Address : Delivered on the opening of the new hall of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, November 11th, 1909 / by S. Weir Mitchell.

  • Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914.
Date:
[1909?]
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Credit: Address : Delivered on the opening of the new hall of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, November 11th, 1909 / by S. Weir Mitchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    x6 not say. It preserves for us the changing story of our history, and we are kept in constant touch with the science of all na¬ tions by the receipt of nine hundred jour¬ nals. Let me now ask your attention to our performance of another important public service in our Directory for Nurses. I am pleased to say that the small fee asked for furnishing a nurse is now soon to be abol¬ ished. The Directory is to-day as free as is our Library. It is simple. A telephone call brings a nurse to the bedside. You may get some idea of the vast usefulness of this service when I tell you that since 1882 the Directory has answered over forty-three thousand requests for trained nurses. This hall was meant to be also a monu¬ ment commemorative of men who served alike their country and their God. It is yours in this sense. It is also ours. Some of the rooms which bear names you share or with which you have ancestral connec-