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

Text from Pages 1 - 330 of the 1941 volume:

library temple university; health SCIENCES CENTEa Copyright, 1941 J. FREDERIC SNYDER Biitor-in-Chief EDWIN J. LLOYD Business Manager We chronicle our four years at Temple Medical School . . . CottveW VetansyV ®1 ■ JVuVv tvber £«VeUe Vetvt State but our saga bcgi”s in undergraduate days here we founded our intended Stations in life by . rxUV.v ' X) vs Sir- estettv ft as V.vco Since .hat pristine day whcn man ous orb, attempts have been made with pen, to hold for futurity fleeting moments of pleasure tion, so that, in retrospect, the fulness of the origina sion might be recaptured. The old Masters arc dead; the new, if existent, lie covered in our midst; thus this monument to four years pleasant associations is necessarily simple, but sincere. We fervently hope that in the years to come, though steeped in the exigencies of modern practice, you will find within this cover a basis for cozy reminiscence, a release from tension and, perchance, a source of information. toying with the interminable repetitive minutiae, indulging our whims to the apotheosis of balderdash and pip-squeakery . . . here we found the zenith of the Science and the Art, artistically mastered and masterfully charted, armn on lam became imbued with the Spirit of Temple and learned to appreciate the man at the helm. LIBRARY TEMPLE UNIVERSITY N'—ING SCHOC't. Many stars scintillated on the medical horizon; among the most brilliant of these was one to whom It has been said that at all times in the practice of medicine there must be at least some men who are obsessed by the idea of creating beautiful things, which is its art, of improving social conditions, which is its philanthropy and righteousness and of discovering and disseminating truth, which is its science. Through men like this, medicine marches with the advance of civilization and so its destiny may be realized. We feel, as do all those fortunate enough to come within the amazing scope of his existence, that the realization of medical destiny need cause no anxiety as long as physicians the caliber of W. Edward Chamberlain are in evidence. To us, by his zest, boundless energy, unceasing diligence, progressive attitude, creative ability, multiplicity of interest and magnetic attraction, he is the epitome of living, ever-growing, yet constantly changing medicine. As an expression of admiration and in appreciation for colorful, stimulating and instructive interludes in the midst of an often distressing and tiring study, we hereby dedicate this text to W. Edward Chamberlain. we proudly dedicate this book. ... on 22, 1937 . . . one hundred and eleven of us started classes. Fifty-nine colleges had deposited us on Temple's doorstep where we were impressed by the names of the Pioneers in Medicine on the building’s facade and by the fact that Dr. Kolmer gets up at 4 A. M. to study. We had moved into flats, lodgings, boarding houses, apartments and many other sordid substitutes for Home. Everybody shook hands with everybody. The gregarious Jake Benson walked up to a nice young chap who was standing on the campus and said, Hi, chum, where do you hail from?” Why, I’m from Michigan,” his chum replied. Hey, that’s swell,” yelped Jake, I’m a . . . Blah Blah . . . (five minutes of this) . . . Well, so-Iong, kid, be seein’ you.” To which his newly found friend replied, Yes, I think you will, in anatomy class probably; my name’s Huber—Dr. Huber.” The grapevine met us p.d.q. and informed us that a mysterious they” were out to get us, that we’d never finish, that we’d better look sharply at our neighbor because he probably wouldn't be with us long. The knowledge we eagerly sought was to be granted. We were to learn, among other things, The bulletin board offered a clue to puzzled neophytes Kay Risk arrived at Broad Street Station Helen Crocker started her medical library with a small purchase We started what was to become a daily exercise that shrimp and braised parsnips, found in the abdomen, suggest perforated ulcer; that patients are divided into three classes: the rich, the poor, and those who still have their tonsils; that pigs live longer if they don't make hogs of themselves; that without pepper and salt, the urine of diabetes insipidus is not as delicious as that of d. mel-litus; that there is no merit in getting any hot ideas, because the Germans, Himmelhoch and Piffeldorfcr, had the same ideas 22 years before. Many of us bought stacks of books and struggled home under them. One year later we were to crawl back with them and offer them for sale. After scanning the bulletin board for class schedules we allowed ourselves to be propelled, by sur- face tension, into the elevator which deposited us on the third floor. We entered the Auditorium, where we met as a group for the first time, to be greeted by Dr. Parkinson and part of his staff. There, four years later, the Freshman class was fortunate enough to convene and listen . . . The class met for the first time in the Auditorium ... to tliE intioductoiy acHfiz±± o £11 ox n S. J oxtjy, zA{.f2 Ladies and gentlemen of the Freshman Class, we welcome you to .Temple University Medical School not with hackneyed phrases, nor do we intend to dwell eloquently upon the glorious past of the heroes of medicine. We welcome you and hope you will earnestly assess your opportunity. When you entered this room this morning, you entered upon an entirely new adventure. You have deliberately chosen life's most difficult study, the vast accumulated literature of the healing art. Gone with the wind are the campus activities of your academic collegiate days. No longer may you tread the walks over lawns and pause under the trees to group and chat. Nor during the evening hours may you now huddle beneath the elms, the beeches, the firs or maples and ecstatically sing the old Alma Mater. Gone are the days when you can assume only five majors. The comic strips on the blackboard in Professor Befuddle’s room as extemporized by the wag of the class are no longer possible. Gone are wild cheers of acclaim for making the team's winning point. Gone are the happy times of carrying the victors on your shoulders as the college band blares. Nostalgia of major grade may be yours, many times. The memories of the relatively care free college days are to be cherished indeed. The old halls and scenes are to be revisited some day—but now, today, you have chosen to enter upon a new way of life. You have chosen to assume a classroom day from 8 or 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. You have chosen to live in rented rooms of private dwellings instead of the happy club life of the dorm. Your latch key lets you into the front door of a row dwelling, and all the houses on the other side look like yours, and the back fence is only a yard away. Your rooms become the four-walled cells that chain you to the books far into the night. Yes, you have chosen the most expensive • course in time, effort and money that civilization has to offer any student. Four years of strenuous nerve-wracking grind, followed by a two-year hospital apprenticeship without any pay. Did you ponder all this as you answered the application questionnaire? You are a chosen few out of the hundreds applying. Do you possess a sense of obligation? And to whom? Avoid next June the heartache of the home-folks that a failure report would occasion. Who are the ones who have struggled in the financial sense and out of saved earnings, thus, back you? Have you developed a sense of accountability? Do you know that, sitting on these benches, your medical education cost is supplemented by tax-payers' money? Then, by what moral right can there be indifference to the allotted task? Can you afford to be truculent? By any right of imagination, can you assume that pull will take the place of work? Or a very airy glad-hander? Would you merely waft your way through? Let’s be serious. Start working today and don't let up until next May. Play the game, and play it hard. The days of pioneering are still at hand. Glorious achievement is yours if you will. Position, place and honor await. Your name may be engrossed in the literature of medicine tomorrow. Your experiments may lighten a vast human burden. Medicine is the most highly personalized service the world knows. In doing well by yourself, doing well by the friends and relatives so eager and expectant, by doing well by your patient, doing well by your community, doing well by your State, doing well by the Nation, you will be doing well for Eternity. Thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many.” • 12 • Medical knowledge is taken too directly from source of life not to render him who possesses it more human. —E. Rist WILLIAM E. HUSS Sprang from the fertile soil of western Pennsylvania in the city of Lancaster on June 13, 1912. The first of his family to undertake the intensive training necessary for the practice of medicine, he completed the task of preparatory work at Franklin and Marshall College when he received the second and nineteenth alphabetical letters in 1934 after four industrious years. Work as a camp physician has occupied his summer time, and the Alpha Kappa Kappa Fraternity his extra-curricular time while at Temple Medical School. Next summer, he will begin senior duties at the Lancaster General Hospital. He intends to enter general practice, probably in his home town. • • 13 Chance favors the prepared mind. —Louis Pasteur DELBERT B. MALLAMS His birthplace was Gilberton, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1915. While attending the High School at Ashland, Pennsylvania, Mallams met Dr. J. C. Biddle of the Ashland State Hospital, who started him thinking of medicine as a career. His college was Temple University, and spare time during that period was spent collecting stamps and working as a chemist in the United States Gypsum Company’s laboratory with rubber as his specific problem. His fraternity at Temple Medical is Phi Beta Pi. He returned to Ashland at the end of the junior year and worked in the Ashland State Hospital under Dr. Biddle. During his senior year, he became president of the Wright Dermatological Society. He goes to the Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pennsylvania, hoping to become an orthopedic surgeon in the future. • • 14 The patient dies while the physician sleeps. -Shakespeare, Luerece JOHM T. I LOYD, JR. Born in Philadelphia in 1916 one week after the birthday of the Great Emancipator. Early training in Atlantic City High School, where he won prizes in the lyric art, was followed by study at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. There, choral singing, swimming and supervision of injured athletes furnished interesting diversions. Summers spent in divers hotel positions and a junior interneship at Warren State Hospital, Warren, Pennsylvania amply filled vacation time. He is a member of Alpha Tau Kappa Fraternity. Like his close friend Mallams, he also plans to enter the field of orthopedic surgery. Senior interneship will be taken in the Chestnut Hill Hospital, Philadelphia. The most obstinate Stoic, exposed to the agonies of a calculous colic will never be able to boast that he has not experienced any pain. —Schiller THOMAS J. MAYE, JR. A native of the city of Philadelphia, Thomas J. Mayc made his presence known with a lusty howl on August 22, 1915. The first of his family to seek a medical career, he followed study at Roman Catholic High with prc-clinical work at Villanova. There, membership in the pre-medical society, the flash of skates and the whirr of the hockey puck constituted his major extra-curricular interests. His prime avocation has been the supplementation and study of an already ample library. Specialization in internal medicine after an interneship at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania will allow full range for his aptitude in physical diagnosis. • • 16 • That Physician will hardly be thought very careful of the health of others who neglects his own. —Francois Rabelais PASCHAL A. I imguitti Born in the shadow of Independence Hall in the year 1914. The first in his family to aim at the noblest of all professions, he applied himself diligently, paving the way as best he could by various occupations ranging from newspaper magnate to clerkships in provisional depots. Pre-medical education was found at Villanova, and so he became one of the few applicants to Temple fortified by previous work on a cadaver. At Villanova he did rather extensive research on the effects of various solutions on cardiac activity. While he enjoys plays and toying with photography, unoccupied rainy hours are most enjoyably spent by browsing about old book shops. Last summer he was physician to a church camp in Douglassville, Pennsylvania. He will enter the Frankford Hospital after graduation for a one-year interneship. Doctors do more Rood to mankind without a prospect of reward than any profession of men whatever. —Samuel Johnson EDWIN P. ALBRIGHT On December 26, 1915, Edwin Albright was born in Germantown, Philadelphia. Leaving Germantown High School he journeyed to Washington and Jefferson, the oldest college west of the Alleghenies. With remarkable honors in scholarship, he decided to come to Temple Medical School. To fill out the summer months, Ed was associate camp director of the Germantown YMCA's Camp Carson. Photography occupies his spare time. His fraternities are Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Sigma and Phi Chi Mu. Babcock Surgical Society lists him among its members. He augmented the staff of the Byberry State Hospital at the end of his junior year. This capable President of the 1941 graduating class goes to Allentown, Pennsylvania for his senior interneship. • • 18 • Physicians and politicians resemble each other in this respect, that some defend the constitution, and others destroy it. —Anonymous J. GUY BUTTFRS From the very first influence of the family physician in March 1915, Guy Butters has wanted to become a doctor. Born in Corry, Pennsylvania, he divided his time between the educational institutions of that city and the Corry Golf Club. He began to caddy at the mature age of eight and went on to earn his spending money as the assistant pro. He matriculated at Washington and Jefferson College and there formed strong friendships with men later to become his medical school colleagues. He relaxes by listening to symphonies, skating, playing golf and tennis. He is a member of the Babcock Surgical Society. In his senior year, he married Katherine Colegrove. A junior interneship was served at the Warren State Hospital in Warren, Pennsylvania, and for his senior interneship, he goes to the Medical Center in Pittsburgh. • • 19 • Physicians arc the only true natural philosophers. —Thomas Hobbes EDWARD W. CAUGHEY Sprawling on the bank of the Monongahela River, fifteen miles above Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the progressive city of McKeesport, the place of his birth. Having a grandfather in the profession and granted an inherent tendency by prenatal parental desire, he left McKeesport Technical School for pre-medical training at Pennsylvania State College. There, he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and lent his gregarious proclivities to the service of the Interfraternity Rushing Committee. He indulges in various sports, his favorites being golf and basketball. Through recordings. Academy attendance, and the radio, he has developed a wide interest in and knowledge of classical music. He is a passive participant in Wright Dermatological activities. He interned last summer in Newcastle, Pennsylvania; for senior interneship, he goes to the General Hospital in his home town. • 20 • The only person to whom a Doctor can say exactly what he thinks about another Doctor is to his wife. That is why practically all Doctors are married. —Joyce Dennys This Connecticut Yankee was born June 12, 1916 in Danbury, the hat manufacturing center of the United