEANSCASH
Department in Medical School Saves Kansas Thousands of Dollars Yearly
DOES TRIPLE WORK, ALSO
Has Three Lines of Activity and Serves Three Masters
Counting with miserly exactness in the terms of hard cash the department of pathology of the University of Kansas has returned to the people of the state, by services rendered, from $8,000 to $10,000 each year.
The work of the department of pathology may be considered under three heads. Of these the state service work is probably the best of its activities and the one upon which the major part of its time is spent.
the department of the University of Kansas is also the pathological department of the Bell Memorial Hospital and all pathological tissue from the hospital is examined before or after operation upon the patient. For example, John Jones comes to some where he wants to know what is the matter with his leg. He has noticed a lump on it for several months. The pathologist is called in to make the diagnosis. That lump may be merely an abscess, and if so the abscess is simply opened. But on the other hand if the lump is curved, it can be removed and in some cases the leg itself amputated to save 'jones' life.
TREAT TUMORS BY HUNDREDS
Similarly Dr. Smith out in Kansas somewhere has a patient with a growth on his finger. He wishes to know what the growth is in order to treat his patient more intelligently but has not the necessary laboratory material at hand to make a proper examination of the wound, and sends it to the pathological department for diagnosis. Upon this report he bases his treatment which determines, in many cases, the life or death of the patient. Hundreds of tumors from the citizens of Kansas are examined every year and diagnosed. Measured annually by the work, the pathological department gives to the state not less than $3,000.00 a year free service.
WHAT MAD DOGS COST
The Pasteur treatment for hydrophobia is given by this department; tree to the citizens of the state of Kansas. This, as is well known, is a specific cure for hydrophobia and thousands of lives have been saved by its use. In the past three years 109 patients have received this treatment from the pathologist who investigated the disease. This one phase of the work if measured in dollars and cents would amount to $5000.00 a year.
PATHOLOGY AT MT. OREAD
The pathological department is also intimately associated with the State Board of Health and has frequently assisted in the investigations of sanitary conditions and the study of typhoid epidemics.
**PATHOPATHY**
Next in the department's work is the teaching of medical students. At 'awrence one of the most important subjects is human anatomy. The student having become familiar with the normal structure of the body, then proceeds to the study of pathology—the study of the changes that disease causes. He learns for example, how the lung of a tubercular patient differs from a normal lung. This he must master before he can proceed to diagnose tuberculosis and treat a person suffering from this disease. Pathology is one of the most important courses for the first two years of his medical course since it forms the ground work for all of his diagnoses.
The last field of activity is research—the advancement of our knowledge of disease. Medicine is peculiarly a science which is constantly advancing and in which there is no standing still or turning back. In this respect, the plant ways been the one who is not merely satisfied with the achievements of the past but is constantly adding to our knowledge of the healing art. America was content a generation ago to follow the masters of Europe, but during the past twenty years has no knowledge of the basic principles this secondary role and has come forward in a truly amazing fashion and "has done her bit."
In spite of the great scarcity of trained investigators and the handicap of funds, the pathological labi-
y has done some important work.
Here many kinds of bacteria were first studied—how they multiply and get into the body, what substances kill them and how long this takes. Sporotrichosis, heretofore thought proven through research at Rosedale to be much commoner than supposed and can be easily diagnosed now by the physician. Many important facts about hay fever were discovered there. Kidney diseases have been investigated and some have been known to the common and developed disease. At the present time a variety of diseases are being studied and their cause and prevention worked out.
Send the Daily Kansan home to the folks.
FRIENDS OF BRIDS MEET AND ORGANIZE NEW CLUB
About twenty people met in Snow Hall Thursday night and made plans for the organization of an Ornithology Club. Prof. Herman Dohouff of the department of biology was chosen temporary president and a committee was appointed to draw up a constitution and submit plans.
For further organization the Club expects to affiliate itself with the National Audubon Society. It plans to study bird migration, create an interest in the study of birds in the public schools and from time to time conduct a bird address the club. The next meeting will be announced later by the president and anyone, whether a student or not, is welcome to join.
Otinerant Lecturers Harmful— Parents and Personal Friends Should Teach Sex Hygiene
HOW TEACH HYGIENE?
"The place to begin the training of children in matters of personal hygiene, is during the college courses of their parents," states George E. Coghill, of the School of Medicine. Professor Coghill is associate professor of anatomy in the School of Medicine and has in times past conducted classes on topics such as studies of personal hygiene. He is planning to deal with such subjects from a neurological standpoint in the summer school this year.
"I am," he said, "very frankly out of sympathy with the itinerant lecturer who visits schools and colleges to lecture exclusively upon sex hygiene. These lecturers may occasionally do good to men who are already married, but I think they are more frequently, I believe, stimulate morbid moods and interests in others who are thereby actually injured, sometimes irreparably.
"Iinstructors in biological subjects in the University of Kansas can do our own students more good along this line than can any stranger, because the professor is a fixed factor in the community and can, while giving the student the personal counsel he needs, establish his trust and arouse his interest in lines of thought and action which tend to inhibit the undesirable tendencies."
It is to the education of parents on the sex question that the public lecture system is particularly adapted and, it is Mr. Cogillh's belief that University extension programs distinctly be arranged for parents and possibly teachers throughout the state, the instruction to be given by professors who have a liberal biological perspective. As regards college students during their college course, a sound knowledge of life based upon biological principles.
