The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research : history, organization, and equipment.

  • Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
Date:
1914
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Credit: The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research : history, organization, and equipment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    engines driving one lOO-kilowatt and two 50-kilowatt dired-current generators; one 25-ton compression type refrigerating machine; one 3-cylinder motor-driven vacuum pump; a machine shop, including lathe, drill press, shaper, pipe machine, and grindstone — all motor driven.The ice-making plant in the Hospital has a capacity of 900 pounds of clear ice every twenty-four hours. The subsidiary refriger- ating equipment in the Laboratory Building includes a 6-ton ab- sorption-type machine. DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS All discoveries and inventions made by any person while receiv- ^ ing compensation from the Institute become the property of the Institute, to be placed freely by it at the service of humanity in accordance with the beneficent purposes of the founder. APPOINTMENTS TO THE SCIENTIFIC STAFF APPOINTMENTS to the scientific staff are made by the Board of Scientific Diredors, upon the recommendation of the Direc- tor of the Laboratories or of the Diredor of the Hospital. The fol- lowing grades are fixed by the rules of the Board: Member of the Institute; Associate Member of the Institute; Associate; Assistant; Fellow; Scholar. Members of the medical staff of the Hospital may have in addition to the appropriate Institute titles, as above, the following titles indicating their special fundions: Physician to the Hospital; Assistant Physician to the Hospital; Resident Physician; Assistant Resident Physician. Appointments of Members of the Institute are made without limit of time; of Associate Members for a term of years; all other appointments are made for a term not exceeding one year. As a rule, all appointments to the scientific staff, whether in the Laboratories or in the Hospital, are made with stipend and engage the full time of the incumbents. No provision is made for the enrol- ment of individuals or classes for form.al instrudion in the medical sciences or in laboratory or clinical methods. Applications for appointment may be made at any time. Blank forms of application are furnished on request. Appointments are ordinarily made only as vacancies occur. They may be sought for the purpose of permanent or indefinite association with the Institute, or for the purpose of temporary association with the Institute with one [ ^8 ]