THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
COMING TO FIRST RANK
Dr. Strong Believes Medica Schools Will Lead in State Professional Training
PRIVATE SCHOOLS GOING
Public Universities With Experienced Teachers Instead
Medical schools, in the opinion of Chancellor Frank Strong, are likely to prove the most important technical or professional schools of American universities. They should go hand in hand with the state universities, says because the state universities are housed at state service work and medical schools dealing with the health of the state, are one of the vital phases of this new movement.
The present union of the School of Medicine and the State Board of Health, he thinks, will prove to be invaluable to the state of Kansas.
"Medical schools are, in my judgment, especially necessary adjuncts of a state university," said Dr. Strong, "for the reason that a state in its organized form must maintain its physical basis for its natural life and its wealth production. In order to secure the good health and the efficiency of its population, to set the standards for the training of persons to administer to the sick properly, to establish the prevention of disease, a school of medicine is likely to be regarded as after all one of the most serious considerations in state higher education. The coalition in Kansas of the two colleges of the state, namely the School of Medicine and the State Board of Health, is a unique arrangement which if carried out without hindrance ought to prove of the very greatest value to the state."
NATURE OF THE MEDICINE The doctor divides the teaching of medicine in an organized school into two types of work,—that which has to do with the fundamental scientific courses upon which medicine is based, such as physiology, chemistry, bacteriology, anatomy, and others, and that which has to be taught to carry out the general results obtained in the scientific courses just named.
CHANGE IN CLINICAL WORK
"Up to the present time," said Dr. Strong, "it has been conceded that teachers of the fundamental science teach their time exclusively to that type of work. It has been agreed that these people should give themselves to people who are most likely to want part of the broad fundamental proposition of the science itself.
On the other hand in connection with the clinical work a rapid and profound change has been going on for the last fifteen or twenty years, merely the changes done by men for whom teaching was secondary and the practice of medicine was primary, to whom, in other words, the community side of work was the most important. They received little if any salary from the institution with which they were connected. Their recompense came almost entirely from their education and privilege that was tainted from their connection with the school in question.
"This method," he said, "was especially adapted to the growth and development of proprietary medical schools, made up almost entirely of practitioners whose first interest in the practice was in experimenting. Experienced that proprietary medical schools were unequal to the situation and that institutions either privately endowed or supported by the state were the only institutions that were able to support the large emphasis necessary for them in the type of medicine which called for large hospital and laboratory facilities.
TEACHERS GIVE ALL THEIR TIME
TEACHERS CURSE THEM. In demonstrated also that it was impracticable to use men as teachers in the important courses in internal medicine, surgery, and so forth, who could give but a small fraction of their training at best was liable to serious interruption through the exigencies of their profession. Therefore some men, in the laboratories of clinical pathology or in teaching at best were liable to give their whole time to the work and to withdraw from general practice. The same thing happened in regard to administrators of medical schools; men have been withdrawn largely from the active practice of the profession.
"The same thing happened again to a smaller degree in such departments as clinical medicine, and surgery, when in some schools men were placed on a salary under contract to give at least one-half of the costs of work in medical medicine, being the other half of their time to devote themselves to consultation and other practical work in their profession. At present the movement seems to be going still farther and it may issue in all teachers of the primary departments in such places being placed to the subject to give their whole effort to the subject they teach and to withdraw from the active practice of their profession."
THE MODERN IDEAL IS SERVICE
The modern medical school layy much stress upon it. Students are taught to teach the
steal of service, the protection of the patient and honorable dealing in every respect. It lays stress upon the moral character of the practitioner, upon the necessity for educated, cultured gentlemen.
The relation of the medical practitioner to his patients is so confidential and so close that no one cares to admit to such a relation in his home a man whose ethical ideals are low, whose habits of life are undesirable and whose moral character is in question.
LIKE THE STORY BOOKS
Nurses at Training School Make a Patient Want to Stay
White-capped, neatly-clad nurses, who in the story books, at least, always make things so comfortable for the patient that they will want to stayick. The man will want to stick, are the kind that the University of Kansas Training School for Nurses turns out. Only the University is more efficient than the story book ones. . . . .
The training school at Rosedale has for its purpose the complete training and education of young women for the profession of nursing. In order to do this best, with the help of nurses is kept down to twenty-three at one time. It has been since 1912, when the state provided the new hospital, that they could take care of that number. fore that, from the establishment in hospital in 1906 until 1912, only a very small number could be handled.
Taking the nurse from the time she wants to become a nurse, the journey would be something like this. The girl writes in to the box should like it, trees, sat around him, like to be a nurse. She must have had at least some high school work and preferably the full four years. She is told right away whether she is able or not to photograph and she or her perhaps has nothing to do with the choice.
