Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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r h e Doctor STANDING between “vapours” and viruses, “humours” and hormones. Speaking of toxins and allergy glibly today, and tomorrow perhaps, consigning them to the limbo of phlogiston and spontaneous generation. Forced to deal so often in probabilities and able to deal so seldom in certainties. Working under both a blessing and a curse—knowing that many will survive their illnesses despite his aid and that many are in real need of his meager learning. Wondering whether or not his judgment was in any measure responsible for his patient’s survival, and knowing that some of his failures could have been victories, if only .... Cursing in the city clinics because few of his patients can afford the help of laboratory tests and the boon of things like radium, radiology, costly extracts and sera . . . ; cursing in the small towns because these modern weapons so seldom exist there. Working his head off. doing his job as he sees it; thinking of it, while the arguments of those with the larger view” buzz “round his ear like horseflies round a plowhorse,” too busy plowing to consider the general problem. Practicing minor eharlatanerics because his patients expect them, using this means in his effort to control the weak, yet trying to control himself from major eharlatanerics. Dealing daily with the depths of human misery and having to kill most of his emotional reactions to it lest they destroy him; and yet forced to keep one emotion apart—pity—lest its loss destroy him more ignominiouslv. Standing a trifle confused, a bit mixed in motives, always a little uncertain, but still standing with Hunter, Pasteur. Semmelweiss and Koch on the side of men . . . against Death!

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NTEXTS BOOK I The Place and the People Familiar faces . . . Familiar scenes BOOK II Graduates of Thirty-eight Those who have “crossed the line” BOOK III The Men Who Are to Follow Our confreres of the future BOOK IV Caps and Capes Our nurses—their friends and associates BOOK V Group Work and Group Play The Societies and Fraternities BOOK VI.........................Wise Words Words “penned” by men who know BOOK VII Informal Informalities Humor, be it as it will BOOK VIII Ads Our friends—without whose aid these words would never have been written

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. . . Scenes and faces, courses and places which were closely associated with our student days. May a glance recall to memory those varied hours relative to our progress, and may you find recollection as you like it. Booh One THE PLACE