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

  • Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
Date:
1912
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    The first floor contains the administrative offices, the Diredors’ Room, the Library, and an Assembly Room. The Library occupies four rooms, or about one-half of the floor space.The Assembly Room seats about one hundred people, and is supplied with all connedions necessary for demonstration purposes, including a stereopticon. This room is used for society meetings and for the weekly conferences of the Institute staff. The second floor is devoted entirely to chemistry, and is divided into large and small rooms. The larger rooms are fitted out as gen- eral laboratories for a number of workers, while some of the smaller ones are used for special purposes; for example, the distillation room, where alcohol and ether are redistilled, the hydrogen sulphide room, combustion room, etc. On the third floor are laboratories for experimental pathology, baderiology, and protozoology. The private study of the Diredor is located at the northwest corner. The south end of the floor is oc- cupied by a suite of rooms designed especially for aseptic surgical work.This suite is composed of three rooms: in the first is a bath- tub and a hot-air drying chamber; here the animal is prepared for operation. In the second room are autoclaves and other steam con- nedions for the sterilization of dressings and instruments. The room on the east side of the building is the operating room. There is also, in connedion with this suite, a fourth room paved with cement, which serves as an animal room. Here animals after operation and other procedures are conveniently kept under observation. Only small ani- mals, such as mice, rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, and monkeys, are kept in this room. These four rooms are conneded by a corridor, which also separates them from the main hall of the building. The large general laboratory for baderiology, on the western side of this floor, contains a built-in hot-air room whose temperature varies from 35 to 39 degrees C., depending upon the level at which this temperature is taken. This room serves for cultivation and digestion experiments. In this room there is also a small shaking machine. On the fourth floor are special laboratories for experimental pa- thology, for physiology and pharmacology; preparation rooms and a centrifuge room. The laboratories for pathology are formed by a series of four communicating rooms at the north end of the floor. They are equipped not only for ordinary pathological work, but also for work in chemistry, including gas analysis. The south end of the floor space is occupied by the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. The Preparation Rooms are two [ ]