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

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RADIOLOGY Radiology lectures presented by Professor Chamberlain and his X-ray department, further amplifies the course in anatomy. The subjects studied are the fundamentals of X-ray physics, the biological effect of X-ray, and a systematic presentation of Anatomy as Revealed by the Roentgen Ray. HUMAN ANATOMY A Diagnostic Major By Professor John B. Roxby, M. D. Professor of Anatomy and Histology A Freshman Medical Student, scanning the far horizon of the art of medicine, must needs foreshorten his vision to a close inspection of first things first. No subject that is a first intrigues him more than a study of the human body. During his academic years, he has acquired a fair proficiency as to laboratory methods in physics, chemistry, and biology. In the latter, he has done more or less comprehensive work in comparative anatomy. He has had little, if any, contact with the human body as a revealing study. He is wondering what human dissection will uncover for him, in the domain of diagnostic help. Professor John 8. Ro«by proves human anatomy to be o diagnostic measure. McCiosley and Wunder care fully dissect skin flaps. Dr. Huber gives unceosingly of his time and effort in the class room ond the dissecting room. Dr. Pritchard gives a friendly word of advice in the visceral anatomy laboratory.

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FIRST SEMESTER. IS HISTOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY Histology and embryology makes up one of the major studies of the first semester. Under the guidance of Professor Pritchard and Dr. Chase, the student finds himself in a highly organized department and is soon correlating the development of the human body with its final microscopic structure. In addition to the lectures, many hours each week are spent in the laboratory preparing slides, studying the slides under the microscope, making countless drawings, studying the embryos of man and the lower animals, and sitting in the projection room being quizzed by Pritch. ANATOMY Anatomy, under the guidance of keen, quick witted Professor Roxby, demands a greater part of the effort of the first year medical student. In the first semester many conferences are held by Professor Roxby and Dr. Huber. Here, a comprehensive and systematic study of the human body is correlated with the work in the dissection room. The hours spent in the anatomical laboratory are considered the golden hours of anatomy and the constant attendance of the staff greatly facilitates and encourages this work. TOPOGRAPHIC AND VISCERAL ANATOMY Topographic and visceral anatomy is the study of surface anatomy and of the relationship of structures in transverse and sagittal sections. The principal part of the laboratory work consists in drawing life size pictures of cross sections of the human body. In addition the surface anatomy is mapped on fellow students. Dr William C. Pritchard, in the first feme iter loyS the foundation in histology. vi»-coral anatomy, ond embry ology. Room 510. lomous for long hours of mitfoscoping and drawing. Dr. Pntchord gives onother pointer to the freshmen. Dr Chase drops a helpful hint obovt those endless embryology drawings.

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Or. Chomberlom lecture to the frethmen on onotomy o revealed by the Roentgen roy. Or. Henney give .’he fundomen. tol of X-roy phyiic . After all, ninety-nine per cent, plus, wish to become painstaking diagnosticians. Is it not a truism, that, granted o reasonably accurate diagnosis, the art of healing takes on form and substance? We can, therefore, lay down this principle, his most vital knowledge for the purpose, is a sound concept of the form and function of the human economy. Entering the anatomical laboratory, he is assigned to study a succession of ports of the body. In each instance the skin is ottacked first. Ere it is cut. why not examine the integument of a like part of his colleague? Compare the living with the cadaver. Is any area possessed of an increased number of hair follicles, sebaceous, or sweat glands? Why? Is there reason to suppose that superficial veins, nerves carrying tactile, pain, or temperature sense, are of especial significance? To elicit an answer, chapter after chapter of text must be searched. So, the habit of cross reference is begun. Close observation is initiated. Proceeding, the deep fascia is cut. Fascial plones are exposed. Delaminations, forming muscle sheaths and vascular investures appear. The functional implications of such an arrangement ore mode plain. The muscles themselves, with consequent manipulation of joints and bones are understood. The related vascular and lymph systems are pictured. The impulse factors, nerve distribution, become an essential reality. Cavities are opened, viscera portrayed and critically examined. Their capabilities in relation to the processes of life itself are made clear. Concurrent studies of bio-chemistry and physiology become morphologic co-ordinates. And all the while, microscopic examination of tissues rounds out a synchronized concept of the whole body. The living human becomes personalized. Basic intelligence is established. Truth makes one free. Science is truth. Finally, to moke more sure of ingrained anatomic knowledge, educated hands are a must. Visualization is imperative, but tactile education is necessary to formulate the permanent mental record. Out of such foregoing methods, the Doctor of Medicine of tomorrow is created. Dr. Hamilton eiperimenl in hi pri vote laboratory. Or. Shroder get reody for the unknown . r Saylor pend» much time m the jborotory helping and oiiCuismg.