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

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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

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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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BACTERIOLOGY . CLINICAI WITH his advent into the junior year, the student of Medicine enters into his first personal contact with the patient .... Living pathology .... Here is seen not the pathology of the tissue itself .... But rather the pathology of its function, from which may be deduced the pathology of the tissue .... Years of close appli- cation to this branch of Medicine plus years of practical experience must be solely sought if one is to under- stand this science .... Although it is a specialty in itself, it must not be considered so, if it is to be properly conducted .... Mere reporting of findings is not suf- ficient .... Proper interpretation of findings is essential. The professor and head of the department is Dr. Lindsley Cocheu .... Perhaps no better-liked man, nor one more deserving of student esteem, could be found among the faculty .... A small man, a man whose physical size belies the size of his heart, is Dr. Charles McDowell .... Now professor emeritus of Public Health .... Dr. Laura Florence, associate profes- sor of bacteriology, delights the student with her con- cise presentation of the mysteries of bacterial habits . . . That Scottish burr has become a college tradition .... Dr. Addie Stanford is indeed a worthy assistant of Dr. Cocheu in Clinical Pathology Laboratory .... Infinite patience with the student is the secret of her success as a teacher. The broader aspects of Medicine are personified by Dr. Eugene Fierro . . . As an instructor in Public Health he fulfills only one of his many duties as a member of the faculty at Flower .... Dr. Israel Kleiner and Dr. Iago Galdston are lecturers in Public Health . . . . Readily recollected by the class are the slow, thoughtful words of Dr. Margaret Hotchkiss .... Either while lecturing on Bacteriology or Public Health .... COCHEU The Misses Horton and McCarthy round out the depart- ment of Bacteriology-the most human department in the curriculum. Important among those responsible for the rapid advance made by Flower Hospital are the laboratory technicians .... Their field is an extremely special- ized one, their responsibility tremendous .... Upon Miss Neuwirth's shoulders rests the task of organization I FLORENCE Thirty-two