Seton Hall College of Medicine - Journal Yearbook (Jersey City, NJ)

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'K X, P'- .1w'1' 3' W wa. 4 , la ' be f ,gf B9 V QQ Dr. Robert C. Little 53 5? Q Mx r f f Xqgrl M - , jj if f 't x..' R f-E ., Q X V I 'E X-T e 1 X an V P N N G S 15' y vii' XXX AHA, x f A .1 M PHYSIULOCY 'E orlando DAVID F. OPDYKE, Ph.D. Professor and Chairman Department of Physiology This is an indictment! PLIED -Sw i 'IJOG if Y Dr Opdyke W 'IW 'I1wu6p,. 196, I

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'V ,xxx U xi up f.1 I N l rg 5 fill it i . if .. +3 f - is ff A ,rsaii . it i 1 ,A Ab, A- ,I if-m: ,.,5N , . K. 'f. 'g it . .J .-' ' ..,-- w ,- . iwtwffi' - ..Q'fw. -. . T WAS not long before we were assembled on the tenth floor in groups of five-partners until one of us went to pieces. The gross lab was a study in Earnest fthe cadaver's namej, especially at noon, when George Kline fthe one-man-mis-information bureaul, George Krebs, and Les Matthews would Waste no time, eating with one hand, dissecting with the other. Speaking of lunch, Drs. Harman, Tassoni, et al dined on clear amber fluids, while we found ourselves well known at the local pubs by smell. Although officially our week ended on Friday, many of us traveled to Orange on Saturday mornings where Dr. O'Sullivan gave us our first taste of the clinical setting. Another clinician who overwhelmed us with knowledge and speed was Dr. Miranti and his scalenus anticus . The famous trade of John Greenberg for Bo Smit and three scalpels plus the sudden realization that we would all have to specialize above the knee, saw a greasy copy of Grayis Anatomy slowly closing on the small remains of what was once a human body. Histology was a course composed of long lectures, longer coffee breaks, and a little time behind the microscope. Dr. Boccabella gave us a foundation in endocrinology which was to stay with us for four years, and Drs. Hollinshead and Curtis were only upstaged in reports of the current literature by our many guest lecturers who came complete with electron micrographs. We discovered too late that our relationship with these interesting new things was somewhat more than academic come exam time. We again met clinical medicine in neuroanatomy, when, sprinkled between the separation of gray and white and the attempts of Drs. LSMFT,' Anderson and f'verSau1e', Hovde to tell us just where the Nu- cleus Ambiguus really was, Dr. Joseph Foley plied us with his Irish charm and our first look at a real patient. After a game of musical chairs complete with Mad Magazine at sta- tion 18, Joe Ritter's eloquent discussion of the eighth floor lounge was enough to speed us away from structure and on to function. .Z h .4 BR! SHG i 97 . 65' .-13' HL ,T-E ,E Lg SYNQQ SK S africana

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BODY that had been apportioned into upper and lower exe tremities, head, neck, thorax, abdomen, and back suddenly' redivided itself into systems: muscular, neurological, res- piratory, cardiovascular, renal, and gastrointestinal. Drs. Kahn and Mason introduced us to reflex arcs and chronaxie, while Dr. Smith revealed the wonders of the lung, red pencil, and dog surgery. But it was Dr. Opdyke and another famous mechanical device that taped us to our chairs, and made us record the ups and downs of the pressure pulse for was it pulse pressure?l. The laboratory is the proving ground for the physiologist. Un- fortunately, unphysiologic animals and ungrounded kymographs showed us that the role of the investigator is not an ea-sy one. More interesting were the attempts to bring Gary Roman's pulse above forty-five, Joe Klein trying to decide which gonads were which, and everyone trying to use an opthalmoscope for the first time. The highlights of the course were Dr. Little's excellent lec- tures on the heart and the electrocardiogram. He was also respon- sible for a new phrase in our repertoire, Bread and Butter Topics, and the realization that in physiology the questions stay the same from year to year-only the answers changel We were also honored by the clinician in our Monday and Tuesday ventures as Dr. Groisser and group shoved tubes down our gullets, and then gave us pills which made us see red for days. However, it was the Bert and Harry show on Thursday evenings near the end of our year that brought the pieces together, as Dr. Kahn finally came up with a hypertonic urine and Phil Niosi finally went down. l Q H X,,,, Dr. Charles W. Smith Dr. Richard Mason ww nl' W , ' ii H H i ii T is L Dr. Arthur I. Kahn