SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
OF
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
1926-1927
BULLETIN OF
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY:
NASHVILLE,TE'NNB'SSEE
Vol. 26 JULY 1926 Number 3.
BULLETIN OF
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
CATALOGUE OF THE
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Announcement for
1926 - 1927
The BULLETIN of VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY is published by the University, and is issued every month from February to July, inclusive.
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
PRL"'.ED FOR TIlE UNIVERSITY
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Entered .. Second Cl... Matt" at Nashville, Tenn.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
CONTENTS
3
Calendar 4
Board of Trust 5
The Faculty and Teaching Staff 6
Officers <;md Committees of the Faculty 11
Vanderbilt University Hospital 12
Board of Managers 12
The Staff •... 13
General Statement 16
History 16
Buildings 18
Facilities for Instruction 20
Requirements for Admission 22
Registration 25
Premedical or Medical-Scientific Course 25
Admission to Advanced Standing 25
Examinations and Promotion 26
Elective Work z:J
Requirements for Graduation 28
Fees and Expenses 28
Honors 29
Student Organizations 30
General Plan of Instruction 32
Summary of Required Hours 34
Courses of Instruction ...•... 35
Anatomy 35
Biological Chemistry 36
Physiology 37
Bacteriology and Immunology 37
Pathology 38
Pharmacology and Experimentnal Therapeutics 39
Preventive Medicine 39
:Medicine 40
Surgery 45
Obstetrics and Gynecology 49
Military Science and Tactics 51
Students 54
Schedule of Courses 57
4 VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
CALENDAR, 1926-1927
Sept. 21, Tuesday ... Registration. Special examina- tions.
Sept. 22, Wednesday .. Registration. Assembly of all candidates for admission at 10:00 a.m. Lecture Room B.
10:00
Sept. 23, Thursday Instruction begins.
Nov. 25, Thursday A holiday. Thanksgiving Day.
Dec. 8, Wednesday First trimester ends.
Dec. 9, Thursday Second trimester begins.
Dec. 22, Wednesday Christmas vacation begins.
January 3, Monday Christmas vacation ends.
March 9, Wednesday .. Second trimester ends.
March 10, Thursday .. Third trimester begins.
May 26, Thursday Third trimester ends.
May 27, Friday A holiday, Founder's Day.
May 28, Saturday Examinations begin.
June 5, Sunday Commencement Sermon.
June 8, Wednesday Commencement Day. Graduat- ing Exercises and Commence- ment Address, 10:00 a.m.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE BOARD OF TRUST
1928.
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tEdward East Barthell W. F. Bradshaw, Jr.
Eugene J. Buffington John H. Dye
1930.
W. L. Hemingway P. D. Houston Frank C. Rand tRobert Trimble Smith
Whitefoord R. Cole W. T. Hale, Jr.
Robert F. Jackson James H. Kirkland
James C. McReynolds tJohn James Tigert tEmory Marvin Underwood
George B. Winton 1932.
Joseph R. Bingham J. P. W. Brown Charles Cason
tHorace
tHervey Files Crenshaw Norman H. Davis Jesse P. Norfleet H. White
Morris Brandon Fletcher S. Brockman tCharles N. Burch
Allen R. Carter tHenry
PRESIDENT:
Whitefoord R. Cole
VICE-PRESIDENTS:
GeorgeB.Winton E. J. Buffington
1934.
Joel O. Cheek W. Phillips Connell John E. Edgerton Lee J. Loventhal Grantland Rice
Officers
Si:CRETARY:
John Edgerton
TREASURER:
P. D. Houston
BURSAR:
J. E. Hart
Executive Committee
Whitefoord R.
James H. Kirkland Robert T. Smith W. T. Hale, Jr.
Cole,Chairman P. D. Houston Robert F. Jackson Lee J. Loventhal
-Term of office expires a.t the a.nnual meeting of the Board of Trust in the year indicated.
tAlumni TrUJItees. Elected by Board of Trust upon nomination of alumni by postal ballot through Alumni Association.
6 VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
THE FACULTY AND TEACHING STAFF ']A;\IES H. KIRKLAXD, Ph.D., LL.D., D.C.L.,
Chancel/or of the University G. CANBY ROBINSON, M.D., Dean.
BEVERLYDOUGLAS,M.D., Assistant Dean
PROFESSORS
GEORGEH. PRICE, B.E., M.S., M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor Emm- tns of Diseases of the E:>,e,Ear, Nose and Throat.
]. T. ALnIAN, M.D., Profi'ssor of Clinical Obstl'trics.
RICHARD A. BARR, M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Clillical Surgery.
R. W. BILLINGTON, M.D., Professor of Clinical Orthopi'dic Surgery.
BARNEY BROOKS,M.D., Profi'ssor of Surgery.
PERRY BROMBERG, M.D., F.A.C.S., Profi'ssor of Clinical Urology.
WORCESTERA. BRYAX, M.A., 1f.D., F.A.C.S., Profi'ssor of Clinical Surgery.
LUCIUS E. BURCH, M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Clinical Gynecology.
ROBERT CALDWELL, M.D., F.A.C.S., Profi'ssor of Clinical Surgi'ry.
S. S. CROCKETT,M.D., Professor of Clinical Nellrology and Psychiatry.
GLENN E. CULLEN, Ph.D., Professor of Biological Cl1i'mistry.
