Surgical Unit Established at City Hospital

The Medical School will soon have a new center for surgical teaching and research financed with $1,590,341 accumulated over 23 years from an unfulfilled will.

The surgical unit, to be located in the Boston City Hospital, is the third unit in outside hospitals to be connected to the Medical School. George P. Berry, Dean of the Medical School, said yesterday that he has been working with the chairman of the City Hospital's board for over a year in order to establish the project.

The million dollars, which was willed to the University in 1932 by Boston attorney Charles H. Tyler has collected $590,341 waiting for stipulations of the bequest to be ironed out.

Cooperation with Tufts

Under the terms of the will, Tyler asked that Tufts Medical School work in close cooperation with Harvard in operating the surgical center. But Dean Berry pointed out yesterday, until now the aims of the two schools and the hospital have not coincided.

The new Surgical Unit will be headed by Dr. J. Englebert Dunphy, clinical professor of Medicine at the Medical School. He will also head the new jointly operated Sears Laboratory at the hospital which will become part of the surgical unit.

"Both the Boston community and the Medical School will benefit from the reestablishment of the surgical unit at the hospital," Berry stated. "There is a basic soundness in the combining of teaching and research for the undergraduate as well as the post-graduate medical student."

The research center will be located in the "Old Surgical Building" at the hospital. Approximately ten percent of the Tyler money will be spent on remodeling, with the remainder in trust to support teaching, care, and research.

Dunphy is also a surgeon at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Chief Consultant in Surgery for the Veterans Administration in this area.