Vol. 4 DALLAS, TEXAS, FEBRUARY, 1949 No.1 Plan WouldMakeSWMC PartofU.T. College Trustees Would Give Properties to State For Expanded Program

An organized movement is being car­ ried on to make Southwestern Medical College a branch of the University of Texas. The movement was started by a group of University of Texas alumni together with doccors from over the state and has now assumed state-wide proportions. The trustees. of Southwestern Medical Foundation, meeting recently, gave recog­ nition tO the plan by voting co give the college tO the state, if it will be made a branch of the University of Texas. This decision was announced by Dr. Edward H. Cary, president of the Founda­ tion, co two committees named by pro­ ponents of the plan. If the proposal is carried out, South­ western Medical College would serve the same purpose as the present University of !fexas medical college in GalvestOn. Dr. V. R. Hurst of longview, who with others cook an active part in getting STUDENTS GET CARY AWARD-Dr. E. H. Cary, president of Southwestern the proposal before the public, cited a Medical Foundation, congratulates the first winners of the scholarships which friends need for a new state medical school to set up in his honor two years ago. The winners, all students of Southwestern Medical turn out more doctOrs for a state already College, are W . E. Huckabee, F. L. Crawford and Marjorie Sewell. hard-pressed medically. "Dallas, with its-already available clin­ ical facilities- unsurpassed by any of our First Three Cary Scholarships large eastern cities- is the logical location Presented to Medical Students for this important educational develop- ment," Dr. Hurst said. 1 The first Edward Henry Cary Scholar­ medicine at the college. A bill introduced in the legislature by ships have been awarded three students Franklin L. Crawford, fourth-year stu­ dent from Beaumont who has worked his Sen. Fred Harris of Dallas would appro­ of Southwestern Medical College for "de­ priate $3,600,000 co set up a medical serving scholastic achievement." way through medical school by perform­ ing special lab work at Parkland Hos­ branch of the University h_ere. All property The recipients are: pital. owned by the Foundation, Dr. Cary said, Marjorie Sewell, third-year student The three were chosen from a list of would be made available to the state from Abilene and a registered nurse who 11 applicants by a faculty committee witl!_out cost-a college site five minutes' is working her way through school as a named by the dean of the college. Value drive from the heart of the city, on Harry nurse. of each of the scholarships is $200. Hines Blvd., valued at $400,000 labora­ William E. Huckabee, fourth year stu­ The scholarships were created two tOries and equipment valued at $300,000 dent from Dallas who has done special years ago when friends of Dr. E. H. Cary, and a $100,000 library. research work in the department of (Continued on Page 2 ) (Continued on Page 2 ) Page 2 SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAl CENTER NEWS February, 1949 February, 1949 HEA V·Y STUDENT APPLICATIONS REFLECT Need for More Physici In Rural Areas Empha. NEED FOR INCREASED MEDICAL TRAINING ( Reprinted from Dallas New AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 31.-Texa The need for increased medical college more docrors, particularly in rura training facilities in Texas and the South­ Southwestern Medical College's and more medical schools, accorc two groups from the Stare Medica west is amply reflected in the number of Volunteer Faculty One of Best ciation. applications which Southwestern Medical Both the executive council a College is receiving from highly qualified Southwestern Medical College, now in Hines Boulevard which has been set aside rural health committees of the Stat young men and its seventh year, has one of the best re­ as a site for Dallas' medical center. ical Association mer in Austin rhi women, Dr. W. Lee serves of teachers in medical science in ~nd. Hart, dean of the col­ the nation- irs volunteer clinical faculty. SWMC Part of U. T. - - The executive council adopted lege, reports. This statement was made by Dr. W. lution favoring "all practical meas Lee Hart, dean of the college. (Continued from Page 1) "Southwest ern expand training facilities for n "Southwestern Medical College now Medical College will Dr. Cary has told the sponsors of the school students" and urging the ] has a total of 388 faculty members," ture to "take positive steps tO exp ~ have 68 openings in movement that the Foundation would use Dean Hart said. "Of this number 35 are state's medical school facilities." its n e x t freshman its endowment assets and money on hand resident faculty members, and the re­ Many hundreds of qualified s1 class-64 for medi­ tO supplement salaries of prominent maining 353 are members of our clinical medical professors. He said conversion of are denied admission tO medical cal students and four faculty who regularly are in the practice the Southwestern Medical College into a because facilities are lacking tc for medical art stu- DR. HART of their profession, but who give part branch of the University of Texas would them, said the resolution. It was dents- but already we have received more of their rime in teaching in the college in no way conflict with the University's by the·association's committee on r than 1,100 applications for these open­ without compensation." medical branch at Galveston. education and hospitals, headed 1 ings from throughout the United States," Within this group of volunteer medical If the Legislature enacts the Harris M. 0. Rouse of Dallas. reachers are numbered some of the out­ bill, he said, a state medical college could The Legislature now is being as Dean Hart said. standing specialists of the Southwest, open here next September 1 with an establish state medical schools in The bulk of the applications are from Dean Hart said. entering class of 100. That is the number and San Antonio. "It is a sincere tribute