The 1930s

New three-story outpatient facility opens adjacent to the Clinic Building, which is remodeled.

Cleveland Clinic Bulletin (later known as Cleveland Clinic Quarterly and Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine) launches. The first issue includes articles on “Treatment of Malignancy” and “Diverticula of the Urinary Bladder” by Cleveland Clinic co-founders George Crile Sr., MD, and William Lower, MD, respectively. The Editorial Department is led by Amy Rowland (pictured), Dr. Crile’s longtime associate.

To help repay debt incurred by the 1929 disaster and the cost of new construction, all caregivers take a pay cut during the Great Depression. In this photo, Eddie Rogers (far left), Cleveland Clinic’s first male nurse, and Herbert Decker (far right), Cleveland Clinic’s first pharmacist, mingle with colleagues at a picnic in the 1930s.

Dr. Roy McCullagh, PhD, of Cleveland Clinic’s Department of Biophysics posits the existence of inhibins, key proteins related to sex hormones and reproductive health. In the 1930s, Dr. McCullagh also pioneers the measurement of thyroid function through iodine levels in the blood.

Supported in part by philanthropic gifts in honor of Cleveland Clinic co-founder Frank Bunts, MD (above), the Bunts Educational Institute (known today as the Education Institute) is established “to maintain and conduct an institution for learning, for promoting education and giving instruction in the art, science and practice of medicine, surgery, anatomy, hygiene and allied or kindred sciences and subjects.”

Dr. Crile (second from left in this photo) performs his 25,000th thyroid procedure.

Neurosurgeon W. James Gardner, MD, develops a chair to keep patients safely in a seated position for cranial surgery. 

Cleveland Clinic Quarterly publishes “Gastroscopy: Its Value and Indications” by R.J.F. Renshaw, MD, a member of Cleveland Clinic’s fledgling Department of Gastroenterology who refines clinical use of the flexible gastroscope.