History of Saint Louis City and County, from the earliest periods to the present day: including biographical sketches of representative men, Part 121

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts
Number of Pages: 1358


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It was originally located on Washington Avenue facing Tenth Street, where the building still stands, on the grounds of the St. Louis University. The present building is located on the northcast corner of Seventh and Myrtle Streets. It is a large, well-con- structed, and substantial building, which was erected for the use of the college in 1850 by the late Col. John O'Fallon. The whole building was remodeled and renovated some three years ago, and an addition built at the rear for the chemical laboratory. There are three lecture-rooms and two dissecting-rooms and a library, besides the museum and smaller rooms set apart for the faculty and other uses.


Last year a building was erected upon the adjoin- ing lot especially for dispensary purposes. On the first floor are a drug-room, waiting-rooms for male and female patients, consultation-room, and amphitheatre for clinical lectures. On the second floor arc the rooms for the gynecological clinic of Professor Bois- linière, and those for the dental college, laboratory, and operating-room. Several thousand patients have been treated in the year and a half since the dispensary was organized.


The faculty own the buildings, and supply the neces- sary appliances for teaching and illustration from the income derived from tuition fees. There is no en- dowment. The course of study in this school is a graded one, extending over three years, the first being devoted to theoretical and demonstrative branches, and the practical subjects and specialties being taken up in the second and third years.


The first dean of the faculty was James V. Prather, M.D., the second was Charles A. Pope, M.D., the third John T. Hodgen, M.D., and the fourth and


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present dean is J. S. B. Alleyne, M.D. The faculty is composed of the following physicians and surgeons :


A. Litton, M.D., Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaey ; J. B. Johnson, M.D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine ; E. II. Gregory, M.D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery and Clinical Surgery ; J. T. Hodgen, M.D.,1 Professor of Surgical Anatomy, Special Fractures and Disloca- tions, and Clinical Surgery at the City Hospital; J. S. B. Al- leyne, M.D., Dean, Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica and Diseases of Children; E. F. Smith, M.D., Profes- sor of Clinical Medicine and Pathological Anatomy ; L. Ch. Boislinière, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics ; G. Baumgarten, M.D., Professor of Physiology ; H. H. Mudd, M.D., Professor of An- atomy and Clinical Surgery at the City Hospital ; H. H. Mudd, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy; John Green, M.D., Lecturer on Ophthalmology ; W. L. Barret, M.D., Lecturer on Diseases of Women; J. M. Scott, M.D., Lecturer on Clinical Medicine ; G. A. Moses, M.D., Lecturer on Clinical Gynecology ; N. B. Carson, M.D., Assistant to the Chair of Surgery ; W. C. Glas- gow, M.D., Clinical Lecturer on Physical Diagnosis; W. E. Fischel, M.D., Lecturer on Therapeutics ; J. Friedman, M.D., Demonstrator on Chemistry ; Edward Evers, M.D., Lecturer on Histology ; R. Luedeking, M.D., Lecturer on Pathological An- atomy ; J. P. Bryson, M.D., Lecturer on Diseases of the Genito- Urinary Organs; W. A. McCandless, M.D., Frank R. Fry, M.D., Assistant Demonstrators of Anatomy.


HUMBOLDT INSTITUT ODER DEUTSCHE .- This in- stitution was organized as a German medical college in 1859. Lectures were delivered regularly, and two classes were graduated. It was discontinued during the war, and in 1866 was reorganized as the Hum- boldt Medical College. The faculty included the following : Dr. F. J. Bernays, Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy ; Dr. G. Bernays, Professor of Materia Medica and Midwifery ; Dr. D. Goebel, Professor of Physics and Higher Mathematics ; Dr. A. Hammer, Professor of Anatomy, Surgery, and Diseases of the Eye; Dr. F. M. Hauck, Professor of Physiology ; Dr. T. C. Hilgard, Professor of Botany, Zoology, and Comparative Anatomy ; Dr. C. Roesch, Professor of General and Special Pathology and Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine; Dr. E. Schmidt, Professor of Pathological Anatomy, gerichtlichen Medicine, and Psychiatry.


