Eastern Hospital Research Articles

LUDVIG HEKTOEN RECEIVES DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL

The award of the Distinguished Service Medal of the American Medical Association for 1942 was made to Dr. Ludvig Hektoen, who on July 2, 1942 will celebrate his seventy-ninth birthday. His career as a medical scientist has won him the admiration and the love of every one who knows him. The young men whom he has encouraged and stimulated are many in number. The medical career of Ludvig Hektoen began with a job as druggist in a hospital, which became for him an inspiration to the study of medicine. He graduated in 1887 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago, then served as apothecary in the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane and subsequently made first place in the examination for internship at the Cook County Hospital. In this capacity he came under the direct instruction of Christian Fenger and turned naturally to pathology for a career. He

The Future of the Isolation Hospital, from the Standpoint of a Medical Superintendent, by E. H. R. HARRIES, M.D., D.P.H., Medical Super intendent, North Eastern Hospital, London County Council. (Fellow)

The Future of the Isolation Hospital, from the Standpoint of a Medical Superintendent, by E. H. R. HARRIES, M.D., D.P.H., Medical Super intendent, North Eastern Hospital, London County Council. (Fellow)

PNEUMOTHORAX IN PNEUMONIA

To the Editor:— A number of Eastern hospitals have lately reported experimentation with pneumothorax in pneumonia. In 1915 and 1916 I had some correspondence with the late Dr. John B. Murphy when he was pioneering in the pneumothorax treatment of tuberculosis. I made the suggestion to him at that time that the same treatment be applied in early unilateral lobar pneumonia. The following reasons were offered: First: Rest to the involved lung. Second: Relief of pleural pains, minus opiates. Under date of April 15, 1916, Dr. Murphy wrote me: I have referred it to my associate, Dr. Kreuscher, who has charge of the pneumothorax department of my clinic. I have given instructions that it be done as soon as possible and will be pleased to report to you. Thanking you for the suggestion, and with best wishes, I am, Yours very truly, J. B. Murphy. In view of the fact

Evelyn H. Hall, Superintendent Emeritus

VELYN H. HALL is retiring as Superintendent of the Seattle General Hospital to become Superintendent Emeritus. Miss Hall was born and educated in central New York. An excellent home training, as well as her natural ability as a teacher, has contributed to her success in her chosen profession. She taught school four years before entering nursing, and graduated from the Methodist Episcopal Hospital of Brooklyn, New York, in 1895-where such eminent men as Dr. George R. Fowler and Dr. Lewis Pilcher contributed to her schooling. For two years she supervised the private patients' pavilion, did private duty nursing for two years, and was superintendent of her Alma Mater for four years. In 1902, Miss Hall came to Seattle as Superintendent of the Seattle General Hospital. At that time the city was little more than a frontier town. Nursing was not developed, and schools for nursing were just being started. Doctors trained to work in well-organized eastern hospitals labored under great difficulties in giving adequate care to their patients. The institution, which became Miss Hall herself, attracted medical men of the highest type because it provided a place where they could work safely. Here they found conditions as they had been accustomed to having them in the east. From the beginning Miss Hall established high nursing and administrative standards, and upheld them firmly, in face of great financial and practical difficulties. Her unusual ability to read character enabled her to select a fine type of woman for her school and into this material she projected her own splendid spirit of servEVELYN HALL, R.N.

An Account of a Glanders-like Disease occurring in Rangoon

The opportunities of a pathologist at a large Eastern Hospital are many; but his time for research work is short, and his conveniences are few. I, therefore, feel that we, at the Laboratory of the Rangoon General Hospital, are more than usually fortunate to be able to give, within the first two years of the official existence of the Laboratory, an account of a strange disease. Doubtless it is to chance that we owe the first discrimination of the disease; but I hope that it has been by accurate observation and precise experiment that we have sought to fulfil our knowledge. The guidance and application of our observations have been my care, and upon me rests the responsibility for the accuracy of our work; but the work itself has been carried out entirely by my assistants, and to them belongs the credit for the zeal and patient perseverance with which the task has been performed.

An account of the isolation chambers recently provided at the Eastern Hospital

An account of the isolation chambers recently provided at the Eastern Hospital

On the Supersensitation of Persons by Horse-serum

1. There were 90 patients at the Eastern Hospital, who, during the years 1897, 1898, 1899, 1904, 1905 and 1906, were injected with horseserum for a second attack or relapse of diphtheria, who had been treated with horse-serum at the first attack.2. Of these 9 had an “immediate reaction,” 22 an “accelerated reaction,” and 8 had both, 39 in all, or 43·4 per cent.3. The “immediate reaction” showed itself a few minutes to six hours after the first injection for the second attack.4. The shortest interval between the first injection at the primary attack and the occurrence of an “immediate reaction” after a reinjection for a second attack was 35 days; the longest was 363 days.5. The ”accelerated reaction” showed itself 19 hours to five days after the first injection for the second attack.6. The shortest interval between the first injection at the primary attack and the occurrence of an “accelerated reaction” after a reinjection for a second attack was 25 days; the longest was 1511 days. In each of these cases the reaction occurred the day after the reinjection.7. In seven of the cases of “immediate reaction” the symptoms were severe. In all save one of those of “accelerated reaction” they were mild or moderate.8. In 24 of the cases there was a normal serum-reaction after the reinjection for the second attack; but even this occurred in most cases slightly earlier than is usual after injection at a primary attack.9. So far as the figures go they show:(a) that when a patient has had a serum-reaction at the primary attack, he is more likely to have an abnormal reaction after injection at the second attack;(b) that the greater the volume of serum given in the primary attack, the more likely is an abnormal reaction to occur after serum at the second attack;(c) and that consequently an abnormal reaction is most likely to occur after serum at a second attack when the patient has had a large volume of serum followed by a reaction at the first attack.There are, however, indications that the volume of serum given at the primary attack may have different effects as regards the determination of an “immediate” or an “accelerated reaction,” according to its amount.