States. It is probable that the creed of Horace Greeley was known in the Nutmeg State, for, in his formative years, Ward abandoned the safety of hearth and home to seek education at the Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana. Pre-medical training was sought at Dartmouth and Northwestern University. Inter-academic months were flavored by occupation as a pharmaceutical detail man. Phi Delta Theta was his undergraduate fraternity, and upon his arrival at Temple, he became identified with the Phi Chi's. He finds enjoyment in current events, bridge, photography, swimming and in pleasant domestic and social companionships with his child and charming wife who was Louise S. Nast before June 15, 1937. Junior interneship was obtained at the Danbury Hospital, Danbury, Connecticut, to which institution he will return for his senior service. WARD B. DeKLYM 21 • Talk of your science! after all is aid, There’s nothing like a bare and shiny head; Age lends the graces that are sure to please; Folks want their doctors mouldy, like their cheese. —0. W. HolmesM.D., Rip Van Winkle Scranton, Pennsylvania, located in the heart of the coal region, was the birthplace of Joseph Med wick on March 6, 1914. After finishing high school there, he entered Franklin and Marshall College for a busy existence. Among his many activities, probably his chief contribution was to the athletic department. He chose medicine in preference to a professional football career. Summer hours have been spent in the out-doors, in building projects, highway construction and as camp doctor in northern Minnesota. At the close of his third year at Medical School, he went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for a junior interneship in the General Hospital. For senior duties, he goes to the Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. • 22 • JOSEPH X. MEDWICK The hospital is the only proper college in which to rear a true disciple of Aesculapius. —Abertheny JAMES W. HOSNER Born in New Kensington, Pennsylvania on May 30, 1916. Jim is the only member of his immediate family to attempt medicine as a career. He went to Kittanning High School and then to Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Here at Temple, as before, he distinguished himself by his constant application to work and the welcome sincerity he imparts to the study of his chosen profession. Last summer, he served a junior interneship at Temple University Hospital; he has employed much time in the accident dispensary repairing the assorted catastrophes which befall the citizenry of Philadelphia. Next year, he starts a two-year interneship at Temple Hospital; he hopes with that background he will someday become a general surgeon. • • 23 • Take back home a homesick person whose agonies have reduced him to a skeleton and he is quickly rejuvenated. —Schiller RAYMOND A. TAYLOR For ten history-making months in 1777, York, Pennsylvania was the National Capital. It became, much later, the birthplace of Raymond Taylor. Though no familial prototype existed, he chose medicine for his life's work. He attended York High School and then the ivy-covered halls of Gettysburg College. There he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and perspired mentally with championship teams while basketball manager. So the world might be a better place to sit in, he spent his summers toiling industriously in a furniture factory owned and operated by the pater. Through a junior interneship in the York Hospital and the refreshing lectures and clinics of Dr. Thomas, he has developed an interest in Urology. He may go on into that field after a one-year service at the York Hospital. • • 24 • Nothing is more estimable than a physician who. having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases that assail it, the remedies that will benefit it, exercises his art with caution and pays equal attention to the rich and poor. —Voltaire (1694-1778) A descendant of the sturdy Puritans, he was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1911. His residence has recently been shifted to Philadelphia. He attended Castine High School in Maine, then entered Colby College just after the Rover Boys left. There, he helped edit the school publications, was interested in dramatics and graduated with an A.B. degree in 1936. He spent one summer as steward on a yacht and one year as a chemist for the State of Maine. At Temple, he has done clerical work, served as ambulance driver and has worked in the G. U. clinics for four years. He likes to putter about things mechanical in his spare time. In 1935, he married Rita Carrey, who is at the present a well-liked, capable member of the Temple corps of secretaries. The next year will be spent in the Delaware Hospital at Wilmington. LDWARD J. SMITH 25 « Divide your attentions equally between books and men. Sir William Osier On March 5, 1915, Joe became a part of the population of Allentown, Pennsylvania. His preparatory work prior to college days at Temple University was taken at the Vineland High School in New- Jersey. While getting daily workouts in wrestling and freshman football, he found time to be a stage manager in Mitten Hall. Summers saw him gathering shekels by farming, truck driving and becoming rather adept at steam fitting. His hobby, carpentry, stood him in good stead while holding the position of house manager for the Phi Chi's during his senior year. At the end of his junior year he spent a summer on the traumatic surgery service of the Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital, Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He will probably interne in an army hospital and, having had eight years experience with the National Guard, will undoubtedly join the Army Medical Corps. JOSEPH H. REMO • 26 — The good doctor pay constant attention to keeping people well so there will be no sickness. —Huai Nan-tzu Chow Dynasty (1121-249 B. C.) WILLIAM h. RAMSEY, II In the summer of 1915, Bryn Mawr became the birthplace of William Ramsey. Lower Merion High School in Ardmore provided him with sufficient credits to enter Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. In that tobacco country he found enough balmy days to play varsity tennis, eventually playing in the National Intercollegiate Tennis Tourney. He enjoys taking motion pictures and has many reels taken while vacationing in Maine, the Bahamas and elsewhere. In the Spring of 1940, he married Kathryn Williams. Bill goes to Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pennsylvania, for senior interneship. Being somewhat interested in proctology, he may pursue further study in that field. • 27 • At a time when few things are called by their right names, when it is against the spirit of the times even to hint that an act may entail consequences—you are going to join a profession in which you will be paid for telling men the truth . . . —Rt dyard Kipling (1908) JOHN T. REILLY Morristown, New Jersey, is famed throughout the civilized world for the splendid results obtained there in creating new horizons for the blind through the medium of man’s canine friend. John was born there in 1915. His father, a most constant companion, acted as monitor in his choice of vocation. He attended Bayley School, in Morristown, then went to Holy Cross College for pre-medical work. The most cherished avocations are hunting and fishing, but soulful sedation is culled from the melodious strains of the philharmonics. He is a member of the Phi Chi Fraternity and the Babcock Surgical Society. Last summer, he increased his practical knowledge by interning in both the Jersey City Medical Center and St. Mary's Hospital in Hoboken. For senior training, he goes to St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City. A physician who professes to cure for nothing is often worth nothing. —Hershon This linguistic son of a New York physician was born February 13, 1914, in New York City. The City High School and New York University provided his education prior to his Temple Medical School days. He spends his summers on a family farm in New Jersey, where rural life, tinkering with automobiles and carpentry provide restful diversion. In 1937, he married Bonnie Danielson whom he met while studying biology at New York University. Undecided as to the future, he may enter either general practice or orthopedics. Senior interneship has been obtained at Stamford Hospital, Stamford, Connecticut. MAXI Ml LIAM A. CRISPIM Doctors arc a social cement. —Lord Salisbury Henry J. Vandenberg arrived this earth on June 11, 1916, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of a surgeon of Blodgett Memorial Hospital in that city. East Grand Rapids High School and Zeeland High School saw his attendance. He matriculated at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and graduated in 1937. For five summers, Van was a camp counselor and has worked as a laboratory technician and general aide at Blodgett Memorial Hospital. Sailing, tennis and skiing have been his outdoor interests. At Temple, he affiliated with the Phi Chi Fraternity and has been house president the past year. Following his junior interneship at the New Rochelle Hospital, New Rochelle, N. Y., he has contracted for a one-year interneship in surgery at the University of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor and plans to go on in the sphere of surgical practice. HENRY J. VAN DEM BERG, JR. • 30 • To be a caligraphist requires the wasting of paper; to be a good doctor requires the sacrificing of lives. —Su T ung Po Henry Laughlin was born June 25, 1916. He attended high school in Hagerstown, Maryland. He took three years at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania and completed his B.S. degree work at the Johns Hopkins University Summer School. The duPont Deep Water Plant, a cross-country thumb excursion, a beach doctorship at Stone Harbor, New Jersey and a junior interneship at the Philadelphia State Hospital, Byberry, have been interim experiences during medical schooling. At Temple, Henry has belonged to Phi Chi Fraternity and Babcock Surgical Society. He has been admitted for interneship at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first step in naval service medicine. HENRY P. LAUGH I IN • 31 Medical men don’t learn to know drugs they use, nor their prices. —Roger Bacon (121A-1294) Canadian born, Ed's home was in historical New Rochelle, New York, until recently when he moved to a New England farmhouse which squats squarely on the Massachusetts-Connecticut line. Following his prep school days at Pawling, he enjoyed the skiing and Winter Carnival thrills at Dartmouth College. Summer expeditions took him to Europe and Mexico. His diversions include Saturday night seminars with the boys, improving his golf game and listening to favorite symphonies. St. John's Hospital furnished clinical experience at the end of his third year; for senior training he goes to Grassland’s Hospital, Valhalla, New York. EDWARD W. SMITH • 52 Sickness is felt, but health not at all. —Thomas fuller, Gnomologia Son of a general surgeon of Amityville, New York, he arrived this world on January 21, 1917. He attended Amityville High School and the University of Virginia, from which he graduated in 1937. He was a member of Delta Upsilon Fraternity. Judge has enjoyed out-of-doors sports, reading and has become an amateur motion picture photographer. In 1933, he travelled through Scandinavia and Russia visiting the principal clinics of those countries enroute. At Temple, Judge has belonged to Phi Chi Fraternity and to Babcock Surgical Society. Following a junior interneship at Meadowbrook Hospital, Hempstead, New York, he accepted a two-year general interneship at the same hospital. Surgery, or one of its specialties, will fit him into the paternal shoes. J. JUDGE MURPHY s 33 • I’m ill. I send for Symmachus; he’s here, An hundred pupils following in the rear: All feel my pulse, with hands as cold as snow: I had no fever then—I have it now. —Martial (c. 40-140 A. D.) Born on June 22, 1914 in Hoboken, New Jersey, just across the river discovered by the questing Hendrick Hudson from Manhattan, the center of the great American melting pot. Teachers in the Hoboken High School interested him in medicine as a profession. After graduating, he took a post-graduate course there in chemistry, and then he entered Holy Cross for pre-medical education. He has found employment during vacations as a garage mechanic and credit investigator. Last summer, he gained valuable experience in the realm of pre- and post-operative surgery at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. Recreational diversion is usually found in the cinema and the longing arms of Society. Senior interneship has been obtained in the Mercer Hospital, Trenton, New Jersey. He hopes to specialize in surgery. WALTER J. HEfiRY Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. —Diderot WADE C. MYERS Born in Necces, South Carolina one blustery December morn in 1915, he developed an antipathy for Carolinian cold, unrelieved until residence was changed for a more southern exposure in Tampa, Florida. He attended Hillsborough High School and then divided four years pre-medical preparation between the University of Tampa and the University of Florida. His occupations have included participation in the functionings of a grocery store, a filling station, a theater and a meat-packing establishment. One vacation was occupied by a 5500-mile autocade tour of the nation. Handball and tennis are favorite sports. He went to the University of Alabama Medical School for two years before coming to Temple. Last summer, he held a junior interneship at Temple Hospital, to which worthy haven he returns for senior instruction. • • 35 • . . . If a physician or a steersman were in slavery, he would be obeyed. —Diogenes the Cynic (412-323 B. C.) I BEATRICE A. WEBER The daughter of a commander in the Navy's Medical Corps, Beatrice Weber began a peripatetic life in Kansas City, Missouri, September 1916. Education began in Kit Carson s old log cabin in Fort Lyon, Colorado and was continued in the Orient, Panama, Samoa, Hawaii and Virginia. In Seattle, she settled down for four years of pre-medical work at the University of Washington. Music and outdoor activities furnish diversion. At Temple, she was elected Secretary of the Sophomore Class. She hopes to enter the field of ophthalmology after completion of a senior interneship at the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia. • 36 • For the physician there is only one rule: Put yourself in the patient's place . . —Lord Lister W. RICHARD CROSBY Richard Crosby was born on February the second, 1916, in Louisiana, Missouri. After attending high school, in Seattle, he went to the University of Washington for pre-clinical education. He participated in the usual number of collegiate activities and graduated with a B.S. degree in 1937. Two summers were interestingly spent on the shores of the Bering Sea, in Alaska, in the service of the United States Fisheries. One summer he sailed to the Orient, in the capacity of Ordinary Seaman, on the ships of the United States Mail Line. Last summer he aided hemisphere defense by laboring for the Winchester Arms Company in Hartford. Senior interneship has been obtained in the Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia, after which duty he will enter general practice. • 37 • Your patient has no more right to all the truth than he has to all the medicine in your saddlebag. He should get only so much as is good for him . . . ., , —O. V. Holmes ELLIOT T. BUSH, JR. Born February 10, 1916 in Elmira, New York, which boasts the oldest women’s college in the country and the study where Mark Twain conceived the immortals Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Preceded by a great-grandfather, a grandfather and a father in the medical profession, he arrived on earth with a caduccus in one hand and the Oath of Hippocrates in the other. He attended the Elmira Free Academy-then went to Cornell University, where