Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Dr. Brown's interests outside the field of medicine ore definitely limited because of the extreme amount of time he spends on medical activities. He is an amateur movie photographer and likes to travel when ever possible. His favorite means of relaxation is to sit at home with a cigar and book. The Class of 1942 is justly proud of having the opportunity of studying under this distinguished physician. Memberships in Scientific Societies: 1. Fellow of the American College of Physicians 2. American Society of Clinical Investigation 3. Central Society for Clinical Research 4. American Association for Advancement of Science 5. American Gastro Enterological Association 6. American Therapeutic Society 7. American Medical Association 8. Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania 9. Philadelphia County Medical Society 10. Massachusetts State Medical Society (nonresident member) I I. College of Physicians of Philadelphia 12. Physiological Society of Philadelphia 13. Sydenham Medical Coterie 14. Revision Committee of the United States Pharmacopeia XI and XII 15. Chairmanship of United States Pharmacopeia XII—Hormone Advisory Board 16. Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Heart Association 17. Board of Directors of the Philadelphia County Medical Society 18. Member of the House Delegate of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania 19. Loennec Society of Philadelphia 20. Medical Club of Philadelphia One of Dr. Brown' chief interest in lifo is hi family. Janet Jamieson, Mr . Brown, Dr. Brown, and Martha Ann in Dr. Brown's study. After coming home, many hour are ipcnt writing and read-his favorite subject—medicine. Dr. Brown presides at the weekly medicine conferences. Dr. Brown in a moment of relaxation with daughter Janet.

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Dr. Charles Leonard Brown, B.A., M.D., F.A.C.P. Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Medicine In admiration for the pre-eminent position he has attained in medicine, in appreciation of his work and ability as a teacher, and in esteem of his genuine, unselfish, and sincere good will os a physician, gentleman, ond friend, the Class of 1942 respectfully dedicates this book. On April 27, 1899, Dr, Brown was born in the small town of Metropolis. Illinois. His father. William Andrew Brown, is a descendant of the North Irelanders and his mother, Martha Wallace Brown, is o( Scotch-lrish ancestry. It was in this town along the banks of the Ohio River that Dr. Brown spent his early boyhood and began his early education. At the age of ten his family moved to Geary. Oklahoma, where he continued his grammar school education soon after his -fifteenth birth-moved to Monrovia. California. After residing here for a few months, they took up their residency at Selma. California, in the San Joaquin Valley. The Brown family then returned to Geory, Oklahoma, where Dr. Brown finished his high school eeducation soon after his -fifteenth birthday. Before entering college he attended the Capitol City Business College in Guthrie, Oklahoma, to learn shorthand and typing. For a long time before entering college, Dr. Brown had decided to make the practice of medicine his life work. With this goal in mind he began his premedical work in the fall of 191 5 at the University of Oklahoma and has since given his entire time and effort to the study, practice, and teaching of medicine. After two years of premedical work he entered the School of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma to begin his distinguished accomplishment of becoming one of the youngest professors of medicine in the United States. After his first year in medical school he became an assistant in the department of anatomy. After his second year he became o' resident pathologist at St. Anthony's Hospital in Oklahoma City, where he completed his final two years of medical school. It was in 1919 that he joined the Alpha Lambda Chapter of the Phi Beta Pi Medical Fraternity and it was during this year that he received his Bachelor of Science degree. After getting his M.D. degree in 1921, Dr. Brown began to practice medicine as an assistant in the office of Arthur W. White in Oklahoma City. In February of 1922 he received his appointment os a house officer in medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. From the time he left Oklahoma City until his arrival in Philadelphia, his rapid advancement in the field of medicine is a fitting record of Dr. Brown’s energy and capabilities. After serving the sixteen months os house officer at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, he became resident pathologist at the Children's Hospital in Boston from 1923 to 1924, Instructor in Pathology at Harvard from 1923 to 1925, Resident in Pathology at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1924 to 1925, Resident Physician in Medicine at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1925 to 1927, Teaching Fellow at Harvard from 1925 to 1927. and Junior Associate in Medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1927 to 1928. In addition, while in Boston, he practiced as office assistant to Dr. Henry Christian in 1927 and 1928. In July of 1928, Dr. Brown was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After serving one year in this capacity, he was appointed Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan and retained that position until he came to Temple Medical School as Professor of Medicine and head of the Department of Medicine in 1935. In addition to his work at Temple he is Chief of the Division of Medicine at Philadelphia General Hospital. While still in Boston, Dr. Brown married Ruth McAllister Jamieson on June 9. 1928, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Two of Dr. and Mrs. Brown's chief interests in life are their daughters, Janet Jamieson and Martha Ann, ages eleven and eight years resoectively.

