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COLLEGES AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS 73
of the faculty of the Cornell University Medical College for medical
instruction. The services thus intrusted to the college include, con
tinuously, ninety medical beds, ninety surgical beds, sixty beds de
voted to urology, and a neurological service, and for one-half of the
year fifty-four obstetrical beds, together with equal privileges with
the other three divisions in a continuous opportunity for instruction
and research in the wards devoted to the treatment of alcoholic
diseases, tuberculosis, and the psychopathic diseases. There are also
sixty beds for instruction in gynecology by members of the staff as
signed for this duty by the college.
The Memorial Hospital became affiliated with the Cornell Uni
versity Medical College in 19 14 through the generosity of the late
Dr. James Douglas, who provided for the hospital an endowment for
the study and treatment of cancer and allied diseases on condition
that the hospital devote itself wholly to that work. Under the condi
tions of this union the college has the responsibility for the medical
and surgical work of the hospital.
The medical direction of the John E. Berwind Maternity Clinic
is under the control of the Cornell University Medical College, which
nominates the resident and house staffs. Cornell students are assigned
to the clinic for practical instruction under the direction of the Pro
fessor of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
The Russell Sage Institute of Pathology has been affiliated with
the Second Medical (Cornell) Division of Bellevue Hospital since
1913. Endowed by Mrs. Russell Sage in 1907, it has provided funds
for research in pathology and medicine.
By courtesy of the trustees of the New York Nursery and Child's
Hospital, Cornell students are there instructed in pediatrics. The
members of the teaching staff have official connection with the
hospital.
By courtesy of the Neurological Institute, section work in nervous
diseases is offered to third-and fourth-year students in the wards and
out-patient department of this hospital.
The Professor of Psychiatry is Director of the Psychiatric In
stitute, Ward's Island, which is the teaching and research center for
the entire New York State Hospital system. The lecture rooms,
pathological material, and clinical facilities of the Institute are avail
able for the teaching of medical students.
At the Manhattan State Hospital, Ward's Island, for the care
and treatment of mental diseases, where more than five thousand
patients are accommodated, the Professor of Psychiatry is enabled,
by courtesy of the Superintendent, to utilize this clinical material
for the instruction of students.
Members of the faculty hold appointments in other hospitals and
dispensaries of the city and are thus enabled to utilize for teaching
purposes a quantity and variety of clinical material. This is used
from time to time as necessity or opportunity arises. The major part
of the bedside and clinical instruction is, however, purposely conduct
ed in Bellevue Hospital and New York Hospital.