The first course of lectures was given during the winter of 1866-67. The organization of the college was effected with a view to promoting a higher stan- dard of medical education. In their prospectus the faculty announced the purpose of having a longer term than that of any other medical college in the country, of arranging a graded course, and of afford- ing facilities for instruction in the different special- ties.


The faculty at that time consisted of the following gentlemen : D. Gocbel, Ph.D., Professor of Natural


Philosophy; A. Wadgymar, M.D., Professor of Chem- istry and Botany ; H. S. Leffingwell, M.D., Professor of General and Descriptive Anatomy ; D. V. Dean, M.D., Professor of Physiology, Histology, and Toxi- cology ; G. M. B. Maughs, M.D., Professor of Ob- stetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, and Acting Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeu- tics ; I. P. Vaughan, M.D., Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine; A. Hammer, M.D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Surgery, Ophthalmol- ogy, and Clinical Surgery, and Acting Professor of Pathological Anatomy ; Hon. James J. Lindley, Pro- fessor of Legal Medicine; A. J. Steele, M.D., Pro- sector and Demonstrator of Anatomy ; Charles Heyer, Assistant to Chair of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cu- rator of Museum ; P. J. Lingenfelder, Assistant to Chair of Clinical Medicine.


The building of the Humboldt College stood and still stands on the lot directly fronting the City Hos- pital, extending from Linn to Closey Street, upon the south side of Soulard Street. It was an admirable location, and the building was convenient and well arranged for the purpose.


Lectures were delivered for three successive winters, but after the close of the session of 1868-69 most of the members of the faculty resigned, and the college was given up.


ST. LOUIS COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SUR- GEONS .- After the abandonment of the Humboldt Medical College in 1869, an organization was effected under the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, under the leadership of Professor Louis Bauer, who had then recently come to St. Louis from Brooklyn. The faculty consisted of


Louis Bauer, M.D., M.R.C.S., Professor of Surgery ; Mon- trose A. Pallen, M.D., Professor of Gynecology ; Augustus F. Barnes, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics ; T. F. Prewitt, M.D., Professor of Surgical Anatomy and Diseases of the Skin; J. K. Bauduy, M.D., Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Ner- vous System ; John Green, M.D., Professor of Ophthalmology ; G. Baumgarten, M.D., Professor of General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy; I. G. W. Steedman, M.D., Professor of Clinical Surgery and Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs; W. B. Outten, M.D., Professor of Descriptive Anatomy : A. J. Steele, M.D., Professor of Military and Minor Surgery, Frac- tures and Dislocations; F. H. McArdle, M.D., Professor of Chemistry ; J. M. Leete, M.D., Professor of Physical Diagnosis and Diseases of the Chest; J. M. Scott, M.D., Professor of Practice of Medicine ; Charles E. Briggs, M.D., Professor of Physiology ; William L. Barret, M.D., Professor of Diseases of Children ; James F. Johnson, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Toxicology ; William T. Mason, LL.B., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence : A. G. Jackes, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy, and Curator of the Museum.


The second year Dr. Barret withdrew from the faculty. Dr. Briggs took the Professorship of Dis-


I Deceased.


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eases of Children, and LeGrand Atwood, M.D., be- came Professor of Physiology. In the course of this second year dissensions sprang up between members of the faculty, and the scheme was abandoned at the close of the year. The building in which the two years' lectures were delivered stands on Locust Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Streets.


It is believed that the first endeavor in the way of a " practitioners' course," with reference to which so much has been said and donc within the last few years, was made in connection with the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Special courses of lectures were delivered on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings at eight o'clock, commencing Monday, Nov. 1, 1869 ; gynecology, Mondays, by Professor Pallen ; ophthalmology, Wednesdays, by Professor Green ; or- thopedic surgery, Fridays, by Professor Bauer. Phy- sicians and advanced students of medicine were cor- dially invited to attend.


