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

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The Class of 19-l9, the 1OZnd class of Hahnernann, is to be considered most fortunate in many ways. You have been the participants in the changes and modifications of medical teaching during four years of a very active reor- ganization and growth of The Hahnemann Medical Col- lege. By these experiences. not only have you been sea- soned with the circumstance of sudden and unpredicted changes, but you have gained a kind of experience that teaches you the science and practice of Medicine never stands still. In every day life and practice, it is apparent that diseases may not follow the predicted course of events, and one must be ever alert and ready for complications and deviations from the usual. You have lived through similar academic experiences which should make you better phy- sicians, having acquired the stimulation for continually being a student of Medicine: and thereby, serve the Pub- lic, the Commonwealth and the Nation in a more versatile and creditable fashion. Never before has a graduating class of Hahnemann scattered for internships to so many areas over the entire nation as has the Class of 1949. XYherever vou go. you will hear many good things about The Hahnemann Medi- cal College. You are in an enviable position, and at the same time carry a tremendous responsibility. By your conduct and accomplishnients lslahnemann will be ap- praised and judged by the conmnmities which are hrst learning about Hahnemann from yon. l charge you with this responsibility. and at the same time express my im- plicit faith and confidence in your ability and determin- ation to carry the banner high for llahnemann. To each and every one of you, l extend my heartiest congratulations and very best wishes for a happy. success- lul and prosperous lile. fri.-xRr.i4:s l.. lhxowx. MD.. Dt'tIlI.

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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' -

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n emoriam A ' F x. THOMAS M. SNYDER, M.D. Q HELENE WASTL, M.D. 1 I 0 RALPH BERNSTEIN, M.D., F.A.C.P. E. ROLAND SNADER, JR., B.S., M.D., F.A.C.P I 1 4 N,-:Ig O