Medical College of Virginia - X Ray Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Contents • • SCHOOLS z Cedicine T entistry Pharmacy V ursing • • ACTIVITIES FRATERNITIES FEATURES ADVERTISEMENTS

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atewat i AS this, the 1945 X-Ray, goes to press the war in Europe has just ended in all-out victory ■L»- for the United Nations. The length of the casualty list bespeaks the price the cream of our youth has paid for this victory. To us as citizens of the world the formulation of a lasting peace is a great challenge. To us as men and women of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Nursing the wounded service personnel and the impoverished and malnourished millions of peoples offer even a greater challenge. To us reconstruction should mean chiefly restoration and rebuilding of wrecked human beings as well as restoration and rebuilding of wrecked cities. American medicine and its allied fields has done much to decrease the mortality rate of battle casualties. Their efforts to shorten hospitalization of the wounded and to restore them to duty with greater function in the shortest possible time have been very successful. In the latter role the field of Physical Medicine, heretofore greatly neglected, has come to the fore. A great deal is yet to be learned about this phase of medicine, but it promises to be an important adjunct to the fields of medicine and surgery. The future of Physical Medicine and the part that it has already played in the rehabilita- tion of war wounded is justification for its choice as the theme of the 1945 X-Ray. The philanthropic grants of Mr. Bernard Baruch for research in Physical Medicine is enabling the Medical College of Virginia to contribute to the general knowledge of this field. The humanitarian gesture of Mr. Baruch is gratefully acknowledged by dedicating this volume to him, and the importance and potentialities of the field of Physical Medicine are presented to the students of the Medical College of Virginia in the special section on this subject. Herman M. Nachman, Editor.

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BERNARD MANNES BARUCH -humanitarian and v cn era clot or Vlankind this volume is gratefully dedicated