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

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PHYSIOLOGY AND NEURO-PHYSIOLOGY The sophomore finds that he has not burned all of his freshman bridges. Returning after vacation he -finds his old friends Drs. Hickey. Oppenheimer. and Collins awaiting him with open arms. It seems that there are still a few things that they neglected to mention in their extensive field. There are more kymographs to be blackened at the expense of scorched fingers. There are more frogs slippery as ever to be pithed. There are lectures, too, to cover sheets and cards and there are the weekly objective tests on subjects that always seem to have been forgotten in the intensive study the night before. Something new has been added also. Having struggled thru the intricacies of neuro-anatomy the student must now learn how the nervous system operates. Dr. Spiegel, distinguished neurophysiologist, has the somewhat questionable pleasure of putting this across. At first, the sophomore thinking back, gets the impression that neuroanatomy was child's play by comparison but gradually in Dr. Spiegel's time-skilled hands the whole field gets a new meaning. His references to the work that he himself has done to clear up this little understood phase of medicine gives life to the whole course. Every student complains of the overwhelming mass of information met in physiology. Later on his only complaint is that he did not learn enough physiology. Or. Hickey explains the action of the vocal cords. Instructive experiments are demonstrated on well anesthetized animals by Dr. Collins. tow and why the body acts as it does is Dr. Hickey's problem. Dr. Wycis assists Dr. Spiegel in neuro-physiological experiment. Dr. Spiegel is a recognized authority on the nervous system.

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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.

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The strange and varied features of talis are emphasized by Or. Livingston. Dr. Fellows prepares for an eipcrimental injection. Dr. Livingston is justly proud of tho kymographs he has designed. PHARMACOLOGY A large part of the glamor of medicine lies in the romance of drugs, the magical substances which hove the power to cure men's ills. Thus it is a step of real importance when the medical student starts his pharmacology course. The first trimester's work is devoted largely to pharmacy and the student smells and tastes queer powders and solutions. He mixes up most of the preparation forms which he will in the future prescribe for his patients. From Drs. Livingston and Larson he learns the physical and chemical properties of the herbs and alkaloids and their physiologic action. From Dr. Fellows he gets his first pointers on prescription writing and finds that he is not through with linguistics until he has mastered prescription Latin, a tongue that resembles at first glance nothing under heaven. The whole is novel and interesting having but one flaw, the weekly question bee recalling strong memories of chemistry. Ferric chloride plus tannic acid equals what? Dr. We ton clear up lome fine anatomical point for tho Sophomore .