he was a brother to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon lads. In 1933, under the probable eyes of Hitler Real Estate agents, he toured France and England. Other summers were spent in puttering about the Elmira hospitals and in playing golf and tennis. He enjoys hunting and symphonic recordings. He obtained junior interneship in the Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, to which he will return after graduation. • 38 • Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. —Cicero, Tmculanarum Disputatiovum RALPH E. HERENDEEM, JR. Born in Bisbce, Arizona, February 6, 1912. Residence was later removed to the present address in New York City. The son of a physician, he early decided upon a medical career. He attended the Gunnery School ir. Connecticut, left for Wesleyan College and went on to Princeton where he was a member of the Princeton Charter Club. Summer recess was commonly occupied by relaxation and work in the resort areas of the Pocono Mountains. His favorite recreations are fishing, squash, and golf; in the latter sport, he has attained a high degree of proficiency and repute. He is a member of the Phi Chi and Babcock organizations Last summer, he interned at the Roosevelt Hospital, New York City; for senior service, he goes to the Bellevue Hospital, also in New York City. ♦ 39 • Physical ills arc the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. —Lord Chesterfield, Letters, 1757 The affable Hume hails from Wilmington, Delaware. After his birth on December 3, 1913, he learned his ABC's in the grammar schools of Wilmington. His undergraduate training was obtained at the University of Delaware. Close questioning reveals he was a nine-letter man among other extra-curricular activities. His chief diversions consist of trying to keep his golf game in the low 70s, hunting and fishing. In 1938 he married Anne Bosley of Wilmington. For the last eight years he has worked at the Wilmington General Hospital, first as an orderly then as a junior interne. He will go back for his senior duty to the newly completed hospital unit. He plans to go into general practice with the intention of emphasizing obstetrics. • • 40 • It is not for a skillful leech to whine charms over a sore that craves a knife. —Sophocles (495-406 B. C.) JOSEPH M. BRAU . i... Joseph Brau was born in Memel, now a part of Greater Germany; coming to America in 1922, his family established residence in Easton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Easton High School and, in 1934, from Lafayette College. While at college, he played tennis, entered in track and cross country competitions and handled the sports column in the weekly campus edition. As economic problems were pressing, he thought it fitting to enter the dry-cleaning business. This work filled the years prior to entry into Temple Medical. Several summers have been devoted to boys' camp counselor positions. At Temple, he is affiliated with the Phi Lambda Kappa Fraternity. He will interne for one year at the Easton Hospital and plans to ultimately enter general practice with pediatrics as his key interest. • • 41 • A prattling physician is another disease to a sick man. —Menander (342-291 B. C.) WILLIAM A. BRODSKY Born on January 8, 1918. He went to Overbrook High School, laying a foundation for an encyclopedic knowledge of sports and the comic strips. After three years at the undergraduate school, where he was a member of the Hammond Pre-medical Society, he entered Temple Medical. Although he shook hands with President Harding at the age of four, his exemplary heroes have become the Doctors Tyson, McNair Scott and Brown. After a series of summers at the Bath and Turf Club in Atlantic City, he tried his medical hand with the Beach Patrol and almost lost it. Saved from the waves by a lifeguard, he returned to the Presidency of the Phi Delta Epsilon Fraternity and an appointment to the Philadelphia General Hospital. After a two-year service, he may become a Resident in pediatrics or medicine. • • 42 • The beginning of health is to know the disease. —Cervantes, Don Quixote MEYER PERCHOMOCK Meyer was born in Philadelphia on August 3, 1917. He went to Overbrook High School and then to Temple University where he was graduated with a B.S. degree in mathematics. At an early age he learned to play tennis and the proficiency he developed in this sport slated him as champion of the courts in the undergraduate school, and earned him another similar title in the Quaker City's Public Park Tourney. Last summer, at a camp in the Pocono Mountains, he taught the game to the fair sex. His other interests include books, music and medical discussions with Bill Brodsky. He leaves Temple, with Lee Kotloff, to take a one-year interneship in the 400-bed General Hospital, Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. He hopes to devote further study to internal medicine. • 43 • It is impossible at the same time to seek riches one must of necessity neglect the other. and to practise medicine worthily, for he who eagerly cleaves to the —Galen (130-200 A. D.) SAM J. GARFIELD Born in the year 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a town rich in historical associations and taxes. His steps along the trail of education have been counselled by a sister. He attended Frankford High School then strolled through Temple, annually accumulating an enviable cumulus of grades. There he was a member of both the Hammond and Pyramid Societies. Extra-curricular activities have included co-operative work with waitresses and truckdrivers and the healing of casual visitors to the Accident Dispensary of Temple University Hospital. He is a constituent of the Phi Delta Epsilon and Wright Dermatological medical organizations. Interested in surgery, he may carry on in that study after a one-year rotating interne-ship in the Delaware Hospital, Delaware, Maryland. • • 44 For thousands of years medicine has united the aims and aspirations of the best and noblest of mankind. —Karl Marx FEOM KOTFOFF One of the youngest of the large group of Philadelphians in the graduating class, Lee was born, raised and educated in this city. He early developed artistic talents which found expression in the delicate art of soap sculpturing. Aptitude in this diversion nearly led him into a profession in the realm of plastic art, but he finally decided to follow Aesculapius. Summer months were spent as counselor at a camp for children in Oxford, Pennsylvania; this experience has led him to consider pediatrics as a specialty. He held a junior interneship at Prankford Hospital; for senior service he goes to the Wilkesbarre General Hospital. Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. • • 45 Polite diseases make sonic idiots vain. Which, if unfortunately well, they feign. —Young DAMIEL H. BAREMBAUM Following in the footsteps of his father, a graduate of Temple Medical (1909), his life was dedicated to the medical profession from the time of his birth on May 20, 1916. Philadelphia Central High School and the University of Pennsylvania fostered his progress. His working hours have been occupied by allocating automobiles and vending periodicals. Leisure hours have been pleasantly filled by sports, music and books. As Vice Consul he served the medical fraternity, Phi Delta Epsilon. He attended the Jewish Hospital, Philadelphia for a junior interneship. After a two-year service at the same institution, he intends to devote his time to the realm of internal medicine. • • 46 • I The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick. —Hippocrates (c. 460-357 B.C.) His home since birth has been Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Occupations of progenitors and siblings include teaching, engineering, etc., but not medical practice; thus he brings a new field into the realm of family interest. He attended West Philadelphia High School and then left for Valley Forge Military Academy for a brief visit. At Temple Undergraduate School, he was a member of the Blue Key Honor Society and became captain of the fencing team. Summers were spent as counselor and director of activities at the Treasure Island Boy Scout Camp. He finds release from scholastic tension in books, collecting poetry and photographs, musical comedies, concerts, short week-end excursions, hiking and congenial conversation with his friends. For senior interneship he goes to the Jewish Hospital, Philadelphia, after which duty he may continue study in obstetrics and gynecology. JACOB M. BEMSOM . 47 • The daughter of limb-relaxing Bacchus and limb-relaxing Aphrodite Ls limb-relaxing Gout. —Hedy!us Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a village renowned for its high incidence of sinusitis. Daughter of the hematopathologist Dr. Walter Crocker of the Philadelphia General Hospital, who contributed a comely offspring and an expert correlation of blood dyscrasias to the service of medicine. She graduated from West Philadelphia High School then went to the University of Pennsylvania where she became president of the Women's Athletic Association and developed her Ziegfeldian characteristics as a member of the swimming team. Most summers were spent in extensive travel. Her interests lie in drama, the cinema, sailing, dancing, riding and swimming. Senior interneship has been obtained at the Allentown General Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania. HELEM M. CROCKER • • 48 • ' . . . for as from our beginning we run through variety of Looks, before we come to consistent and settled Faces; so before our End, by sick and languishing Alterations, we put on new Visages . . . —Sir Thomas Browne LEOMA K. DEAM The seat 0 Mormonism is the home of Leona Dean. Born in Rupert, Idaho, she moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. This noted city, founded by Brigham Young in 1847, has a fine university, where Leona took her degree in education and the pre-clinical years of medicine. Aiding her decision to go into a field largely composed of males was Maude May Babcock, head of the Speech Department at Utah. After winning honors as a member of Zeta Phi Zeta, the bacteriological and pathological fraternity, she came east to finish her education at Temple. Oil painting and stamp collecting form her chief diversions. Senior interneship was obtained at Holy Cross Hospital, Salt Lake City, where she will probably go into obstetrics and pediatrics. • • 49 There a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all. —Arthur Young, 1787 MOMMA F. ELL ISOH Born in Murray, Utah, she was surrounded on all sides by teachers. High School at St. Anthony, Idaho was followed by a college course that oscillated from major to minor and back again before she definitely decided to tread her father's path in quest of an M.D. degree. Summers spent camping at Yellowstone and the interesting work of blending foster families harmoniously made the years pass rapidly. Her greatest pride is in her collection of illustrated Children's Books, of humorous and biographic texts. Like Abou Ben Adhem, her interest is in her feilow-man, thus her choice of psychiatry as the field of future endeavor. For senior interneship she goes to the Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. • 50 • . . . the common fallacy of consumptive persons, who feel not themselves dying, and therefore still hope to live • • • —Str Thomas Browne Eva Gilbertson joined the junior class of Temple Medical School after completing her undergraduate and pre-clinical training at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, N. D. Born in Maddock on December 23, 1916, she took grade school training in the Benson County Agricultural High School. Her first two years of college work were received in the Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. For diversion, she plays the piano and has become an amateur horticulturist. She journeys to the Pacific coast for her senior interneship in the Emanuel Hospital, Portland, Oregon. EVA L. GILBERTSOM 51 • God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fee. —Benjamin Franklin John Konzelmann was born March 21, 1914, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Woodbury High School, Woodbury, New Jersey and graduated from Temple University with an A.B. degree in 1937 before enrolling at Temple Medical School. At Temple, John has affiliated with Phi Beta Pi Fraternity and with the Wright Dermatological Society. A lover of sports, he played semi-professional baseball in earlier days and continues his sport interest along with medicine—his consuming passion. Two summers were spent at the Philadelphia State Hospital, Byberry; junior interneship was relished at Atlanitc City Hospital, Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he has accepted a one-year general interneship. The study and teaching of internal medicine is tentatively planned for his future. JOHM B. H. KOMZELMAMM • 52 • Laws arc like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil. —Bismarck RALPH M. WYMER Ralph Wymer was born on February 14, 1914, in New Concord, Ohio. He attended New Concord High School and Muskingum College in that town. At Muskingum, Ralph was awarded a fellowship in science. He matriculated at West Virginia University, was awarded a B.S. degree in medicine in 1939 before transfer to Temple. A constant worker, he has been variously a grocer)' clerk, a stone mason and a creamery employee until, in Philadelphia, he found collateral medical work at the National Stomach Hospital and later at Northeast Hospital. At Temple, he has been a member of Phi Beta Pi Fraternity and Wright Dermatological Society. He will interne one year at Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital and plans ultimately to enter tropical medicine. 53 Every physician, almost, hath his favourite disease. —Henry Fielding NEWTON E. WESSMAN In 1915, the pioneers gained another recruit in their eternal struggle with the Indians and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, another citizen. Incidentally, as late as 1927, one of the lookouts fell asleep, and the town was burned by raiding Redskins! Washington High School in Sioux Falls, passed him on to the University of South Dakota, which college claims Dr. Lawrence of cyclotron fame as alumnus. There, he was president of the student body. He joined us as we became juniors. He has found time to act as Secretary for the Wright Dermatological Society. He interned last summer at the Atlantic City General Hospital, to which institution he returns for senior duty. Lin illness the physician is a father; in convalescence, a friend; when health is restored, he is a guardian. 1.............. The son of a surgeon, Otis was born in Sioux Falls South Dakota. He attended Augustana College in Sioux Falls and took his first year of medical school at the University of South Dakota before turning eastward to Temple. Participant in many sports, a cupwinner in free-style swimming, he seriously attempted to implant his medical education upon a broad base of general culture, emphasizing particularly music. He turns an appreciative tympanum to the symphonies, enjoys playing the pipe organ, piano and flute. At Temple, he has been a member of the Phi Beta Pi Fraternity. Last summer, he held a junior interneship at the South Dakota State Hospital; for a one-year senior service, he goes to St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth. Minnesota. He hopes eventually to enter some branch of surgery. H. OTIS KITTELSOM • 55 Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies. —Ctiin Yueh-jen (c. 225 B.C.) James Miller was born in Morgantown, West Virginia. After leaving the local high school, he went to the West Virginia University for four years of pre-medical and two years of medical study before transferring to Temple. For the West Virginia Medical School's Dean, E. J. van Liere, he toiled in the research mill of Physiology, organizing literature compilations on the stomach and pylorus and investigating the many causes of anoxemia. His chief interests lie in boxing, wrestling, rifle marksmanship, hunting and fishing. At Temple Medical School, he joined the social fraternity of Phi Beta Pi. After graduation, he will spend one year as interne at the Atlantic City Hospital, Atlantic City, New Jersey. He is interested in surgery. JAMES H. MILLER, JR. • 56 The skillful doctor knows by observation, the mediocre doctor by interrogation, the ordinary doctor by palpation. —Chang Chung ching (fl. 170 196 A.D.) Raboteau T. Wilder was born the 18th of June, 1913, in Louisburg, North Carolina. He graduated from Aberdeen High School and then from Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, North Carolina, in 1935, with a B.S. degree in general science and mathematics. He was a member of Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Two summers were devoted to work with United States Plant Disease Control projects. For one and a half years, he worked in the infirmary, matriculating at Wake Forest Medical School prior to transfer to Temple. He has been affiliated with Phi Chi Fraternity at Temple. After a junior interneship at Thompson Memorial Hospital, Lumberton, North Carolina, he w-as accepted for a one-year interneship at Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He expects to enter general practice. Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name. —Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Leon was born in Johnston County, North Carolina, on September 23, 1913. He grew up in that center of the lumber industry, working during vacations as a bookkeeper, grocery clerk and farmer. He attended Campbell College for two years then went to Wake Forest College. At both institutions, he was a member of the student governing bodies. At Wake Forest Medical School, he spent two years before joining us in our junior year at Temple. He has amassed a remarkable collection of Indian relics having historical relation to the section of Carolina in which he lives. He served a junior interneship at the North Carolina State Sanatorium; for senior duties, he goes to the James Walker Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, North Carolina. LEON M. OGBURN • • 58 • “What! don’t you know what a Sawbones is, Sir?” inquired Mr. Weller, was a Surgeon.” “I thought everybody know’d as a Sawbones —Dickens, Pickwick Papers Terry first glimpsed the city of Philadelphia on October 8, 1916. He first decided upon the study of medicine while attending Central High School. At Temple University, his time was occupied by reporting for the Temple News, intramural basketball and a position as assistant in the Biology Department. During the summers, he acted as inspection agent for the Atlantic Refining Company and had a fling at farming. He is a constituent of the Phi Rho Sigma Fraternity and has distinguished himself as a member of that elusive group, the Medical School Basketball Team. The next year will be spent at the Delaware Hospital in Wilmington. On November 23, 1940, he married Marie Kish. TARAS H. RYBACHOK . 59 . The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves. —Paracelsus A son of the solid South, he appeared on the Carolina scene in June of 1916, when the month was twenty-seven days old. He spent a lively and happy youth in the farming country of his State, attended the picturesque Rocky Mount High School and wrested his B.S. degree from the grasp of Wake Forest College. Fishing and hunting, at home and in Canada, were his chief means of diversion. After receiving his first two years of medical training at the Wake Forest Medical School, where he fraternized with the Phi Rho Sigmata, he transferred to Temple. A junior interneship at the ACL Hospital, Rocky Mount, and a senior service at the Delaware Hospital, Maryland, will constitute the practical side of education for his future medical career. He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. —Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard, 1733 CHARLES M. WRIGHT Born in Jarvisburg, North Carolina in 1917, just in time to get a bleary glimpse of Santa Claus. A family friend and physician, Dr. W. T. Griggs, impressed the thought of medicine as a profession upon him at an early age. He graduated from Poplar Branch High School and then went to Wake Forest College where he joined social fraternities and the Euzealon Literary Society. Summer chores in a local grocery store were lightened by the frequent peddling of farm produce to the beach cottages, but he admits sales were often poor, for in such a locale, distractions were many, and they often precluded further asocial effort. His interests lie in hunting, swimming, fishing, wooing, dancing and music. After interneship in the Atlantic City Hospital, he will enter general practice in a rural community. • • 61 • It is dainty to be sick, if you have the leisure and convenience for it. —Emerson, Journals LAWREMCE C. GAEBE New Salem, North Dakota, is noted for heat, i. e., the height of summer temperatures, metabolic from the milk of locally bred Holstein bovine beasts and that obtained from the incineration of home-grown Lignite coal. Born there about one year before the Armistice of World War I, he listened patiently to the orations attendant to the 1934 graduation ceremonies in the local high school then sped to the State University, which he left in 1939 in order to complete medical training at Temple. Vacation hours were occupied in flat-footed stance behind the soda fountain in his father’s establishment. For exercise, he enjoys hunting and fishing. Last summer, he worked in the North Dakota State Hospital for the Insane. For senior duty, he goes to St. Luke's Hospital in San Francisco, California. • 62 Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia. —Napoleon Bonaparte Born in Fullerton, North Dakota, a town lying in the heart of the grain belt, on November 3, 1916. His family shortly afterward moved to Ashley, where he attended the public high school. He went to the North Dakota University, from which, though football, track and intramural athletics demanded enthusiastic attention, he graduated with the letters A.B. and B.S. stamped on his parchment. Summers were occupied by employment in a soda dispensary and in enjoying army life in various military encampments. His favorite recreation is hunting. Following two years medical education at the North Dakota University Medical College, he transferred to Temple. Last summer, he interned at the State Hospital in North Dakota; for senior duty, he goes farther west to the Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Washington. LEROY F. R1TMILLER • 63 The .in of medicine is a question of timeliness: wine timely given helps, untimely harms. —Ovid, Remedioyum Amoris MELVIM A. 5CHMUTZ Melvin A. Schmutz was born August 5, 1915, at New Harmony, Utah, of sturdy Mormon farmer parentage. In 1933, he graduated from Dixie High School, Saint George, Utah, and went on to Dixie Junior College until 1935. He matriculated at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City and after graduation, continued there for his first two years of medical school. During high school and junior college days, Mel engaged in track competition. He has worked on his home farm, driven a taxicab for three summers and was a T. U. H. bill collector the summer past. At Temple, he has been a member of the Wright Dermatological Society. He will interne for one year at Southern Pacific General Hospital, San Francisco, California, and will enter general practice. If a doctor’s life may not be a divine vocation, then no life is a vocation, and nothing is divine. —Stephen P.sget CECELIA H. SHEMBAB Born in Superior, Wisconsin, in the year 1915. Her home at present, however, is Madison, which city the expert geographist will immediately recognize as the State Capital. After graduation from Superior Central High School, she went to the University of Wisconsin. There, she obtained pre-medical education and two years of medical knowledge before transferring to Temple. To insure the continuation of study in her chosen profession she was employed at various times in the statistical and psychiatric divisions of the state government. She finds a great deal of pleasure in music, poetry and art. Junior interneship was held in St. Mary's Hospital in Superior. Next summer she begins senior service at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in New York City. She is interested in obstetrics. • 65 • L {•or the world, I count it not an Inn, but an Hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. —Sir Thomas Brow fie ? ' • I A CAROL I ME SAMFORD Twelve days after the bells ushered in a New Year in 1916, Caroline drifted gently to the shore in Manasquan, New Jersey. Her early years were spent romping in the sands, but Wellesley College in prim New England saw her through her pre-medical days. There, while a sister to the Phi Sigma lovelies, she enjoyed tennis, swimming and sailing, and when mundane matters palled, she took to the airlanes. Camping trips to Canada and recurrent flights to Texas have made her an exponent of the Sec America First” doctrine. She served as secretary to the Senior Class. Junior interneship was obtained at the Somerset Hospital, Somerville, New Jersey; the next year will be spent at the General Hospital in Pottsville, Penna. • 66 • Sickness conics on horseback, but goes away on foot. —W. C. Hazlitt CATHERIME B. HESS Born in Camp Hill, October 29, 1915, she now lives by the side of the mighty Susquehanna River in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. There, she attended William Penn High School, then went to Swarthmore and on to Wooster College, where she received a B.S. degree in 1937. Intrigued by communion with Mother Nature and the stirring tales in the Camper Girl series, she broke family ties each summer and tented in Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin. She is interested in riding, tennis, the making of movies and has gained quite a reputation for accuracy with firearms. Both junior and senior interneships were obtained in the Harrisburg General Hospital. Special attention has been, and may in the future be, devoted to bronchoscopy and surgery. 67 • It is a step toward health to know the disease. —Erasmus, Adagia HUGH J. KEARhEY First saw light of day in Atlantic City ten years after the turn of the century. Shaking the sand from his raiment, he strode blithely through Mt. Saint Rita Preparatory School. 1928 found him employed in the Stock Exchange, where, shortly after, he naturally cogitated upon the vicissitudes of life, deciding finally to prep for medicine at Villanova. While at Temple, he spent his summers as Beach Surgeon to the Ventnor City Beach Patrol. He has been steward to the Phi Alpha Medical Fraternity and is a member of the SKULL staff. Idle hours are spent in various sports, principally swimming and in dealing the fascinating pasteboards. King’s County Hospital, New York, claims his services for 1941-43. • 68 ... I cannot go to cure the body of my patient, but I forget my profession, and call unto God for his soul . . . —Sir Thomas Browne johm h. WEIDMER Born of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry in Reading, Pennsylvania, in the year 1915—a satisfactory year but a regrettable locale, for had it been his choice, it would have been the deep South. Pre-professional education was obtained at Nazareth Hall Military Academy, Mercersburg Academy, Wharton School and Duke University. Collegiate expenses were abetted to a degree by factory labor and census compilations. His aesthetic sensibilities are titillated by feminine pulchritude, minor or grand slams and Collier’s on Friday. A tendency to somnolence while studying Babcock has been a source of irritation. In June, he starts a two-year rotating interneship at the City Hospital of New York. Later, endocrinology and or neurolog)' may lead to post-graduate work. • 69 • The lawyers are the cleverest men, the ministers are the most learned, and the doctors the most sensible. —Oliver Wendell Holmes JOSEPH C. SWEEMEY, JR. Born January 28, 1917. He skimmed through both York Catholic High School and Mt. Saint Mary’s College with the meager appellation of Valedictorian. At Temple, he held various offices in the Phi Alpha Sigma Fraternity and broke the monotony of his own existence and that of his classmates by making in the first instance, numerous excursions to a certain West Philadelphia residence, and in the latter, by generously contracting Infectious Mononucleosis just as the bacteriology department was describing the heterophile antibody. During the last summer and senior year, he interned at the Rivcrview Hospital in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Interests lie in journalism and forensic disputations. He will interne at the City Hospital in New York for the next two years. • • 70 • In our study of Anatomy there is a mass of mysterious Philosophy, and such as reduced the very Heathens to Divinity. —Sir Thomas Browne GERALD J. PISERCHIA The Dean” was quite young when he inhaled the odors of Jersey City in 1917. Inconceivable it may be, yet the notorious stamp of the Hague machine had not then been licked and pressed into place. From a Jersey City High School, he went to Villanova, where he found pleasure in social and scientific organizations and in exercising his vocal apparatus to the rhythms of the Glee Club. Summers enthusiastically employed in idle recreation gave him unlimited energy for the ensuing school year, or let us say, should have, had he gone into another profession. Junior interneship was obtained at St. Mary’s Hospital, Hoboken, New Jersey. Senior interneship will be taken here at the Temple University Hospital. 