Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1928.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Date:
1928
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1928. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    founder of St. Paul’s School, was one of the famous group of Louis’ American pupils and long held the Chair of Theory and Practice of Medicine in our School. The qualities of patriotism and of benevolence, the capacity for friendship, the feeling of local and institutional loyalty shown by his forbears were all inherited by F. C. Shattuck, and after his retirement from the Medical School as well as from his hospital positions on the expiration of the customary age limit, there was no abatement in his interest in these instuti- tions. In the name of two of his great friends, he established two fellowship funds. The first of them was the H. P. Walcott Fellowship in Medicine (1910); and subsequently on the death of Arthur Tracy Cabot who had been a beloved colleague at the Massachusetts General, a surgical fellowship was es¬ tablished in his name. The appointment of the Wal¬ cott fellow was left to a School committee; of the A. T. Cabot fellow to the Moseley Professor of Surgery. It was at this time that our hospital was being built and according to the arrangement between Brigham Hos¬ pital Trustees and Harvard Corporation the Surgeon- in-Chief to the new institution was to hold the Moseley Professorship, this being the oldest of the endowed surgical chairs. Owing to this arrangement the writer has had the privilege and satisfaction each year of selecting the appointees for this surgical fellowship. Though no strictures were made by the donor as to the place or character of the activities of the recipient, when the opportunity came to make the first appointment the hospital was not yet ready for occupancy and the only place where the nucleus of the first staff could find an opportunity for work was in the Laboratory of Surgi-