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THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO : OPENING OF THE NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL AND LABORATORIES.
1465 the work of the local boards of Assam has from which I extract the curious information that while over a lakh of rupees was spent on dispensaries and more money still on education only Rs. 8228 (under .E600) This amount was directed chiefly were spent in sanitation. to improvements of water-supply by the construction of new tanks and wells and in the clearance and repair of old tanks. The absurdly small amount is another illustration of the general neglect of sanitation, as this is for a whole province and not merely for one or two towns. Cawnpore city, with a population of 180,000, is at last to be provided with an underground system of drainage. The main sewer is completed and runs for nearly seven miles from one end of the native city, through the cantonment, to the river Ganges, but the subsidiary sewers are now being constructed. Unfortunately it is reported that plague has again developed in this city and is rapidly assuming alarming
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Pennsylvania ; Professor J. P. MCMURRICH, of the University of Michigan (a graduate of Toronto) ; Professor BARKER, of Chicago University (also a graduate of Toronto) ; and Professor ROSWELL PARK, of the University of Buffalo. In the evening Professor W. OSLER delivered an address to
the students entitled "The Master Word in Medicine" which was full of pleasant reminiscences of his own student days at the University of Toronto. Dr. REEVE followed, speaking with great energy in spite of being partially disabled by an attack of influenza. He said that it was in accordance with the fitness of things that the medical faculty of the University, as the senior faculty, should put away childish things and set an example of sensible conduct to the undergraduate body and he congratulated his heareis upon their orderly behaviour throughout the ceremony. He pointed out that they were celebrating the opening of a building for medical instruction, complete in all its details, for the first time in the province. They had the proportions. The mortality from plague throughout India has again first example given to the world of the unit system of made a halt in its otherwise rapid rise of the past few weeks. laboratory construction devised by Dr. Minot of Harvard. The last figures show 16,300 deaths for the week, distributed They were also incidentally celebrating the union of two medical faculties which had been working side by side for over India as follows :-Central Provinces, 1401 ; Hyderabad State, 1145 ; Mysore State, 761 ; Madras Presidency, 231 ; years in honourable rivalry but in hindrance of the full United Provinces, 156 ; Bengal, 123; Bombay city, 64 ; development of each. He particularly referred to the exRajputana, 59 ; Bombay Presidency, 10,386 ; Central India, pense and difficulty of maintaining even one complete system of laboratories for medical instruction and to the foolish 1585 ; Punjab, 353 ; Calcutta, 17 ; and Karachi, 3. waste which resulted in any attempt to duplicate such inOct. 30th. struction. In his concluding remarks he expressed the hope that the students would ponder over the words which had THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO : OPENING fallen from Professor Osler and that they would remember that they had been listening to one who was once an underOF THE NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL graduate like themselves in the University of Toronto but AND LABORATORIES. who by virtue of the talisman work"was to-day the (FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) medical author most widely read in Great Britain and the most distinguished clinician in the United States. THE ceremonies in connexion with the opening of the new An address from Dr. J. A. TEMPLE of Trinity College medical school and laboratories of the University of Toronto terminated the proceedings of the day. On Oct. 2nd addresses were delivered in the north lecture marked an episode of considerable importance. Although the occasion was the opening of the building it was also, theatre by several of the visiting professors, including Proin a measure, the celebration of the amalgamation of the fessor W. W. KEEN, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, two great medical faculties of the Province of Ontario- Professor WELCH, Professor J. G. ADAMI of McGill Uniroom viz., that of Trinity College, Toronto (also a University versity, and Professor ABBOTT. In the south lecture with the usual faculties), and that of the University of addresses were delivered by Professor CHITTENDEN, Professor Toronto. The ceremonies were initiated with a luncheon SHERRINGTON, Professor BARKER, and Professor PORTER, last of whom pointed out that it was not what one knew given by the Dean, Dr. Reeve, to his colleagues and a the number of distinguished guests on Oct. lst in the east from the point of view of theory that was all-important but " the knowledge of the manner in which the facts and The toast of " His Majesty the King" examination hall. of physiology were obtained. Visits were having been duly honoured Dr. Reeve gave the toast ofThe generalisations then made to the new laboratories and lecture rooms of the Visitor The the of the Lieutenant-Governor," University. Royal College of Dental Surgeons under the guidLieutenant-Governor, Mr. Mortimer Clarke, who has warmly affiliated after which the ance of the dean of the department, the for than and who more 40 years University