struction,
research, and the examination of suspected food and water, with Dr. V.C.
Vaughan, who had come to the University in 1875 as an assistant in the
Chemical Laboratory, as its first Director.

The first officially recognized Laboratory of Clinical Medicine was
established by Dr. Dock, when he came to the University in 1891, with
the purpose of carrying out the instrumental investigation of disease,
and teaching the technique of diagnosis. This was followed the next year
by demonstration courses in the different branches of medicine and
surgery. Dr. Dock was succeeded, upon his resignation in 1908, by Dr. A.
Walter Hewlett, California, '95, who returned to Leland Stanford, Jr.
University after six years' service.

A Surgical Laboratory, established soon after Dr. Charles de Nancrede,
Pennsylvania (M.D.), '69, came as Professor of Surgery, speedily proved
its educational value, and increasing facilities were offered students
for the demonstration of surgery on bodies and on animals, with the same
care taken as to antiseptics, asepsis, and dressings as in actual
operations. Dr. de Nancrede retired in 1917, and in 1919 Dr. Hugh Cabot,
Harvard, '94, succeeded to the chair. A Laboratory in Experimental
Pharmacology, still another instance of a brand new venture on the
University's part, was established in 1891 under Dr. John Jacob Abel,
'83. He only remained two years, however, and was succeeded by Dr.
Arthur R. Cushny, Aberdeen, '86, of London, under whom the new
laboratory assumed its present important place. Dr. Cushny returned to
the University College in London in 1905 and the Professorship of
Pharmacology eventually passed to Dr. Charles W. Edmunds, '01_m_, at
present Secretary of the Medical School. As the result of long effort on
the part of Dr. Herdman, who held the chair of Nervous Diseases, a State
Psychopathic Hospital, the first of its kind in the country, was
established at the University in 1903 under the joint supervision of the
Regents and a State Board, affording a practical laboratory and clinic
for students specializing in nervous diseases. It has been under the
direction of Dr. Albert M. Barrett, Iowa, '93, Professor of Psychiatry
since 1906.

The old make-shift hospital on the Campus was enlarged in 1876, but it
was never able to overtake the ever-increasing demand, and a new
building eventually became imperative. This came in 1891, when the
present Hospital, soon fated to go the way of the fir