First annual report of the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital for Cancer Research, 1912-1913.

  • Harvard University
Date:
1913
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Credit: First annual report of the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital for Cancer Research, 1912-1913. 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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    At a cost of about $50,000.00 such a building could be pro- vided, with ample accommodation for laboratory work in pathology, chemistry, physics, and other sciences. In such a building adequate and safe rooms for the storage and study of radium would be obtained. A work-shop suited to the needs of the physicist of the Commission, and equipped with sufficient apparatus to supply the needs of the different departments in the Harvard Medical School, could also be included. It is extremely probable that the development of the science of physics in connection with cancer research and other medical sciences (bio-physics, as this branch of science is called) will assume a place of great importance in the next few years, and this Commission is extremely fortu- nate in its close relation to the scientific departments of the University in Cambridge, as well as in having secured, already, the services of Dr. William Duane as physicist. A certain amount of chemical research on cancer problems has already been carried on in the laboratories of the Hunt- ington Hospital, and in the Department of Bio-chemistry in the Medical School. Much more could be done if better facilities were provided in a chemical laboratory in close rela- tion with the Hospital. With the development of the Out- Patient-Department of the Hospital, especially by reason of the number of applicants for X-ray and radium treatment, increased facilities for handling this work could be obtained on the ground floor of such a laboratory building as is contemplated. The study of heredity in animals in relation to the cancer problem is another branch of the work of the Cancer Com- mission, which could to great advantage be given improved facilities in such a building. This work is already under way, and Mr. C. C. Little, of the Department of Genetics, Bussey Institution, is engaged with Dr. Tyzzer in this inves- tigation for the Cancer Commission. It is necessary to have sufficient space for breeding large numbers of mice in these experiments, but they cannot well be accommodated, at present, in the Medical School. To construct a laboratory building such as is here described
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