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

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i ij! F. iff --ig -l -I I JOHN C. SCOTT, Ph.D. Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiology Physiology A lot of frogs were pithed in Physiology-and tho were we. thometimes. Lab was a sort o-f do-it-yourself Spanish Inquisition. When we tired of experimenting with dogs, cats, rats, mice, frogs, and turtles-we turned to the most cunning and evasive laboratory animal known-MAN! In addition to being cunning and evasive, man was also chicken. Cannulating canine carotids was simple com- pared to passing a Levin tube fwith attached condomj down Candelori's Magenstrasse. Great activity and bustle characterized the lab. Looking around at any given moment one might see . . . Figueroa turning green in the Barany Chair , . . Fogg faking the Harvard step-test . . . Dr. Scott ffam lab coatj up to his brown tweed elbows in gore . . . Wahlig recording a BMR of -70 fconfirming our suspicionsj . . . Finnerty executing his classic mis-directed goose of Mr. Bechtel fintended target: Frank DiMauroj . . . Shane haggling with Mr. jenkins over a muscle clamp spring retractor self retaining lever clamper holder . . . The lectures, especially those of Dr. Scott, were models of logic and conciseness. All the seemingly unrelated minutiae of anatomy, histology, neuroanatomy, and biochemistry were fused into broad concepts in physiology. Here, for the first time, we came to see the body as a living, dynamic thing. Xt X.- DR. EMERSON A. REED Xa

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Fifi Jef' . fi? , A Y - if This department was so objective in evaluating us that we weren't allowed to write our names on anything - only code numbers. Exams were like a Double Blind Study g they didn't know whose papers they were grading . . . and we didn't know the answers. We were asked everything from the magnesium content of oatmeal to diagrams of the Krebs Cycle frontwards, backwards and in three dimensions. Remember: lark Sprat afe no falg His wife ale no lean. They both died on the fame day From an aortir atherorrlerolir plaque. What does lhir mean? Two things extremely popular with us were the helpful sheet Directions For Taking Examinalionr and the sealed Manila envelopes containing an S or U after every Wednesday morn- ing quiz. 108 students started the course and 92 remained at the end. Certain' events will always stand out, such as Dr. Wase's lecture on fat metabolism turning out to be an hour talk on stea- topygia and strippers . . . I.eber's fluorescent urine . . . Carmen Candelori's refusal to do the radioisotope experiments because, 'Tm afraid of electricity . . . diagnosing unknowns faccidentlyj by the taste test . . . the horrible day we passed Levine tubes on each other to analyze gastricijuice . . . Spring lab afternoons in the Student Lounge, working out fudge factors in the diet experiments . . . the day someone Nesslerized Dr. Schultz's pipe tobacco . . . Dr. Oesper trying to explain away an early paper he wrote on the conversion of lead to gold . . . I l Golly, that smaris! Send up another Ham on rye-hold the mustard. Are you sure William Osler started this way? H I Us v li i -xi V L.. E fail ,V Kr f, N , it .tl e ei ...Z DR. JOSEPH S. DeFRATES I'm sure you'll be much happier selling drugs, son. 1

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Pl-IYSICDI GG Recruiunenl is exhibited in the crossed extension rellcx, while, interestingly enough, il'emhlee is more common with llexion reflexes. '-2 .., Sonuvabitch ! , U U as ' 3 AARON A. BECHTEL Anything else, boss?