RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE MEDICAL SCIENCES
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Miscellaneous Grants
The Johns Hopkins University
Institute of the History of Medicine
An appropriation of 337,500 was made to the
Johns Hopkins University toward the support
of its Institute of the History of Medicine during
the period July I, 1935, to June 30, 1938. The
work of the institute is outside the Foundation's
present fields of concentration, but it is of such
exceptional importance in the light of the changes
which are taking place in the status of medical
practice, teaching, and research that this threeyear
grant toward its further development was
deemed advisable.
The
institute had its origin in a chair of the
history of medicine established at the university
in 1926, with an endowment of $200,000 provided
by the General Education Board. In 1930 the
present institute was created, and the General
Education Board furnished 3250,000 for its endowment
and pledged 212,500 a year for five
years toward its maintenance.
Professor Sigerist, who now holds the chau in
the history of medicine, is especially interested
in the social role of the physician and in the utilization
of past experience in organizing and controlling
the practice of medicine. He has made
the only known collection of records embracing
the laws, regulations, and
experience in the
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