Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Dr. JAY, who so bravely charged the raging feline at one of Prof, SENN's clinics, and tri- umphantly brought it back to the operating ta- ble, was observed to shed tears when the poor animalls abdomen was ripped open Qscientiiic- ally and for the benefit of science, of Coursey, and mournfully observed to his friend Dr,Shaw, That only goes to show--, but tears choked his further utterance. Have you obserxed bLAxcHARns ulnslxeis? He cut them off. He sawed them off. He pulled them off. She chewed them off. He singed them off. He swore them off. And still his whiskers grew. Prof. COTTON aptly explains the action of quinine on the white blood corpuscles in the following terse expression: Quinine arrests the amoeboid motion of the lumbering leuccocytes loafmg around the red blood corpuscles. O. M.- What is the effect of too much food P HENDERSGN-K' Distention of the abdomen, sir. INs'rRUcToR- What would be the effect of attempting to pass too large a dilator to over- come stricture of esophagus? S1'UDENTl VOmlIlIlg.i' INSTRUCTOR4 No, that is not quite right. Coachus: Death, Funeral, Post Mortemf' Malpractice suit, Shoving clouds, A va- cant chair, Expert testimony. And ngf diagnosis is tuberculosis. -BREN- NER. Dr. NIELLISH.-'K Mr. Hobbs, describe the hip joint. FREsHMAN H.- I didn't study any further than the left hand. Dr. M.A Describe the shoulder, then. F. H.- I began at the elbow, doctorfl 235

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Boing the JBest that 1It can A f Q A 'I In 4 lei O-73' lf? at 6a 11 if N' ' 5 f'f ,H 9 1, dl? 1' ' 1+ 551- 9 Wat we AY up on the Perch, with wits all asearch, Sits the emptiest head of the class: His thoughts may be few, for the subject is new, And Dame Nature has placed his gray matter aslcew. Of grit he has much, of culture but fewg But let him alone as you pass, Hes doing the best that he can. Down a side street is a small cottage neat, A widow and young children three, XVho are making their bread and shelter o'er head By starving some students and calling them fedg But pay up your board bill and don't try to dead- Head your way through the world, for you see Shes doing the best that she can. And so let it be, whenever you see An article doing its best, VVhether snake, brake or cancer, boil, ague or man, sir, A saint with a halo, an opera dancer, XYith very few garments perhaps to enhance her, Let it quietly stay with the rest, If it's doing the best that it can.- NANNY. 3' DR. LixNELLsaXYl1at two kinds of matter do we have in the cord? AICIQENNA, '95-Gray matter and Dura-Mater. 5 The Nu Sigma Nu members held an initiation and spread one evening recently, From appear- ances next day, we judge that the goat came out ahead. 9 MONTGOMERY-Have you been vaccinated, madame? lvl.-XDAME-I have, sir. BIONT.-LCt me see the scar. NIAD. Qwho is large and Heshyj-I can't roll up my sleeve. MONT.--Wfell, you will have to take off your dress. MfXD.-QHCSlt3tlI1g,l MONT.-Oh, you needn't mind me, I am a married man. MAD.4If you weren't married, I wouldn't mind showing you. Exit Montgomery. Place, 12th street, time, summer vacation. 334

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PATIENT - DOCTUR PATIENT high these al VVould whisky do me any harm ? T think it would. That is fortunate: whisky is hard times. 3 FROM THE BENCHEL lt was a wee little baby, but it was a pretty baby. You could see that as the inhaling frame was lifted from time to time for more chloro- form: and perhaps that was why the fellows stopped passing notes and whispering, and moved up forward in their seats so they could see better. Wfe watched every little step in the operation, and we saw almost as quickly as yes-yes, baby face looks bett the assistant that the babe had stopped breath- ing. XVe almost stopped breathing, too, and the tick of the clock and the rustle in the arena, as they lifted the little body, whose spark of life had almost ceased to glow, were the only noises you could hear. How intensely we watched every movement as they worked to bring back the glow and fan it to a Hame. See, -surely it was- wasn't that a breath? No-yes is breathing again, and see its er. Yes, now the surgeon smiles .... How gladly we saw that, and we all took a deep breath and smiled. and so me made the motion of a silent applause, and some closed their eyes and said their thanks .... Great Physicia midst. It seemed as though The n had been for a moment in our if STUDENT - How can you determine the ul- ceration of Peyer's patches in typhoid fever? PROFESSOR - By post-mortemf' Q. M.- How many sides has the heart ? HD. jfs- Two, The outside and the in- side. 236