71 • . . . the study of medicine apart from its scientific basis creates neurotics rather than scientists. —]. B. S. Haldane EDWARD J. WIATER Ten days before Christmas in 1913, Ed Wiater surveyed a wintry- world for the first time in Davenport, Iowa. His early life was enjoyed in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he attended high school and Albright College. Collegiate extra-curricular activities consisted of playing in the band and holding major offices in the Alchemist Society and the Skull and Bones Club. Music, chemistry and equestrian exercise have been his chief avocations. He is a member of the Phi Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. A junior interneship at the Hamburg Tuberculosis Sanatorium prepared him well for senior service at the General Hospital in Reading. • • 72 • Physicians, like beer, are best when they are old. —Thomas Fuller (1642) First saw light of day in Spokane, Washington in the year 1906. After graduating from high school, he entered Northern State Teachers College in Marquette, where he received an A.B. degree. With a fellowship in anatomy, he went to the U. of Michigan; after seven oft-interrupted years there, he obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. In this time, he did bookstore and stenographic work, assisted in the biology laboratory, entered the forestry service and the army, served as Instructor in anatomy. Leaving Michigan, he attended the University of London and the Central Institute for Brain Research in Amsterdam, then taught neuroanatomy in the University of Groningen, Holland for one year. Somehow, he found time in 1933 to marry Katherine E. Shinglcr. He enjoys hunting, fishing and gardening. Time at Temple has been filled by assisting Dr. Huber in the anatomy department. JEAM K. WESTOM • 73 • Work is the center of the circumference of one’s life in medicine, and only through the ambitious pursuit of one’s work can one continue to enjoy the routine tasks and smile at disappointment. —Verne Hunt The air was filled with the gentle lowing of cattle when he was born on a farm in Gapsville, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Steubenville High School, he decided upon a medical career and entered Temple, having been attracted by the philosophy of Acres of Diamonds. Summers were employed by waiting on the tables of gormandizers and epicures, jerking sodas for thirsty females, and by operating cranes, driving trucks and warping sheet metal for the renowned Budd Manufacturers. His interests lie in physical culture, collection of modern United States coins, aviation (pilot’s license pending) and in tramping sylvan dells with charcoal and sketch pad. He internes at Temple University Hospital, which service he hopes will be a springboard into the field of orthopedic surgery. jom t. EALY • 74 William Harvey taught anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from suppositions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature. —f. Ewing Meats ROBERT E. LEMTZ Robert Lentz was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in June, 1915. After high school education in that city, he went to the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a member of the Alpha Chi Rho Fraternity and from which institution he obtained an A.B. degree. He enlarged his worldly experience by working as a Y” camp counselor and as an exponent of the pause that refreshes. Swimming and loafing, he states, provide greatest relaxation. A junior interneship at the Allentown General Hospital proved to be interesting and instructive; he intends to return to that same place for his senior duties. • • 75 • • • • happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul . . . are to, not to get what we can from. life. here to add what we can —Sir William Osier HARRISON R. HINES Born in Chestertown, Maryland, on September 12, 1916. Grammar school education began in Cambridge and continued through fifteen different schools before he graduated from Central High School, Philadelphia. He obtained a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the City College of New York. Metropolitan experiences include hotel clerking, ushering in Radio City and selling photographic supplies. He collects first editions, relics and theatre programs. At Temple, he became a member of the Babcock Society. Clinical experience was augmented considerably by work at Taylor Hospital, Ridley Park. For senior service, he goes to the Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia. • • 76 • For the general practitioner, a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to overtake him. —Sir William Osier Born a Hoosier in Indianapolis, September 3, 1915. From Friends' Central School he went to Haverford College, where he majored in Biology. He sang in the Glee Club, became an associate editor of the college newspaper and waited on tables. Arrived in Medical School, he collected quotations, while his hats and sweaters became legends. From beneath the former, we heard the latest in Osleriana. Under the latter, his intimates could discern the predominant influence of three men: his father. Dr. Hornell Hart, and Dr. Charles Cameron. The latter introduced him to Blockley, around which, ever since he was an orderly in the O. R., he thought the medical world revolved. Two summers were spent with the Philadelphia General's Diabetic Camps, and one at the Greenwich Village Settlement House Camp. His interneship is for two years at the Philadelphia General Hospital. CARL E. WILBUR 77 • Our foster nurse of nature is repose. Shakespeare, King Lear. Daughter of a Summit, New Jersey physician, she was born April 23, 1911. She attended the Kent Place Preparatory School for Girls and graduated from Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1933-Kay devoted three years to laboratory technical work and spent a year of post-graduate study at the University of Chicago. She has travelled extensively about the United States, Canada and Europe in free intervals and has become a collector of books and of records of classical music. Every summer when possible, Kay has made medical rounds at Orange Memorial Hospital, Orange, New Jersey. She has obtained a two-year appointment to the Philadelphia General Hospital. CATHERINE B. RISK • 78 • It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. —Seneca, Hip poly tus A Philadelphia daughter, she forsook the home of Franklin for the healthful seashore and spent her formative years at the Atlantic City High School. She remembers her guide-posts along the road to medicine as being a country doctor, a city specialist and a doctor of letters. She attended Wheaton College in Illinois, where matters literary and oratorical occupied her time; she often exercised the woman’s prerogative by frequently having the last word at rebuttal in debate. After college graduation, she taught for one year, was a technician for two years. Tennis, poetry and a struggle to master the violin occupied her diversion hours. Her medical education will be completed by a two-year interneship at Temple University Hospital. ELSIE E. REID . 79 . Prevention is better than cure. —Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewif George Randall was born October 28, 1914, in Paterson, New Jersey, a silk center and home of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation. George graduated from Eastside High School in Paterson and matriculated at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; there he played football for two seasons and was a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He worked five summers with the Borden Milk Company in Paterson and has been City Water Department laborer the last two. He has been accepted for a two-year general interneship at Paterson General Hospital. General practice or surgery are his medical career alternatives. GEORGE E. RAMDALL 80 • The best of healers is good cheer. —Pindar, Nemean Ode 4 Born twenty-four years ago in Allentown, Pennsylvania, which village the City Elders have termed the Queen City” of the Lehigh Valley. Though his father and an uncle are general practitioners, young George was allowed to flip his own coin in choosing a profession. After attending the local high school, he went to Muhlenberg College, where the absence of coeds has caused unceasing wailing and gnashing of teeth. Summers were spent in amusing customers in an amusement park and in being wise enough to earn money with Simonize. He likes to sing, to play the piano and clarinet, but derives greatest pleasure from tinkering with his time-hallowed Ford. Both junior and senior interneships were obtained at the Allentown Hospital, a 385-bed institution offering a rotating service. GEORGE S. BOYER Many funerals discredit a physician. —Ben forison Eleven days before Christmas in 191$, Frank S. Peters was welcomed to a fireside in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania. He was destined to be the second son of his father to follow the rigorous road to medical knowledge. Early education obtained in his home town was followed by pre-medical work at Duke University, from which institution he received the title Bachelor of Art. He is an avid reader, enjoys the cinema and company of his friends. Practical knowledge garnered last summer at the Philadelphia State Hospital will be further developed at the Allentown Hospital, Pennsylvania. He intends to specialize in internal medicine. FRAMK S. PETERS • 82 • There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man. —N oval is On the second day of April, twenty-six years ago, James Rusmisell was born in the locality of Buckhannon, West Virginia. Early education was garnered in his home town. Following a paternal example, he subscribed to the teachings of Aesculapius and left to obtain pre-medical knowledge at the West Virginia Wesleyan College. Before entering Temple, he attended the Universities of West Virginia and Syracuse. After a one-year rotating interneship in the Buckhannon Hospital, he will probably become a general practitioner. JAMES A. RUSMISELL, JR. How many errors have been committed because the physician has not been able to discern, under the mask of the invalid, a man. _ „. —E. RlSt The first member of his household to enter the practice of medicine, Donald Wonsettler began life in Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania, on the fourteenth day of December, 1916. Centerville High School occupied his time until he was ready for Washington and Jefferson College, where he was presented with the first and last letters of bios in nineteen thirty-seven. He had no consuming interests to carry him into remote fields of endeavor, his enduring satisfaction being obtained from amicable association with his friends. While at Temple Medical School he became a member of the Wright Dermatological Society. He will serve a senior interneship at the Washington Hospital, Washington, Pennsylvania, where he spent an informative summer last year. DOMALD E. WOMSETTLLR • • 84 • If ever the human race is raised to its highest practicable level intellectually, morally and physically, the science of medicine will perform the service. —Rene Descartes JACK L. YAHRAUS Born in Dayton, Ohio, on November 14, 1912. He later moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, home of the self-sufficient Amish and the Hamilton Watch. He attended Lancaster High School and then studied pre-medical subjects for two years at Penn State, followed by two years at Franklin and Marshall College. Summer occupations included trucking ice, farming and amalgamating concrete for highway construction. Before entering medical school, he sold advertising and assisted Mr. Armstrong in making linoleum. At Temple he was president of the class in the junior year and is a member of the Wright Dermatological Society. Interested in internal medicine, he may continue study in that field after a one-year interneship at the Lancaster General Hospital. • • 85 It is true that joy can activate the nervous system more efficiently than all the cardiac stimulants that can be had from the druggist. —Schiller THOMAS R. WILSOh This peppery, music-minded classmate was born in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. He attended the local high school then went to Grove City College for his pre-medical training. Since youth, Tom's nights have been filled with music, and by virtue of his prowess in tapping the taut skins, he was able to beat his way to Europe one summer with his band. At Temple, he staged the class dance the third year and proved that the finances of those gala affairs need not be computed in red ink. Before he entered training at Byberry last summer, he married Yetta Dinning, a graduate of Temple's School of Nursing. He goes to the Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for senior interneship. • • 86 Everything in excess is opposed to nature. —Hippoc rates, Aphor sms Born in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, two days after Christmas in the year 1912. His choice of career was under the beneficent guidance of an uncle and cousin, who are members of the profession. At Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania, he engaged actively in wrestling, handball, football and played the clarinet in the symphony orchestra. He later trod the boards of Colgate University as a member of the Dramatic Society. He found vacation employment as chemist in the Distillation Laboratory of the Sun Oil Company, spent spare moments collecting symphonic recordings and interpreting same on the agony pipe. He holds the office of treasurer in the Phi Chi Fraternity. A junior interneship at the Nanticoke General Hospital has better prepared him for his senior service in the Harris Memorial Methodist Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas. WILLIAM H. MORGAM • 87 • _L' r A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing ns a clergic’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. —Samuel Butler Duane Mills was born in West Decatur, Pennsylvania. Since his first contact with a physician in the Fall of 1914, he has considered medicine as a career. Following high school days at Philipsburg he matriculated at Otterbein College. As Associate Editor of the college newspaper and president of the honorary scientific society, he found just enough free time to hurl the pellet for the ball team. Summers found him employed as a camp doctor and dabbling with photography. Some of his candid shots may be found in the 1941 SKULL. He belongs to the Babcock Society and the Phi Rho Sigma Fraternity. The Philipsburg State Hospital was the site of his junior interneship; for senior duty he goes to the Harrisburg General Hospital, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. When I consider the assiduity of this profession, their benevolence amazes me. They not only, in general, give their medicines for half value, but use the most persuasive remonstrances to induce the sick to come and be cured. —Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) PAUI K. WAI TZ Born three days before the natal day of the Country's first President, in the year 1916, Paul claimed Salisbury, Pennsylvania, as his birthplace. The only member of his family to storm the stern citadel of medicine, he spent his early years in Hershey, Pennsylvania and in Altoona, where he attended high school. He was granted a B.S. degree by Lebanon Valley College, Anneville, Pennsylvania, where he was active in the band and the Kalo Literary Society. Summer time was employed by labor in the Hershey Amusement Park. The raising of tropical fish has been his chief avocation. He is a member of the Phi Rho Sigma Fraternity and Babcock Surgical Society. He will complete his medical training at the General Hospital, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 89 • By self-indulgence, the dreadful dropsy grows apace. —Horace, Odes Gene was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on April 4, 1916. From the local high school, he went, in 1933, to Bucknell University, where he received a B.S. degree in biology. He was directed in his choice of medical school by Dr. Ulshafer, a surgeon who graduated from Temple and whose career came to an untimely end last year. For two summers, he has been medical director of a Y.M.C.A. camp, where he developed an ability at tennis and boxing. He joined the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity at Bucknell and the Phi Rho Sigma Fraternity and Babcock Surgical Society at Temple. His junior interneship was at Hazleton State Hospital. He will go to Providence Hospital in Washington, D. C. for the next two years, where he will be associated with Dr. Yater and the Georgetown Medical School group. EUGEME J. GILLESPIE • 90 « The confidence of a patient can only be gradually obtained if one uses his own language . . Schiller JOHM J. BIAMCO John was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on the eighteenth day of October, 1915. Graduating as salutaiorian from the local high school, he went to Muhlenberg College from which he received a B.S. degree tagged with cum laude.” At college he played freshman football and basketball, was Assistant Football Manager and belonged to Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. He has worked in a dairy, worked on the road for a gas company, and he held a junior interneship and senior affiliation with the Sacred Heart Hospital, Norristown. He enjoys swimming and tennis, is a member of the Phi Rho Sigma and Wright Dermatological organizations. Senior interneship is at the Mercy Hospital, Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. He may specialize in obstetrics and gynecology in his home town. • • 91 • He who was never sick dies the first fit. - Thomas Taller, Gnomologia CLAREMCE D. IEIPHART Awoke to the dawn of Hallam in 1915 after twenty days of heat had baked the Pennsylvania soil. Following the footsteps of two uncles, he started along the rough road to a medical doctorate by attending Hallam High School and then the York Collegiate Institute before entering Temple University for pre-medical study. During undergraduate days, he participated in basketball, tennis, bowling and the activities of the Hammond Pre-medical Society. His spare time is spent in the breeding of tropical fish. A junior interneship at York General Hospital paved the way for senior work there next year. He may seek graduate training in pathology. • • 92 • To study the phenomena of disease is not to go to sea at all. without books is to sail an uncharted sea. while to study books without patients —Sir William Oiler MOSES RABIMOVITZ Philadelphia born, twenty-four years ago last February twentieth. He spent his adolescent years at Northeast High School, then entered Temple Undergraduate School where he indulged an inherent love for the sciences, finding a kindred spirit in the Professor of Physics. Dr. McGinnis, who made a profound impression upon him. He became a devotee of the candid camera, developing thereby, a care care for detail and precision. Summers spent hiking, camping and studying at the Temple Allergy Clinic helped shorten the grind of medical life. He has held various offices in the Phi Lambda Kappa Fraternity. An interneship at St. Luke’s Hospital in Philadelphia will be followed by graduate work in X-ray or orthopedics. 