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

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For some twenty-three hundred odd years now, he has rendered sympathetic, effacacious treatment to the myriad complaints engendered in those great halls, and one might picture him in the mind's eye stalking the vast corridors, staff and serpent in hand, about his hips dangling the very latest in herbs, unctions and salvesg intent, alert, astute. Lest you ask why we linger with these facts already in the common knowledge, in the immortal words of Euripides, Losas staminus, es cognisens prior non legibus omnes vialv In our attempt to find a suitable conductor for this succeeding tableau, your editors corre- sponded far and wide in search of a heretofore unparalleled figure of international cali- ber, who might possibly consent to such an undertaking. It is by mere chance, but to our great fortune, that we did include Olympus General in our mailing list, for as you may have suspected, we received a very gracious answer in the affirmative from Doctor Aes- culapius. We were both surprised and gratified to learn that the good doctor had long considered such a trip through our institution, having kept in touch via the current literature with the numer- ous advances in teaching, research and therapy particular to our College of Medicine and its affiliate hospitals. Again may we express our heartfelt ,rl thanks to this distinguished and witty . . . W physician Who, we are sure, will of- K fer you the greatest CADUCEAN yet . . . 97 4,,m

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ll 'ff f'Q.f13'tn?'ff- -f .--- -- - fi, It was in the islands lying off the Greek coast that tradition located the birthplace of Apollo. According to legend, Apollo taught the art of heal- ing to the gifted centaur Chiron and 3- from him it passed on to Chiron's young pupils, Jason, Achilles and Aesculapius. While Jason preferred a rather lim- ited practice largely due to his delu- sions for collecting all manner of fleece, and Achilles suffered an early demise following an acute bout of tenosynovitis with septicemia, Aes- culapius went on to become one of the leading clinicians of his time. So active was he as a healer, so skilful was he in averting death, and so many astonish- ing miracles did he perform in the way of raising the dead, that Pluto, the jealous ruler of the Underworld, complained to the father of the gods of his interference. The sup- ply of new souls to the Shadesf' he grumbled, is being endangered by all this healing, and Zeus, realizing that Pluto had just grounds for complaint, slew Aesculapius with a thunderbolt. Though he died among mortals, he lives in legend, for Zeus not only granted him deity, but thereby procured for Olympus' three-hundred couch clinic a more than suitable chief of staff.

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Nucleus of the Health Center Group, University Hospital towers as a dynamic example of past and future demand. It has grown mammoth in our time and we will yet see it become colossal. Already twice the original size as estimated in nineteen forty-four, rapid population and economic growth is demanding action for even further expansion. New North and West wings, a rehabilitation center, an auditorium to stand where Kins- man Hall now does, new animal research labs for post-graduate medical advancesg these are but a few long-range plans. Our Health Center now stands in the middle of a building program far beyond the scope initially envisioned, but ready with imaginative plans for the needs of the future . . .