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WJe pause lo listen w U . AN OLD GRAD REMINISCES by Dr. Granville A. Lawrence What could be more tiresome than the musing of an old man? These are war times, however, and orders ore orders. Your correspondent was ordered to put it down: but you don't have to read it. The Medical School was started by Dr. Con-well os a part of his original idea of providing an education for those who had to earn it. On this basis a night school was started for those who worked by day and could study at night. The courses covered five years—nine and a half months each year, six nights a week from seven until ten p.m. The original physical equipment was not much to be proud of. The dissecting room was located in the old stable that stood in back of the hospital. It was equipped with four pine tables. The bodies were preserved in a pickle vat by the State Anatomical Board until ready for distribution. They were then sent to the school. Our old friend, Emil, was there with his embalming and injecting fluid to prepare the bodies. Dr. John Byers Roxby with his personal help to explain how this blood vessel advances steadily forward, downward, outward, inward, around this and over that to its distribution in the periphery. His reverence and respect for the piles of human flesh and debris—lifeless and stinking—gave us an insight to the warmth within the soul of a physician. No disrespect to our subject was tolerated. I can never forget his talk to us, when as green freshmen, we first entered this room: This is all that remains of a house, in which dwelt a soul, perhaps someone's mother or father. Certainly a son or daughter of some loving parents. If we could know the history of this life, what tales of sorrow, joy, remorse and happiness could be related. Fate kind to some, but more cruel to these, brought them here. Thus were lessons taught, not only of practical anatomy but something which goes into the making of a Physician in its larger sense. Our laboratories were equipped at first largely by the teachers. The school owned one microscope which was available to the students. Dr. Bateman, who taught histology, brought his own and one or two others were loaned for the night. Also, he brought the sections ready cut which we stained, mounted and examined—each man taking his turn at the scope. The classes were small so that instruction was more on an individual basis. Much of the time was taken up in question and answer style. Lessons were assigned and a quiz conducted at the next meeting. The teachers asked the questions and more often than not gave the answers—not from desire but from necessity. Thus, we can see that quiz programs are not new. Somehow, we finally learned what they were after. This fact. I believe, is verified by the results before the State Dr. Gronville A, Lawrence. Sr., rebates mony iolo obout the first gonorotion of Tomplo Medical studonfs. while Granville A. lowronce. Jr„ compares them with his oxporionces of today. Board. There was not a single failure up to and including my class. I do not know when the first failure was recorded. One of my own classmates received the highest mork in the Blockley examinations that year and another was fifth or sixth on the list of over one hundred applicants from many medical schools. Embryology was taught by Dr. Arnold, who was as good a teacher then as he is today. Our own Dr. Robin taught pathology, bacteriology and hygiene. Try and picture one man. with no assistants, teaching all this with limited laboratory facilities! Materia Medica was expounded by Dr. Mer-vyn Ross Taylor with his story of feeding the ten little guinea pigs on Tr. Nux. Vom. instead of vitamins. Chemistry was under Dr. Affix, who could always emphasize the point he was making with an appropriate story. Physiology and Dr. Slifer seemed to fit each other like ham and eggs, corned beef and cabbage or the pork and beans on which he and his wife lived and thrived as an experiment in dietetics, sans calories. Dr. Steel soon appeared, with his pizzacato laugh, an arm full of bandages, minor surgical tools and well-systemized notes. As we progressed to the practical subjects in the upper classes, we began to realize the importance of the fundamentals. It was in the third year that we learned the merits of the correlated system of teaching, which incidentally was originated by Dr. I. Newton Snively, our first Dean. Diseases of the chest, the gastro-intestinal tract, the nervous and circulatory system and so on through the entire realm of disease were each discussed from the standpoint of the various department at the same time.