MARVIN M. CULLOM, M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology.
ROBERTS. CUNNINGHAM, M.D., Professor of Anatomy.
DUNCAN EVE, M.A., M.D., F.A.C.S., Profl'ssor of Clinical Surgl'ry.
HENRY E. FRASER,Captain M.
c.,
U. S. A., Professor of Mili- tary Science and Tactics.\VALTERE. GARREY,Ph.D., M.D., Professor of Physiology.
ERNEST W. GOODPASTURE,M.D., Professor of Pathology.
W. D. HAGGARD,M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Clinical Surgery.
A. N. HOLLABAUGH,M.D., Professor of Cli/tical Obstl'trics.
]. M. KING, M.D., Professor of Clinical Dermatology.
PAUL D. LAMSON, M.D., Professor of Pharmacology.
WALLER S. LEATHERS,M.D., Professor of Preventive Medicine.
G. CANBY ROBINSON, M.D., Professor of Medicine.
OWENH.WILSON, B.E., M.D., Professor of Clinical Pediatrics.
JOHN A. WITHERSPOON,M.D., LL.D., F.A.C.P., Professor of Clinical Medicine.
W. H.WITT, M.A., M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine.
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ASSOCIA T£ PROFESSORS
O. N. BRYAN, M.D., Associate Professor of Clillical Medicille.
C. SIDNEY BURWELL, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicille.
W. C. DIXON, M.D., F.A.C.S., Associate Professor of Clinical GYllccology.
DUNCAN EVE, JR., M.D., F.A.C.S., Associate Professor of Cli,lical Surgery.
ALBERT \Y. HARRIS, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Neurolog'y OJld Psychiatry.
J. M. JOHLIN, Ph.D., D.Se., Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry.
WILLIAM G. KENNON, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and OtolarYllgolog}'.
CHARLES EDWIN KING, M.S., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physiology.
J. OWSLEY MANIER, M.D., Associate Professor of Clillical Medicille.
WILLIAM MCCABE, M.D., F.A.C.S., Associate Professor of Clillical Surgery.
HUGH J. MORGAN, !ltD., Associate Professor of Medicille.
JAMES M. NEILL, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Bacteriology.
FRANCIS H. SWETT, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Allatolll}'.
H. M. TIGERT, M.D., F.A.C.S., Associate Professor of Clillical G}'IIecology.
JACK WITHERSPOON, M.D., Associate Professor of Clillical Medicille.
ASSIST ANT PROFESSORS
C. F. ANDERSON, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clillical Urology.
E. L. BISHOP, M.D., Assistallt Professor of Prevelltive AI edi- cille alld Pllblic Health.
S.C. COWAN, M.D., Assistallt Professor of Clillical Obstetrics.
BEVERLY DOUGLAS, M.D., D.Se., Assistallt Professor of Surgery.
JOSEPH F. GALLAGHER, M.D., F.A.C.S., Assistant Professor of Cli/lical G}'necology.
MCPHEETERS GLASGOW, M.D., Assistallt Professor of Clinical Gynecology.
T. D. McKINNEY, M.D., Assistant Professor of Cli,lical SlIrgery.
ADAM G. NICHOL, M.D., Assistallt Professor of Clinical Or- thopedic Surger}'.
DAVID R. PICKENS, M.D., Assistallt Professor of Clillical Surgery.
EUGENE ORR, M.D., Assistallt Professor of Clinical Ophthal- molog}' alld OtolarYllgology.
ROBERT E. SULLIVAN, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and OtolarYllgology.
LAWRENCE G. WESSON, Ph.D., Assista'lt Professor of Phar- macology.
ARTHUR W. WRIGHT, M.D., Assistallt Professor of Pathology.
ANN MINOT, Ph.D., Research Associate ill Pharmacology.
8 VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY LECTURERS
JOH~ M. FLETCHER, Ph.D., Lccturrr ill M rdical Psychology.
\Y. E. HIBBlTT, M.D., Lectllrer ill Pllblic Health.
R. L. JONES, M.D., Lrctllrrr ill Public Health.
THO:'lAS \Y. SCHLATER, JR., LL.B., Lcctrlrrr ill Medical Juris- prudl'lIce.
INSTRUCTORS
SA:'l P. BAILEY, 1LD., Illstructor ill Clinical Medicine.
\Y. C. BILBRO, JR., M.D., Instrllctor ill Clillical SlIrgcry.
ALFRED BLALOCK, M.D., IlIstrllctor in Surgrry.
R. C. DERIVAUX, 1LD., hlstrllctor in Clillical !ofedicine.
KATHERI~E DODD, 1LD., IlIstmdor ill Pl'diatrics.
HENRY DOUGLASS, M.D., Ilistructor in Clinical Urology.
FRANK B. DUNKLI~, M.D., Instructor ill Clillical Mrdicille.
L. W. EDWARDS, M.D., F.A.C.S., Ilistructor ill Clillical Surgery.
HOWARD R. FULLERTON, C.E., Ilistructor ill Sanitary En- gilleerillg.
TINSLEY R. HARRISO~, 1LD., Ilistructor ill Medicine.
DU~CAN C. HETHERINGTON, 1LD., IlIStruc/or ill Anatcnny.