The present St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons1 was incorporated in 1879 by James O. Broadhead, William Hyde, Louis Bauer, M.D .. Isaac Cook, Gustav Woltman, Charles P. Warner, L. M. Rumsey, A. A. Millier, Ellis. Wainwright, and A. S. Barnes, M.D., and a faculty was chosen. A building was procured on the south west corner of North Market and Eleventh Streets, which had been previously used for similar purposes. This was fitted up conveniently, a dispensary was organized, and material was thus se- cured for illustration by clinical lectures. The regular work of the college was commenced in the autumn of 1879, a class of five members being graduated in the spring of 1880. Each succeeding class lias increased in numbers.


This college demands of its students a certain amount of knowledge and mental training as preliminary to admission, and requires a three years' graded course of study.


The present faculty is composed of


Louis Bauer, M.D., M.R.C.S., Eng., Dean; William B. Haz- ard, M.D., Secretary and Registrar. General Departments : Louis Bauer, M.D., M.R.C.S., Eng., Professor of Principles and Practice of Surgery and Clinical Surgery ; Algernon S. Barnes, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women; Robert M. King, A.M., M.D., Professor of Physiology, Histology, and Clinical Medicine; William G. Moore, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and Clinical Medicine; G. Wiley Broome, M.D., Professor of Anatomy ; George W. Hall, M.D., Professor of Practice of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Infantile Dis- eases; Frank L. James, M.D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology. Special Departments : William B. Hazard, M.D., Professor of General Pathology and of Nervous and Mental


Diseases ; L. H. Laidley, M.D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Gynecology ; R. A. Vaughan, M.D., Professor of Diseases of Children, with Clinic; Joseph G. Lodge, Esq., Pro- fessor of Medical Jurisprudence ; John T. Larew, M.D., Pro- fessor of Minor Surgery ; A. D. Williams, M.D., Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology; Edward F. Raband, M.D., Lec- turer on Pharmacy ; G. Wiley Broome, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy.


THE ST. LOUIS SCHOOL OF MIDWIVES was founded in 1854 as Mrs. Carpentier's School of Mid- wives, and graduated one class after a four months' term of instruction each fall. It was incorporated and placed under its present director, Dr. George J. Engelmann, in 1874, with an English and German class. Dr. W. E. Fischel was the instructor of the English class. This was given up after three years' trial, as there seemed to be no demand for instruction by English-speaking women, and now only the Ger- man class is held. Two courses are given annually, one continuing from March 1st to June 12th, the other from September 1st to December 18th. The names of the incorporators were Dr. George J. En- gelmann, Mrs. L. Carpentier, Dr. G. Baumgarten, Dr. John T. Hodgen, Dr. Ph. Weigel, Dr. A. Wis- lizenus, the latter four constituting the board of ad- visers. The present board consists of Dr. A. Wis- lizenus, president ; Dr. G. Baumgarten, secretary ; Dr. Hugo Kinner, and Dr. George J. Engelmann. The school is held at the residence of Mrs. Car- pentier, 911 Chouteau Avenuc ..


THE COLLEGE FOR MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS was incorporated April 11, 1882, and its first session commenced Nov. 11, 1882. It is intended to be what is indicated by the name, a school for instruc- tion in special branches, but does not grant diplomas, only certificates of attendance upon the lectures in one or more branches or in the full course as the case may be. The faculty consists of the following : Thomas F. Rumbold, M.D., Professor of Diseases of the Nose, Throat, Ears, Lungs, and Heart ; Edward Borck, A.M., M.D., Professor of Diseases of Chil- dren and Clinical Surgery ; Hon. Frederick T. Leder- gerber, Professor of Law, Forensic Medicine, and Toxicology ; W. B. Outten, M.D., Professor of Rail- road Surgery ; J. H. McIntyre, A.M., M.D., Pro- fessor of Gynecology. Besides the instruction im- parted by these members of the faculty lectures have been given by William Dickinson, A.M., M.D., Pro- fessor of Ophthalmology ; B. Roemer, M.D., Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System and Venereal Diseases ; Garland Hurt, M.D., Etiology, Hygiene, and Management of Diseases; A. H. Ohmann- Dumesnil, A.M., M.D., Skin Diseases; H. Marks, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy, Lecturer on Pneu-


1 This institution, though having the same name, is entirely distinct from and independent of that just mentioned, which still has a legal though not an actual existence.


