SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Iatros Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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a great professor but a great 1nd1v1dual who madyertently feels w1th1n hnnself an rdentrty with the soul of man He has a wealth of mformatron to 1mpart to those he teaches yet out side of the realm of the anatomy classroom, he becomes, rn h1s relation to the student, one man talkrng to another a l1ttle chat on or1ental culture, on travel, on anythrnfr he IS as eager and enthuslastrc when he llstens as when he speaks Notwrthstandrnv, the first year was one beset w1th fear, even dread, which at trmes reached terrifyrng proportrons when one heard of the casualnes that precedence had estabhshed 1n the past and when one contemplated w1th that the newness and apparent dlfiiculty of masterlng a subject such as anatomy, whrch taxed the memory to 1ts l1m1t, which to the begrnner requ1red abundance of trme, wrll and the ab1l1ty to whrp the powers of concentratlon Dr Congdon was ever cognizant of the d1fi'icult1es of the student and devoted a good deal of hrs trme and effort to analyzmg methods of teachrng and to 1nsp1r1ng methods of study It becomes apparent, as the years go by, that anatomy, no matter how carefully learned must be relearned and forgotten agam and again, before rt can cla1m a place wxth the perma nent equrpment of a student and that the central theme 1n this process IS the art of d1scr1m1na tion srftrng the coarse from the fine and stressrng those thmgs which find appllcatron n med1c1ne and surgery The freshman 1n fI1Cd1C1HC obvrously cannot take advantage of th1s expenence and must subject to rote memory mass upon mass of deta11 unt1l one day, before an examination, he finds h1S bram has become overloaded and congested and as we say in school parlance, he has been taken by pan1c As the fall gave way to th wmter, and wrnter to Spring, the a1r grew lighter as one found h1s organism adapnnv rtself to anatomy rooms, cadavers, text books of anatomy and medlcal school rn general Fmally, with the first blos ourselves led, at last, to what then seemed the very heart of me:l1c1ne chemistry and physrolony Sprmg gave way to summer, and those that survived went about the1r summer vacatlons w1th an exalted opinion of themselves the surv1vors' Indeed, there IS somethmv efchrlar atmg about successfully completing the year One IS able to share rn the regard and esteem bestowed upon those in the profession and yet assume no respons1b1l1ty asso 1ated w1th lf As tune went on we sensed a steady progression, each step of which led us closer ano closer to the very kernel of medrcme whrch we were approachmg in the third year With Dr Olryer we met the sclentxst and the poet and as such, allred to the sp1r1t of Mitchell and Holmes It IS unfortunate but true that too many members of the medrcal pro fesslon have lost or never captured the sp1r1t of the po t the noyehst the arnst the soul which feels as well as thlnks, whrch senses as well as sees When the art of reflection takes place m the mmd, and when we look at ourselves in the hvht of thought we drscover that our hfe IS embosomed beauty One remembers well the times when Dr Ol1yer entered the lecture stating away with all note books and penclls I wrsh to read to you a message that will be as lmportant IH your l1ves as the Lnowledve of this or that bacterrum and as the hour ended after an msplred dxssertatron on many of the beautiful xdeals of life he would dash off with a modest nod of the head, 1nd1cat1ng the slncerlty with wh1ch he delrv Nmct en . 3 ' . - . . . D- I I . I I D . I . .I I 7 7 , Q . soms of Spring, when one found himself reeking with anatomy, as it were, behold! we saw O . I I I h s I 4 CI I I . . . . , ' V 7 1 .' - A' ' g e, ' . ' . . . ' - wx sr ' ' I I Q Q - A . 7 4 I I f I . N..C A I A I I Q 7 D I I I I - . , , g . . , ' - e