S. JOHN HOUSE, M.D., Ilistructor ill Clinical Medicine.
HOLLIS E. JOHNSON, M.D., Instructor ill Clinical Medicine.
E. A. LANE, M.D., Instrllctor ill Epidemiology.
JOHN S. LAWRENCE, M.D., Illstructor i,l Medicine.
JOHN M. LEE, M.D., Instructor ill Clillical Pediatrics.
WILLIAM LITTERER, M.D., Instructor in Applied Bacteriology.
KARL E. MASON, M.D., Instructor ill Anatomy.
C. C. MCCLURE, M.D., Instructor in Clillical Surgery in charge of Radiology.
P. G. MORRISSEY, M.D., Instructor in Clinical Medicine and in Clillical Urology.
H. S. MUSTARD, M.D., IlIstrrutor i,l Child HygiClle.
W. E. REYNOLDS, M.D., Instructor in Clinical Medicine.
HOWARD ROBINSON, M.S., Ills/ructor ill Biological Chemistry.
W. K. SHARP, JR., Instructor in Public Health Admillistration.
LARKIN SMITH, M.D., Illstructor in Clinical Medicille.
H. C. STEWART, M.D., hlstructor ill Vital Statistics.
E. Y. 'VALKER, M.D., IlIStructor ill Obstetrics and Gynecology.
ASSISTANTS
E. H. BARKSDALE, M.D., Assistant ill SlIrgery.
ADAM N. BOYD, M.D., Assistant ill Pathology.
G. H. BRADLEY, M.D., Assistant ;'1C/i'licaJ Pediatrics.
ROBERT R. BROW~. M.D., Assistant ill Clinical Orthopedic Surgery.
CECIL R. BRADFORD, M.D., Assistant ill Clinical GYlU!cology.
J. L. BRYA~, M.D., Assistallt ill Clinical Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 9 RAy C. BUNCH, M.D., Assistant in Clinical Medicine.
JOH~ C. BURCH, M.D., Assistant ill Clinical Gynrcology.
JERE W. CALDWELL,M.D., Assistcult in Clinical Ophthalmology alld Otolar)'lIgology.
GEORGEK. CARPE~TER, M.D., Assistant iI' Clinical Orthopedic Surgery.
E. B. CAYCE, M.D., F.A.C.S., Assistant ill Clinical Ophthal- mology and Otolar)'lIgology.
J. S. CAYCE, M.D., Assistant in Clinical Obstetrics.
W. J. CORE, M.D., Assistcult in Clinical Surgery.
H. M. Cox, M.D., Assistallt in Clinical Surgery.
J. P. CRAWFORD,M.D., Assistant illClillical Ophthalmology and Otolar)'lIgology.
CARLR. CRUTCHFIELD, M.D., Assistallt in Clinical Surgery.
T. \V. DAILEY, M.D., Assistallt ill Clinical Medicine.
~[URRAY B. DAVIS, M.D., Assistallt ill Clinical Surgery.
W. S. FARMER, M.D., Assistant ill Clinical Psychiatry.
JOSEPH W. FENN, M.D., Assistallt in Clinical Pediatrics.
'V. L. FLE~IING, Assistant ill Bacteriology.
W. O. FLOYD, M.D., F.A.C.S., Assistant in Clinical Surgery.
J. J. FREY, M.D., Assislallt in Clinical Ophthallllology and
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H. C. GAYDEN, M.D., Assistallt in Clillical Urology.
]. PAUL GILBERT, M.D., Assistant in Clinical Medicine.
R. W. GRIZZARD,M.D., F.A.C.S., Assistcutt iI'Clinical Surgery.
L. S. HALL, M.D., Assistant in Obsletrics and Gynecology.
C. M. HAMILTON, M.D., Assistant in Cli/lical Dermatology.
FREDERICKE. HASTY, M.D., Assistant in Clinical Ophthalmology alld OtolarY/lgolog)'.
ROGERS NATHANIEL HERBERT, M.D., Assislant in Clinical Proctology.
J. B. HIBBITTS, JR., M.D., Assistant in Clinical Medicine.
GEORGES. JOHNSON, M.D., Assist(JIlt in Surgery.
HOWARD KING, M.D., Assislallt in Clinical DN'1IIatology.
LEON M. LANIER, M.D., Assistant in Clinical Dermotology.
M. S. LEWIS, M.D., Assistallt in Clinical Pedialrics and Clini- cal Obstetrics.
L. D. Lm'E, M.D., Assislallt in Clillical Psychiatry.
C. S. McMURRAY, M.D., Assistallt in Clinical Surgery.
EDGAR MCPEAK, M.D., Assistant in Medicine.
THEODOREMORFORD,M.D., Assislallt ill Clinical Obsletrics cmG Gynecology.
J. B. NAIVE, 1LD., Assislant in Clinical Surgery.
DEWITT NEIGHBORS, M.D., Assistant in Medicine.
M. F. NUNEZ, M.D., Assistant ill Pathology.
JOHN OVERTON, M.D., F.A.C.S., Assistant in Clinical GYllecology.
IRVING PARKHURST, M.D., Assistant in Pathology.
RICHARD HUBERT PERRY, M.S., M.D., Assistallt in Clinical Pediatrics.
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BRUCE P'PooL, M.D., Assistant in Clinical Ophthalmology and Otolar:!/Ilgology.