supported President the Union of a luncheon. of Faculties gave from its has taken an active interest in the medical faculty At a special convocation the following gentlemen, as inception, having responded, the chairman next proposed the health of Professor Goldwin Smith whom he described as the already announced in THE LANCET of Oct. 31st, p. 1249, Nestor of university graduates present. In his reply Professor received the degree of LL. D. honoris cccusa from the hands Smith referred to the approaching realisation of university of the Vice-Chancellor, the Hon. Charles Moss, Chief federation in Ontario, as evidenced by the union of the Justice of Ontario ; Professor Keen, Professor Welch, Promedical faculties of Toronto and Trinity, and eulogised the fessor Osler, Professor Chittenden, Professor Sherrington, medical profession, of which his father had been a member, and, in absentid, Professor Bowditch. The ceremonies came to a conclusion with a dinner given for the services it had rendered to mankind. At the conclusion of the luncheon the company adjourned by the Faculty of Medicine to over 100 guests, the speakers to the north lecture theatre of the new building where Mr. including the Hon. Richard Harcourt, Minister of Education ; John Hoskin, LL.D., on behalf of the board of trustees, Professor Irving H. Cameron, Professor Osler, Professor Keen, SberringtoD, Professor Welch, Mr. Byron E. Walker, presented the keys of the building to Dr. Loudon, the Professor Dr. James H. Richardson, and Mr. Alfred Mosley, C.M.G., Dr. Hoskin the President of the University. congratulated we need hardly remind our readers equipped and mainUniversity upon the fact that in spite of a disordered labour who market and troublous timesi n the financial world the new tained an ambulance and nursing staff in South Africa the war and who subsequently sent out a labour building had been erected and furnished in 14 months. He during referred warmly to the interest taken by the Government in commission to the United States and is nQw supporting an the progres s of the University as evidenced by promises of educational commission to the same country. _______________
future grants.
Dr. LOUDON, after accepting the keys and presenting the thanks of the University to the board of trustees, gave in outline the history of medical education in Toronto. The PRESIDENT then introduced Professor C. S. SHERRINGTON who delivered the inaugural address on Medicine and Science in the Modern University, which was published in THE LANCET of Nov. 7th, p. 1273. Addresses were then delivered by the following gentlemen who brought messages of congratulation from their respective universities : Professor WELCH, of Johns Hopkins University ; Professor CHITTENDEN, of Yale University ; Professor TOWNSEND PORTER, of Harvard University ; Professor RODDICK, Dean of the Medical Faculty of McGill University ; Professor A. C. ABBOTT, of the University of
POST-GRADUATE WORK ABROAD. (BY
A
SPECIAL
CORRESPONDENT.)
V. FLORENCE.1 A SERIES of what are known as private courses in various subjects is given yearly in connexion with the Royal Institute for Superior Studies of Florence. These courses, which are 1 No. I. (Paris), No. II. (Berlin), No. III. (Vienna), and No. IV. (Budapest) were published in THE LANCET of Sept. 12th (p. 781), Sept. 26th (p. 912), Oct. 17th (p. 1121), and Oct. 24th (p. 1194), 1903, respectively.
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Pennsylvania ; Professor J. P. MCMURRICH, of the University of Michigan (a graduate of Toronto) ; Professor BARKER, of Chicago University (also a graduate of Toronto) ; and Professor ROSWELL PARK, of the University of Buffalo. In the evening Professor W. OSLER delivered an address to
the students entitled "The Master Word in Medicine" which was full of pleasant reminiscences of his own student days at the University of Toronto. Dr. REEVE followed, speaking with great energy in spite of being partially disabled by an attack of influenza. He said that it was in accordance with the fitness of things that the medical faculty of the University, as the senior faculty, should put away childish things and set an example of sensible conduct to the undergraduate body and he congratulated his heareis upon their orderly behaviour throughout the ceremony. He pointed out that they were celebrating the opening of a building for medical instruction, complete in all its details, for the first time in the province. They had the proportions. The mortality from plague throughout India has again first example given to the world of the unit system of made a halt in its otherwise rapid rise of the past few weeks. laboratory construction devised by Dr. Minot of Harvard. The last figures show 16,300 deaths for the week, distributed They were also incidentally celebrating the union of two medical faculties which had been working side by side for over India as follows :-Central Provinces, 1401 ; Hyderabad State, 1145 ; Mysore State, 761 ; Madras Presidency, 231 ; years in honourable rivalry but in hindrance of the full United Provinces, 156 ; Bengal, 123; Bombay city, 64 ; development of each. He particularly referred to the exRajputana, 59 ; Bombay Presidency, 10,386 ; Central India, pense and difficulty of maintaining even one complete system of laboratories for medical instruction and to the foolish 1585 ; Punjab, 353 ; Calcutta, 17 ; and Karachi, 3. waste which resulted in any attempt to duplicate such inOct. 