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

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PATHOLOGY 219' I i Thirty l T n l l YOULAND SACCONE THIS DEPARTMENT, together with the department of Anatomy, forms the basic science on which the whole superstructure of Medicine is founded ..... Formerly presented to the student as a two year course, in September, 1935, it was included in the curriculum as a one year subject .... Thus, actual didactic instruc- tion is now confined to the sophomore year only .... Medical men, however, never cease to be students of this science .... Pathologists throughout the world are ever exchanging with one another bits of knowledge on this subject .... The eventual aim, of course, being that of any of the numerous branches of Medicine .... Ex- pressing new discoveries in terminology understood by all .... Thus making modern methods and findings available to the student .... Who, after all, is the physician of the future. Personalities in the department .... Dr. William E. Youland, loquacious Professor of Pathology and head of the department at F lower-Fifth Avenue Hospital .... His knowledge of this profound subject is so vast that ofttimes he finds himself unable to make clear to the student some of the aspects of this subject .... His proud boast is that no student has learned to think until he has passed his course .... Dr. Andrea Sac- cone, associate professor, efficiently guides the desti- nies of this department at Metropolitan Hospital .... Who will forget his keen eyes or his reverberating laughter? .... His facial hirsutism is the envy of those students who wish to, but cannot, raise an ordinary mustache .... The acting medical examiner of New York City, Dr. T. A. Gonzales, ably led us through the mysteries of post mortern examination in our sophomore year .... Dr. Alfred Angrist, the third associate pro- fessor on the staff, is well remembered by the gradu- ating class for his terse clear logic in making us conscious of the change produced in tissues by the tubercle bacillus .... Dr. Francis Speer we knew through all the trials and tribulations that beset a student in those hectic sophomore and junior years . . . . Finally, Dr. Helen Potts, a recent acquisition to the staff. An important, but frequently unknown, subject to many practitioners is Pathology .,.. It is, however, rapidly coming into its own .... More and more is diagnosis being based on knowledge of this subject . . . In the future all therapy shall be based on it.

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ITISTCDLOCSY EMBRYOLOGY NEUROANATOMY STARK ALLEN CARPENTER AMONG the mysteries to be probed by the incoming freshmen is the science that deals with the micro- scopical study of tissue. . . And the development of new human beings .... It is indeed difficult at first for the student to either visualize or interpret what he sees in this new field .... For it is a new field to most freshmen . . . . lt lets down a veil that hides a vast panorama O1 the unexplored, and, to the uninitiated, apparently unrelated facts .... Here is laid the basic structure for a full comprehension of the physiology of tissue .... Thru the ability of the student of Medicine to recognize normal tissue was the science of Pathology founded . . . . And thus are understood the principles of medi- cine. The professor and head of the department is Dr. Mary Stark .... We do not recall just how Dr. Stark im- pressed us as freshmen .... We were kept far too busy to have formed many impressions .... But now in retrospect we realize the task she assumed .... That behind that seemingly heartless driving was a real human and warm heart .... That her rigid dis- cipline was for- our own good .... We only trust that some day we shall prove worthy of that wisdom and philosophy of life she tried to instill in us .... Infinite care and much patience, born of many years of peda- gogical experience, were taken by Dr. Ezra Allen, associate professor of the department, in an attempt to equip us with the proper technique for microscopic work .... With this established, he launched us upon his specialty .... Sex and Internal Secretions .... Energetic as he was, we were never permitted to lag behind the pace he set for us .... Dr. Allen Carpenter. instructor in Histology-Embryology, was the one to whom we looked when a difficulty arose pertaining to medicine itself .... He worded his explanations in our language, so that, the phenomena we saw under the microscope became clear. To all three members of this department, we express our sincere appreciation .... To Dr. Stark, for her phil- osophy and patient guidance .... To Dr. Allen, for his kindliness and devotion to detail .... And finally, to Dr. Carpenter, for his understanding of our difficulties. Twenty-nine

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BOYD SCHABF THE GROUNDWOBK for a knowledge of Therapeutics I is initiated in the sophomore year .... The student discovers, to his intense dismay, that there are some Subjects more difficult to absorb than Anatomy .... Phamacology is the first of these bugbears that he en- Counters .... A complex study, it includes not only a Ctetailed knowledge of the action of drugs but also con- sists in the proper application of drugs as therapeutic Cigents .... The Neophyte, naively interested in the Sufqical aspects of Medicine only, finds it difficult to understand why he must assimilate a knowledge of this Subject .... Altruistic reasoning, however, is quickly relegated to the background when he is made to realize that surgical technique is merely o: portion of medical therapeutics. Dr. Boyd, head of the department, is seldom seen by the student during the sophomore year .... Details of his character, however, are ably furnished by upper- Classmen .... Who meet him too often for their own convenience .... Dr. Scharf is the man on whom Dr. BOYd depends for a proper presentation of the course to the students .... Dr. Lord, now resigned from the fUCUltY, cooperated with Dr. Scharf in instructing us two Years ago .... Dr, DiBlanda and Dr. Berger are Clntitheses .... The latter's traits more commonly Olssociated with members of the rodent family, while those of the former are more often attibuted to great men .... Dr. Bader reminds us of one of the signs of the Zodiac--Taurus .... If you are properly prepared You will sense no trepidation if Dr. Marcus is assigned to Your section .... Otherwise, disaster .... We would never have read the footnotes of any Pharmacology text if it had not been for Dr. Terranova .... This obses- Sion of his appalled us more often than we care to Temember. ln recent years increased finances have made it Dossible for this .department to acquire new and mod- ern laboratory equipment . . . During this time Dr. Boyd has consistently endeavored to make the department the most advanced one in the country .... His efforts have not been in vain .... Under his tutelage the student is not forced to learn Pharmacology .... Rather, his interest, in Medicine in general, is focussed by' Dr. Boyd primarily on Pharmacology .... With the result that the action of any drug on any tissue is com- pletely understood PHAR MACO LOGY E! Thirty-one