Um, gross.

>Then, back in Baltimore, years before its hospital or medical school actually opened, even without patients and without students, the Hopkins [**University**] began to participate in change. For although the Hopkins medical hospital did not open until 1889, and the medical school until 1893, its laboratory opened almost immediately. That alone was enough. >In just its first year, twenty-six investigators not on the Hopkins faculty used the laboratories. [Welch](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/William_Henry_Welch_2.jpg)’s young assistant William Councilman – who later remade Harvard’s medical school in the Hopkins’s image – kept them supplied with organs by riding his tricycle to other hospitals, retrieving the organs, and carrying them back in buckets suspended from the handlebars. ________________________ **Source:** Barry, John M. “The Warriors.” *The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History*. Penguin Books, 2009. 57. Print. ________________________ **Further Reading:** [William Henry Welch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Welch) [William Thomas Councilman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomas_Councilman) __________________________ **If you enjoy this type of content, please consider donating to my [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/HistoryLockeBox)!**