FARNAM, HENRY W. Chapters in the His tory of Social Legislation in the United States to 1860. Pp. xx, 496. Washing ton: Carnegie Institution of Washington, Office of Publications, 1938. $2.25 pa perbound ; $2.75 clothbound
| Published date | 01 May 1942 |
| Author | Samuel Mccune Lindsay |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271624222100180 |
| Date | 01 May 1942 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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the
opening
of
the
Johns
Hopkins
Hospital
by
five
years.
In
the
planning
and
organi-
zation
of
both
institutions
he
played
a
lead-
ing
part.
By
abandoning
the
customary
spoon-feeding
system
prevalent
in
the
medi-
cal
schools
of
the
country,
by
training
stu-
dents
in
laboratories
and
at
the
bedsides
of
patients,
by
its
emphasis
on
research,
the
Hopkins
Medical
School
set
an
example
to
the
country
and
exerted
a
far-reaching
in-
fluence.
Dr.
Welch
was
connected
with
Johns
Hopkins
for
the
long
period
of
fifty
years
as
professor
of
pathology,
director
of
the
School
of
Hygiene
and
Public
Health,
pro-
fessor
of
the
history
of
medicine,
dean
of
the
School
of
Medicine,
and
acting
presi-
dent
of
the
University.
For
fifty
years
he
always
was
the
right
man
at
the
right
mo-
ment,
and
at
Hopkins
he
found
the
ideal
conditions
for
realizing
his
far-reaching
pro-
gram.
At
Hopkins
he
did
his
research.
He
trained
medical
scientists
for
the
entire
country.
From
Hopkins
his
activities
ex-
tended
to
the
whole
Nation
and
to
the
world.
He
was
instrumental
in
the
develop-
ing
of
the
Rockefeller
Institute
for
Medical
Research,
and
was
a
member
of
an
endless
number
of
national
medical
committees,
councils,
and
boards.
He
served
in
the
World
War,
and
took
a
very
active
part
in
the
organization
of
international
health
work
after
the
war.
With
all
this,
Dr.
Welch
was
a
gentle,
kind,
affable
man,
a
master
in
diplomacy
who
could
reconcile
divergent
opinions
with-
out
offending
anybody.
He
was
never
in
a
hurry.
One
never
saw
him
work
hard.
He
had
time
for
everyone,
and
whoever
had
a
problem
came
to
see
him,
had
dinner
with
him,
talked
with
him,
and
all
of
a
sudden
saw
that
his
problem
was
solved.
On
his
eightieth
birthday,
in
1930,
the
whole
world
paid
tribute
to
the
&dquo;Dean
of
American
Medicine.&dquo;
I
find
that
Simon
Flexner
and
James
Thomas
Flexner
have
done
an
excellent
piece
of
work.
The
task
was
by
no
means
easy.
It
is
always
difficult
to
re-create
a
man’s
life.
It
is
particularly
difficult
when
the
subject
of
the
biography
was
a
man
of
Welch’s
caliber,
whose
aclZievements
repre-
sent
an
essential
part
of
a
great
period
of
history.
The
authors
have
hit
a
happy
medium
between
a
popular
and
a
scholarly
presentation.
The
book
makes
fascinating
reading
without
ever
being
trivial,
and
it
is
thoroughly
documented.
Full
reference
is
given
in
an
appendix
to
every
letter
and
other
materials
used.
One
point
must
strike
the
reader
who
knew
Dr.
Welch
well.
The
Flexners
had
access
to
diaries
and
thousands
of
letters,
yet
the
biography
contains
hardly
anything
that
we,
the
friends
of
Welch,
did
not
know.
It
shows
what
an
extroverted
per-
sonality
he
had.
He
was
a
bachelor,
and
his
entire
life
was
devoted
to
medicine,
to
science,
to
the
service
of
the
Nation.
It
was
an
open
book.
The
Flexners
have
read
it
and
have
interpreted
it
intelligently
and
warmly.
HENRY
E.
SIGERIST
Johns
Hopkins
University
FARNAM,
HENRY
W.
Chapters
in
the
His-
tory
of
Social
Legislation
in
the
United
States
to
1860.
Pp.
xx,
496.
Washing-
ton:
Carnegie
Institution
of
Washington,
Office
of
Publications,
1938.
$2.25
pa-
perbound ;
$2.75
clothbound.
The
growing
interest
in
social
legislation,
and
the
even
more
imperative
need
for
a
better
orientation
in
the
subject
for
the
average
American,
may
well
take
us
back
to
this
published
fragment
of
the
life
work
of
a
great
but
much
neglected
American
scholar.
Professor
Farnam
of
Yale
Uni-
versity
was
a
pioneer
among
young
Ameri-
can
scholars
three-quarters
of
a
century
ago
who,
trained
in
the
best
American
and
Eng-
lish
tradition,
went
to
Europe,
and
espe-
cially
to
Germany,
to
learn
the
techniques
of
the
best
historical,
economic,
and
social
research
in
the
bluetezeit
of
German
scien-
tific
achievement
in
the
last
three
decades
of
the
nineteenth
century.
For
over
fifty
years
Farnam
was
pro-
fessor
of
economics
at
Yale,
and
in
addition
to
the
duties
of
that
post,
he
served
for
twenty-two
years
as
professor
of
economics
in
the
Sheflield
Scientific
School,
succeeding
Francis
A.
Walker
in
1881.
He
did
many
things
besides
teaching
and
writing
schol-
arly
monographs.
He
was
a
leader
and
wise
consultant
in
public
affairs
and
in
sci-
entific
philanthropy,
to
which
he
made
no-
table
financial
as
well
as
intellectual
contri-
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