Medical News

<h3>ILLINOIS.</h3><h3>Facilities for State Health Board.</h3> —The appropriations of the State Board of Health have been materially increased by the present general assembly. Funds for a state laboratory and a registrar of vital statistics have been granted. <h3>Appropriations for Asylums.</h3> —The legislature has appropriated $380,600 for the maintenance of the Illinois Western Hospital for the Insane, Watertown, for the next biennium. —The appropriation for the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane, Kankakee, was cut to $154,000. <h3>Fire at State Hospital.</h3> —A fire at the Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane, Anna, damaged the power-house to the extent of $5,000. No casualties occurred, but the patients, as a matter of precaution, were taken from their rooms and marshalled in halls in case it proved necessary to remove them from the building. <h3>Legislative Status.</h3> —Seven osteopathic bills have been introduced in the general assembly during the present session. One of these is

Clinical observations in eastern hospitals

Clinical observations in eastern hospitals

A Practical Manual of Insanity. For the Medical Student and General Practitioner. By Daniel R. Brower, A. M., M. D., LL. D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases in Rush Medical College, in Affiliation with the University of Chicago, Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases in the Woman's Medical School of the Northwestern University, and in the Post-Graduate Medical School

<i>A Practical Manual of Insanity</i>. For the Medical Student and General Practitioner. By Daniel R. Brower, A. M., M. D., LL. D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases in Rush Medical College, in Affiliation with the University of Chicago, Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases in the Woman's Medical School of the Northwestern University, and in the Post-Graduate Medical School

On Diphtheritie Paralysis, Being an Analysis of the Cases Occurring at the Eastern Hospital, Homeoton, During the Years 1892 and 1893

On Diphtheritie Paralysis, Being an Analysis of the Cases Occurring at the Eastern Hospital, Homeoton, During the Years 1892 and 1893

ON THE COURSE AND DESTINATION OF GOWERS?? TRACT

Professor of Neurology in the Chicago Polyclinic; Instructor in Clinical Neurology Northwestern University Medical School; Consulting Neurologist to the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane

A practical Manual of Mental Medicine. By Da. E. Régis, formerly Chief of Clinique of Mental Diseases. Paris; formerly Assistant Physician of the Sainte Anne Asylum; Physician of the Maison de Santé de Castel d'Anterre; Laureate of the Medico-Psychological Society, and of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris; Professor of Mental Diseases, Faculty of Medicine. Bordeaux. With a Preface by

<i>A practical Manual of Mental Medicine</i>. By Da. E. Régis, formerly Chief of Clinique of Mental Diseases. Paris; formerly Assistant Physician of the Sainte Anne Asylum; Physician of the Maison de Santé de Castel d'Anterre; Laureate of the Medico-Psychological Society, and of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris; Professor of Mental Diseases, Faculty of Medicine. Bordeaux. With a Preface by

REPORT OF TWO CASES OF INTRACRANIAL TUMOR.Read in the Section on Neurology and Medical Jurisprudence, at the Forty-fifth Aunual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at San Francisco, June 5-8, 1894.

The following cases of intracranial tumor occurred in patients in the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane. The clinical history and post-mortem findings are given, not because of any marked peculiarity, so much as because of the growing interest in the subject—an interest which can but be stimulated and widened by reports of the careful observation of such cases. It is a matter of regret that an accurate diagnosis was not made before the patients reached the postmortem table, and there is a sort of selfish vindication in the thought that those of wide experience and having at their command the most approved means and methods of diagnosis sometimes fail to arrive at correct conclusions. As knowledge of the brain and its functions increases improvements in methods of diagnosis may be looked for, until a tumor may be as accurately located in the skull as in the abdominal cavity. <i>Case</i>

Recent Literature Syllabus of the Obstetrical Lectures in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania . By Richard C. Norris, A.M., M.D., Demonstrator of Obstetrics, University of Pennsylvania; Assistant Obstetrician, University Maternity; Physician to the Methodist Episcopal Hospital; Obstetrical Registrar, Philadelphia Hospital; Consulting Obstetrician and attending Gynaecologist, South Eastern Dispensary and Hospital for Women and Children. Third edition. Philadelphia:

Recent Literature Syllabus of the Obstetrical Lectures in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania . By Richard C. Norris, A.M., M.D., Demonstrator of Obstetrics, University of Pennsylvania; Assistant Obstetrician, University Maternity; Physician to the Methodist Episcopal Hospital; Obstetrical Registrar, Philadelphia Hospital; Consulting Obstetrician and attending Gynaecologist, South Eastern Dispensary and Hospital for Women and Children. Third edition. Philadelphia:

The Eastern Hospital of the Metropolitan Asylums Board

The Eastern Hospital of the Metropolitan Asylums Board

The Eastern Hospital Scandal

The Eastern Hospital Scandal

Mackenzie on Diphtheria Diphtheria: Its Nature and Treatment, Varieties and Local Expressions . By Morell Mackenzie, M. D., London, Senior Physician to the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat and Chest, Consulting Physician to the North Eastern Hospital for Children, and Lecturer on Diseases of the Throat at the London Hospital Medical College. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston. 1879.

Mackenzie on Diphtheria Diphtheria: Its Nature and Treatment, Varieties and Local Expressions . By Morell Mackenzie, M. D., London, Senior Physician to the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat and Chest, Consulting Physician to the North Eastern Hospital for Children, and Lecturer on Diseases of the Throat at the London Hospital Medical College. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston. 1879.