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

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more anatomy than he will ever know again. He has finally (he thinks) said goodbye to chemistry. He is already giving weighty advice to ailing friends. The freshman year is probably most difficult for most students because everything is so new and confused but the prospective physician will find plenty to occupy his mind os a sophomore. Even the ablest must keep eternally up with his books and laboratory work to make the grade in physiology, pharmacology, bacteriology. and pathology. T e famous sophomore squint comes from looking through a microscope.

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It hos been said that a freshman does not worry about becoming a doctor. His only wish is to be a sophomore. It takes the better part of the freshman year for the medical student to get his feet on the ground. When he does gain the comparative security of his second year he no longer has the overwhelming fears of the unknown. He is an insider now. In a way he is established as a member of the medical family. Many of the terms which were at first strange and confusing are now an accepted part of his vocabulary. At the end of the first year he may know

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....FIRST TRIMESTER BACTERIOLOGY The average medical student read Microbe Hunters at an early age. Ever since he has dreamed of finding the cause or cure of some pestilence through a microscope. In his second year he is formally introduced to the work of Koch, Pasteur. Lister and many others equally great but less publicized. Every morning he sits before Dr. Kolmer taking down from his lips information that some of medicine's greatest minds have spent years discovering. Along with the lectures he learns himself to do Gram stains and cultures and other bacteriological procedures. With Dr. Spaulding's help he runs an unknown culture thru analysis and finds out for himself what bacteriology means. Dr. Kolmer, who lectures in bacteriology it prominent in research. Dr. Spaulding points out feoturos of a culturo plate to a student group. Dr. Spaulding explores the sub visible world of the bacteria.