If the head nurse judges from the application that she might do for a nurse, she is told when to report. When the applicant starts on probation, for three months, the doctor she is watched with the closest of care. If *at the end* of that time, she is thought to be capable and to have the requisite qualities that go to make up a good nurse, she is "capped" as the part that requiresession try it. If not, she is entirely to try some other school, or go back home.
S. Milo Hinch is at the head of the hospital, having received a degree from the best New York Training School, one of the oldest and best in the United States, since its charter was granted by King George III.
Under the direction of the head nurse and two graduate nurses, the tyro begins her work. She begins by doing bedside nursing, giving the patient medicine, bathing the patient's temperature, various analyses, a record of everything that is done to the patient and all the changes that take place.
From this beginning, she goes on to more difficult work under the direction of the graduate nurses, until she has had actual experience in all of nursing, including the use of compounds. This is the only thing in the whole curriculum of nursing that is not actually performed by the nurses. They have lectures on them and are told with the minute detail when they have a need of such cases.
The waiting list of the hospital is large, composed mostly of the better class of young women that a state institution would naturally attract; the graduates are in constant demand for good institutional training to its full capacity; everybody is happy, including the poor sick man who, if he ever gets one of them for a nurse, will want to remain a sick man all his life.
Each nurse is given $7 a month which is supposed to pay for her uniform and such things. Besides that, her board fee is charged. They work in two shifts of twelve hours each, although no one nurse ever puts in twelve hours actual work a day. A time is taken out for exercise, and for various periods of recreation.
The nurses attend lectures given by the faculty of the School of Medicine on materia medica, bacteriology, chemistry, anatomy, surgical methods, dietetics, massaging, children's diseases, and similar subjects.
Since the training school has been started, there have been 34 nurses graduated. Nurses from the school are always in demand, practically everyone which is considered just a degree above private nursing.
Laslett Rebreaks Shoulder Howard Laslett, more widely known as Scrubby, helped the building and the Administration Building and rebroke the shoulder; that was just knitting from a fall on the basketball floor five weeks ago.
When a nurse finishes two and a half years, she is then ready for active work. No degree is given but when she passes the state examination, she is then a R. N., registered nurse.
Laslett Rebreaks Shoulder
Sirma Nu announces the pledging of Fritz Schnitzler, of Wichita.
PAYS TO BE HEALTHY
Wealth of State Depends Largely on Health of Citizens, Says Dean Crumbine
AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION
Doctors Now Trained to Prevent, as well As Cure Disease
There are few who would deny that the prosperity and wealth of the state and nation depend in a large measure on the health of the people. It is believed that fundamental labor—that wealth production—labor—is conditioned on the health of the laborer. Sickness, or reduction in bodily vigor, retards or reduces wealth production, the while consumptive an ever pressing necessity with us all.
Not only has the state assumed the task of disease prevention by the establishment of various health agencies, but to individual agencies, the possibilities of preventive measures, and to that end is making use of such means as come to his knowledge, albeit some such are but not all. These have been dropped through the generations.
us all. Should appear, therefore, to be perfectly natural and logical that we should more and more concern ourselves with the problems that deal with public health and the prevention of disease, and culture those conditions that make for bodily vigor and efficiency.
More and more the schools of medicine are beginning to realize that the practitioner of medicine should deal not only with the curative agencies as applied to the sick within the community upon to the preventive measures through which he may safeguard the health of his clientel and through them the community at large; thus there has been added to the curriculum of Schools of Medicine of late years courses in practice of the medicine, to ensure the physician to meet the new problems of health conservation both as physician and health officer.
The University of Kansas very early recognized the desirability of a close relation between the curative and preventive agencies of the state, and has caused to be established very close cooperation between the School of Medicine and the State Board of Health.
The Bell Memorial Hospital, the clinical department of the School of Medicine, affords a place where certain diseases of doubtful origin and uncertain treatment may be studied for the State Board of Medical Examiners' public poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis); also where crippled and deformed children of the indigent poor of the state may be restored to health and usefulness, in so far as it is possible. Here, the Board of Medical Examiners cases for treatment and in this item, alone, the people are annually saved a sum equal to half the appropriation made for the maintenance of the hospital. Indeed, the humanitarian service to the sick and crippled children of the state requires each year is the small fold in excess of the small appropriations for the maintenance of the School of Medicine.
On the other hand, the staff of the state Board of Health gives the course in preventive medicine in the school, drawing upon their rich field if experience in public health work is a basis of practical instruction.
The School of Medicine and the State Health jointly conduct a Summer School for Health Officers and Physicians of two weeks each year. This school is growing in importance and interest—the enrollment for 1915 being 80. With the increasing demand for trained health officers, and the
unusual opportunities for research and investigation in public health work, the School of Medicine expects to emphasize that branch's faculty as active esteemate students may be fully prepared to meet their responsibilities to the public.
WANTED——A DEAD MAN
No One Willing to Occupy '16
Jawhaywah's "In Memoriam."
