1916

Chevalier Jackson leaves Pittsburgh and accepts Professorship of Laryngology at Jefferson Medical College (Jackson, 142-144). Second round of abortive merger talks between University of Pennsylvania and Jefferson (Corner, 252-56). Rockefeller Foundation decides to fund Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health if Welch will head it (Flexner, 356-58). Establishment of National Research Council (under National Academy of Sciences) to advise Wilson and Congress re impending war (Vaughan, 400ff.; Harden, 73-74). Following his observations of physical characteristics of polio victims during NYC’s polio epidemic of 1916, George Draper establishes first institute for constitutional research in U.S. at NY’s Presbyterian Hospital, where he devised an elaborate personal inventory to screen patients and developed a taxonomy for the human race based on predisposition to disease (Tracy II, 57, 61, 69-70). It was followed in 1926 by Raymond Pearl’s Constitutional Clinic in Johns Hopkins Dept. of Medicine. These were the two clinics for study of constitution prior to 1946 (76-77).