to the medical the Southwest, but virtually every state the Galveston school accepts each year. Dr. Harold M. Williams, executi profession of this area that these skilled retary for the association, declared in the nation is represented in the mount­ practitioners are willing to give so gener has both the problem of getting ing stack in the Dean's office. ously of their time in advancing medical Unusual Child Care doctOrs and of better disrributi skill and medical knowledge," Dean Hart Dean Hart said that extreme care is said. "Without the advantage of their Facilities Available physicians. exercised in selecting from the applicants volunteer instructions our students would To Students at SWMC The rural health committee also those students who apparently will best the Legislature tO provide for ti miss much in the way of practical, clinical From the standpoint of reaching young serve the future . medical needs of the experience arising from the day-ro-day more doctOrs in Texas, and for err physicians tO be better practitioners, upon general practice. Southwest. The selections are made by the demands on the practicing physician and Southwestern Medical College has the The rural health group wants th surgeon." advantage of one of the best Children's A

~S REFLECT Need for More Physicians In Rural Areas Ernphasi~ed TRAINING (Reprinted from Dallas News) AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 31.- Texas needs more doctors, particularly in rural areas, re's and more medical schools, according to • two groups from the Stare Medical Asso­ ?St ciation. Beth the executive council and rhe loulevard which has been ser aside rural health committees of rhe State Med­ ~ for Dallas' medical cemer. ical Association met in Austin this week end. C Part of U. T. - - The executive council adopted a reso­ lution favoring "all practical measures to ( Continued from Page 1 ) expand training facilities ' for medical :ary has told the sponsors of the school students" and urging the Legisla­ :nt that the Foundation would use ture to "take positive steps to expand the wment assets and money on hand state's medical school facilities." plement salaries of prominent Many hundreds of qualified students professors. He said conversion of are denied admission tO medical schools thwestern Medical College into a because facilities are lacking to train )f the University of Texas would them, said the resolution. It was drawn 'ay conflict with the University's by the·assooiation's committee on medical branch ar Galveston. education and hospitals, headed by Dr. e Legislature enacts the Harris M. 0. Rouse of Dallas. ;aid, a stare medical college could The Legislature now is being asked to PUERTO RICANS STUDY AT MEDICAL COLLEGE-Five PuertO Ricans are ~re next September 1 with an establish state medical schools in Dallas enrolled in Southwestern Medical College as a parr of a long-range plan to relieve class of 100. That is the number and San Antonio. the shortage of doctors in their island home. Under arrangements worked our with 'eston school accepts each year. Dr. Harold M. Williams, executive sec­ the Federal Government, Southwestern Medical College is one of a select group of retary for the association, declared Texas medical schools in the United States which admits one or more Puerto Rican students has both the problem of getting more each year. Shown left to right are VictOr Rivera, a sophomore; Cesar Collazo, an Air ual Child Care doctOrs and of better distribution of Corps veteran enrolled as a freshman; Manuel Amil, a sophomore; Orlando Salichs, :ties Available physicians. a junior; and Jafeth Ramirez, a senior who will graduate with the college's seventh :udents at SWMC The rural health committee also asked graduating class this year. the Legislature to provide for training the standpoint of reaching young more doctors in Texas, and for emphasis SWMC Scientists Give Report on ('l'Q" Fever ns tO be better practitioners, upon general practice. ·stern Medical College has the There is evidence that "Q" fever, the disease of stockyards and similar sur­ se of one of the best Children's The rural health group wants the Leg­ islature to set up scholarship loans for mysterious, influenza-like disease affecting roundings is inconclusive. Centers in America, Dr. E. H . the respiratory system, may be common "Q" fever is described as an acute esidem of the Foundation, reports. medical students who agree tO become general practitioners in rural communities. . to a limited degree throughout the illness characterized by fever, headache, :enter offers facilities unparalleled United Stares, two Southwestern Medical constitutional reaction and pneumonia. ·mire country for training in all Texas has about 8,000 doctOrs, includ­ College research men report. Its onset is fairly rapid. Headache and )f child care," Dr. Cary said. It ing 7,000 practicing physicians. The other Dr. Elias Strauss, assistant professor of fever are the outstanding symptOms. :ised iibt cirlly a hospital for sick thousand are teachers, retired, or other­ medicine ·and bacteriology at Southwest­ Muscular aching, and sometimes chills, md another for sick older chil­ wise not practicing. Texas has about 100 ern, and Dr. S. Edward Sulkin, chairman are other symptoms, Dr. Sulkin stated. tt also a foundling home where docotors per 1,000 population, or two­ of the department of bacteriology, have The fever was first described in Aus­ lies can be studied; a large nor- thirds the goal of 150 per 100,000 set up presented evidence gathered during two tralia in 1937 as a mild, influenza-like 1-born service; a large children's by the Medical Association. years of research based on an analysis disease among slaughterhouse workers. lie hospital; a well organized of more than 5,000 blood samples from First outbreak in this country under nat­ idance clinic which handles psy­ all sections of the country. ural circumstances occurred in Amarillo al problems from the entire com­ College Doing Research