C. W. PRICE, M.D., Assistant in Clinical Psychiatry.
E. L. ROBERTS, M.A., M.D., Assistant in Clinical Ophthalmology alld Otolaryngology.
S. T. Ross, M.D., Assistn'lt in Clinical Surgery.
hlOGINE ROSE, Assistall' 'I Biological Chl'lnistry.
BENJAMIN HOWARD! IIINS, M.A., Research Assistant in Pharmacology.
A. L. SHARBER, M.D., F.A.C.S., AssistOJlt in Clinical G)'n- ecolog:)I.
N. S. SHOFNER, M.D., Assistant in Clinical Surgery.
AMIE SIKES, M.D., Assistant in Clinical Medicille.
CHARLES M. SMITH, M.D., Assistallt ill Surgery.
\VILLIAM A. SULLIVAN, M.D., Assistallt in Clillical Surgery.
HARLIN TUCKER, M.D., Assistant ill Clinical G)'neeology and Obstetrics.
EDNA H. TOMPKINS, M.D .. Rest'arch Assistant in Anatomy.
A. E. V AN NESS, M.D., Assistallt in Clinical Obstclrics.
ROBERT JAY WARNER, M.D., Assistant in Clinical Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology.
J. T. WATKINS, M.D., Assistant i,l Clinical Urology.
JOSEPH D. WILSON, M.D., Assistant ill Pathology.
M. C. WILSON, M.D., AssistOJlt ill Clinical Obstl'lrics.
WILLIAM W. WILKF.RSON, JR., M.D., Assistallt ill Clinical Ophthalmology alld Otolaryngology.
SCOTT WILKINSON, M.D., Assistallt ill Pediatrics.
CHARLES P. WILSON, M.D., Assistallt ill Medicine.
S. T. WOODRUFF, M.D., Assistallt ill Clillical Pediatrics.
TOM B.ZERFOSS, M.D., Assistallt ill C/illica/ Sllrger)'.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 11
Barney Brooks Robert Caldwell
OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES OF THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
The Faculty of the School of }'lcdicine is composed of all thc officers of administration and instruction above and including
the rank of assistant professor.
The dean is ex-officio a member of all standing committees of the faculty.
Executive Faculty
James H. Kirkland,E.l"-officio Walter E. Garrey
Barney Brooks G. Canby Robinson,ChainnCJII
\\' orccster A. Bryan Ernest \V. Goodpasture Lucius E. Burch William G. Kcnnon Glcnn E. Cullen Paul D. Lamson Robert S. Cunningham Waller S. Leathers
John A. Witherspoon Committee.
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION
G. Canby Robinson, Chairll/01I
Perry Bromberg Robert S. Cunningham Barney Brooks Beverly Douglas Lucius E. Burch Ernest \V. Goodpasture Glenn E. Cullen Waller S. Leathers
COMMI'ITEES ON PROMOTION AND GRADUATION
Beverly Douglas, Chairmall First Year
Glenn E. Cullen Walter E. Garrey Robert S. Cunningham Francis H. Swett
Second Year
Ernest \V. Goodpasture Paul D. Lamson Charles E. King James M. Neill
Hugh J. Morgan Third Year
S. C. Cowan J. Owsley Manier G. Canby Robinson
Barney Brooks Lucius E. Burch C. S. Burwell
Fourt" Year
G. Canby Robinson Beverly Douglas Waller S. Leathers Horton Casparis
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COMMITTEE OF THE LIBRARY
Robert S.
Robert Caldwell Glenn S. Cullen
Cunningham, Chairman James M. Neill C. S. Burwell W. C. Dixon
COMMITTEE ON THE SCHOOL OF NURSIl'OG
\Val1er S. Leathers, Chairman Edith P. Brodie, Secretary Barney Brooks J. Owsley Manier Horton Casparis Augusta Mathieu Walter L. Fleming G. Canby Robinson
Ada Bell Stapleton Mrs. Annie G. Bromwell, Registrar
Mrs. Pearl Hedges, Librarian John T. Kercheval, Bllrsar A. E. Godwin,Assistallt Secretary
THE HOSPITAL COMMITTEE OF THE MEDICAL FACULTY
Robinson, Chairman
Ernest W. Goodpasture William D. Haggard Augusta K Mathieu William H. Witt G. Canby
Edith P. Brodie Barney Brooks Lucius E. Burch
Clarence P. Connell, Seety.
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BOARD OF MANAGERS
OFFICERS
George B. Winton, President W. O. Tirrill, Vice-President Clarence P. Connell,Secretary
J. P. W. Brown C. Remice Clements Clarence P. Connell John E. Edgerton Bernard Fensterwald W. T. Hale, Jr.
Graham Hall
MEMBERS
James H. Kirkland Charles B. H. Loventhal James H. Parkes G. Canby Robinson W. O. Tirrill Vernon Tupper George B. Winton
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE THE ADMINISTRATION STAFF
Clarence P. Connell,Superintendent
Augusta K.Mathieu, R. N., Assistant Superi7ltendenl Edith P. Brodie, Superintendent of Nurses
Naomi Skogberg, Admitting Officer John T. Kercheval, Cashier THE PROFESSIONAL STAFF
MEDICINE
G. Canby Robinson, Physician-in-Cllief John A. Witherspoon, Smior Ph~Jsician
PHYSICIANS
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W. H. Witt C. S. Burwell H. J. Morgan Sam P. Bailey F. B. Dunklin O. N. Bryan J. O. Manier Jack Witherspoon R. C. Derivaux
J. B.
T. R. Harrison S. John House P. G. Morrissey Ray C. Bunch J. Paul Gilbert Arnie Sikes W. E. Reynolds Larkin Smith T. W. Dailey Hibbitts, Jr.
