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

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DEDICA TION Joseph Eldridge Markee There is no adequate way of expressing the gratitude that a generation of medical students feel toward a man who has devoted the better part of his life to the art of teaching. The AESCULAPIAN staff along with the students and faculty of Duke Univer- sity School of Medicine take pride in dedicating the 1966 AESCULAPIAN to you, Joseph E. Markee, in small token of the affection and respect which you so well deserve. JOSEPH ELDRIDGE MARKEE, James B. Duke Distinguished Profes- sor of Anatomy, has been Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at the Duke University School of Medicine since 1943. Dr. Markee was born in Neponset, Illinois in 1903. He received his B.S. degree from'Knox College in 1924 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1929. Dr. Markee originally planned to study medicine and, of course, was subjected to the usual traumatic experience of being a medical student in a class of medical students who are supposed to learn all the 1,000 years of accumulated wealth of anatomical knowledge in a mere 3 or 4 months. All medical students appreciate the importance of anatomy, but only a few fall in love with the subject. Fortunately, for our medical school, Dr. Markee was one of these few, and he stayed on in anatomy to complete the work for his Ph.D. degree in this subject. Dr. Markee is a gifted experimenter with a very original mind. He has published over 150 contributions to scientific literature. The first series of studies were in the general field of reproduction in the primate female and dealt with menstruation, ovulation, test for preg- nancy and the relationship of the nervous system to the glands of internal secretion. The studies were carried out at Stanford University where he advanced from instructor to a full professor of anatomy. Incidentally, he became an international authority in this field. A second series of publications on the nerve control of Various bio- logical phenomenon were started at Stanford and continued at Duke. The third series of papers were on the fundamental activities of muscles and muscle groups. These studies were designed to supply basic informa- tion which may be useful in the treatment of patients with infantile paralysis. These studies were all made at Duke. eight

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Foreword Duke Medical School and Duke Medical Center have reached a turning point in their history. The entering class of the medical school will soon be half again as large as the eighty that now enter every year. These students will be taught under the new curriculum, the core courses that introduce the student to clinical medicine early in his second year. The lockers in the basement will soon be moved to the new Student Activity Center, and the amphitheatre, with its narrow aisles, splintering chairs, and confusing light switches has already been dismantled. The Medical Center Library, always a haven for exam-plagued first and sec- ond year students, as well as a stimulus for earnest conversation, will soon find a new computerized home where one need merely push a button to obtain a complete bibliography on any subject of his choosing. In this utopia there will be space adequate to accommodate the increased student body. The Medical Center will soon have an additional eight hundred beds, a new hospital chapel, and two new buildings whose space will be devoted to basic research. Our yearbook has attempted to capture this important change in the Medical Center. We have done this by presenting the case history of the Center in terms of its history, current course and prognosis. We have dedicated the book to Dr. J. E. Markee, who for over twenty-three years has helped guide the Medical School to its prominent place in American Medical Education. J. P. W. T. N. M. P. G. H. SCVCH

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