Long Island College Hospital - Lichonian Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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. rr- A-4--- ---X --- -+- f- -f ff' 1- H-'A 1 EZYSEETQT-323335-325143, -15153I7Il'e3U3S mi ii 4 :rl UTERUS Cto herselfj :-Isnlt it funny that they can live without me? Listen to them talk, will you, if it wasn't for me there wouldn't be any future hearts, tongues or kidneys-nor the containers. STOMACH :-ln the good old days, when a heart and kidney, or a uterus and tube, had an argument, I used to sit back quietly and go on strike. They soon saw who the important guy was then. LIVER :-Starvation is rough stuff. I used to turn him yellow and he would be scared half to death. ' KIDNEY:-My brother and I used to go on a vacation for only a few days and stomachs, hearts and everything else were useless. He would swell up like a balloon. TUBE QTurning around to Uterusj :-Haven't I seen you before? UTERUS:-Why certainly! You were on the right of me until you got independent- and decided you'd go into business for yourself. So, you wanted to go into com- petition with me-and to think that you used to cling to me through thick and thin. TUBE:-Really l couldn't help it. That little ova just took a liking ,to me. I tried to defend myself, but it just went through me like a dose of salts. I wept until the Cul-de-sac of Douglas was full. A surgeon saw my tears and here I am. UTERUS:- Now, now, we won't argue any more. Let us make up and be good friends again. INTESTINE CTO Tonguej :-I have to smile at their petty quarrels and bickerings. I come from such a long line myself-well, I just lie here like 21- TONGUE:-Like a few feet of hose. lNTi5sT1NE:-Is that so? FFONGUEZ-lim only quoting that lady who came through here the other day. CA couple of tonsils laugh.j STOlNTACHI'AHd if l mistake not, the lady's escort pointed to you and said, Look what a Hne inner tube he turned out to be. KIDNEY:-l'll say he did. HEART:-Isnit he eloquent? So poetic and just as intriguing as ever. LUNGZ'AlI1yt you the susceptible hdol? Illl bet you used to send the old stream through to your lungs on high. HEART :-What if I did: what is a heart for, I'd like to know, if not to beat fast? Read your poetry. You never see any poetry about lungs and livers, do you? TONGUEZ'-DOll't forget, old lady, that the heart beats according to what we say and the way we say it. HEART.:-I am willing to admit that, because I used to hear you sing and even that old female that carried me around with her, had to acknowledge that I pounded with considerable vigor against her ample walls when you did. KIDNEY:-My' Lord, these old rommzrings make me tired, but then, being pickled in alcohol affects everyone differently. APPENDIX fthe oldest one in a bottle of sixj :-lVIamie, stop peering over at those tonsils. I declare I'm sick of the common things: one sees them everywhere. Don't forget that it costs about twenty times as much to port one of us from our moorings, to this retreat, as it does the tonsils. TUBE:-That's nothing to get a swelled head over. Surgeons sometimes call me a Broadway appendix, yet you don't see me boasting about it. Iaqr' one lizrmlrrd and zzizzcfty-.town -f I3 iii IH la a i ' , l l E ,w s 'H l. ,. l ,i ii' Q. ,ary i H1 Vx . i 1 sil ri li ii it-ll E, ....'.. is a Lien --., .' ' ., 4.3 '-- E .. ' 1 . A s, g:Ll,cHoNlAN 1 ff' I jrzegg, je ig l in F3 4 ..iI ..QsE.',-i' -..Lx i-Vg., .i......-.., 1 ,4,L.- L...