Owen H. Wilson John M. Lee Joseph W. Fenn Richard H. Perry
PEDIATRICIANS
Horton R. Casparis Katherine Dodd M. S. Lewis S. T. Woodruff S. S. Crockett
J. M. King C. M. Hamilton
NEUROLOGISTS AND PSYCHIATRISTS
A. W. Harris
DERMATOLOGISTS
E. E. Brown Howard King Leon M. Lanier
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
John R. Lawrence
ASSISTANT RESIDENT PHYSICIANS
Edgar McPeak DeWitt Neighbors
Charles L. Wilson Scott Wilkinson W. W. Chrisman
INTERKES
H. O. Deaton F. B. Kimzey
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SURGERY
Barney Brooks, SlIrgeOIl-il/-Chicf Duncan Eve, Sellior Surgeoll
Richard Barr Robert Caldwell Duncan Eve, Jr.
Beverly Douglas David R. Pickens H. W. Cox Murray B. Davis R. W. Grizzard C. S. McMurray S. T. Ross W. A. Sullivan
SURGEONS
W. A. Bryan W. D. Haggard William McCabe T. D. McKinney W. C. Bilbro, Jr.
c.
R. Crutchfield W. O. Floyd R. N. Herbert J. B. Naive N. S. Shofner T. B. ZerfossPerry Bromberg P. G. Morrissey
R. Boyd Bogle
OPHTHAL~roLOGISTS AND OTOLARYNGOLOGISTS
George H. Price 11. M. Cullom
\V. G. Kennon Eugene Orr
Robert E. Sullivan J. L. Bryan J ere W. Caldwell E. B. Cayce
J. P. Crawford J. J. Frey
F. E. Hasty Bruce P'Pool
E. L. Roberts R. J. Warner
W. W. Wilkerson, Jr.
UROLOGISTS
H. C. Gayden C. F. Anderson H. M. Douglass
ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS
R. W. Billington Adam G. Nichol
Robert R.Brown George K. Carpenter
DENTAL SURGEONS
Walter Morgan
RADIOLOGIST
C. C. McClure
REsIDENT SURGEON
Alfred Blalock
ASSISTANT RESIDENT SURGEONS
E. H. Barksdale George S. Johnson
INTERNES
E. A. Cunningham G. Y. Graves John B. Wear
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY Lucius E. Burch, Gynecologist-in-Chief
OBSTETRICIANS
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J, T. Altman S. C. Cowan J. S. Cayce Theodore Morford
W. C. Dixon J. G. Gallagher Cecil R. Bradford Theodore Morford Douglas Seward
A. N. Hollabaugh Cecil R. Bradford :M. S. Lewis A. E. Van Ness
GYNECOLOGISTS
H. M. Tigert McPheeters Glasgow John C. Burch John Overton A. L. Sharber Harlin Tucker
RESIDE:-lT OBSTETRICIAN AND GYNECOLOGIST
E. Y. Walker
ASSISTANT RESIDE:-lT OBSTETRICAN AND GYNECOLOGIST
L. S. Hall
PATHOLOGY
Ernest \V. Goodpasture, Pathologist Arthur W. Wright, Assistant Pathologist
ASSISTANT RESIDENT PATHOLOGISTS
Adam N. Boyd J. D. Wilson
HOSPITAL SOCIAL SERVICE
*Mrs. A. K. Gabrielle, Special Department ill Medicine and SlIrgery
Mary K. Ratterman, Medical Social Work Ellen Wallace, SlIrgical Social Work
"This worker Is supported by the NashvllJe Chapter of the American Red Croaa.
16 V AND E RBI L TUN I V E R SIT Y GENERAL STATEMENT
HISTORY
Vanderbilt Uniyersity owes its foundation to the munificence of Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York, who on March 27, 1873, made a donation of $500,000 for the purpose of establishing a university. This do- nation was subsequently increased to $1,000,000.
Further donations were made bv l\fr. \V. H. Vander- bilt, son of the founder, and by
1'.1
r. Cornelius Vander- bilt, Mr. W. K.Vanderbilt and Mr. F. \Y. Vanderbilt, grandsons of the founder. The total gi fts of the Van- derbilt family amount to oyer three miilion dollars.Other gifts for the general endowment of the Univer- sity have been made by many patrons and friends.
Vanderbilt University first granted the degree of Doc- tor of Medicine in 1875. In 1895 a complete reorgani- zation of the Medical School was undertaken, and the University erected a building on the corner of Elm Street and Fifth Avenue, South, which was considered at that time an adequate and modern lI,Iedical School plant. The grounds and facilities of the medical school were greatly extended in 1911 by the purchase of the campus and buildings of the George Peabody College for Teachers, this purchase having been made possible through the generous contribution of Mr. W. K. Van- derbilt for this purpose.
