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

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CHEMISTRY Chemistry, under the careful supervision of Professor Melvin H. Saylor, is another of the fundamental courses which forms a background for the full understanding of the mechanism of disease. The lectures of the first semester are given by Drs. Saylor. Hamilton, and Speigel Adolph. These are designed to teach physiological phenomena and their relation to functional activity. This is followed by a course covering the fundamentals of physiological chemistry. This course covers the chemistry of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, the tissue secretions and excretions, including the intermediate and final products of metabolism. In oddition to the obove lectures Dr. Spiegel Adolph gives a series of lectures on colloidal chemistry. These lectures lay special emphasis on the colloidal chemistry of proteins and lipoids with special ref-ference to biology. These were interspersed with practical demonstrations on methods of doing colloidal golds, creating sols and gels. The laboratory work of the first semester includes volumetric analysis, chemistry of food stuffs, enzymes, digestive juices, blood, and hemolysis. The course while conclusive emphasizes the practical application to modern medicine. HISTORY OF MEDICINE The history of medicine course, presented by Dr. Victor Robinson on Wednesday afternoons of the first semester, proves to be one of the interesting high lights of the first semester. What graduote of Temple Medical School can forget Dr. Robinson's stories and pictures of medicine through the ages? From the time he begins with the first cry of pain through the primitive jungle, the developing panorama of medicine is revealed to the freshman student in a most interesting manner. PSYCHIATRY Psychiatry at Temple Medical is under the capable supervision of Professor O. Spurgeon English. The freshman begins the subject, which is continued through his four years, with an introductory course dealing with the development of personality. The interaction of the human being with his instinctual drives and moulding forces of his environment at various life periods is fully covered by Dr. Brody. A discussion of the interrelationships between feeding and emotional development, bowel and bladder training and emotional development, the relations between child and parents, and the effect of severe physical illness on psychological development, was carefully covered. Thus it became apparent that the adequately trained physician of today must know something of mental as well as physical functions of the organism in order to properly diagnose and treat his patient. Dr. Robinson rcvcoli that medicine it a notural art, conceived in sympathy and born of necettity.'' Dr. Morrii Brody lecfuret to the freshmen on the development of the personality. the freshmen complete their first semester and pass on to

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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.

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- e 6econ J aemc tcr to 3 fit cli OtO'O fcoxb'f o « Vo« » anatomy Anotomy in the second semester is o continuation of the lectures from the first semester on general anatomy. This is again correlated by the ■work in the dissecting laboratory. Dr. Huber lectures on the extremities and face, carefully covering the muscles, bones, veins, arteries, nerves, ond fascia of each part. This work is supplemented by oral carted written quizzes and by the never to be forgotten spot examinations. In these exams practically every cadaver in the room has some particular artery, vein, nerve, bone, or organ tagged so that the student has to identify the part or answer a question about the part in a limited amoun-t of time. In April. Professor R ox by returns to review the important practical highlights of the course and the student realizes again that his professor of anatomy is not only a practical anatomist taut on outstanding physician os well. VISCERAL AMD COMPARATIVE ANATOMY Visceral and comparative anatomy «s also continued during the second semester fc y Dr. Pritchard. The work is carried on mostly in the laboratory witH a continuation of the study of cross sections and visceral systems of the body. The second semester takes up the gastrointestinal tract, liver, pancreas, kidneys gen.to-ur. nary systems. and extremities. Every Thursday Dr. Pntchard conducts his {emous oral qu.rz. Th.s covers the fields of general, visceral, and neuro-anatomy and ,s long fa be remembered os the inimitable Patch gives out His characteristic next man.