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

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ANATOMY The course in Anatomy at first seemed impossible. We wondered how anyone could remember all those facts but with Dr. Cathie ' s help all the pieces gradually fell into place. One of his color drawings was equal to about 100 pages in the text. In spite of Dr. Cathie ' s terrific lectures, some of the students, especially those who diligently searched for the glabellar bone, found the course too tough and withdrew from school. At last report they were building bridges for Dr. Algase. Who can forget our first day in the laboratory? When we emerged we looked like sick carpenters car- rying our toolboxes- After a few weeks the lab seemed like home. The memory boys withdrew to the comers of the lab to study tlieir notes, others made the cat so neurotic that he leaped from the 4th floor window, and still others were Ijusy formulating mnemonics to sup- plement the old classics for the cranial nerves and the carpal bones. Out of their labors came such gems as BUM, BUL, BUM, BUL, BUM. This was all well and good but was there any reason to develop a mnemonic for a mnemonic? Twice a week we had quiz sections scheduled but Dr. Cathie sometimes used these hours for additional lectures. Our sympathetic nervous systems were always stimulated to the utmost until we saw the box of colored chalk instead of the grade book emerge from his pocket. Often during the quiz sessions could be heard the exclamations — Not unless there has. been a terrible accident or tell me more. In the Neuroanatomy course Dr. Allen took us up and down the Aqueduct of Sylvius so often that half of the class got seasick. Drs. Cressman and Torrieri had us make so many tremenjous drawings in Microanatomy that after a while we thought we were ready to do the covers for the Saturday Evening Post. There was also some question as to whether one of the fellows in the class was named Levi or Levy, but this didn ' t make too much difference because everyone called him Sheldon anyhow. Angus Gordon Cathie D.O., M.Sc. Professor, Chairman Department of Anatomy

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Blanche Clow Allen A.B., B.S., D.O. Assistant Professor Edwin H. Cressman D.O., M.Sc. Professor W - f..f ma g t Lemar F. Eisenhut, Jr. D.O. Demonstrator O ' d Sam ' y ' his was systolic? Which head has the Toni? I a ife . • ■■jjii ' jr t