In May, 1913, Mr. Andrew Carnegie contributed
$200,000 to the University to be used for the erection and equipment of a building for the laboratories of the medical school, and later gave $800,000 as endowment of the school. The funds for the laboratory building were not used for building purposes at the time of the gift, but have been expended in erecting the part of the new medical school plant which is designated as the Carnegie Building.
In 1915 Mr. William Litterer, a capitalist of Nash- ville, donated to the University the former medical building of the University of Nashville. This build- ing contained a large assembly hall, class rooms and laboratories of bacteriology and anatomy, and added much to the facilities of the school. This gift is com-
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memorated in the new buildings by a tablet which desig- nates the space dcyoted to bacteriology as The Litterer Laboratory.
In view of the past record of the school and in yiew of thc fayorable location of Nashville as an educational and medical center, Vanderbilt University was selected by the General Education Board of New York as offer- ing an excellent opportunity for the development of medical education, especially in the Southern States.
Accordingly in 1919 this Board appropriated the sum of
$4,000,000 to enable the University to effect a complete reorganization of its School of !\ledicine in accordance with the most exacting demands of modern medical education. The medical faculty entered into this pro- ject with a spirit of eager co-operation.
At this time the directors of the Galloway Memorial Hospital deeded to the University its unfinished hospital building located adjacent to the School of Medicine, which represented an expenditure of about $250,000.
Plans were then drawn for completing this hospital building and for making it part of a larger plant for the school of Medicine.
In June, 1921, after careful study, the program for the new medical plant was modified by the action of the Board of Trust, as it became evident that much was to be gained by uniting the School of Medicine with the rest of the University. They were then situated about two miles apart. It was decided, therefore, to construct an entirely new plant on the main campus of the University, and to abandon the developments on the South Campus. This proposition had been con- sidered many times in past years, but had always been abandoned because of lack of means. At this time, however, the advisability of the move was generally recognized, and it became possible by the active co- operation of the Carnegie Corporation and the Gen- eral Education Board. By the action of this latter body the University authorities were permitted to use what was needed of the initial appropriation of $4,000,- 000 for the erection of a medical school and hospital on the 'vVest Campus. The General Education Board and the Carnegie Corporation then united, each giving half
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of $3,000,000 to provide additional endowment for the School of Medicine for its operation in the new plant.
The new plant, consisting of a hospital, laboratories for all departments, a school of nursing and power plant, is now completed, approximately $3,500,000 hav- ing been spent for its erection and equipment. The new plant was put into operation in September, 1925.
There remains of the original Carnegie gifts and the appropriations by the General Education Board and the Carnegie Corporation a sum of $5,000,000 for en- dowment of the School of ~,redicine and of the Van- derbilt University Hospital. During the period of re- organization of the school, other needs not fully pro- vided for became apparent which have been met by further appropriations running over a period of years by the General Education Board and the Carnegie Corp- oration, special grants having been made by the first named Board for traveling fellowships for newly ap- pointed members of the faculty, for the development of a department of preventive medicine, and for other general purposes.
\Vhen the new plant was nearing completion an ap- propriation of $100,000 was made to the University by the Rockefeller Foundation, to be used over a period of five years for the purpose of furthering the de- velopment of nursing education. This sum places the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing on a sound educational basis, comparable to that of the School of l\1edicine, with which it is closely co-ordinated.
BUILDINGS
The new building of the School of Medicine is lo- cated in the southeast corner of the University Campus.
Itis constructed in the collegiate Gothic style, the struc- ture being of concrete with brick and limestone walls.
The total length of the building f rom north to south is 458 feet and from east to west 337 feet. The floor area is 255,000 square feet. The building is in reality a series of buildings brought together so that they are all under one roof. The laboratories of the various departments of the l\ledical School are grouped about a court, which is open on the north side, toward the
S C H 0 0 L 0 F ~rED I C I N E 19 main part of the campus. The entrance to the Medical School is in the center of this court. The building on the east side of the court is designated as the Carnegie Building, and contains the laboratories of biological chemistry. pharmacology and physiology, one floor being (b'oted to each of these subjects. The building on the west side of the court contains the laboratories of gross and microscopic anatomy, of pathology, and of bacteriology. In the building forming the south side of the court are the administrative offices of the school, large student laboratories. the Department of Pre- ventive ~redicine, the laboratory of surgical pathology and the surgical operating rooms of the hospital.
Around another open court, similar in size and pro- portions to the medical school court, but opening to- ward the sOllth, are the hospital wards and an extensive out-patient department. The building on the west side of this court, containing the surgical portion of the hospital, is designated as the Galloway Building, and commemorates the donations made to the Galloway Me- morial Hospital which have contributed toward the erection of the new medical plant.
The two buildings connecting the buildings of the north and the south courts contain laboratories, lecture rooms and the library, and form the connecting links between the hospital and the medical school. The laboratories in these buildings are arranged especially for the use of the clinical departments of the school.
Another building extending toward the east from the main structure and facing on the Hillsboro Road, built about a closed court, contains the entrance to the hos- pital and its administrative offices, the living quarters of the resident staff, the kitchens, and on the top floor two wards for private patients. The hospital contains 200 beds.
The entire plant is so arranged that there is free communication between the various departments of the school and the hospital, and the library, with its com- modious reading room, is in the center of the building.
The new medical school is arranged to care for two hundred students.
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The building for the school of nursing is in con- formity with the building of the medical school. Itis directly north of the medical school building, facing Hillsboro Road.