They report these facts stand our : in 1946, at which time Drs. Sulkin and a contagious disease service; and In 16 Fields of Medicine L The evidence suggests that the dis­ Strauss had an opportunity to make a 1 very active out-patient clinic ease may be more prevalent in the South­ study of the disease on the spot. ,ffeis all types of general and Southwestern Medical College is carry­ west than any other portion of the "Evidence of 'Q' fever was found in ed out-patient service to children. ing on projects in medical research in country. . serum specimens submitted from all the Obstetrics Department of the 16 different fields, Dr. W . Lee Hart, dean 2. The mode of the transmission of geographic areas included in the study, College is of extreme advantage of the college, reports. the disease is not known. suggesting that the disease may occur in mng practitioner," Dr. Cary con­ Dean Hart lists the following fields of 3. Ticks infected with rhe agent low incidence throughout the United 'As a graduate of the college he research: Alcoholism, antibiotics, body causing the disease have been found in States," Dr. Sulkin said. an opportunity tO deliver 30 fluid dynamics, cardiovascular diseases, nature and in some instances have been "It is now apparent that 'Q' fever is cause, detection and treatment of can­ responsible for the disease in human not only world wide in occurrence, but :: two facilities along with the cer, general endocrinology, hypertension, beings. more particularly is present here in the J.er opportunities aid in develop­ metabolism, nephrosis, new drugs, obste­ 4. No single explanation is adequate Southwest, and hence physicians should ral practitioners of unusual value trical complications, poliomyelitis, radio­ to satisfy the varying conditions under be familiar with the clinical picture which nost medical schools are deficient activity, rheumatic fever, tuberculosis and which the disease occurs. it presents and with methods available ·apacity." virus infections. 5. Evidence that it is an occupational for diagnosis." Page 4 SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER NEWS February, 1949 Proposed Vet Hospital in Dallas College Gets $45,500 Would Improve Medical Services In Federal Grants For Psychiatry, Cancer '.' General Carl Gray, head of the Vete­ "Any thought of nat building the Vet­ rans Administration, holds the correct erans Hospital as planned would destroy Southwestern Medical College is the view of building a medical service in the spirit of service which has grown up recipient of rwo grams totaling $45,500 connection with Veterans Hospitals which in our faculty and would be detrimental from the U. S. Public Health Service will be equal ro the same kind of service to the program underlying the Medical for the extension of irs reaching pro­ we now have in connection with the Center which features a $10,000,000 City­ grams in psychiatry and cancer. voluntary hospitals of the community," County Hospital, and medical school Dr. E. H. Cary, president of Southwestern The Public Health Service in 1949 has buildings ro be built ad jacent to this renewed irs $20,000 grant for the reach­ ·Medical Foundation, said following a visit hospital. recently in Dallas with General Gray. ing of neuropsychiatry, and has made a "This medical center,'' Dr. Cary con­ gram of $24,500 for the extension of the "The same idea is behind the Veteran cluded, "is sufficiently comprehensive to cancer reaching program ro embrace "im­ Hospital ro be built at the great Medical be of untold value ro the citizens of provement of the teaching facilities in Center on Hines Boulevard,'' Dr. Cary Dallas, the citizens of our surrounding biophysical and biochemical aspects of said. "There was a rime when a different terrirory and ro the veterans who will cancer," Dean W . Lee Hart reports. idea prevailed in rhe VA, and hospitals profit through this community of interest." were built away from medical centers. The result was that there was no educa­ Vaughns Give $75,000 tional program and internes and reside~ts were difficult ro secure. To Medical Foundation "Southwesfern Medical College through VfHUHV For Hypertension Study irs Dean·s Committee has made Veterans medical service in the Lisbon and McKin­ Mr. and Mrs. Grady H . Vaughn of ney hospitals so attractive that internes Dallas have given $75,000 ro Southwest­ and residents apply in large numbers. ern Medical Foundation for research in 'The reaching program being carried high blood pressure, Dr. E. H. Cary, on by the medical men connected with president of the Foundation, has an­ our medical school has changed the whole nounced. situation regarding the type of service given the veteran. The basic research will be carried out ''It was undersrood when we were asked in the department of experimental medi­ ro create a Dean's Committee and care cine of the Foundation's Southwestern for this service in the two hospitals at Medical College. Li sbon and McKinney that the McKinney Dr. Arthur GroHman is chairman of Hospital is a temporary hospital .and that the department in which investigators for it would be eventually abandoned and th?.t a new hospital for the veterans would some time have been searching for the be erected in the Medical Center near the TALK PLANS- Dr. E. H. Cary, president causes, cure :md prevention of hyperten­ medical school which is scheduled ro be of Southwestern Medical Foundation, and sion. built very soon on Hines Boulevard in General Carl Gray, head of the Veterans Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn are well known Dallas. The care rhus afforded the Veteran Administration, recently_ tal~e~ C?V_er .P}~p.~ __ if!_ pallas where he h.as been an inde­ would be outstanding and will serve as for the building of a great Medical Center pendent oil operator and drilling con- a beacon light for other Veterans Hos­ on Hines Boulevard in Dallas. tractor for many years. pitals built elsewhere.

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