1908

Publication of Beers’s A Mind That Found Itself; Welch gets Henry Phipps to underwrite Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Hopkins, for which Welch secured Adolf Meyer as first director (Flexner, 349-350; Leys, 446). Bleuler introduces notion of schizophrenia. Ehrlich and Metchnikoff shared Nobel Prize for Medicine (Bäumler, 131-135). University of Pennsylvania Medical School finally strengthens admission requirements to two years of college work, rather than high school graduation only (Corner, 216-217). Abraham Flexner begins his study of American medical schools (Bonner II, 73). Re prevention of TB among children, establishment of first open-air schools in Providence and Boston, followed in 1909 by first “preventorium” in Farmingdale, NJ (Bates, 274-275).