Drexel University College of Medicine - Medic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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When he can lender no further aid. the physician alone can still mourn as a man with his incurable patient: This is the physieian's sad lot. -Aretaeus the Cappadoeian. 'l'o those men who have hewn from the surrounding forest ot prejudice, superstition, medical and religious dogma, and the inertia of tradition a clear, straight path of truth. XYho have made possible our hospitals, our schools, our very profession. To whom, above all, we owe our lowered morbidity and mortality rates-to the pioneers in the advance of medicine over the sweep of the millenia we gratefully and for the most part posthumously dedicate this yearbook. To the nameless, Stone Age primate of sloping brow and hairy hand who iirst ligated a spurting vessel and adumbrated modern surgical technique. To the vener- able Father, more our contemporary than the latest medical journal, a modern scientist amid an antiquity so remote that only the barcst facts come down to us from the silt sifted through by the archeologists-Hippocrates-that Titan who divorced medicine from religion. who claimed that disease was a natural afliiction rather than a super- natural visitation of petty, vindictive spirits or anthropo- morphic gods created by our ancestors, at the stark ideal- ism of whose Oath we stand abashed across the centuries. To Semmelweis, whose great contribution to all was re- warded with the mad house during his lifetime and the massive monument after his death, who made of the labor bed a great hope rather than a gruesome horror and of the operating room a haven of help rather than a morass of malignant bacteria. And to Pasteur, Leeuwenhoek, Koch, Spallanzani, Ehrlich, Florey, Flemming, and a myriad of others, mostly dust, who have paid the price, and to those who will do so, that Mankind might live longer and more fully we dedicate this humble work with the presumptuous wish that of our own munber we may someday give just one to this innnortal band-if there still be among us one of such stature. V' -