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

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. . . ANATOMY SECTION. This morning the students continue the training of their palpatory senses, coming to know intimately the bones which are the framework of the body and to study the other tissues from models. An attempt is made, insofar as is possible, to correlate the study of anatomy with clinical findings, so as to impress upon the student the practical importance of a knowledge of this subject. Under Dr. Cathie ' s direction Irving Ontelle, Irvin Pearlstein, Charles Ladowski, Irvin Lebow, James Mellot, Alexander Pheterson, and Raymond Porzio learn the intricacies of bones. How these bones and the soft parts of the body deveJop receives more detailed consideration in the . . . 21

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. . . ANATOMY DEPARTMENT. The great Hal of the first and second year is the extended course in anatomy under the unrelenting drive of Dr. George Rothmeyer, and Dr. Angus Cathie, who here exam- ine a recently acquired specimen of an articulated skull. Two laboratory prosectors, Dr. Robert Whinney and Dr. David Cragg, look on with interest. Before advancing to dissection of the human body, an entire school year is devoted to a didactic review of the course by lecture and . . . nH: 20

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. . . EMBRYOLOGY LABORATORY. Because many conditions- appearing in childhood and adulthood are traceable to abnormalities in the original formation of the body, Harold Yablin, Walter Willis, Frederick Wolfram, Vincent Walsh, Stanley Turner, Seymour Ulanski, William Tracey and Theodore Weinberg, learn embryology by studying charts, models, and serial microscopic sections of the human organism in various stages of intra-uterine development. . j BBH H