Hell's Half Acre - Medical V-Cache Virtual Cache
Hidden : 11/20/2002
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: virtual (virtual)

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This is the 1st in a series of virtual caches that highlights the history of Fort Worths' infamous "Hell's Half Acre".

I'm a history buff and thoroughly enjoy the history of Fort Worths' "Hells' Half Acre". Having a medical background and then discovering that this site still exisited, encouraged me to submit my first cache. So the history lesson begins!

There was not a "public" hospital in the early days of Fort Worth. There was however the Fort Worth Medical College.

"There were many Acre victims that owed their lives to the quick response of the college staff on numerous occasions between 1895 and 1903. Doctors often rushed to the scene to treat patients; at other times, when the emergency was not so great, patients were taken to the college for treatment. The Acre provided the medical school with most of its patients "for treatment and demonstration." Cadavers, as well as more lively subjects, were a neccessity for any medical school, although these could usually be secured only on a catch-as-catch-can basis".

"Students sat in a large amphitheater on the first floor of the building and observed while their instructors diagnosed and treated patients, and performed autopsies on subjects who had probably been walking up and down Rusk Street just a few hours earlier. Students dissecting rooms were on the second floor and sometimes doctors-to-be got a little "rambunctious" after long hours of learning. In the summer months when the dissecting rooms grew hot and stuffy, the students would open windows. What followed next was sworn later by Dr. Kent Kibbie of the college, who claimed students amused themselves by tossing spare pieces of cadavers out the windows so that they landed on the street - or worse - below. This bit of tomfoolery never failed to have the desired effect of frightening unsuspecting pedestrians."

Excerpt from "Hells' Half Acre" by Richard F. Selcer, 1991.

You can learn more about the medical college from the plaque at this location.

To log this find, please answer the following questions.
1 - What is the name of this building that is above the 2nd floor windows?
2 - What is the name of the women who was the first Texas female medical school graduate?
3 - What year was the school established?
4 - How many students graduated over the years?

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