The new power house is located on the west side of the campus, facing Twenty-fourth Avenue. It serves the medical school and the hospital with steam and electricity, being connected with them by a large tunnel.
It also supplies the other University buildings with steam. In addition to the boiler plant and electrical equipment, the power house contains the hospital laundry.
FACILITIES FOR INSTRUCTION
The new buildings of the school of Medicine con- tain all the necessary departments, facilities and equip- ment for the conduct of a modern hospital and for the teaching of all the subjects contained in the medical curriculum. The laboratory and clinical facilities are closely co-ordinated, with the purpose that there shall be a ready flow of ideas between the laboratories of the medical sciences and the wards and out-patient de- partment. Teaching laboratories, especially designed for their respective uses are provided for gross and microscopic anatomy, biological chemistry, physiology, bacteriology, pathology, pharmacology, preventive medicine, and for the clinical departments.
There are also a number of lecture rooms equipped with projection apparatus and other modern accessories for teaching, as well as an amphitheatre for clinical demonstrations which can accommodate practically the entire student body. Besides meeting the needs fully for the usual type of medical instruction, each depart- ment is provided with accommodations for a large number of advanced students and research workers.
The hospital consists of six units of from 26 to 40 beds. These units are designed for the following uses:
One unit for male medical cases, one for female medical and pediatric cases, one for male surgical cases, one for female surgical and obstetrical cases, half a unit for private medical cases, half a unit for private surgical cases, and one divided unit for male and female
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colored patients. The entire hospital is operated by members of the teaching staff of the School of Medicine.
Adjoining each ward of the hospital there is a labo- ratory equipped for the more generally used diagnostic laboratory procedures in which students are required to perform the various tests and examinations which the cases assigned to them may require. Adjoining each ward laboratory is a student's writing and study room, provided with lockers for their microscopes and other instruments they are required to own.
The out-patient department occupies the entire first floor of the southern portion of the building. It is especially designed for teaching and contains a series of examining, treatment and teaching rooms for general medicine and surgery, pediatrics, neurology, dermatol- ogy, dentistry, orthopedic surgery, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, obstetrics, gynecology, and urology. A waiting room adjoins each department, and several small clinical laboratories are placed in convenient lo- cations. A demonstration room, accommodating about one hundred students, is also provided in the out-patient department.
The department of radiology, equipped for fluoro- scopic examinations, the making of radiograms, X-ray treatment and for demonstration and study of radio- grams, adjoins the out-patient department.
The surgical operating rooms are placed over the central portion of the medical school court, and face north. There are three large and one small operating rooms, and an obstetrical delivery room. A room for students is provided on the operating room floor.
The library of the medical school contains at present over 14,000 volumes, and has been greatly augmented by the gift to the Unhoersity of the library of the Nash- ville Academy of Medicine. Approximately 200 medi- cal periodicals are received regularly. The files of med- ical journals are being completed by the acquisition of back numbers as rapidly as they can be secured. Plans for extensive expansion of the library have been formu- lated. The library is in charge of trained librarians
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who assist students in the use of the literature. The library is open not only to the staff and students of the school but also to members of the Nashville Academv of Medicine and to other members of the medical pro- fession.
N ear the library and directly behind the entrance to the medical school, rooms are provided for the museum. Between the library and the museum and connected with each, two rooms have been set aside as a student lounge. In the smaller room a secretary of the Y. M. C. A. has a desk, and is ready to advise the students and to lead and assist them with the organiza- tion of the student body for religious, social and rec- reational purposes. These facilities are for the pur- pose of encouraging comradeship between members of different classes and of allowing free discussions of medical and social topics away from the restraints of the classroom, hospital and laboratory.
Besides the clinical facilities offered by the wards and out-patient department of the University Hospital, the School of :Medicine has been granted the professional control of the Nashville General Hospital during eight months of the year, and may use its two hundred beds freely for clinical instruction. Groups of students are assigned to work there, especially in physical diagnosis.
Teaching privileges have also been accorded to the school by St. Thomas Hospital, the Baptist Hospital, the Central State Hospital for the Insane, the Isolation Hospital and the Davidson County Tuberculosis Hospital.
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION
The School of Medicine will admit only (1) grad- uates of collegiate institutions of recognized standing and (2) seniors in absentia of such institutions who will receive the Bachelor's degree from their colleges after having completed successfully at least one year of the work of the School of Medicine. A properly accredited statement to this effect from the colleges must accompany all applications for admission as sen- iors in absentia. A form is furnished for this purpose.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 23 Every candidate must present evidence of having satisfactorily completed the equivalent of the following requirements:
1. Biology; 2 full courses of 16 semester hours, a semester hour being the credit value of sixteen weeks' work, consisting of one lecture or recitation period or at least two hours of laboratory work per week.
(a) Introductory course, 8 semester hours including at least 2 semester hours of laboratory work. The course may be general biology, zoology, or zoology and botany, but not more than half may be botany.
(b) Advanced courses, 8 semester hours including at least 2 semester hours of laboratory work. Verte- brate anatomy and embryology should be included, but they may be presented in connection with other courses or independently. Courses in physiology and hygiene, sanitation, entomology, special bacteriology, histology and similar subjects covered in the medical curriculum will not be accepted as part of the premedical college requirements in biology. When further work in biology can be taken, special attention is called to the value of a course in general physiology, in which emphasis is placed on the application of physics and chemistry to Iife processes.
