Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1916.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Date:
1916
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1916. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    available. Such tests serve to evaluate methods used in treatment of this disease, and with them we are in a position to test out different forms of treatment with a reasonable hope of so improving them that we can de¬ crease the frightful toll of this disease among the older adults of the community. What is needed for this is money to pay trained workers for a study of at least five years to properly judge of results, because this disease must be followed for a long time, inasmuch as in many 6f these patients the disease progresses slowly though steadily. Such an investigation has seemed so important and the present time so opportune that work has been begun on the basis of a grant of $2000 per year for three years from the Proctor Fund of the Harvard Medical School for the Study of Chronic Disease, which sum pays the salary of one investigator (Dr. O’Hare). A trained nurse and a chemical technician have been employed in addi¬ tion, although no money so far has been forthcoming for such salaries. To finance adequately a study of nephri¬ tis we should have available $5000 to $10,000 per year for five years. I hope very much some donor or donors will be found during the coming year ready to back up this work with the needed funds. Bronchial Asthma The gift to the hospital by Mr. Charles F. Choate, Jr., for the study of bronchial asthma has made it possi¬ ble to investigate very thoroughly a number of such patients. Especial attention has been given to the re¬ action of asthmatics to proteid substances from various sources, plant, animal and bacterial. In many cases a high degree of sensitivity to a single proteid is found, and this sensitivity appears to be a very important causative factor in the disease, though not the sole factor; for it is