93 • Some maladies arc rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. —Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse MILTOM M. CAHM Born in Philadelphia on February 4, 1918. After graduating from the South Philadelphia High School for Boys, he attended Temple University Undergraduate School. His summers found him as a chemist-salesman in his father’s insecticide, disinfectant and cosmetic manufacturing concern. This experience was later to enable a deft manipulation of incompatible substances in creating non-lcthal prescriptions. At Temple Medical School, he formed an alliance with the inseparable Katz, Iannucci and Jacobson, which group formed the nucleus of the K.Z.O. Fraternity. During the next two years he will be busy at the Jewish Hospital with a senior interneship. After that, he hopes to concentrate on the teaching of internal medicine. • 94 • No man values the best medicine if administered by a physician whose person he hates or despises. —Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) CHRISTOPHER A. IANMUCCI He, loo, is a Philadelphian, born in December of 1914. Following along the well-worn pathway, he left South Philadelphia High School for Temple University where he centered his time on scientific studies. During summer months, he was employed as a salesman. Idle time has been most profitably spent by delving into philology, linguistics and other related fields of knowledge. His interest already established in neurolog)', he came up the street to the Medical School to study further the mechanics of the nervous system. Next year he leaves Philadelphia and his friends to occupy a post as interne in the Wilmington General Hospital, Wilmington, Delaware, where he hopes to prepare himself to a still greater extent for a career in neuro-psychiatry. • 95 • Many dishes, many diseases. Many medicines, few cures. —Benjamin franklin, Poor Richard, 1734 SIDMEY JACOBSON A native of Philadelphia. Born in the midsummer of 1913. He attended Central High School and took pre-medical work at Temple University Undergraduate School. This work was finished in the night school because of the necessity of daytime employment. To meet the insistent demands of the Registrar, he has assumed jobs as many and various as the colors in Joseph’s coat. Arriving at Temple Medical School, he became a charter member of the K.Z.O. Fraternity. He finds relaxation in nature study and in hikes along rural trails. His chief interest in medicine lies in the medical-economic-sociologic relationship and in the dissemination of available medical knowledge toward the establishment of a healthier population. His senior interneship will be in the Northeastern Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. • • 96 Happy is the physician who is called in at the end of the illness. —Rabelais JACOB KATZ Jacob Katz was also born in Philadelphia, in the year 1916. He, too, first started toward a medical career at the South Philadelphia High School. While attending Temple Undergraduate School, he was a member of the Hammond Pre-medical Society. Time during the summer was spent as an assistant pharmacist, in which occupation, he states, he learned the technique of compounding everything from a ham-on-rye to asafoetida suppositories.” Undergraduate associations were maintained at medical school by membership in the K.Z.O. Fraternity. He is a member of the Wright Dermatological Society. Time away from the study of medicine is occupied by scientific subjects as chemistry, mathematics, etcetera. After a two-year interneship in the Mt. Sinai Hospital, Philadelphia, he hopes to go into the field of ophthalmologic surgery. 97 • It is 3 solemn fact that the discovery of a new disease immediately creates 3 demand for it. —J. A. Spender MORTOM M. KLIGERMAM Born in Philadelphia, the home of brotherly affection, beer and scrapple, some years ago. Early in life, he became an insatiable and omnifarious reader, developing thereby a comprehensive understanding of literature and the arts. He attended Northeast High School and, later, Temple, where he was a member of the Hammond Pre-medical Society. Summers were employed at work in Atlantic City and in delivering milk from irradiated and homogenized cows. He is a member of the Babcock Society and secretary to the Phi Delta Medical Fraternity. He finds pleasure in music, the collection of tropical fish, boating, fishing and walking. Next summer he starts a two-year rotating interneship at the Temple University Hospital. • • 98 True knowledge of anatomy can alone be obtained by the study of this, the only correct authority, the body of man. —Vesalius ■ Born in Cincinnati, the home of the Crile Clinic, on the 15th day of September, 1915. Preceded by a grandfather in the medical profession, he decided his future lay in the same field. His high school training was obtained at Kittanning, Pennsylvania. From there he went to Washington and Jefferson, where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity and the honorary Biological Society. He obtains his exercise from golf, and he enjoys operating model railroad systems and constructing model airplanes. He was married during Christmas vacation of his Sophomore year to Adelaide Baihly. He goes back to the site of his college days in Washington, Pennsylvania, for his senior interneship in the General Hospital. Graduate study will center about pediatrics. ROBERT W. KLIME 99 • Not one among a thousand knows how to separate the harmful parts from the helpful in simple laxatives. —Roger Bacon (1214-1294) H. ROEBLIMG KMOCH York, Pennsylvania, was the birthplace of Roebling Knoch. There, on March 4, 1917, he started his career in medicine. The William Penn High School of York gave him his diploma and sent him to Penn State College, where he gained a reputation as a debater. Preferring the simpler things in life, Knoch has eschewed travel and travail and has spent his spare moments developing his hobby of movie-photography. At Temple, he soon found an open welcome for himself in the Alpha Kappa Kappa Fraternity. He took his junior interneship and will take his senior service at the Lankcnau Hospital in Philadelphia. If all goes well, he expects to center his interest about internal medicine. • 100 • Languor seizes the body from bad ventilation. —Ovid, Ars A mo to rid Born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania on June 25, 1909. He attended the local high school then went to battle-scarred Gettysburg College, from which he received a B.S. degree. After another year of education at Penn State, he joined in the chase after the elusive dollar. He worked in a banking institution, taught chemistry and mathematics, became a chemist for the Hercules Explosive Manufacturers, then made ethyl lead for duPont. Deciding finally upon a medical career, he entered Temple, where he was a member of the A.K.K. Fraternity and Babcock Surgical Society. He finds recreation in photography and tennis. The last two summers, lie was employed as a camp physician. He is interested in obstetrics and gynecology and will serve his interneship in the St. Francis Hospital, Pittsburgh. FREDERICK W. EIERMAM Despair of 3II recovery spoils longevity And makes men’s miseries of alarming brevity. —Byron, Don an Citizenship was established on September 27, 1917, when'he was born in Quitman, Georgia. Leaving Georgia, the scene of his birth, he moved to St. Augustine, Florida and thence to Gainsville where he completed his high school education. These early travels, however, did little to slow his progress, for after only three academic years supplemented by a few summer school courses, he left the University of Florida to complete his medical training at Temple University. He became a member of the Babcock Society and has made himself one of the essential cogs in the hospital machinery. During the summer of his junior year, he gained practical experience in the Accident Dispensary. For senior interneship, he stays at the Temple University Hospital for a two-year rotating service. LAMAR L. KMIGHT • • 102 • Ignornncc is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. —George Eliot Murray was born along the Florida shore, in St. Augustine, on November 24, 1915. There he spent his childhood and attended Ketterlinus High School. The first member of his family to enter the field of medicine, he went to the University of Florida for pre-medical work. While at that institution he was a member of Sabres, the Phi Kappa Phi and Alpha Epsilon Delta fraternities, was also active in the chemical fraternity of Gamma Sigma Epsilon. While at Temple he worked with Lamar at the hospital. Summer hours were spent at camp where he indulged his interest in the various sports. After an interneship at Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia, he intends to enter general practice in Florida. MURRAY D. SIGMAM 103 • The best surgeon is one that has been hacked himself. Anonymous By the Beard of Allah and the Creed of Mohomet, the son of a son of a son is thrice-fold endowed with worldly and spiritual gifts. Being surrounded on all sides by relatives in medicine and being the aforementioned son of a son of a physician, he is well founded in medicine. Born in Orlando, Florida in 1910, he attended, in the course of his peregrinations, twfo high schools before he reached college, two colleges before reaching medical school; to tie the score and alleviate intercollegiate rancor, he went to Yale Medical School before coming to Temple. As Quartermaster during summer tours, he cruised throughout the United Kingdom and West Indies. His interests are sailing and fishing, rare coins, photography, Gilbert and Sullivan. He held a junior interneship at the Orange General Hospital, Orlando.’ Next year, he goes to Chestnut Hill Hospital. GEORGE W. EDWARDS. II • 104 • The disobedient patient makes an unfeeling physician. —Publius Syr ns CHARLES L. HOFFMEIER Born on the eighteenth day of November, 1914, in Somerset, Pennsylvania. He has lived for varying periods in Lebanon and Hanover; his place of abode is at present Walkerville, Maryland. Antecedent professions were mainly ministerial. Spurred by the advice of a Somerset physician, he entered Franklin and Marshall College for pre-medical training after graduation from the Collegiate Institute in York, Pennsylvania. At Franklin and Marshall, he occupied the position of football manager. Summer time was generally employed in a cannery; the last tw'o summers, however, were more pleasurably spent in the capacity of camp physician. He enjoys bridge and light, non-scientific literature. Having his senior interneship at the Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia, he wll be supervised by the brilliant diagnostician, Dr. James Kay. After passing the State Board examinations, he will enter general practice. • 105 • Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has gained strength by long delay. —Ovid, Remcdiorum Arnoris DAVID S. RUHE Born January 3, 1914, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He attended the choir school of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and then Allentown High School. One year was spent at Muhlenberg College. In 1933, he entered Michigan State, won the Lawson Essay and the Water Carnival awards, graduating with a B.S. degree and an M.S. in Parasitology. Summers were spent in travel by rule of thumb and in research of colloidal iodine. A student of the Baum Art School, he is a member of the Lehigh Valley Art Alliance, has had showings at the Philadelphia Academy and the Sketch Club and is Art Editor of the 1941 SKULL. Married to Margaret Rosa Kunz last summer, he drew immediately thereafter draft number 26 which thrusts into abeyance entry to Public Health School and renders duration of senior interneship at Temple Hospital uncertain. • 106 To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him. —Jeremy Taylor, Holy Dying Born May 29, 1915, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest son of Temple's own Dr. John B. Roxby and the last of three sons to study medicine at Temple. He graduated from Swarthmore High School in 1932 and entered Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. Jack was Phi Beta Kappa, a member of Sigma Xi and competed in soccer and track for three years. Upon graduation in 1936, he went on to work with Dr. E. C. Schneider upon the physiologic research problem of 'The Stroke Volume of the Heart in Anoxemia,” the while he maintained an assistantship in the Department of Biology. Three summers were spent as a camp counselor, the last spent at T. U. H. as junior interne. At Temple, he has been president of the Babcock Surgical Society. He has been named to a two-year appointment at Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington, Pennsylvania. • 107 • JOHM B. ROXBY, JR. A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hour glass. —Heither Lynch Piozzi (1741 1821) Before some of us were capable of more than the elemental reactions to environment, Claude was racing along the streets of Kingston, North Carolina, playing tobacco auctioneer. From Kingston High School, he went to the University of North Carolina and then to Duke University. At both colleges, he was active in the Glee Club, dramatics, and the laboratories. Between Kingston days and medical school, he sold books, did considerable construction work in steel and stone, became an X-ray and laboratory technician in North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania. He is Circulation Manager for the 1941 SKULL. He goes to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for senior service. CLAUDE H. BALLARD, JR. • 108 • . . in (he physician or surgeon no quality takes rank with imperturbability . . . —Sir William Osier Carl was born and raised in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and so became one of the most eminent authorities on the life and habits of the ground hog. He learned the three R's at the local high school, then travelled to the University of Pittsburgh, where four years were spent in roaming up and down the school’s forty-three floors searching for pre-medical knowledge. At Temple, he managed the Freshman Dance, became President of the class the second year, joined the Phi Beta Pi Fraternity. During last summer and the senior year, he assumed the post of student interne at Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park. After senior interneship at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, he plans further study in the fields of otology, ophthalmology and rhinolaryngology. CARL T. KORSMO Judge a physician by his cures. —Paracelsus This big Westerner left the plains of North Dakota to be elected President of the Freshman Class. Born in 1916, he received his three R’s in a red brick schoolhousc in Minot, North Dakota. His pre-medical work was taken at the University of Minnesota. Chi Psi Fraternity life appealed to him; he had the customary number of proverbial irons in the collegiate fires. His summers were usually spent outdoors in boys' camps, national parks and in the Buck Hill Falls region of the Pocono Mountains. Between