The University of Pennsylvania has the oldest medical school in the U. S., founded in 1765. The University also established the country's first university hospital, started the first clinical laboratory, published the first treatise on mental disease. It was therefore fitting that at U. of Pa.'s sober bicentennial celebration last week modern medical progress should get much attention. Noteworthy medical reports:
Operation on the Mind. Schizophrenia, the kind of insanity characterized by withdrawal into a dream world, is the most widespread mental disease in the U. S. In recent years convulsions induced by...
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