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CORNELL UNIVERSITY REGISTER
THE MEDICAL COLLEGE
Candidates for admission as students should consult the Announcement of the
Medical College, which will be furnished free on application to the Secretary, Cornell
University Medical College, First Avenue and Twenty-eighth Street, New York
City, or to the Secretary, Cornell University Medical College, Stimson Hall, Ithaca
N.Y.
The main division of the Medical College is situated at First Ave
nue and Twenty-eighth Street, New York City. The work of the
first year of the four-year course leading to the degree of Doctor of
Medicine (M.D.) is duplicated in the University at Ithaca, where a
distinct Faculty of Medicine is organized. Any student may take the
first year either in New York City or at Ithaca. All students take
the last three years of the course in New York City only.
The main college building comprises a medical school and dis
pensary, with principal entrance on First Avenue, opposite Bellevue
Hospital,
and occupies the entire block between Twenty-seventh and
Twenty-eighth Streets on First Avenue. The building is devoted
to the departments of anatomy, clinical pathology, chemistry, pathol
ogy, bacteriology, physiology, and medicine, and their laboratory
equipment. It was erected for the college in 1898 by Colonel Oliver
H. Payne, who subsequently gave the college an ample permanent
endowment.
The Loomis Laboratory, founded in 1886 by the same munificent
hand, serves the purpose of undergraduate instruction, in connection
with the laboratories in the college building. It has also been or
ganized as a research laboratory, and special departments have been
established in bacteriology, physiological chemistry, experimental
medicine, and pharmacology.
The Cornell University Medical College Clinic,
situated in the
main college building, is equipped for purposes of instruction. The
attendance in the clinic has averaged about 335 patients daily and it
has had about eighteen thousand new patients a year. The organiza
tion is such as to bring the clinic into close relation with the laboratory
and research agencies of the college. The department of roentgenol
ogy and the laboratory of clinical pathology are connected directly
with the clinic.
The New York Hospital has assigned its pathological service
and one-half of its medical and surgical services to the college for the
advancement of the college's teaching and research; this arrangement
was established in 19 13 by means of the gift to the hospital of a gener
ous fund by Mr. George F. Baker, a governor of the hospital. Under
this arrangement the University nominates the visiting staff of its
division and the laboratory staff and obtains the admission of its
students to the wards as clinical clerks.
The Bellevue Hospital, directly
opposite the main college building,
has twelve hundred beds and receives twenty-four thousand patients
annually. The hospital has been organized in four divisions, one of
which has been placed by the trustees of the hospital at the disposal