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Ill' , , fi i Q 1 1 . i i t 2 5 2 I . i 1 . N lf' i li il 'Q 4.5 LL H i ,i 'l Y r . . 'LICHONIAN ' I923 new S 3 . - '. llig 5 sg- ,. -4-b1xj. ' i i.iL,g.f QU? ff 1 b s f - H idsag .-Y -a iw- --.gg.g.-. - . .K p .- H -- The Grind Cf The Organs. SCENE: v ga. OAGLAND Pathology Museum where bits and pieces of human anatomy and other souvenirs of operations repose upon Wooden shelves in bottles mags- There has come to be manifest ln the atmos here f th ' of alcohol. Some bottles have labels indicating the donor. J'gxJA ' I . 1 p o e place, a class distinction. The apparently still and studious place is charged with an undercurrent of ex- Q A . citement and tension. Some of their former vehicles'l or envelopes, as the human beings are called by the dismembered parts, are living and others are DEMISED. HEART Cto Stomachj :-They point to you as an unusual exhibit. Granted. Sup- posing you are I can't see that it's anything to act so vampish about. Why are you unusual, because your former vehicle still lives? STOMACH :-Why, I once lodged in the thoracic cavity of a famous actor. HEART :-Personally I consider the man who gets on without you the important exhibit. STOMACH :-Well, there are an awful lot of people getting on without hearts further- more look at lVIiss Uterus-Dr. P. calls her the pelvic heart, yet you never hear her make much noise. You make me sick. HEART :-That's the way you're supposed to be. That's the first place. STOMACH:-I don't care to argue about social precedence is ridiculous for you to put on so much side because without you. How many human vehicles do survive something-anyhow? why they took you out in of anything like that. It your vehicle can't survive after the surgeons remove HEART :-Wheri I came here I was dead sure that the Female I live in was done for. No one can get on without my kind, even for a second. A KIDNEY:-Pardon me, but it is impossible for me to remain out of this discussion any longer. Although I am a twin, I' can't see whv we kidnevs are not considered just as important as stomachs and livers and hearts. I am iair enough to claim that we are of equal importance. Does our vehicle ever stop to-listen to a warning from you, Mrs. Heart, or from you, Mrs. Stomach, any sooner than from me or from any of the kidney kids or other organs? You may Hutter with excitement or raise any amount of-well, stop-look-and-listen signs, but unless we actually go on strike, they never pay any attention to us. TUBE:-I'm one of twins too. lVIy sister was a pus-tube. UTERUS:-But I am the champion twin producer. HEART :-Don't let's Wrangle so. Look at my valves all trembling, I 1 KIDNEY:-I'm not wrangling. I am just trying to establish the fact that a pair is better than an ace and that an organ with his former vehicle living is just as good as the heart or liverrof a dead one. HEART :-Well, they can't get on without me, old dear. Page one lnmdrcd and ninely-.fi.v

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4 - .tu .. 1 5-l lt, lil in l?GALL STONE:-That dame's got a nerve getting chesty about being an appendix. H Some people never get wise to themselves. Here we are practically the most expensive pebbles to be found and they donlt like to recognize us because we 232 are self made. l A FELAND QTO a bottle filled with glands beside herl :-Here we are all comfortable li? and seemingly equal. How do they get that way? lfLUNGZ1ThCy got that way from associating with the human brain cells. Ive are all slightly marked with er- u FQLAND:-lllztrked? Yes, I was going to ask you what makes you so er-dark complexioned and- l jLUNG:-About my complexion, I know what you think. I heard the heart mur- Fil murin and I eau ht bits of comment to the effect that-well the heart and liver my g g , . . . ' ,Elly took one look at me when I first came in and I distinctly heard the heart say, Don't notice him, my dear, he's colored. WGLAND:-The ideal lVIy goodness! Er-what is the matter with your complexion? QLUNG:-I am smoked this way. The fellow I resided in was a ambler and never d it .1 f 1' 'b' ' g gl ran a ropg even a ter pro 11 iticn. lfgl-QONSILSZ-Y'0l1,l'C all crazy. VVhy, even while I'm here my children still continue to thrive in the lace I was enucleated from. 25 P s , . Sli-QOESOPHAGUS:--Let us ask Ana Tomy. She should be able to decide which one of us ranks the highest. ,HANA TOMY:--Really children, I must confess, you are all 'near and dear to me. But I cannot hold on to you, because Pa Thology insists that each and every one ,gg of you are suffering from some disturbance or other. He says you are all damaged, hence he must expose you as an example to all human beings. :--You'1'e right. We all have something wrong with us. From now on- !lifiLARX'NXZ-HUShl Here comes a bunch of wise sophomores. They think they know all about us. Let us listen to their talk. ij QE11ier1I group of three Suphomoresj EfiF1RS'1' SOPH:-Ah-Look at the beautiful specimens. fPicks up a caecum.J Isn't this a wonderful stomach? iiQ,,STo1vIACH Cto caecuml :-Ha, Ha, I never knew you looked like me. 'QQSECOND SOPH:--Stomach? you're crazy. That's the ascending colon. l'fQlFIRST SOPH:-Aw, what do you know. Look at this rectum. QPoints to ileum.j QTHIRD SOPH :--Your ignorance is simply outrageous. Don't you know a duodenum 'ill' when you see one? SPECIMENSZ-XVISC men are the Sophomores. M, Sure they're famous bores Tho they know not what is right Thev'll stick to their thoughts, with all their might. 'Tl-IIRD S'oPH:-Here comes Pa Thology. Let's ask him. THOLOGY:-What's the trouble? QQIESECOND SOPH:-He says this is the ileum and I say it is the rectum. VVlllCl'l one of us is right? - . , . . . . A-g,f1.fh.'LQ'e-71719. FHOLOGYZ1YOU,TC both wrong. That's a heart showing Chronic Interstitial 3 illW7Qii-.iili.1'lifrnAyNPericarditis. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do with it? , . Lf .,, .W ,J 1 V .. . .M .W N4 ? i ,g--. 'IVWH' . . . . fi' ' gli is., Boys faint. Curtain falls. HI! ls still. iltiirsiitlfiil sw ., ff--' 141 'i - 1 L15 rpg: n'---if -1 , 'fr -A - A ul x':'1'fi'3Qffi7v 7' 1r'4 . a V1 4 2, f -Kr-E,-1 .... J, -H ,.,.2f. AW A Prior' um' liimclrvcl rum' ninety-vig