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I)li®a®J ff3@W 10 a master surgeon, an accurate diagnostician, an exact neurologist, an artist in the art of medicine, and what is more, a tireless teacher and a staunch friend; to one who has enthusiastically directed our footsteps and guided our hands, we most humbly dedicate this book, an inadequate expression of sincerity. THE CLASS OF 1937.
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BIOGRAPHY OF PROFESSOR TEMPLE FAY THERE'S A DIVINITY THAT SHAPES OUR ENDS. ROUGH-HEW THEM HOW WE WILL. Hamlet, act 5, sc. 2. CHILDHOOD is characterized by dreams, ideals and ambitions that few are privileged to realize. What could be more fantastic in the year of nineteen hundred and five, than a boy of ten resolving to become a brain surgeon! Neurosurgery at that time was in its infancy and practically unheard of as a branch of the medical sciences. Dr. W. W. Keen, of Philadelphia, only shortly before had demonstrated to the profession of America that the human brain could be operated upon with occasional assurance of success. Dr. Harvey Cushing was beginning to undertake such difficult problems in Baltimore and the young Dr. Charles H. Frazier was being trained by Dr. Keen and Dr. Charles K. Mills to solve the surgical problems of the brain at the Philadelphia General Hospital. The specialty of Neurosurgery was as yet unborn. In the summer of this particular year a boy was hurrying along a trail on a wooded island in the Northwestern part of the State of Washington. His mission was to meet the doctor who was coming by boat from Seattle to attend his sister whose leg had been severely injured the night before. It v as impossible to remove her from the summer home wilderness which his parents had chosen along the water's edge. Beside him trotted his dog and in his hand was a small rifle. Game was plentiful in those days and boy, dog and gun were inseparable companions. The doctor proved to be a young man recently returned from the large medical center of Philadelphia. The older medical men were too busy to make such a long boat trip a well trained assistant had been sent instead. After his skillful care for the patient there was time for a hunt in the woods. The doctor borrowed the gun and young Temple Fay carried his bag back to the boat landing. During the visits that followed the returning boat was frequently late and the young physician would fill the idle time by telling the boy of the medical schools in Philadelphia, the large hospitals, and one in particular where there were many patients suffering from nervous diseases and insanity. The mysteries of the brain were just beginning to become known. There was a surgeon in Philadelphia by the name of Dr. Frazier who frequently operated upon the brain had taken a tumor from the brain of a man who could not v alk or talk and the man became well. This doctor had himself 12
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