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monia. Non-resident professors : David Prince, M.D., Plastic Surgery, Electro-Therapeutics, and Massage; William A. Byrd, M.D., Surgical Lesions of the Abdominal Viscera ; Hiram Christopher, A.M., M.D., Medical Chemistry and Urinology ; A. E. Prince, M.D., Demonstrator of Operative Ophthal- mology.


THE ST. LOUIS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY was or- ganized in the spring of 1865.1


At first the meetings of the college were held in the dispensary building of the St. Louis Medical Col- lege, and the ehairs originally established were those of ehcmistry and botany, materia medica, and phar- macy. At this time the officers and faculty of the college were :


President, A. Leiteh ; Viee-Presidents, E. L. Massot and E. Sauder; Corresponding Secretary, J. O'Gallagher, M.D .; Re- cording Secretary, C. L. Lips, M.D .; Treasurer, M. W. Alex- ander; Register, J. R. Coleman, M.D .; Board of Trustees, ex officio the officers of the College, E. L. Massot (chairman), J. McBride (secretary), Col. J. O'Fallon, Henry Shaw, I. H. Stur- geon, Drs. J. Barnes, C. Roesch, J. Laughton, M. M. Pallen, G. Engelmann, J. T. Hodgen, and Messrs. W. Primm, H. Kireh- ner, T. Kalb, F. W. Sennewald, E. Fasold, W. D'Oench ; Faculty, A. Wadgymar, Professor of Chemistry and Botany ; J. S. B. Alleyne, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica; J. O'Gallagher, M.D., Professor of Pharmacy.


The college is now located at the southeast corner of Fifth and Olive Streets, and its officers are F. W. Sennewald, president; Charles Getner, vice-president ; Edmund P. Walsh, secretary; W. C. Bolm, corre- sponding secretary ; and S. Boehm, treasurer.


Hospitals, Dispensaries, Medical Charities .-- ST. LOUIS MULLANPHY HOSPITAL (SISTERS' HOS- PITAL) .-- It was in 1828 that the Sisters' Hospital was first instituted. In that year John Mullanphy donated to Joseph Rosatti, then bishop of the Catho- lic diocese, in trust for this hospital, one hundred fect of ground fronting on Fourth Street and running to Third Street, on the south side of Spruce Street. A small building was erected at first, the remainder of the lot being devoted to a garden and orchard. As


oceasion required new buildings were erceted, until not only the whole frontage on all three streets was eovered, but the rear of the lot also, leaving a large area in the centre, used as a promenade by eonvales- eent patients. The first building occupied by the sis- ters was a log cabin. The four sisters who eame here in 1828 were Sister Frances Xavier, who was the first Lady Superior here, Sister Rebecca Dellone, Sister Frances Regis, and Sister Martina. They were mem- bers of the order of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, which was established at Emmitts- burg, Md., in 1809, by Mother Seton, a daughter of Dr. Bailey, a celebrated surgeon of New York City. In 1831 four more sisters joined the little community in St. Louis.


In 1831 the corner-stone was laid of the brick building which stood so many years on the corner of Fourth and Spruce Streets. It was the first hospital of the kind established west of the Mississippi, and it has acquired the unquestioned confidenee of the community. It is not, however, a publie charity in the general acceptation of the term. The public use it, but it is intended to be and should be self-sustaining. Those who are able, go there and pay for attendance, preferring it either to a public or a private hospital, and strangers especially and persons who have no homes of their own prefer it generally to other insti- tutions of the kind.