30th. struction. In his concluding remarks he expressed the hope that the students would ponder over the words which had THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO : OPENING fallen from Professor Osler and that they would remember that they had been listening to one who was once an underOF THE NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL graduate like themselves in the University of Toronto but AND LABORATORIES. who by virtue of the talisman work"was to-day the (FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) medical author most widely read in Great Britain and the most distinguished clinician in the United States. THE ceremonies in connexion with the opening of the new An address from Dr. J. A. TEMPLE of Trinity College medical school and laboratories of the University of Toronto terminated the proceedings of the day. On Oct. 2nd addresses were delivered in the north lecture marked an episode of considerable importance. Although the occasion was the opening of the building it was also, theatre by several of the visiting professors, including Proin a measure, the celebration of the amalgamation of the fessor W. W. KEEN, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, two great medical faculties of the Province of Ontario- Professor WELCH, Professor J. G. ADAMI of McGill Uniroom viz., that of Trinity College, Toronto (also a University versity, and Professor ABBOTT. In the south lecture with the usual faculties), and that of the University of addresses were delivered by Professor CHITTENDEN, Professor Toronto. The ceremonies were initiated with a luncheon SHERRINGTON, Professor BARKER, and Professor PORTER, last of whom pointed out that it was not what one knew given by the Dean, Dr. Reeve, to his colleagues and a the number of distinguished guests on Oct. lst in the east from the point of view of theory that was all-important but " the knowledge of the manner in which the facts and The toast of " His Majesty the King" examination hall. of physiology were obtained. Visits were having been duly honoured Dr. Reeve gave the toast ofThe generalisations then made to the new laboratories and lecture rooms of the Visitor The the of the Lieutenant-Governor," University. Royal College of Dental Surgeons under the guidLieutenant-Governor, Mr. Mortimer Clarke, who has warmly affiliated after which the ance of the dean of the department, the for than and who more 40 years University supported President the Union of a luncheon. of Faculties gave from its has taken an active interest in the medical faculty At a special convocation the following gentlemen, as inception, having responded, the chairman next proposed the health of Professor Goldwin Smith whom he described as the already announced in THE LANCET of Oct. 31st, p. 1249, Nestor of university graduates present. In his reply Professor received the degree of LL. D. honoris cccusa from the hands Smith referred to the approaching realisation of university of the Vice-Chancellor, the Hon. Charles Moss, Chief federation in Ontario, as evidenced by the union of the Justice of Ontario ; Professor Keen, Professor Welch, Promedical faculties of Toronto and Trinity, and eulogised the fessor Osler, Professor Chittenden, Professor Sherrington, medical profession, of which his father had been a member, and, in absentid, Professor Bowditch. The ceremonies came to a conclusion with a dinner given for the services it had rendered to mankind. At the conclusion of the luncheon the company adjourned by the Faculty of Medicine to over 100 guests, the speakers to the north lecture theatre of the new building where Mr. including the Hon. Richard Harcourt, Minister of Education ; John Hoskin, LL.D., on behalf of the board of trustees, Professor Irving H. Cameron, Professor Osler, Professor Keen, SberringtoD, Professor Welch, Mr. Byron E. Walker, presented the keys of the building to Dr. Loudon, the Professor Dr. James H. Richardson, and Mr. Alfred Mosley, C.M.G., Dr. Hoskin the President of the University. congratulated we need hardly remind our readers equipped and mainUniversity upon the fact that in spite of a disordered labour who market and troublous timesi n the financial world the new tained an ambulance and nursing staff in South Africa the war and who subsequently sent out a labour building had been erected and furnished in 14 months. He during referred warmly to the interest taken by the Government in commission to the United States and is nQw supporting an the progres s of the University as evidenced by promises of educational commission to the same country. _______________
future grants.
Dr. LOUDON, after accepting the keys and presenting the thanks of the University to the board of trustees, gave in outline the history of medical education in Toronto. The PRESIDENT then introduced Professor C. S. SHERRINGTON who delivered the inaugural address on Medicine and Science in the Modern University, which was published in THE LANCET of Nov. 7th, p. 1273. Addresses were then delivered by the following gentlemen who brought messages of congratulation from their respective universities : Professor WELCH, of Johns Hopkins University ; Professor CHITTENDEN, of Yale University ; Professor TOWNSEND PORTER, of Harvard University ; Professor RODDICK, Dean of the Medical Faculty of McGill University ; Professor A. C. ABBOTT, of the University of
POST-GRADUATE WORK ABROAD. (BY
A
SPECIAL
CORRESPONDENT.)
V. FLORENCE.1 A SERIES of what are known as private courses in various subjects is given yearly in connexion with the Royal Institute for Superior Studies of Florence. These courses, which are 1 No. I. (Paris), No. II. (Berlin), No. III. (Vienna), and No. IV. (Budapest) were published in THE LANCET of Sept. 12th (p. 781), Sept. 26th (p. 912), Oct. 17th (p. 1121), and Oct. 24th (p. 1194), 1903, respectively.