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

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if . fri, l Thirty-four COPE KLEINER COOMBS DOTTI PHYSIOLOGY BIO-CHEMISTRY PHYSIOLOGY, the science that treats of the function of organic beings .... And Biochemistry, the chemistry of the living tissues or life .... These are two of the most absorbing studies in the medical curri- culum .... Both subjects extend through portions of the freshman and sophomore years .... Dr. Otis Cope, peculiar professor and head of the department, is chiefly concerned with physiology .... Upon his shoulders rests the task of organization of the depart- ment, the apportionment of lecture hours among the different workers in the field, and the assignment of laboratory work .... All this in addition to his work on the Curriculum Committee and his research work . . . . A huge task for any man. Dr. Israel Kleiner is the professor of Physiological Chemistry .... So well organized and so well planned is his material that only a minimum of collateral read- ing is required for a complete understanding of the subject . . . His perennial smile mirrors his jovial nature . . . . Dr. Charles McDowell, professor emeritus of physi- ology, and one of the oldest men on the faculty, for years has instructed us in the art of living .... He is a man who truly has lived .... Dr. Helen Coombs, assist- ant professor of the department, shall be remembered for her attempted instructive teaching in laboratory technique and for her willingness to aid and foster individual and original experiments .... The founda- tion, perhaps, in some of us of future surgical technique . . . . And lastly, Dr. Abner Weisman, assistant in- structor .... He has since become a specialist in his field .... The Chemistry and Physiology of Internal Secretions .... He may frequently be found in the chemistry laboratory, checking and rechecking exper- iments, using students as his subjects and controls .... We are proud to feel we have been of service to such a man. Conscious of our loss, we leave the portals of the New York Medical College with reluctance .... Instruction per se has ceased .... We are thrown on our own resources .... Shall the seed sown by these members ot our faculty fall on barren ground? .... Or shall it, rather, find fertile soil, and blossom forth, disporting a knowledge to which all shall bow? .... Certainly opportunity is ours .... Let us not be found wanting.

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PATHOLOG Y . PUBLIC HEALTH f McDOWELL STANFORD of laboratory work .... Her untiring efforts in behalf of students seeking financial aid shall never be for- gotten .... We are ever confused by the two Millers . . . . Finally, we do remember who is who . . A dif- ficult task with two pleasant girls .... Miss Zorn and Miss Weiss we knew as juniors .... Whence their boundless supply of energy? .... At about 4:30 every afternoon Miss Rieger wonders what she'll wear to- night when he comes .... Miss Gorman merely smiles saqely. ln May of our junior year, we spent a week visiting various places in and around the city .... Places vitally concerned with public health .... Department of Health Building, Disposal Plants, Meat Inspection, Walker-Gordon Farms, Lederle Laboratories fno Adv.l, etc ..... ln our senior year we had the opportunity to look in upon the Health Department of New York City at work .... Through the fine organization of Dr. Max Bernstein of the Harlem Health Center we were able to observe many branches of the health service in action .... We were impressed by Dr. Dick, in charge of Prenatal, Infant and School Hygiene .... He tried to interject Medicine into Public Health .... We were quite surprised to find a woman, Dr. Marshall, in charge of venereal work .... We were amazed at her efficiency .... Complete health reports on the public health problems of any selected community were as- signed to each student .... The benefits derived from learning these things ourselves was very real. Although a widely diversified group of men and women, these members of the faculty have one aim . . . . Which reflects that of the head of the department , , . . To co-ordinate the material in such a way so that the student may most easily grasp the subject .... In his sophomore year, the student meets Dr. Florence and her staff who are as eager to see him progress as he himself is .... In his junior and senior years, Dr. Cocheu is his guide ..., We now know that the greater a man is, the more human he is .... These indeed are interesting courses in themselves .... They are made doubly interesting by the men and women who conduct them. ' Thirtyvthree

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SIMONSON BENSON GRISWOLD IQHNSON PEDIATRICS I EARLY in our medical education we were made aware of the importance of a thorough knowledge of the branch of Pediatrics in the practice of Medicine . . . . Came the junior year and the subject was to be personified by a big man with a gruff voice and a very large sympathy for student problems-Dr. Simonson . . . . Until then we had known him only as the man who roared like a lion .... Now we were to personally meet this man and determine whether our fear of him tand we actually did fear hirni was based on fact. Lectures, lectures and more lectures-dispensed by Drs. Simonson, johnson and Essnere-were the order of the day for the first semester .... With the end of that period came our first opportunity to obtain clinical experience in the wards .... Shall we ever forget the greeting from an irrepressible four year-old as we were creeping up to him for our first physical exam .... Are youse doctors or are ya just learnin'? .... This exper- ience with countless similar ones served to ctcclimctte us to the embarrassments that every embryonic physi- cian is bound to endure. We, owe much to the many attending physicians among whom were Drs. Griswold, Benson, Chick, Bohrer, johnson and Essner .... Who made those clinical hours veritable fountains of wisdom .... Senior year brought us more experience at the bedside and, gratifyingly so, less humiliation at the hands of the precocious ones .... One of the highlights of that year was an interesting two-week period at Willard-Parker Hospital tquite a trek from Flowerl .... Where we actually saw cases of contagious disease .... Scarlet fever, diphtheria, chicken pox et al. became tangible things in place of a number of pages in Griffith and Mitchell .... Lastly, Infant Feeding and Dr. Griswold! . . . . Sufficient justice can never be given to the worth of this series of lectures--they were, to indulge in the vernacular, simply colossal . We shall look back many times, in the future, to our all too short experience with this department .... But always our reminiscences will be tinged with regret . . . . Illness deprived us of Dr. Simonson's presence and influence for the greater part of our last year .... A A Thirty-five