In the growth of the city westward the original lo- cation became an undesirable one for a hospital, and in the middle of July, 1874, the patients were re- moved to a fine new building in the western part of the eity, one square east of Grand Avenue. The building fronts on Montgomery Street, toward the south ; the north side is on Cardinal Street, the east side on Colman Street, and the west on Bacon Street.


The eost of the building was not far from one hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars. The area of the site was five hundred by two hundred and fifty-five feet. The hospital buildings present a stately appearance as one approaches the place along Grand Avenue, the vast pile of briek looming up, with the white facings, above the surrounding elevations. The main build- ings, together with the east and west wings, are four stories high, while the conneeting wings have a height of only three stories. The interior arrangements of the hospital arc all that modern improvements could suggest. The buildings will accommodate three hun- dred patients comfortably, and contain fifty private rooms, which are all large and elegantly furnished, also large and well-ventilated wards devoted to the different departments of medicine and surgery. The specialties are thoroughly recognized, and we find


1 " The opinion has long prevailed among the members of the medieal profession and the body of apothecaries of St. Louis that some ureasure should be taken for the scientifie development of pharmacy in this city by more highly educating the apothe- caries' clerks, and protecting the interests of both elasses against the baneful influenec of illiterate men. At several preliminary meetings of physicians and apothecaries to consider the steps necessary for the above purpose an organization was perfected, and now we have established among us a College of Pharmacy. The institution, though yet in its infancy, bids fair to stand firmly, and, like similar institutions of Eastern cities, to exert a highly beneficial influence upon those whom it most nearly coneerns. Already its list of members is large, and rapidly increasing from day to day."-Republican, April 1, 1865.


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distinct departments of surgery, general medicine, diseases of the chest and throat, diseases of women, and diseases of the eye and ear. In addition to the usual hospital accommodations, there is also a large and rich polyclinic, consisting of the departments of surgery, medicine, diseases of chest and throat, dis- eases of women and children, and diseases of the eye and ear. In these clinics patients are treated gratui- tously, and medicine is furnished at moderate rates.


There are at present twenty sisters connected with the hospital, the entire institution being in charge of Sisters Theresa and Serventc.


The names of the Sisters Superior who have had charge of this hospital, with their terms of service, are the following: Sister Frances Xavier, for five years ; Sister Rebecca Delorne, for one year; Sister Seraphina, three years; Sister Alexis, twenty-five years ; Sister Anacaria, two years ; Sister Mary Rosa, four years ; Sister Theresa, one year. The medical staff at present comprises the following : E. H. Greg- ory, M.D., surgeon-in-chief; N. B. Carson, M.D., surgeon ; P. Y. Tupper, M.D., assistant ; S. Pollak, M.D., surgcon to department of eye and ear ; W. C. Glasgow, M.D., physician to department of diseases of the chest and throat ; L. L. McCabe, M.D., physi- cian to male medical department ; B. T. Whitmore, M.D., assistant; G. A. Moses, M.D., physician to female medical department ; F. A. Glasgow, M.D., assistant.


Dr. E. H. Gregory, surgeon-in-chief of the hospi- tal, was born near Russellville, Ky., Sept. 10, 1824. He was educated in Kentucky, at an institution of which his father had charge. He graduated in med- icine from the Medical Department of the St. Louis University in 1849, and after practicing medicine for two or three years in Cooper and Morgan Counties, Mo., removed to St. Louis in 1852. He has been connected with the St. Louis Medical College as Demonstrator of Anatomy and Professor of Surgery since 1852, and has for many years been at the head of the medical organization of the Sisters' Hospital. He is a popular lecturer, an able surgcon of conserv- ative tendency, and has had the best success in ovari- otomy of any operator in St. Louis.


