Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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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

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