The editors of the 1916 IJayhawker have a queer complaint to make. They had a professional artist in Kansas City make a special "In Memoriam" design for them, naturally supposing that the old custom of the University has been maintained. They have not found a single individual who has shown his willingness to occupy the space they have prepared for him.
In view of this fact they have decided to use this additional space, grained by the saving of a page, in featuring the work of the University Health Service and the School of Medicine. Aside from a picture of Dean Crumbine and a write-up by him regarding the scheme of interior be a number of pictures of interior views of the School of Medicine's quarters, both at Lawrence and at Rosedale. There will also be two views of the Rosedale buildings, one of these to be an ink sketch. These pen pictures of all the university buildings will be one of the important features of this year's publication
Prior to 1905 there were four medical schools at Kansas City; the Kansas City Medical College, the Medicinariachurgical College, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the University Medical School at Rosedale. All of these were merged into the state school at Rosedale.
HEALTH MEN TO MEET
The School of Medicine will hold a two weeks' School for Health Officers and Doctors beginning April 24. "The object of the course is to give genuine service to the state," Sundwee said, "and the development in the medics are coming so rapidly that the ordinary busy practitioner cannot keep up with them. The aim of the course is to summarize the velopements in the medical profession who attend the course by means of lectures upon the different subjects.
School of Medicine to Hold Short Course for Doctors and Health Officers
"Is not such a procedure of infinitive value to the people of Kansas?" askee Doctor Sundwall. He believes that it is and that it will put the School of Medicine where it should be—at the head of the health of the state.
five years ago the School of Medicine at the University of Kansas saw, in the establishment of a School for Health Officers and Doctors, an opportunity to do good service on the state. In 1912 the first course for health officers and doctors was held on Mount Oread. Three men, ranking well to the front on questions of sanitation and preventive medicine, were secured to give to the forty-three doctors and health officers enrolled latest academic developments in the medical sciences. Much interest was shown by those enrolled and a similar course has been given each year since that time.
Last year the course was held the last two weeks in April and twenty-five doctors attended the health conference, the enrolled, Dr. Mark J. White, surgeon of the United
States, Public Health Service, Dr. John S. F. Sulton, secretary of the Maryland State Board of Health and professor of preventive medicine at John Hopkins, and Dr. A. J. Chesley, epidermologist from Rensselaer and assistant manager in the School of Medicine of the University of Minnesota, were the outside lecturers. The first week of the course was spent at the University and the last week at Bell Memorial Hospital in Roseseal, Maryland, for each meeting for the instruction of the students. The work given here was graduate work in medical science.
teritary. Genuine interest was taken in all the work and the faculty of the School of Medicine felt justified for the time and effort spent upon it.
Stringy. Howman ran up from Miltonvale Wednesday to spend a few days with his friends here. Last semester String ceased cutting on cadavers over in the Museum to take a position as "money-shifter" in one of Miltonvale's most prosperous banks.
Marian Moody, of San Francisco,
enrolled in the School of Fine Arts
Friday. Miss Moody was a Fine
Arts student here three years ago.
and has since attended the University
of California.
Miss Bernice Lebrecht, of Kansas City, who is taking junior college work at the Manual High School of Kansas City, was named a friend and looking at the various features that are of interest to prospective students.
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There's tags of every hue;
Memorial tags, recordal tags
Demanding cash from you.
BODILY CHANGES IN PAIN HUNGER, FEAR AND RAGE An Account of Recent Researches into the Function of Emotional Excitement.
BY WALTER B. CANNON, M. D.
Professor of Physiology in Harvard Medical School
After a number of years devoted by Dr. Walter B. Cannon and a group of able coworkers in the Harvard Physiological Laboratories to an exacting series of investigations of bodily changes under strong emotion, the fact is now finally established that definite distinct physical changes do occur in the body, supplying it with extra, abnormal and unusual power to resist or carry out any of the actions that may take place under these emotions.
The researches which form the subject of this new volume reveal a number of hitherto unsuspected ways in which muscular action is rendered more efficient because of emotional disturbances. A group of remarkable alterations in bodily economy under the stress of pain, hunger, fear and rage have been discovered—responses which are nicely adapted to the individual's welfare and preservation; for instance, suspension of digestion and shifting of the blood to the organs immediately essential to muscular exertion—the lungs, heart, central nervous system; stimulation of the adrenal glands with liberation into the blood of adrenin which counteracts muscular fatigue; increased vigor of heart action due to adrenin; the setting free of sugar from the liver resulting in increase of energy; and other fundamental re-adjustments favorable to great feats of strength and endurance.
In the early chapters Dr. Cannon establishes these facts by experiment and presents his findings in relation to human behavior; in the final chapters he illustrates his theories on the relation of emotional changes within the body to the fighting instincts in a way applicable to the present European conflict. Dr. Cannon's discussion of the inadequacy of modern warfare as a means of giving natural outlet to the activities for which the emotions prepare and his suggestions for alternative satisfaction are most convincing.
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