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Thursday, May I, 1930 (By George B, Lake, M.D.) When the doctor called to see’grand- pa he deposited his stove-pipe hat on one chair and his gold-headed one on another, unbuttoncd his frock tuat, seated himself by the bedside with a partentous frown, looked at the patient's tongue, felt of his pulse, pulled down his lower eyelid to take a squint at his eye and, it the case seemed serious, extracted his.single- harrelled, wooden stethoscope from his hat and solemnly listened to the noises in the chest. Then he pron- ounced a diagnosis. Sounds, funny, doesn't it? But thnso.old "mossbaek" doctors saw, heard and smelled a 4ot of things that we have forgotten how to rec- ngnize, because we, have leaned on mechanical crutches for so many years. he considered up-to-dnte. Our High- land Park hospital has the experts and the machinery to make these studies in a highly satisfactory man- nor. the matter with sick folks, and any hospital which lacks the personnel and equipment necessary to do good and reliable laboratory work cannot We've had a reasonably good lub- m‘atnry right along, but last year the hospital authorities decided that it wasn't good Enough to render the kind of service they aspired to give to our neighborhood, so they over- hauled the whole thing and re-organ- ized it, at a cost at $3,000. They bought an incubator for growing bacteria (for these disas- trous little vegetables have to be Permanent Plnee But, for gond'or ill, the laboratory has now taken a permanent place among the facilities which a modern physician uses to find out, what. is cared for like a frail baby, when they are being cultivated for purposes of study); a fine new refrigerator (be- cause many specimens have to bel, handled as carefully as ‘fGrade A" milk); a pair of analytical balance: that will weight 1/1000 of a grain: a dozen or two of the newest books on laboratory technic; and many other interesting and expensive things, many of which. are kept in conven- ient new eabinets ad cupboards, where they are clean and safe, but readily accessible when needed. Hospital Laotatory Complete Our laboratory is now ready to do almost anything that any firstela" laboratory can do--not merely ltu~ dies of the urine and the ordinary ex- aminations of the.blood, but Wanner- mann and kidney function testa; blood chemistry and basal metabol- Laboratory Work In Highland Park Hospital ism estimations: and they even cut miero_irMly thin sections of tum- are and other things removed It op- erations, to find out just what is‘the troule. These, of course, require study by a physician who is an ex- pert in the science of (anthology. and are sent to a specialist in Chicago fur his examination end report. For other matters, our own Miss lsaacs, who is I Bachelor of Science and a trained labornmy teehnieinn, covers the ground excellently. Either she or her Issitant (also n technician) is in the laboratory all day long: and at nights and on Sundays. the young doctors who are serving as interns in the institution do any such work as may be necessary. so luborutory ser- vice is available all the time, to my patients whose cases require such study. Nor is this expert help reserved solely for those sick ones who Ire so fortunate as to be temporary resi- dents of our hospital. Though many of our citizens (and, perhaps. some of our doctors) mny not be “VI" ot that fact, the hospital will, on the re- quest of any medical mun, lend I technician to my patient'. home to collect specimen: for laboratory ex- 536 Central Avenue HIGHLAND PARK PHARMACY THE PRESS SUNDAY DELIVERIES Mort of you have read about blood transfusion: and realise that, when this operation is done, somebody mun. furnish the blood. Perhaps you have looked -upon the people who do this (they are teehnienlly known as "don. on") " being high-minded heron. synetiPey they are. But tron-lu- sions, in these dlyl, Ire many; while heroes, in my day, are few, so the sole of blood for tttttttfusion pummel has become a regular bmlnela. nntr'rrntiott, and . "port of the "d. ings will be sent to the doctor prompt:- ly. - Here is I chance for Inyone who has plenty of good, clean blood Ind not enough cash, to exchange I little of the former for 1 nice bunch of the latter The regular donor's fee is $60. In this tranlfusion work there Ire several different types of, blood, and there must be matched in the patient and the donor, no hospitals like to have I list of several donors of etch of the various type: of blood. Any one who he: I desire to earn some moncy in this {tuition should report at the houpitll to hive his blood ex- amined (to be certain that it in en- tirely free from disease) and typed. 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