New York Medical College - Fleuroscope Yearbook (Valhalla, NY)

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Nurse One hundred eighty-two IMPEACH BISCONTI Peter, the Great has chiseled us boys Of hard earned cash and sundry joys: The dance we had was quite a flop, With him the ball room we'd like to mop. Because of him we went to the Ritz- All should unite to tear him to bits. Our initial outlay was rather high, On reaching the Ritz it hit the sky. Bisconti must have had plenty of dough He tipped all waiters-the so and so. Bisconti and Chinigo vacationed to-day They're buying new suits with colors gay. Let's tell the Dean about this guy Then we'll kill him until he dies. It isn't a crime to kill a skunk In fact if we don't We'll all be sunk. But first impeach him, remove him from office If we do this We'll fill our coffers With many dollars, nickles and dimes Then we kill him, and have good times. THE NOBLE LIFE-IN THE CHILDREN'S WARD Nurse Nurse oh nurse, I feel so sick. bring me a bed pan, quickl Nurse, you forgot to wash my face. Nurse, Iohnny won the wheelchair race. Nurse, I won't swallow that old stuff. Nurse, you don't play with me enough. Nurse, Peter's gotten out of bed. Nurse, watch me stand up on my head. Nurse, my ear-oh ouch-she aches. Nurse how long have I got to bake? Nurse, Nurse I my water bottle leaks. listen to my arm cast squeak. oh nurse-from all the ward The cry goes on the Whole day long. When, amid such din and strife Can nurses lead the noble life. VERBARG

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a given case of bacillary dysentery. By the rule of the simile, we must find an agent capable of producing ulcerative lesions of the intestines associated with copious, watery, bloody diarrhoea and a generalized toxemia. Such a remedy is to be found in mercurius subcorrosivus. Experience has taught us that one to three tablets of the 3x tablet triturate leach representing lflOOOth of a grain? should be given at two hourly intervals. lf we approach the prob- lem antipathically, then we search for an agent capable of destroying the organism. ln other Words, we look for an antiseptic. Among others to be considered is mercurius subcorrosivus, and the dosage to be used is the largest one compatible with the integrity of the tissues of the host. Actually such a dose approximates lflOOOth to lf5UOth of a grain every two hours. ln other words, I am trying to convey the important thought that the same therapeutic procedure may be invoked by more than one method of medical thinking, and that therefore homeopathy does not represent in any sense, an exclusive school of thought, but is a method complementary to all others in the field of therapy. It does not directly play a part in the rapidly expanding field of substitutive therapy, of which we have notable examples in the use of insulin for diabetes, thyroid for myxedema, anti-toxin for diphtheria, and so forth. One should here also stress the importance of palliation therapy and the top- ical usefulness of parasiticidal therapy. IN CONCLUSION Finally, it would seem clear that homeopathy belongs primarily in the field of stimulo-therapy, and can be best summarized in the words of Professor Manwaring of Stanford University School of Medicine- One could para- phrase the familiar 'similiar similibus curentur' of Hahnemann by the postulate that in proper dosage, every symptom-producing drug acts as a heterophile symptom specific vaccine, increasing personal resistance to each and every pathologic factor of the same syptom-specific group. This statement affords us an excellent immunologic conception of the simile. A more fruitful concep- tion, however, is probably contained in the words of Professor Boyd, of the New York Medical College: If there are purposeful reactions in the body, it would seem rational to imitate them. This is the simile in its fundamental form. The simile principle is the principle by whose applications the defen- sive reactions are to be stimulated. Wherever in nature we find purposeful defensive reactions in the body, we should attempt to simulate them. Without reasoning of this sort Bier would never have discovered the value of reactive hyperemia in inflammatory states-a truly homeopathic procedure. Homeo- pathy represents an effort on the part of the physician to imitate and to stim- ulate nature's reaction against disease. Its limitations have been suggested, its field of application implied. There is an old Arabian proverb which reads, A hatchet is a good thing, but not to eat soup With. So let it be said of homeopathy in the medicine of todOtY. It is a good thing, but by no means universally applicable for all morbific states, but wherever stimuli of any sort--electrical, thermal, mechan- ical, or drug-are to be applied with a view to increasing nature's own re- sponse to morbific influences, then and there will simile thinking be useful. ' By the term Hparasiticidal therapy the author means the use of an agent for its direct action upon the living morbific influence without any effect, or at least, without any deleterious effect upon the host. There are no extant instances of such therapy in the human body-with the possible exception of the arsphenamlnes in syphilis. One hundred eighty one

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SCHOOL DAYS FROSI-I There was a Freshman at Flower Who studied mnernonics by the hour But when quizzed by the Boss He found keys a total loss Now sight of M .D.'s makes him cower. SOPH A soph towards study was cool With wine and women he'd fool Exams drove him frantic And his libido gigantic At last got him kicked out of school. JUNIOR The Iuniors all go to the Met To do their service obstet With hearts aquiver They stand and deliver Offspring begot tete-a-tete. SENIOR The seniors are inclined to be cynical They shun experiences clinical Interneships they seek Which seven days a week Will bring them patients qyr1'ical. MOTHERHOOD Par la boca - Bespiro - Breathe, mother Now push - pujo - That's fine - Now Thats the way It's just a few more pushes mother And then we'll call it a full Business day Oh - here it comes. BE STILL motherl Don't Push - non puio - Oh B'gosh, its come Well, Ritgen, your text book manouever Was made for para O but not for Para tenl GEN DEI.. VERBARG One hundred eighty-three