2. Chemistry; 20 semester hours.
(a) General inorganic chemistry, 8 semester hours, including 4 semester hours of laboratory work. Quali- tative analysis may be included as general chemistry.
(b) Quantitative analysis. 4 semester hours, includ- ing at least 2 semester hours of laboratory work.
(c) Organic chemistry, 8 semester hours including 4 semester hours of laboratory work.
( d) Physical Chemistry of Solution.
It is urged that the preparation in chemistry include an introductory course in the physical chemistry of solution.
Those students who have not had such a course are advised to prepare themselves as directed under Bio- chemistry, page 36.
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3. Physics; 8 semester hours. including at least 2 semester hours of laboratory work. The first year of college mathematics should be prerequisite to the course in physics. It is desirable that emphasis be placed on quantitative laboratory work.
4. Psychology; 4 semester hours. It is desirable that emphasis should be placed on experimental psychology or behaviorism.
5. English and composition; 6 semester hours.
6. Foreign languages; 12 semester hours.
(a) French, 6 semester hours, based on two units in high school or their equivalent in college.
(b) German, 6 semester hours, based on two units in high school or their equivalent in college.
College credit in German or French is not required of students who can demonstrate by examination a reading knowledge of the languages.
The number of students admitted to the first year class of the School of ~Iedicine is limited to fifty.
This number will be selected, in case there are more than fifty applicants, according to the quality of their college work and according to the value of the work for which they have credit in relation to the study of medicine. Each student is requirer.! to furnish tht names of two persons, as references, preferably frum among his science teachers, when filing his application.
A small unmounted photograph is also required at this time.
\ Vomen are admitted on equal terms with men.
Application forms may be obtained by applying to the Registrar, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine.
Applications for admission should be filed at as early a date as possible, and not later than June 1Sth of the year during which admission is sought. Applica- tions will be passed upon by the committee on cre- dentials and applicants notified shortly after this date.
Successful applicants are required to make a deposit of $10.00 within two weeks after notification of their
S C H 0 0 L 0 F ~{E DIe I N E 25 admission. This deposit is not returnable, but is credited toward the first tuition payment. Failure to make this deposit within the specified time causes the applicant to forfeit his place in the school, which may be filled by another applicant who meets the entrance requirements.
REGISTRATION
All students are required to register and to pay the fees for the first half of the year on September 22 or 23. 1926, and for the second half year on or hefore January 31, 1927. Previously matriculated students who fail to register on the days designated will be charged a fee of $3.00 for late registration.
THE MEDICAL-SCIENTIFIC COURSE OF THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE
In order to meet fully the requirements for entrance to ?\Iedicine, but at the same time to retain the cultural value of academic work and yet effect a saving of a year, the College offers the Medical-Scientific Course covering three years. Students who have satisfactorily completed this course and who matriculate in the School of Medicine will, upon completion of the first year in that School, receive twelve hours' credit, thus fulfilling all the requirements for the Bachelor's degree.
Students desiring information in regard to this course should write to Dean W. L. 'Fleming of the College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University.
ADMISSION TO ADVANCED STANDING
Students may be admitted to advanced standing when vacancies occur under the following conditions. Ap- plications for advanced standing should be filed ac- cording to the procedure described for admission to the first year class, acceptable applicants being required to make the same deposit of $10.00. Applicants must furnish acceptable evidence of having completed the conditions of admission as stated above, and of having satisfactorily completed in an accredited medical school all the work required of students of the class they de- sire to enter. They must also present a certificate of honorable dismissal from the medical school or schools
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they have attended. Examinations may be required on any of the medical courses taken in another school.
EXAMINATIONS AND PROMOTIONS
Successful completion of the various courses of the Medical curriculum 2nd the assignment of grades are determined by the character of the students' daily work and the results of examinations. Examinations may be written, oral or practical, and they may be held either at the completion of each course or at the end of the academic year. The quality of the work of each student is considered, usually at the end of each trimes- ter, by a committee composed of the instructors re- sponsible for his important courses.
Students who fail in one major subject are required to carryon additional work in the subject during at least one trimester before they may be re-examined.
Students who fail in two major subjects may be re- quested to withdraw from the school, provided the two subjects are not in the same department. Students may be given credit for a subject by re-examination, but failures remain on their records, and may be counted as a cause for requesting withdrawal, provided an- other failure in a major course occurs. Major Courses are as follows:
First Year-Anatomy 1, Anatomy 2and 3, Biochem- istry, and Physiology 1.
Second Year-Physiology 2, Bacteriology, Pathology, Pharmacology, l\ledicine 2and 3.
Third Year-l\Jedicine 5, 6 and 9, Surgery 3, Surgery 4 and 5. Obstetrics.
Fourth Year-Medicine 8 and 9, Surgery 4 and 6, Preventive l\Iedicine, Pediatrics, Gynecology and Ob- stetrics.
To each course in the curriculum a value is attached, which is used in determining total grades and class standing. The grade obtained in each course is mul- tiplied by the figure representing its value. The aver- age grade for the year is obtained by adding the com- puted grades and dividing this sum by the sum of the course values.
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~o information regarding grades is given out from the office of the dean. Students will be notified when- ever the committee on promotion and graduation con- s
