Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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ANATOMY Anatomy--one of the foundations of rational medical practice, is to the novice a critical test of his stamina. The career of the embryo anatomist has a somher beginning. Almost 'at once he is intro- duced to a cadaver, with which he will spend a considerable portion of his life during his freshman year. At First the relationship is strained hut eventually this weird companion- ship hecomes more tolerable: indeed during pre-examination season, there are additional visits to the lahoratory, after and before class. Even the sleeping hours do not dissolve this companionship, for at night the weary femora, humeri, et al., recline heneath the hed of the ardent young Galenic disciple. Dr. Schaeffer, prominent in his field and edi- tor of Morris' Human Anatomy, was indis- pensahle. That this was the students' regard for hiin is attested hy his now firmly established cognomen, Great White Father . His pos- session oi the proper proportions of genuine human interest and objective scientific spirit has won him his pupils' respect and aiiection. Dr. Bennett gave zest to his oral quizzing. Dr. Michels, with his ultra-blunt dissection. was the envy of all 'impulsive would-he surgeons. Then there were those colorful lectures and those early morning hours spent studying the microscopic appearance of different tissues un- der the firm hut friendly guidance of Drs. Ramsay and Bates. The anatomy of the nervous system was un- dertaken in the second year, after a respectahle interval for recovery. With the enthusiasm and abilities of Dr. Schaeffer and Dr. Benjamin Lipshutz, an otherwise impossible maze of anatomical confusion hecame clear. This knowledge blossomed forth in senior neurology, giving us insight into a group of diseases. The junior year saw a much needed light shed upon an already familiar subject from a most practical angle.,Dr. Bonney and Dr. Decarlo are responsible for the excellent clini- cal correlations to anatomy that were empha- sized in this course. Recourse to lectures and five weelcs of dissection in applied anatomy were afforded. Such was the character of our pre-clinical training at D. B. il Exhaustive and time-con- suming7 Yes, hut eminently practical hecause it gave us a foundation without which future medical education would he merely an evanes- cent edifice in air.

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BACTERIOLOGY When as freshmen we entered the spacious auditorium for the opening lecture of the course in hacteriology, little did we realizelthat we would he the last group ol' medical students fortunate enough to he trained hy a physician with fifty years' experience in practicing and teaching the art. For, shortly after we became sophomores we were all deeply grieved 'to hear that Dr. Randle C. Rosenherger. Professor of Bacteriology, had been striclcen down hy a dis- ease of unlmown etiology, myelogenous leu- lcemia. To say that we were taught hacteriology hy Dr. Rosenherger and his able colleagues, Doc- tors Kreidler, Blundell and Meranze would be a masterpiece of understatement. Under their vigilant guidance we were introduced to such famous personalities as Streptococcus, and his brother Staphylococcus, to their first cousins Gonococcus and Pneumococcus, to their friends the Bacilli family, and even their distant rela- tives the Spirochaetes, Parasites and Riclcet- tsiae. Agar slants and Petri dishes became as familiar as salt and pepper, the techniques of many stains were practiced, memorized for the examinations and soon 'forgotten again: the morphology of the diplococci and Neisseria were' ground deeply into our cerebral cortex: parasites and viruses were convicted of mass murders, and before it was all over not a few of us were convinced that we had learned some- thing in the way of etiology. We were given an excellent series of lectures and when our final practical and written examinations rolled around we were all convinced that we had been schooled in hacteriology as well as any group of medical students anywhere. We have missed Dr. Rosenhergefs familiar encouraging remarlcs during our clinical years. hut we lmow that the hacteriology department under Dr. Kreidler, his close friend and associ- ate, has continued to uphold the high standards of teaching and efliciency which he as Professor demanded of everyone associated with it. Who lmows, mayhe some day in the not too distant future one of the memhers of this class may stumble upon the etiology of leukemia. Tai H