his junior and senior years, he went to New York and enjoyed clinical experience in pediatrics and obstetrics at St. John's Hospital. He is a staff member of the SKULL. His senior interneship is at the Ancker Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. Future course of study will be in the field of ophthalmology. MALCOLM A. McCAMNEL • no • There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman’s pulse. —Sterne J. FREDERIC SMYDER The industrious city of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was the birthplace of the Editor of the 1941 SKULL. After attending the local high school he went to Gettysburg College for pre-medical education. While at college, though busy with a multitude of interests, including dramatics, membership in the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity and the publication of a literary and humor magazine, he found time to marry Christine M. Wise. Summer hours w'ere occupied by a counselor position at a Boy Scout camp, the driving of an ice cream truck and dramatic endeavor with a Stock Company in Mt. Gretna, Pennsylvania. During the vacation of last year he held a junior interneship at the Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After senior service at the same institution he may go on into post-graduate work. He belongs to the Wright Dermatological Society. • 111 • A country doctor needs more brains to do his work passably than the fifty j;rc.itest industrialists in the world require. - Walter IS. Pitkin LDWIM J. LLOYD Bowling Green, Ohio, will serve as meat for future historians for two reasons: the inventor of the differential gear lived there, and the Business Manager of the 1941 SKULL was born there in 1913- Encouraged by his grandfather to enter Annapolis, he was practicing the salute when he broke his arm. A poor fracture reduction made passing the rigid physical exam impossible, so medicine played second fiddle to the Navy. Pre-medical knowledge was garnered at Bowling Green (Ohio) State University. Before entering Temple, he was Business Manager of the North Baltimore newspaper, the while playing James Farley in the local postoffice. He collects old surgical instruments, books and coins; enjoys golf and swimming. Invaluable experience was obtained in the office of his father-in-law, a general practitioner. His two children provide an unremitting source of pleasure. He enters the Toledo Hospital in the summer I firmly believe that if the whole materia mcdica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. —O. W, Holmes The only ’Town in Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg has as one of its citizens Robert F. Beckley, born on Christmas Day in 1915. Penn State was his college, photography his main hobby. This tall Pennsylvanian uses his spare hours to advantage in and around airplanes. His ground work started some years ago as a grease monkey and electrician at the Bloomsburg Airport. Finishing the CAA flying course in his senior year gives him a private pilot’s license. He found time to be Photographic Editor of the 1941 SKULL, a member of the Babcock Surgical Society and a house member of the Phi Chi Fraternity. He undoubtedly will follow in his father’s footsteps and point his interests to general surgery after his senior interneship at the Bryn Mawr Hospital, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. • 113 • ROBERT F. BECKLEY A library is a great catalyzer, accelerating the nutrition and rate of progress in a profession . —Sir William Osier Early in life, he moved to Long Island Sound from the place of his birth in Berlin, Germany. After leaving the Carson Long Island Institute in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, he attended the University of Delaware where he was in the R.O.T.C., the Kappa Alpha Fraternity and held the post of assistant in the Bacteriology Laboratory. During the summers, he managed to tear himself away from the Sound and his boats long enough to serve in the Coast Artillery of Fort Hancock and as a junior interne at the Wilmington General Hospital. For senior duty, he goes to the Delaware Hospital. On August 10, 1940, he married Lois B. Boy6 of Summit, New Jersey. HEMRY J. GLOETZMER • 114 Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. _ —Russell H. Conn ell EUGEME W. GERTH A sociogeographic rarity; a combination of Yankee and Rebel. Born in Georgia, he spent all but his infant years in Columbia, Pennsylvania. Possessing inherited musical talent, his vocational intent for his life's work was to muse with the Muses-Calliope, Erato, Thalia, and the rest of the tuneful quire, but finally decided that medicine held as much charm as music. After attending Columbia High School, he went to Franklin and Marshall College. During the summer, he assisted in the construction of both the Lancaster and Columbia Sewage Disposal Plants and in the grading, growing and shipping of tomatoes for Campbell soups. Recreation is still obtained in the tooting of his trumpet and in philately. He served a junior interneship at the Lancaster General Hospital, to which he will return for senior duty. 115 • In a good surgeon: a hawk’s eye, a lion’s heart and a lady’s hand. —Leonard Wright (1589) JOHN H. HALL Born in Philadelphia, July 22, 1915, his present place of residence is Westchester. The grandson of a theologist, the son of an attorney, his choice of profession was established with no absolute certainty until a comparatively late date. He attended Westchester High School, and then, in anticipation of the 1940 Draft Bill and M-day, he went to Valley Forge Military Academy for three years. At the venerated Hampden-Sydney College, from which he received a B.S. degree, he was interested in football and boxing and was President of the Interfraternity Council. Inter-academic months were employed by cleansing eating utensils, selling pastries, labor for the Sun Oil Company and an information clerkship at the Temple Hospital. He has supplemented his study by work in the Accident Dispensary. Following graduation, he will remain at Temple University Hospital for a two-year service. 116 While the doctors consult, the patient dies. —John Hey woo cl, English Proverbs RUSSEL D. HOOVER On September 18, 1915, he was born in Jacksonville, Florida. Shortly afterward, he moved to St. Augustine, recognized to be the oldest city of the United States. Following graduation from the Ketterlinus High School, he worked for a year and one-half as a machinist’s apprentice in the shops of the Florida East Coast Railroad Company. In his spare time during his college days at the University of Florida, he utilized his manual deftness as a radio serviceman. He came north for his medical training and became interested in the X-ray Department and the work of Dr. Spiegel-Adolph. His diversions have included investigation of the intricacies of electricity and physics; he enjoys reading and bridge. During the Christmas vacation of his senior year, he married Elizabeth D. Mallette of St. Augustine. Following graduation from medical school, he will interne at Duval County Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida. • 117 • Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies. —Robert Burton, Anatomy on Melanchony WARMER D. BUMDEMS, JR. This New Jerseyite was born August 17, 1916. He attended high school in Swedesboro, New Jersey then came to Temple University for undergraduate training. There, he released excess energy by playing a trumpet in the university band. He obtains a great deal of pleasure from tinkering with automobile motors. Being in the First Aid Department of the Socony Oil Company has taken up a goodly portion of his summer time. The smart watchband about his wrist not so long ago formed a part of the epidermis covering the back of cadaver number 78. Warner is President of the Phi Rho Sigma Fraternity. Senior interneship has been obtained at the Cooper Hospital in Camden, New Jersey. • • 118 • Before the curing of a strong disease, even in the instant of repair and health, the Fit is strongest. —Shakespeare, King John G. MORRIS KETCHAM Norris Ketcham first set inquiring eyes upon the world in the city of Philadelphia. The tension of preparatory work at Frankford High School and Temple University was relieved by frequent trips to the seashore and to the beautiful New Hampshire hills. Having a nautical trend, he finds diversion in the intricacies of sea-going craft and their motors. He is a Phi Chi and a member of the Wright Dermatological Society. Last summer was spent on duty at the Frankford Hospital, to which he returns for a one-year senior sendee. 119 • When men a dangerous disease did 'scape Of old, they gave a cock to Aesculape. —Ben Johnson H. EMERSOM BURKHARDT On October 29, 1912, in Ocean City, New Jersey, he pushed aside the curtain and stepped out on life’s stage. After attending the local high school, he went to Franklin and Marshall College. During the intervening summers, he occasionally replaced his fishing rod by a shot-gun or a number three iron. At Temple, he joined the Delta Phi Fraternity and Wright Dermatological Society. In January, 1941, he married Edith Dill, R.N., who was a skilled member of the outpatient department staff. For senior interneship, he goes to the Delaware Hospital in Wilmington. • • 120 • There are only two sons of doctors, those who practice with their brains, and those who practice with their tongues. —-Sir William Osier G. EUGEME HETRICK A sturdy scion of the Pennsylvania soil, member of a family with a multiplicity of physicians, he first presented a caput bulging with medical cortical cells to the town of Lewisberry. He attended Gettysburg Academy, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, then finished his preparatory work at Gettysburg College, where he was decorated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He combines a lively interest in things photographic with frequent excursions for hunting and fishing. After rounding out his medical course at York County Hospital, he will follow in the footsteps of his father, rendering service to the halt and the lame of Lewisberry and vicinity in York County. • • 121 • A sickly, infirm look is as disadvantageous to a physician as that of a rake in a clergyman, or a sheepish look in a soldier. —Samuel Croxall FRAME G. CHRISTOPHER, JR. Frank was born on January 15, 1915. Until the historical societies of the future mark the spot, we must say somewhere in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He arrived at Temple Medical School by way of Connells-ville High School and Washington and Jefferson College. Three summers were spent at Quantico, Virginia as one of the United States Marines. He found time between bayonet charges to develop a modest proficiency with the violin. He was elected into the Babcock Society and became a constituent of the Alpha Kappa Kappa Fraternity. He has obtained a senior interneship at the Uniontown General Hospital, where last summer was occupied by practical chores. • • 122 • He is the best physician who is the best inspirer of hope. —S. T. Coleridge RALPH W. GOSPER He was born on the first day of December, 1913. His home is now Philadelphia, where his father and mother have both practiced osteopathy. Encouraged by his parents, he was started toward a medical degree at an early age. He attended the Elmira Free Academy then transferred to a Philadelphia High School. Preparatory medical education was obtained at Temple, from which he graduated in 1937. Summer months have been occupied by carpentry work at the seaside resorts. Recreational entertainment is found in surffishing, playing Noah with hammer and saw and in collecting piscean otoliths. Last summer, he pledged eternal marital fidelity to Mary Turin. Senior interneship is to be served at the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital. 123 • The physician that bringcth love and charity to the sick, if he be good and kind and learned and skillful, none can be better than he. Love teaches him everything, and will be the measure and rule of all the measures and rules of medicine. —Savanarola STAMLEY J. COOKE A native of Auburn, New York. From high school, he went to the University of Pennsylvania for one year and thence to Temple for pre-medical education. The second year at medical school, he established durable association and residence with Messrs. Donahoo, Durand and Etzel. He cerebrates best while settled deeply and firmly in the upholstery of a Cogswell, surrounded by a gallimantry arrangement of books, ties, shirts, papers, socks, etc., in what is politely referred to by his household pals as the Hurricane Room.” Summers are used in repairing the ravages of the previous winter on a cottage which he is sedulously building. He is an avid philatelist and enjoys motorboating. Interested in obstetrics he may follow his senior interneship at Danbury Hospital, Danbury, Connecticut, with still further study. • 124 • ■ The dignity of a a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be . . . Then he must be clean in person, well dressed, and anointed with sweet-smelling unguents that are not in any way suspicious . . . —Hippocrates (c. 460-357 13.C.) HARRY C. DOMAHOO, JR. Born in Chester, Pennsylvania, the son of a general practitioner. The nucleoprotein personality he holds today is accounted for by the balanced formulae and pediatric control during the diaper stage. He attended Chester High School then sought learning in the history-saturated Valley Forge Academy. Three years at the University of Maryland led him to Temple, influenced by Dr. J. R. Moore, who had expertly treated him earlier for a slipped epiphysis, and for whom he held the greatest admiration and respect. He became Chief Pacifier and By-law Establisher of the organization referred to on the opposite page. He obtains recreational pleasure from fishing, golfing and nocturnal badinage. Junior interneship was held at Taylor Memorial Hospital, and for his senior interneship, he returns to his home town for work in the Chester Hospital. • 125 To read textbooks is easy, but to do research work is to grapple, inch by inch, with the obscure, and battle, step by step, with the unknown . . . - Vidor Robinson COM RAD A. ETZEL Born in the heart of the Pennsylvania coal fields in the city of Scranton, his boyhood was occupied by the playing of cops and robbers among the breakers, the exciting chase of the villain down abandoned mine shafts. He left Ashland High School for the Clarion Teachers College for one year and then on to the University of Pittsburgh for two years pre-medical training. For several summers, he drilled for liquid gold in the State’s oil areas. Believing in the value of budget and schedule, he plans all work systematically. The character of his fellow housekeepers is strengthened by his practical jokes. His pet diversion is hunting. Junior interneship at the Clearfield Hospital was instructive. He'll enter general practice after a one-year service at the Chester Hospital, Chester, Pennsylvania. • • 126 Truth is the daughter of Time and not of authority. —Leonardo His birthplace was Puerto Rico. Preceded in the study of medicine by two brothers, his course was charted early, and he set sail for the University of Puerto Rico, where he obtained a B.S. degree. Temple's reputation was well known even in that distant port, and he came here with his friend, Vila, posthaste. A paragon of neatness, his room in the Donahoo-Etzel establishment is a model, but the adamantine Cooke is not easily swayed. Equipped with a flexible outlook, he finds interest and enthusiasm in all environmental phases. Vacation hours since entry to medical school have been devoted to hospital work. He served a junior interneship at the Hospital of the Capital, San Juan, Puerto Rico; for his senior duties, he goes to the Bayamon District Hospital, Bayamon, Puerto Rico. PEDRO J. DURAMD 127 • The three major forces which work for the maintenance or restoration of health are correct mental attitude, normal physiological activity and medical and surgical thcrapeusis, of these the last is probably the least. —Anonymous JOSE L. VILA Born on October 28, 1914, this soft-spoken Puerto Rican comes from an old Yabucoan medical family. His grade school education was obtained in that southern tourist center; for three years of college work, he attended the University of Puerto Rico, finally completing pre-medical requirements at the University of Pennsylvania. Summer vacations were spent working on his father's sugar cane plantation. He is a member of the Phi Beta Pi Fraternity. Last summer, he held a junior interneship at the Bayamon Charity Hospital, Puerto Rico, but he takes a Yankee interneship at Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital, Darby, Pennsylvania, for the next year. He plans to go on in the study of tropical medicine. • • 128 • . and io ci7£ mzt. 