Duke University School of Medicine - Aesculapian Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Eanteriulugp .-'L' 'i 3 5 5 y U W T 'w ' 3' ' new QUW ff.. rear- D. T. Smith N. F. Conant S. P. Martin The first class in Bacteriology began in Jan- uary, 1931. The teachers were Mary A. Postong Royall Calder, who was then an assistant resident in Medicine, and David T. Smith. Dr. Harold Amoss, the iirst Professor of Medicine, gave one lecture on the diseases caused by streptococci. Dr. Donald S. Martin joined the staff in 1932 and remained until he left Duke in 1950 to become the dean of the new medical ,school in Puerto Rico. Dr. Norman F. Conant came in 1935 to help teach the general course, particularly Fungi. Dr. Hilda Pope Willett, our iirst graduate student, has been a regular member of the department since 1948. Dr. Samuel Martin, who was a Markle Scholar primarily in Medicine but secondarily in Bacteri- ology, has been helping with the teaching since 1949 but is leaving this spring to become Pro- fessor of Medicine at the new University of Flor- ida Medical School at Gainesville, Florida. Dr. Suydam Osterhout worked in the department as a Hanes Student Fellow during 1946 and 1947 and returned for a joint appointment in Medicine and Bacteriology. He helped teach the course in 1953, 1954 and 1955. Dr. Joseph Beard is a member of the Bacteriology Department as well as the Surgical Department and has been giving the special lectures on the nature of viruses. Dr. John Overman, a 1950 Duke graduate who has received a Lederle Medical Faculty Award, will join us in July, 1956, for preclinical teaching. He y .iffy -N 'V' , 2 A I ' f-X M Nr' 2 U 1 ' -al if 4 C... H 3 Y -ar' ,V , aff. nf , H. P. Willett S. Osterhout M. A. Poston is to be a permanent member of the staff and will teach the virus diseases and consult on virus cases on the wards. The Department of Bacteriology has carried a dual responsibility for teaching Bacteriology to medical students, nurses and technicians and providing diagnostic bacteriologic and serologic work for the entire hospital and its out patient clinics. The staff has been prolific in research and sev- eral hundred original studies have been published by various members of the department. The fungus diseases in practically every medical text and system of medicine in use in this country have been Written by Donald Martin, Conant or Smith. The Faso-Spirochetal Book by Smith perished after the first edition. The Manual of Clinical Mycology by Conant, Donald Martin, Smith, Baker and Calloway appeared in 1944 and was revised in 1954. The monograph on Fungus Diseases of the Lungs by Smith appeared in 1946 and is due for revision in 1957. Zinsse'r's Textbook of Bacteriology was inherited by the department in 1947. The 9th revision Was made by Smith, Donald Martin, Conant, Beard and Poston in 1948. The 10th edition by Smith, Conant, Beard, Pope, Sharp and Poston appeared in 1952. The 11th edition is scheduled for publi- cation in 1957. DAVID T. SMITH, M.D.

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5 fi X Qnatump .ml ra ff. mx A' J E Markee J. W. Everett D. C. Hetherington K, L, Duke T, L, Peele R, F, Becker I am writing this short history somewhat under duress, not exactly because I am unwilling to do so, but rather because the time has been limited and I have had to return from Elysium and have therefore had to cease doing what I would rather be doing-which, in short, is nothing but being myself and purring. Lest this introductory sen- tence have little meaning and leave many readers with no thread of association, mayhap I should introduce myself to some and awake the sleeping synapses of others. I am or was, as the case may be, a black cat with a white bib and four white gaiters. I was the Owner and Director of the Department of Anatomy for close to eleven of its twenty-five years of being-a position which I acquired all on my own through sheer force of personality and adaptability to circumstances. I arrived as a young adult by way of the Tower and, being particularly pleasant to the boy who tended me and others of lesser stature than I in the Department, I was allowed the freedom of the Halls and soon I had eased my way into the inner sanctum where quietly and methodicall I took over all regulation of the Depa.rtment. IX: was here I acquired the name Sailor from one of the characters in the Department who thought my silhouette and gait as I traipsed down the Halls on my rounds of inspection, reminded him of a sailor on deck with dark trousers rolled up alsuhe adjusted his walking to the rolling of the s ip. It may seem odd that I shall be able to relate what went on before my regime, during it and after it. Marvelous as it may appear, it is quite simple: I had a friend of my own race who pre- ceded me and from whose diary I gleaned the story before my time. I was also around during the development of E. S. P. and by virtue of some of its inner workings, known only to a few, I was able to dictate this history to an amanuensis in the same spirit as though I had been here in the fur and witnessed events even long after my apparent departure. We began as a Department-and I use we to indicate our unity which from my standpoint of personal historian was remarkable among de- partments-in the Fall of 1930 counting our official instructional members as the Drs. F. H. Swett, D. C. Hetherington, W. Henry Hollinshead, and