Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine - Synapsis Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

Page 23 text:

SYNAPSIS, 1937 DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY HIDDEN away in the basement of the hospital, and cut off from the rest of the institution by thick, lead ' lined walls and doors, the Department of Radiology carries on its ceaseless task. The institution is proud of the completeness of this apparatus, which includes two Roentgen units and rounds out all the possible work of this field. A course of lectures are delivered to the upper classes to acquaint them with the value of the x-ray in diagnosis and therapy. Of particular interest to the pro- fession has been the recent research work by Dr. Long of the Department of Osteo- pathic Principles and Research and Dr. Lloyd of this department. J meteen

Page 22 text:

SYNAPSIS, 1937 DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY ... and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death . . . — ' Macbeth — Sha espedre. COME to rest, at last, upon the tables of the Han-ey Museum of Anatomy, grim figures and cold, these fearfully and wonderfully made vehicles of incalculable energies serve even in death a useful purpose. Here, in the dissection laboratory, the osteopathic student finds an opportunity — not alone for philosophic contemplation upon the marvellous intelligence resident in the heart of matter — but, more pertinently, to be slowly initiated into the arcana of the Master Architect ' s structural design. Less cryptically, it is precisely here that the student acquires a more or less intimate understanding of the gross parts of the human body and the complexities of its structure. Eighteen

Page 24 text:

SYNAPSIS, 1937 DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY PATHOLOGY is the study of disease-processes, ever changing in manifesta- tions and presenting such tissue alterations, gross and microscopic, determin- able and undeterminable, which are the result of the conflict between noxious influences and a hum.an energy-machine. The pathologist sees in a bit of dead tissue, altered by the elfects of fixatives and stains, the general outlines of a living patient progressing along the path from health to death. Pathology is the substructure of diagnosis, and as Hamman points out, diag- nosis is concerned with a structural change, then with a functional disturbance. Boyd remarks that While pathologic anatomy is concerned with changes in structure, and clinical medicine with disturbance of function as m.anifested by the symptoms of the patient — it is essential that the two go hand in hand, for both present only one side of the picture. Twinty