Albany College of Pharmacy - Alembic Yearbook (Albany, NY)

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3umor Humor 'Vwe. .y v Ott'f.s Did you ever? — Drop a box of pharmacognosy slides. — Put. a shake well label on an ointment in pharmacy lab. Try to make citrate of magnesia without capping the bottle. — Assay your quant, sample to be 112% pure. Try to identify nux vomica by tasting it. Run out of ink in pharmacology, and while reaching for your other pen, miss 14 lines of notes. - Make the special “elephant” or “spaghetti” suppositories. Burn yourself on a bunsen burner and get treated for phenol burns. Professor: “Gentlemen, I’m dismissing this class twenty minutes early today, so leave quietly so as to not wake the other classes.” Junior to roommate: “I don’t like my cooking either . . . but do 1 sit here and gripe about it?” She: “May I have the jumbo size of arsenic, please?” Pharmacist: “Do you have a prescription?” She: “No, but 1 have his picture.” “Son, after four years at college you’re nothing but a ch unk, a loafer, and a darn nuisance. I can’t think of one good thing it has done for you.” “Well, Dad, it’s cured Mom of bragging about me.” Sign on a pharmacy: 1 am shutting my doors today. The services which I have been doling out free all these years may now be obtained in the following places: Where to find the street you want — A drink of water to swallow the aspirin you bought elsewhere — Change for twenty-dollar bill — Postage stamps — Reading magazines — The cop on the corner. The fountain across the street. The bank down the block. The post office. Can now be bought at the stationery store. Tune in on your radio. 24 Free medical advice

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Jlebtcal tofmologp A medical technologist is one whose education and training enables one to assist the pathologist in determining the cause, nature, and development of disease. Chem- ical and bacteriological analysis of body fluids and tissues, type and cross-matching blood for transfusions, and preparation of paper thin slices of tissues for microscopic studies are some of the routine tests performed. In the early days, pathologists performed all clinical procedures, but as his field became recognized as necessary and important, laboratory medicine developed to the degree where it was advantageous for him to hire and train assistants. Therefore the profession of Medical Technology was inaugurated. Originally, high school graduates received apprentice training in medical laboratories, but with the rapid strides made in research and medicine, attempts were made to standardize the training of labora- tory assistants. The American Society of Clinical Pathology established the Registry of Medical Technology, and by gradually raising the educational requirements and broadening improved technical training, they elevated the medical laboratory worker to a higher professional level. When students from Pharmacy were being taught bacteriology by the director of Bender Laboratory, it had already been decided that the students of medical tech- nology should have a more scientific, background. In 1938 when the pharmacy course was lengthened to four years, it was possible for students to work for their B.S. in Pharmacy and Medical Technology by the addition of such required subjects as hematology, serology, and pathology, besides completing a month of practical train- ing in the laboratory' and one month subsequent to graduation in hospital practice. In 1942 the scope of both fields had become so extensive that it was essential to separate the courses. A three year course of Medical Technology proved inadequate since it did not afford a degree. In 1945 Dean Francis O’Brien obtained permission from the New York State Board of Education and the Board of Governors of Union University to establish a four year course giving a B.S. with a major in Medical Technology. FACULTY Philip Lulker (B.S., M.D.); Joan Fox (B.S.); Dr. Vie e (B.S., M.D.). Arthur Keinitzer (B.S.); Constance Mountain (A.B., M.S.); Robert Abel (B.S., M.D.). 26