Roger Baker, with a quota of 50 students selected, as the Dean would have us believe, from a list of 3,000 applicants. This bit of information came through a previous incumbent of my office - Mehitabel, who oddly enough was of the Dean's Household at one time, but because of their frequent dispersions over Europe at rapidly succeeding intervals found herself, for lack of a home, in the Tower from whence she came, as I did, into Anatomy. In passing, we must mention our Erst janitor- the Reverend Earlie Evastius Jones-who be- lieved with sincerity, often enhanced by an openly urged silver offering from the students, that he prayed them through all their examinations. His informal lectures to groups of students fupon their coaxingl, compounded of Biblical texts and anatomical terms, surprised and mystified the students with their moments of aptness and their incongruities. Because the space allotted me in dish sheeah Cfor I am a Southern cat! Anniversary Book is closely edited, I cannot mention all the persons who in the past twenty-five years have passed through the Department in one capacity or an- other. A few came early and stayed late. Others, like Mr. Pim, merely passed by, but each con- tributed in measure to its continued growth and evolution. Of the early arrivals still with us, Dr. Everett put in an appearance in 1932 when Dr. Baker transferred his affections to Pathology. A year before, Talmage Peeleythen a student- began his association with the department first as student instructor and later joined the Depart- ment in 1939. Dr. Duke popped over fresh from graduate Work in Zoology and settled with us in 1937. Dr. K. E. Youngstrom came in late Knot unusuall, 1937, and tarried long enough to finish his M.D. degree before going into the Army. Dr. SWett's sudden death in 1943 terminated his thirteen years as Chairman of the Depart- ment, during which span of administration he had been ably assisted and abetted by his wife. Because of Mrs. Swett's active interest in stu- dents and her past association with student admissions, she was asked by the Administration to continue in a new capacity as Secretary of Admissions and later, in addition, as Advisor to the Students. Short of a year following Dr. Swett's death, Dr. J. E. Markee came from Stanford University to assume Chairmanship of the Department and brought with him Dr. Charles Sawyer. With them came new interests and new outlooks with emphasis on audiovisual education. With the passing of time Dr. Hollinshead accepted in 1947 the opportunity to establish a new Division of Anatomy at the Mayo Foundation in Rochester, Minnesota and Dr. Sawyer withdrew in 1951 to become Professor of Anatomy at U. C. L. A. The youngsters of the staff, so-to-speak, are Dr. Fred Becker 119513, Dr. Jerome Grunt 419535, and Hnally, a scholastic toddler, Dr. Wm. Knisely, who appeared on the scene in 1954. Somewhere in this history, I, myself, departed from my eleven years of management as I inti- mated in the beginning of these jottings. So, rather than be cut-off by the editor, I shall gather up my kit and like Kipling's Cat That Walked by Himself I shall Walk by my wild lone through the wet wild yonder waving my wild tale Cwith apologiesb for all places are alike to me. Done this 17th day of March, 1956 by Me - Sailor My Mark ,rate

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Biochemistry L, 'ego 3' 'ie 5. 4' dw- P. Handler M. L. Bernheim G. W. Schwert H. M. Taylor H. Kamin Although the Department of Biochemistry has grown considerably and changed in many ways during these 25 years, it is still recognizable as the handiwork of the late Dr. W. A. Perlzweig. He believed that today's biochemical research is tomorrow's medical practice. This philosophy still pervades the teaching of biochemistry at Duke and the staff has always sought to achieve a balance between the presentation of those facts and concepts which may be immediately trans- lated into clinical application and those which may never do more than satisfy the student's curiosity about the nature of living things. Withal, although the class of '36 would hear much that is strange in the current presentation of biochemistry and find the laboratory experi- ments almost unrecognizable, biochemistry re- mains the most difficult area in the curriculum to most students and this does not seem likely to change! The staff, like all biological systems, remains in a dynamic steady state. Drs. Neurath, Klein, Coolidge, Mason, Putnam, Michel and Mommaerts grace other faculitiesg Dr. S. Perlzweig and Korkes lecture no more. Of the original staff Dr. Taylor and Dr. Bernheim teach this spring as of yore, together with Drs. Schwert, Byrne, Kamin, Lynn and Handler. An expanding research program, the advent of radioisotopes and the necessity for large and expensive research tools forced the department to transfer its research activities, in toto, to the Bell Research Building. Whereas this had the desired effect on research, it seriously diminished the frequency of contact between the biochemis- try staff and both our student and faculty bodies. This is most regrettable, particularly since bio- chemistry appears destined to loom ever larger both in clinical practice and in our understanding of normal and pathological physiology. In con- sequence all who are concerned look forward to a construction program which may heal this wound. PHILIP HANDLER, Ph.D.