ST. ANN'S WIDOWS' HOME, LYING.IN HOSPI- TAL, AND FOUNDLING ASYLUM .- This institution was organized May 12, 1853, and was incorporated in March, 1859, in the name of the Sisters of Char- ity. It was originally situated in the southern part of the city, on the corner of Marion and Minard Streets, in a house hired for the purpose. The pres- ent building on the southeast corner of O'Fallon and Tenth Streets was erected in 1857-58, and was first


occupied Sept. 8, 1858. The physicians who have had professional charge of the lying-in hospital were Dr. L. Ch. Boislinière, from 1853 to 1861 ; Dr. Shu- mard, 1861 to 1865 ; E. L. Feehan, 1865 to 1874 ; Dr. William Reilly, 1874 to 1879 ; Dr. A. A. Henske, from 1879 to the present timc.


The ground on which this building was erected was donated by Mrs. Ann Biddle, and the institution takes its name from her. The lying-in patients ac- commodated in this hospital (including private pa- tients) number from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty per annum. The number of in- fants received (born in the house and brought thither as foundlings) was three hundred and eighty-five in the year 1882.


ST. VINCENT'S INSTITUTION FOR THE INSANE, situated on the southeast corner of Marion and Deca- tur Strects, was founded Aug. 10, 1858, by the Sis- ters of Charity. The archbishop by way of encour- agement gave them a lease for ten years on their present building, which was originally built for an orphanage. By 1867 the sisters had paid for the house. During the next year they built an addition and raised the old building one story. There is now a centre building fronting on Decatur Street and two wings. In 1881 the sisters were incorporated under the name of St. Vincent's Institution for the Insane, under the management of the Sisters of Charity, with Sister Julia as superior. The building is large, well ventilated, and fitted up with every convenience neces- sary for an institution of that character. The grounds on which the building stands cover an entire block, and are laid out in shady walks. All classes of in- sane persons and of all denominations, without regard to the duration of the disease or its curability, are admitted ; also a limited number of those addicted to the use of opium and other stimulants to excess. A farm belonging to the institution, a short distance in the country, affords a source of much pleasure and recreation for the patients during the spring and sum- mer. The asylum is private. Patients who are able pay, and what is left after defraying the actual expenses goes towards the support of the charity patients, of whom there is an average of forty-five in the house. Dr. John A. Seavy was the first physician in charge of the institution, and its present medical attendants are Dr. Jerome K. Bauduy, who has been the at- tending physician for nearly a score of years, and Dr. A. B. Shaw, who has recently been associated with him.


DISPENSARY .- As heretofore stated, the first free dispensary for the gratuitous treatment of the poor was established by Drs. S. G. Moses, William Mc-


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Phceters, George Johnson, J. B. Johnson, C. A. Pope, and Joseph Clark. Drs. Beaumont and Hard- age Lane were the consulting physicians. The six young physicians first mentioned pledged each other that they would each give an hour a day to the work at the dispensary and take charge of out-door cases in one of the city wards, and that they would carry on the work for five years. The out-door service in the different wards was changed every six months, so as to equalize the work as much as possible. Dr. Moses was president of the organization. Through the kind offer of Dr. Eliot, the basement of the Uni- tarian Church, which then stood on the northwest corner of Pine and Fourth Streets, was placed at their disposal, and was occupied for some years. At the end of the first year the dispensary was several hundred dollars in debt. At that time an ordinance was passed by virtue of which the president of the dispensary was made an honorary member of the Board of Health, and an appropriation of five hundred dollars per annum was sccured, thus enabling them to procure a stock of medicine and lighten the ex- pense materially. A number of philanthropic citizens contributed generously to the support of the under- taking, among whom the Mullanphy family may be mentioned specially. Collections were taken up in the churches for the same object. Gradually the debt was extinguished, and when the dispensary was given up, seven years after its establishment, it owed nothing. It was discontinued because the city established a public dispensary and withdrew the ap- propriation for medicines for this charity. The col- leges also had established dispensaries, and the original dispensary seemed to be no longer needed.




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