Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1937.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Date:
1937
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1937. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Diener. In the Harvard Clinic were sterilized all the dry goods used in the original operating room in Ward A before our surgical pavilion opened. The autoclave of the gas heater, steam-jacket type, was utilized for years by the laboratory workers and its overloading may have been responsible for some of the minor wound infections which are reported in our original patients! Bjeport for the Year 1937 Before attempting to analyze what this Hospital has accomplished and whether the hopes and ambitions of those who first directed its affairs have been fulfilled, I must report briefly for the year 1937. Changes in Staff. The return of both Drs. Cheever and Homans to hospital duties has greatly lightened the load we had to assume during their absence. The value of these senior members to our house staff and to our students cannot be overemphasized and their return, refreshed and invigorated by experience away, has been a chief satisfaction to us. These friends, who have set the tone of general surgery at the Hospital for twenty- five years must soon leave us, to our great regret, and I take pleasure in this twenty-fifth report in noting the great debt of gratitude all surgical graduates must feel toward them. Dr. W. E. Ladd, Chief Surgeon of the Children’s Hos¬ pital, has been added to our roster as Consulting Sur¬ geon. This further cements the liaison with the Chil¬ dren’s Hospital begun by Drs. Cushing and Lovett and now culminating in our joint interneship. Two assist¬ ant otolaryngologists, Dr. Carlisle T. Llake and Dr. Victor Baer, were added to care for the increasing work in this specialty and two voluntary graduate assistants, Dr. Albert Y. Kevorkian and Dr. Arthur J. Hadler, [C]