Ohio State University College of Medicine - Caducean Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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then a strange interl ude... . of incredible faith i the wizardry of science and the infallibility of medicine . . . and with the great soft eyes of the worshipful acolyte he gazed eagerly beyond the drab prelude of elementary biology, and physics, and mathematics . . . almost against his wishing he was disciplined to calculate all things in terms of gram- centimeter-seconds . . . against his wishing because it was not in his nature to reduce thing to simple and concrete patterns . . . algebra, the calculus were entertaining exercises of wit but never acceptable as conclusive . . . leave that to the staid and uninspired . . . perhaps only the astronomer shared with him that higher and most divine lust for final knowledge . . . the desire which excused and justified the prosaic numerical devices required in the pursuit . ecology was not a study of animals populations but a beguiling clue to the solution of terminal problems . . . mechanics and genetics were held in the same light . . . let the sane and steady red-blooded boy build cars and breed cattle . . . leave to him the vain, pretty folly of impractical speculation and of reaching too far . . . but unrest plagues the pensive . . . it was an era of distressing ignorance . . . medicine was a word surrounded by fatuous ad- jectives . . . a remote priestly calling pondered with secret guilt in terms sprung from popular fiction and distorting folk-lore . . . he knew not what it was but knew well it was what he wanted .. . for humanity—a congress- man could do more . . . for money—business could provide it better .. . for love and respect—seek the religious ministry . . . but from medicine there was to come... Sate phat e a

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. . . supplementing laboratory endeavor with consult to many massive tomes of a tech- nical nature he progressed steadily to the end of his choosing. His friends called him schizoid until the day they heard him shout ec- statically : “Vive medicine!” He studied french on the side. In subsequent years he was ever faithful to his ideal... He made quaint ex- o perimental observations on lower animals, and ou studied their practical application to the lowest TA form afoot...neer relenting, studiously plug- 2 sates. ; ‘Tsie ging, he biologized all over town. He had an aston- ishing singleness of purpose... .. . practisng everything from peripatetic pelvics to perigrinating proct- oscopics, he was heard to cry... “Hold still, honey, dammit—it’s all for — — science.” ee . . many hours he spent orating by the sea, his mouth full of pebbles, thinking ahead to the glories of academic medicine—of teaching ...and was finally graduated from high school, splendid in academic gown... Page

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