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

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. . . BACTERIOLOGY DEPARTMENT. The inimitable Dr. Joseph Py, head of the department, examines a cough plate for evidence of bacterial growth as two of his assistants, Doctors Harold Brunner and Jacob Rapp await his opinion of the diagnosis. In addition to Bacteriology, Dr. Py ' s department includes the teaching of Preventive Medicine, Military Medicine, and . . . . 26

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. . . PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS. For the first time the student here examines living subjects— his fellow students — and practices the methods of diagnosing disease. Here he learns to handle such instruments as the stethoscope and reflex hammer and, what is even more important, learns to interpret his findings in terms of clinical entities. Normal and abnormal auscultatory findings are emphasized by Dr. Lutz ' recordings of heart and lung sounds. David Heilig, Albert Fornance, George Hoover, Charles Kaelber, Jack Freedman, John Finnerty, David Feinschil and Donald Harper examine each other in hopes of unearthing symptoms of some disease discussed by the . . . 25

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. . . SEROLOGY. Today, with the increasing use of biologicals, the student ' s armamentarium must include them among his weapons for combatting disease. Anthony Congello, George Elanjian, Louis Cosmos, Arthur Eshenauer, Raymond Dietz, Joseph Eshelman, Jay Dunn and Melvin Elting are supple- menting the lecture material by making and testing sample sera. The damage to the body caused by bacteria is concurrently taught by the . . . 27 H