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

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The HAHNEMANN MEDICAL COLLEGE and HOSPITAL of PHILADELPHIA is approved by the Council of Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association and The Association of American Medical Colleges. The curriculum provides comprehensive four-year training in the medical sciences leading to an M.D. degree. Graduate courses in the Basic Medical Sciences are offered to qualified applicants leading to a Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Applicants desiring admission to the College are required to have a baccalaureate degree or the equivalent thereof from an accredited College or University. 'A' Catalog and additional information may be obtained from: CHAIRMAN OF ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE 235 North Fifteenth Street Philadelphia 2, Pa. The Next Academic Session Will Begin September, 1958

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Editorial In order to obviate the trite and avoid the allectatious, it would be almost necessary to eliminate completely the writing ol' an editorial. For through the years, repetition has relegated to rodomontade and grandilo- quent yapidity the majority of those esoteric expiations which come to the fore at this time. Yet these, nevertheless, still embrace or contain within themselves the illustrious ideals to which we should adhere and aspire. The charges that must necessarily be propounded, whether or not they might possess the ring of superficial sentimentality or thrasonical bombast because of the incondite manner in which they are presented, are, nevertheless an ineluctable integral. The cogent concatenation of ideas that should predominate and the ponderous prolixities that must be eschewed to attain a clear, concise, and germane presentation, increases in magnitude the didicile dehiscence of the inner mind and deters the elutriation of our thoughts. Hence, jejunity may interpose. But each of us, employing the fiail of good judgment and common sense, may easily separate the chaff of vacuity from the wheat of wisdom. Having reached the incunabula of our careers, we are presently imbued with, emotional ebullience that accompanies the attainment of such a long sought and difiiculty obtained goal. This, too, has now not only become a pylon marking the course of our profession which we have reached and passed, but also asign-post pointing out the various pathways in which we may direct ourselves as each of us seeks out that phase of medicine to which he deems himself best suited and adapted. Here at Hahnemann, a foundation was laid upon which can be con- structed whatever edifice in the field of medicine to which we aspire, whether it be the compact high spired tower of specialization or the lower gabled but more broadly spread house of general medicine. Before we plunge haphazardly and headlong into our chosen fields, let us hesitate awhile to equilibrate and orient ourselves so that with nothing but the utmost certainty will we wend our way among and with our medical confreres to the ultimate and successful achievement of our desires. Let us not be so over eager to make our mark that we miss the target completely. Here, more than in any other field, the steady hand of mental and emotional stability is inevitably incommensurate as an ancon of our abstract armamentarium. We cannot let the pettiness of puerile hauteur make us lose perspective of our professional purpose by causing us to abandon that certain degree of humility so vitally necessary to the maintenance of good relationships. Let us not become overbearing in our attitude towards those who seek us out for physical and psychical solace. As we therefore have opportunity, let us do good unto all men, and let us not become weary of well-doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. ROBERT C. ALTLAND Editor-in-Chief

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Wnthrn the past century the medrcal pro fessron and the pharmaceutical lndustry have become unlted by a srngle bond the responsrbrlrty for human health Step by step they have worked together to curb the threat ot smallpox tuberculosrs polro and mental Illness One could not succeed wrthout the other Smrth Klme 81 French research and de velopment actrvrtres are geared to thus responslbllnty lnvestrgatlon rs armed at dlseases not only of the present but of the future the unconquered even the unknown Puttrng the funest qualrty med rcmes un the hands of Amerrcan physrcrans helps to provrde the hrghest standard of medrcal care the world has ever known Smith Klme 8. French Laboratories Philadelphia Pioneering in pharmaceuticals. . . for better health