"Upon the basis of general biological knowledge," Mr. Coghill said, "students can understand as much as necessary for them to know concerning the mysteries of sex, which are matters of common knowledge." Before graduating all college men and women should acquire a fund of biological knowledge and a broad understanding of the laws of development of the individual, evolution of species heredity and infection. With their native conscience and the proper moral standards they require in parenthood, responsibilities of parenthood, which involve the instruction of children according to particular individual needs.
"Victory at this point depends more upon the character of the teacher than upon the impartation of any special knowledge; it lies chiefly in the relationship that is established between the teacher and the taught. This is not because the teacher be psychologically bound up with the home or with the nearest possible social element to the home, and not with vagrants in the community."
"The instruction of children and adolescents concerning sex and reproduction," says Mr. Coghill, "should be given progressively in response to changes in the child's own parent first of all; if this is impossible, then by some other mature person who has an intimate and more or less permanent relation with the child, teachers in Sunday school or public school or the family physician.
In the year of 1905, the year following the merger of the four medical schools at Kansas City, the state medical school had 107 enrolled. The year following the standards for entrance were raised so that only students having spent two years in the college of liberal arts, or its faculty, be healed in medicine. The enrollment for 1907 was 88. The enrollment for the succeeding years were respectively; 79, 83, 89, 76, 79, 107, 105, 128.
The Medical Journal issued by the American Medical Association at Chicago says that private professional medical schools are rapidly being absorbed by state hospitals and public schools have been forced out because of the increased price of laboratory instruments and the accompanying increased cost upon students attending these schools. The government stated state aid so that the expense of training physicians might be kept within reach of the masses.
TAKE M. D.S AT K. U
students No Longer Leave University After Finishing Preparatory Work at Lawrence
Students taking a course in medicine at the University of Kansas no longer need to go outside of the state to complete their medical education and the percentage that they attend laboratory courses at Lawrence is rapidly growing smaller in the opinion of Chancellor Frank Strong.
"It was only a few years ago that all of the University students taking the medical course had to go elsewhere after the two years' preparatory work in Lawrence," said Chancellor Strong. "Many students come here to the Rochester school not sufficiently equipped to give its students the best of a medical education, but in this they are in error. I consider the going to the Rush Medical School or to John Hopkins Medical School as merely a matter of personal desire to secure training in schools and in regard to it. I think that medical students would do well like a change in medical instruction."
Chancellor Strong said that the school at Rosedale was as well equipped as other schools and was placed by the American Medical Association in class A as a medical school. Medical students who had taken a course in the eastern school said to them that they considered a course in the school at Rosedale better since much more individual attention was given to the students than in the larger medical schools. In a few years the University Medical School will probably have very few that consider it necessary to complete a medical education. Many of these schools and that are going elsewhere are doing so, said Chancellor Strong, because of personal, family or financial reasons.
On the question of opening the Medical School to students who desire only a smattering of a medical education that they may better cope with local and nationalallergy. Strong was decidedly opposed. He said that he considered the medical profession so highly technical that the less known of administering medicine by the in-depth training they mustpos should always turn to skilled medical attendants.
The medical school at the University of Kansas has been made much like a graduate course, since all of the students entering must have completed the collegework in the College of Liberal Arts, or have done work equal to that with some other institution. The University Medical School is holding a larger percentage of such graduate students than either of the professional schools.
However the University of Kansas offers many courses that border on the field of medicine that are helpful to every man and woman. They are such books, pamphlets and for the family, first aid to the injured, home economics, and physiology.
Three interes are appointed out of every graduating class to serve in the hospital. The work is arranged so as to give these students experience of the greatest possible value. The internes are selected by the Administration Committee from the five applicants who have made the highest average in their work during the last two years.
The School of Medicine furnishes a microscope for each of its 128 students. They cost from fifty to sixty-five dollars each. Each student is required to pay into the state treasury a fee of three dollars for the use of the same each year. The microscope has become one of the absolute essentials of late years in the study of medicine.
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The physician whenever possible uses drugs, solutions and serums of standard strength. These abolish uncertainty. The preparation of the invalid's food, however, is left to the skill of the nurse. How much to be desired then is a food product that yields uniform results irrespective of the skill of the nurse.
Plain gelatine, with the exception of one or two of the best known brands, has a variable water content. Hence solutions of equal amounts of water yield jellies of widely differing strengths. It is clear from this that following a recipe that specifies "gelatine" leads often to uncertain results, and to a
dessert that is either wattery or leathery, depending on whether too little or too much gelatine was used.
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In taking a general view of the various methods used in this country, as well as abroad, for room dressing of patients with clinical problems or after cases of communicable diseases, the situation reveals chronic conditions. It is not within the scope of this pamphlet that we discuss the distinction or discourse after which communicable disease it should be practised, but they are of great importance and the application under standard conditions and the desire to practice flat economy by using the same methods as in a general setting in a very great measure for the diseased into which Terminal Ferminal has fallen with a large number of deaths.
The quantity of formaldehyde used in room
room disinfection must be sufficient to
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case of ordinary humidity. It is imperative penetration
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1. The strength of absolute force required to light a fire must be taken into account with respect to fumigator.
2. The method of liberation should be noted that there is no loss of the heat of the gas generated by the ignition of the candles.
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It is an unquestioned fact that a large number of products now on the market, alleged to be disinfectants, are of doubtful value for the destruction of disease germs. Their sale is made possible by the repettable imperative that still surrounds the subject on the part of the manufacturer.
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