Report : 1917 / Middlesex Hospital.

  • Middlesex Hospital
Date:
1917
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Credit: Report : 1917 / Middlesex Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mitigating the ravages inflicted in the large proportion of cases where prevention is impracticable. The Laboratories of the Hospital must play a great and ever-increasing part in the full development of work so important for the Welfare of the country, since it is in the laboratory alone that the tedious, but essential, preliminary investigations can be carried out, which ’ afford a lead as to the direction in which fresh successful clinical applications may be sought. Hitherto the important part which a Hospital Laboratory should play in the discovery and introduction of new remedies and methods of treatment, has not in general been adequately recognised, and there has been a great tendency to shirk from tackling important practical problems of disease. The valuable results already obtained by the researches on Flavine open up a bright prospect for the Institute’s contribution to future advances in this important field. But it is only by the widest scientific co-operation that the highest success is likely to be attained. The Institute in its present state, while admirably equipped for the greater part of the biological branches of such work, is deficient in the essential facilities which can only be afforded by the synthetic chemist. For the present an attempt has been made to surmount this difficulty by enlisting the interest of chemists in other labor¬ atories, both those attached to scientific institutions and also the research laboratories of important technical and industrial under¬ takings, and valuable facilities of this kind have been arranged in more than one direction. It is recognised, however, that this all-important department of research must eventually become an integral part of the activities of the Institute. When this is attained the laboratory work which is a necessary preliminary before the Physician and Surgeon can apply the fruits to the relief of human suffering, will be carried out by the Hospital on the broadest basis. Below are set out some of the contributions which have been received during the past year for the Research Fund in connection with the Bland-Sutton Institute of Pathology (Melhado Memorial):— £ . s. d. S. H. Whitbread, Esq. ... 20 0 0 G. Vaughan Morgan, Esq.... ... 50 0 0 The Trustees of the late Leopold Salamons ... 2,000 0 0 Mr. E. H. Stevenson ... 50 0 0 The Marquess of Salisbury ... 25 0 0 Miss L. Russell 50 0 0 C. Oscar Raphael, Esq. 25 0 0 R. A. Pilkington, Esq, ... 50 0 0 The Countess of Leven and Melville 50 0 0 Lieut.-Col, Longstaffe 50 0 0 Somerville Hastings, Esq. ... 50 0 0 Dr. Bernard Hartzhorne ( proceeds of. a » Col. W. Bagnall Wild ... 1 collection ... * ... 155 0 0 Mrs. ILeilbut 50 0 0 W. Gardner, Esq. ... ... ... ... 100 •0 0 Miss Mary S. Greg ... ... 25 0 0
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