College of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, in his “A 
Manual of Histological Pharmacognosy and Bacteriology.” 
PITTSBURGH HOSPITAL 
Thirty-three years ago on Stanton avenue, in East end, 
Pittsburgh, a small dwelling house was equipped with ten 
beds and called by the dignified name of a hospital. In the 
prophetic visions of a devoted sisterhood there was seen in 
the dim future a magnificent structure of brick or stone, of 
which this humble house was the nucleus. 
Immediately the seed began to grow and four months 
after the opening in May, 1895, the “Hospital” was moved 
to Collins avenue, and six beds were added for the sick and 
afflicted. 
January 14, 1898, a charter was obtained and the institu- 
tion was then known as the Charity Hospital of Pittsburgh. 
Later the name Pittsburgh Hospital was substituted, and 
was maintained by voluntary contributions. 
The names of the first chosen directors were: C. M. 
Schwab, E. M. Bigelow, Titus Berger, W. H. Keech, Charles 
D. Callery, Charles A. Fagan, E. J. Vilsack, J. D. Murdoch, 
Hugh Murphy, Thomas McNeil and Aloysius Frauenheim. 
After a short time on Collins avenue quarters became 
inadequate and a new property was purchased. This was 
the old Finley homestead, surrounded by seven acres of 
beautiful ground, facing on Beechwood boulevard and Franks- 
town avenue. Here twenty patients were provided for, and 
accommodations made for a larger number of nurses. But 
prophetic vision did not fail, and the great hospital of the 
dreams and hopes of the Sisters of Charity had not yet 
taken material form. Ground was broken, and in December, 
1904, a large modern hospital of fireproof construction was 
erected. The old building was remodelled to serve asanurses’ 
home. The clinical laboratories were opened January 1, 
1905, and in the same year a complete X-ray laboratory 
was installed, not only for the benefit of the members of the 
staff, but for many outside physicans as well, who brought 
their patients for examination.