A catalogue of the Pathological Cabinet of the New York Hospital / classified and arranged by Robert Ray. With a memoir of the author [by John Watson].

  • New York (State). Hospital. Pathological Museum.
Date:
1860
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Credit: A catalogue of the Pathological Cabinet of the New York Hospital / classified and arranged by Robert Ray. With a memoir of the author [by John Watson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    It is proper here to add, that his collection of medical books has been presented to the Library of the New-York Hospital, a donation which mnst have cost not less than five Imndred dollars, and a bequest worthy of imitation. Again, in practical training, he gave due attention to dis- section, and to morbid anatomy in connection with the study of disease at the bed-side. ' His knowledge of materia medica, acquired by reading, he improved by the examination of spe- cimens, and by ofiiciating for several months in the apothe- cary's department at the Hospital, as an assistant, in preparing, compounding, and dispensing medicines ; and long before his official connection with the Hospital, he was in the habit of acting as a volimteer in the wards of the sick, and in tran- scribing the records of the cases. He attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Sur- geons ; and was examined there preliminarily to graduation, and preparatory to his examination for the Hospital in the spring of 1856. On this occasion he defended a thesis on Hospital Gangrene, the materials of which were derived, for the most part, from cases under his own observation. Tliis essay was published in the New-York Medical Times, volume fifth, August, 1856. The degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon him in October following. In May, 1856, he was appointed junior assistant in the sur- gical department of the Hospital; and passing through the usual grades of service, he finished his term of duty as house- surgeon, in April, 1858. I need hardly state that in the sev- eral capacities of junior assistant, senior assistant, and house- surgeon, his duties were faithfully and ably performed. He shrank from no responsibility, and from no labor, however arduous. Several important operations, in cases of emergency, were required of him, and these he performed with coolness, neatness, and success. His cases were all carefully recorded.