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E. QUIN THORNTON, M.D. HE College and Hospital have suffered a g'reat loss through the' death of E. Quin Thornton, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica. Dr. Thornton was a great teacher, a beloved friend, and a brilliant leffersonian. A graduate of lefferson himself, he gave his lsest through the years of his full and useful life to the betterment and advancement of his Alma Mater. Dr. Thornton, Whcm We knew a short time ago as a tall, genial, lovable gentleman, has now taken his place among the great names that stand as lefferson traditions. 21
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ANATUIVIY FRESHMAN YEAR The anatomy course was an unusual combination of heaven and hell: a cross between a Dr. Kildare pic- ture and a concentration camp. The hell part of it came first. They called it osteology. First, we trotted over to the library, and bought copies of Morris' Anatomy, and grew paler and paler as we looked over the hundreds of big pages of little print. For two weeks we sweated over protuberances and muscle attachments, and had glycosuria from the daily quizzes, and acute depression over the prospect of three more years like that. About the only fun was in having the boxes of bones. We went according to the best medical school tradition, and the night after the boxes were issued, there were one hundred and fifty-two calvaria used as ash-trays, seventy-four skulls fixed up with cigarettes in their mouths and, fit is esti- matedl fourteen fights between students using femurs as clubs. lt is difficult to say exactly when it was that we stopped feeling like inmates of a concentration camp. Possibly it was during the first anatomy dissection lab, when we drew first blood on our cadavers, and felt professional as we deftly GJ incised from thyroid to xiphoid, and afterward exposed what we hoped was the platysma muscle. Maybe it was during the oste- ology quizzes, when Dr. Michels, sending students on one side of the room into tetany with questions, would look over to those on the other side, give a big grin, like a little kid, and wink. Or maybe when we went out on our first dates in Philadelphia, and were able to string out a long line of impressive words. In any case, we came to like it well. But hell broke loose again with the first blue book. Despite Dr. Schaeffer's interesting instructions to go to the movies on the night before, we crammed our heads until 3 A. M., walked sleepily into the exam the next day, and then drained all our new knowledge onto the exam paper. As we left, and groggily went to Curley's or Chassey's, we wondered how we would live through any more exams like that. Little did we realize that they were going to come faster and faster, diabolically scheduled so that, during the last part of the year, they'd be thrown at us at the rate of two a day. As the year continued, we came to know the men who taught us. To say we were lucky is understating it. The staff at Daniel Baugh Institute were medical men, they were medical in the best sense of the worcly they were men in the best sense of the word. Outstanding among them was Dr. Schaeffer, who was called fwheri safely out of earshotl the Great White Father, and was Cwhen absolutely safely out of ear- shotl called Iake. All three names applied well. As Dr. Schaeffer, he was the expert scientist, giving de- tailed lectures on the comparative anatomy of the maxillary sinus: he was the editor of Morris' Anatomy 5 he was a stickler for accuracy. As the Great White Father, he guizzed us sternly, yet kindly, in the amphi-
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