'jhzn aT£ fcsgan tfis. itudif of . . Dr. Roxby spent many hours dissocting in his private lab. 1. Long hours wore tillod with study of the human anatomy. 2. Kotloif. Garfield and Kligorman hoard prophetic forocasts on socializod modicino. 3. Dr. Hubor ©xplainod confusing points 1 or Reilly and Wilbur. 4. Our first Tag Exam” kept us hustling and worried. ANATOMY Without formal introduction we grasped the cadavers' hands in ours, rolled them over and made the initial mid-line incision. This, Act I on the stage of Medicine, was accompanied by anorexia, emesis, borborygmus and in some instances, cachexia. The monotony of daily application to the subject was broken by many surprises, such as the finding of buckshot in the rump of the Willing oars gathorod much practical knowledge. chicken-loving darkie owned by Smith and Taylor; the discovery of a desiccated viscus in a trouser pocket; the queasy sensation produced by a loop of bowel placed in the unsuspecting palm; the pallor of Butters' face when Dr. Pritchard stuck his cadaver-greased thumbs into his mouth to demonstrate the re-alignment of a disarticulated mandible. Moving quietly among us was the erudite Dr. Huber, whose diagrammatic representations and outlined lectures made the difficult seem easy. His exhausting research into the patterns of the Dorsalis pedis artery, as such, filled us with admiration and taught a great lesson in patience. His All right, needs just a little more cleaning up here, coming after we had just spent three hours cleaning up , made us want to chew nails and spit rust, but we learned a lot. A Huber gem: “Describe the musculature of the nose. No. it's not a motile organ, though sometimes it runs! The keen-witted, unforgettable, Dr. John B. Roxby, taught us the practical aspect of anatomy. Lectures were sprinkled with his matchless declarations: I thank God I was bom in the horse and buggy age—the horse knew the way home and when we went into a clinch we could stay in it! ... If a man can afford to spend fifteen bucks on liquor and calls you at 2 A.M.—soak him! . . . You've all been to the ocean; I need tell you nothing of the conformation of breasts. ... A nurse or an interne, with a heavy date coming up, isn't worth a tinker's dam! . . . Once in a while you'll be right in your diagnosis, but generally, the pathologist is right at the autopsy. 1. Tho horseplay of these skeletons reached the readers oi LIFE magazine. 2. Dr. Katz gave lucid lectures on cranial norve pathways. 3. Gosper and Cooke spent Saturday afternoons scoking the Facial nerve. 4. Emil explained method of preservation to inquisitive students. 5. DcKlyn and Caughey conforrod over their man Godfrey. PHYSIOLOGY This course was approached with no small amount of trepidation, for failures among predecessors attested to the impression that here would be no picnic. Dr. J. Garrett Hickey, the scholarly departmental head, gave lectures derived from the backs of advertisements, envelopes and lodge cards. These were conjured from carefully concealed pockets. There was an envelope for every topic. They dealt with the various phases of nutrition, metabolism, the secretory and excretory mechanisms and the special senses. A complete set of envelopes was on sale at the book store. Interpolated in the steady flow of these lectures were those given by Dr. Collins. These solved disturbing problems, as did 1. By ircqucnt conferences, tho staff kept course correlated and modorn. 2. Dr. Hickey explained physiological importance of recorded result to group. 3. Bundcns puffed cigar butt. a3 Burkhardt directed dissection of frog. 4. Dr. Spiogol lectured on corebro-spinal mechanisms. 132 also the lectures given by Dr. Oppenheimer. The pace set by the latter left the eager notator gasping, stiff and prematurely gray. His keynote was CAUTION. To impress this upon us, he cited the historic case of the incautious clinician who hung his coat and hat over the foot of the bed, while his assistants administered pituitrin to the poor patient troubled with flatus and an impaction. Dr. Ernst Spiegel, equipped with pointer and slides, perched on a stool and gave us an excellent summarization of the central and autonomic nervous systems. In the laboratory, thousands of frogs found themselves pithed. Many fingers developed Grade II Erythemata in the process of smoking drums. With pardonable pride, Dr. Hickey introduced his circulatory machine. Every Saturday we strained our cerebral tissues over the gaps in the exam questions. E.g., What-------in-------causes---------? 1. McCanncl carried on experiment as skeptics marvollod. 2. Troublo-shooter Dr. Collins, listened patiently to Walts' and Wober's tale o! woe. 3. The lowly frog provod to be an expert teacher. 4. We found that smoking drums required much skill. 133 TOPOGRAPHIC AND VISCERAL ANATOMY These courses, together with embryology, histology, neurccmatomy and neurohistology, were under the guidance of Dr. Pritchard. He stormed, chided, bellowed and threatened, but we soon realized that his threats cloaked a friendly attitude and an earnest desire to have us learn in spite of ourselves. Sagittal and transverse sections of all parts of the body were studied, supplemented by detailed drawings on life-size scale. In order to localize and describe position of disease, it is important to know surface anatomy, so we displayed our manly chests and bellies while our cohorts inscribed black lines on our quivering flesh. Lectures devoted to the individual organs kept pace with the laboratory work. Pritchard's lectures on the organs and thoir fascial and peritoneal rolations correlated study and drawings. S $«. ‘ItkCtCil -n,, OoKp C AVp -_) CwX«r.� r •jtnidtc.ofr 134 NEUROANATOMY AND NEUROHISTOLOGY As separate related courses, these studies included the dissection and microscopic study of the brain and cord, their histology and embryology. The terminologies employed were new to us and difficult to comprehend; the midnight oils were exhausted as we pored over the outlines, texts and dictionaries. In the lab, Rusmisell was lost in a mental labyrinth of venticles, gyri, fissures and vascular plexuses, when he felt a tap on his shoulder. Turning, he found Dr. Pritchard casting a suspicious eye upon him. Rusmisell, did you find the tuber cinereum? Fishing through his pockets, Jim replied, No sir, I didn't; when was it lost? Oral quizzes by Dr. Katz were sometimes dropped among the lectures given by the 1. Mines whiled away idle hours picking at the corpus callosum. 2. Boyor studied one of the tricky anatomic mounts devised by Piftoldorfer. Drs. Roxby and Pritchard. Bill Brodsky gave a perfect recitation one day, thereby shaming us and giving us an annoying cortical stimulation. 135 EMBRYOLOGY The visualization of the development of the human body, from its origin in the ovum to its maturity, was aided by lectures, the preparation and mounting of sections, the making of hundreds of drawings which traced the evolution of all portions of the body. At fifteen minute intervals, when Pritch yelled, There's too much walking and talking about going on! , we'd hastily shove our noses back to the grindstone, but try as we would, even we couldn't complete all the stuff he required in the allotted time, so every Saturday, long afternoon hours were spent in the laboratory, sketching, fuming and thinking of the double-features we were missing. Paradoxica a la Pritchard: I see some of you starting to put your dissecting 'scopes away. You still have three more minutes before twelve! What do you think this is, a playground? You'll be coming around saying, 'I haven't any time,' when here you are, wasting it! Do you have a book? Gooood. Study it. Three minutes later, on the dot of twelve . . . Well, do you want to stay here forever? If you don't want any lunch, I do! Come on, get a hustle on. Let's get out of here. Hurry! Hurry! Crispin and Kotcham went among: those who sacriEccd Saturday movies ior Gaobo convinced Etrel that the stork Science. thoory has been disproved. HISTOLOGY Here we studied the normal tissues, so that, by being able to recognize the normal, we would be able to recognize and interpret the abnormal. Eight hours every week were occupied by preparing sections, reading the text and printed sheets, gazing into the microscope and making countless color drawings. As we worked, Dr. Pritchard strolled about giving assistance, extolling the virtues of hard work, wondering whether, after twenty-seven years of teaching, he was a failure, or whether we were simply too ignorant to grasp the fundamentals. At the close of the course he confided our class wasn't the worst he'd ever had. Every Saturday morning Pritch quizzed us and the answers he got were just as varied and ingenious as his questions. One morning in December, a satisfactory answer was given and so he asked another brain-teaser, but usually the next man got the axe. 1. Crosby prepared diligontly for Iho woekly slide exam. 2. Checking slide list, Christopher decided there'd bo no breakage fee roturn. Dr. William C. Pritchard, loarned pedagogue and incom parable humanitarian. 137 CHEMISTRY In the classroom, Dr. Melvin A. Saylor gave the bases for chemical tests which were later to be of value in diagnosis. We'll not soon forget the care with which he titrated imaginary solutions from non-existent burettes while we watched, awed by each ghostly drip. Dr. Spiegel-Adolph tried to simplify the complexities of colloidal chemistry for us. In the laboratory, Dr. Saylor was amazed 1. Perchonock. Donahoo and Wilbur made many urinalyses. 2. Dr. Hamilton discussad diabotos insipidus. 3. Practical examinations woro frequent and thought-pro-voking. Dr. Saylor checked results as Hines prayed he'd miss the error:;. m by Hume's urine samples: Man and boy, he exclaimed, you're the only one I've ever known who could urinate regularly in round numbers! Elsie Reid, finding silver in her sample, applied to Dr. Hamilton for advice. Astounded, he said, I think you'd better sink a shaft.” Dr. Shrader: It's sorta unusual; every one in the room made the same mistake! Wonder whether they copied from each other? Checking equipment, Dr. Saylor asked for a ureometer. . . . That's not a ureometer, that's a uricometer! Where have you been all year, on a drunk? 1. Urines for unknown exams were prepared by Dr. Shrador. 2. Methods of diagnosis were practiced ropoalodly until thoroughly understood. 3. A great deal of information has come from Dr. Spicgol— Adolph's laboratory. Dr. Shrader gave assistance when test3 were inaccurate. 139 HISTORY OF MEDICINE The first cry of pain through the primitive jungle was the first call for a physician. These words started the refreshing lectures by Dr. Victor Robinson. We learned to recognize the unlabeled urinal; were flattered because mothers forbid their daughters to go within two blocks of the Medical ' School in Padua; were astounded that Pharaoh's daughter, by laboring in the world's oldest profession, was able to build a second pyramid after having paid for the first; felt impelled to hiss the licentious Grecian villains who, while creating thousands of mutilated dead, refused the physician permission to investigate the human body. We were whisked through the centuries of healing with all the speed that eloquence can give, but our inspiring visits with Pare, Harvey, Rembrandt, Auenbrugger, Hunter, Pasteur and scores of others, will long be remembered. DR. VICTOR ROBINSON MEDICAL CLINICS F--WVPtO.T€,N$W£ Ct«.t$a.Vw OtQWOUJ (MTHISK CtAlMC A VICTIM IHV PuRPuRic 06ACviT4. BACT£R.(AU £K00 fi CAftPlTlC Poor, uttlx, liAwRAuct, wo t tvte. CtT To PtAf WlTK T €. BOYS AC.t ; Ui VJOn'T £vta. swim kii wow r tvea PtAY foot- 8ml Oft SASSPAtL , Run AND OumP--.. ' v Poor l ttu. tAwax.NCt of tw£. R«tv MATiC wtART Tw«. ChRoniCAwW OlCOMPgwyATfcO 140 zxaniL we a zatliexed, ot£ vacate,d . . .iiembLing and ±oze afraid . . . but ciT£ paiifid a no . . . the student, once entered on his mental pursuits, must engage in them zealously, determinate , persevoringly. The temptations of a luxurious city must not lure him from the sick patient, the dead body, the laboratory, or the library. This is not the season for sensual indulgence. He should not fear that if he fails to witness this attractive sight, or partake of that novel pleasure, no other opportunity will offer to see and feel what is delightful of the same kind. Let him postpone those enjoyments which ere foreign to his present business to a future and better season. He will meet them with a higher relish, when advancing time has improved his taste and heightened the refinements of life, and they will then leave behind no sting, because he v ill be master of his own time and resources. —The Lancet. 1839. . . . and ths.n, on to . . BACTERIOLOGY, PARASITOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY 1. Lectures on mothods and types oi culture were given by Or. Spaulding. 2. Bill Goode was always on hand to render assistance. 3. Culture growths were oxaminod. compared and their characteristics tabulated. With typically expansive and complete detail, Dr. John A. Kolmer baptized us into his pet subjects of Bacteriology and Immunology—nay, he drowned us in them, with endless precise outlines of fact. In the laboratory, Dr. Earle Spaulding, master of the anerobic culture techniques which have opened new concepts in diagnosis of bacterial infections, added little comfort to our serene existences. Said he: Bacteriologi-cally speaking, we are probably leaving the era of the great simple diseases, such as cholera, plague, typhoid and the like, and are entering the era of complex diseases: ulcerative colitis and regional ileitis, sinusitis and bronchiectasis, arthritis and rheumatic fever. We contented ourselves wiih the recollection that there were still such simple diseases as pneumococcic pneumonia, tuberculosis and syphilis. And so, with resigned faces but willing hands, the staff gathered to drill into us the strange and tricky lore of bacteria, viruses, animal parasites and their immunologic relations with a victimized mankind. Dr. Kolmer missed nothing in his lectures. Our interest was more than academic when he spoke with honest frankness of his disappointments in poliomyelitis vaccination research, of his work in modifying the Wassermann test for the more accurate diagnosis of syphilis, of his work with Brucellosis and his experiences with the dean of Philadelphia dermatology, Dr. Schamberg. Parasitology, triumph of preventive medicine in this modem age, a dying science (and better dead), gave us unparalleledly curious bits of medical minutiae, to wit: that dandruff that doesn't brush off probably is a head louse nit and that dandruff that runs is the louse itself; that the seven year itch is plain scabies of mite origin and may last twenty years if one can endure it; that once upon a time a Jew, who was found to have a pork tapeworm, was ejected from the Pale because he couldn't resist a secret bit of delicious pig; that excessive appetites don't mean a pet tapeworm called George; that the life cycle of any fluke is a devil of a business undsr the most favorable of circumstances; that Gibbon forgot malaria when he was writing his matchless book on the causes of the Rise and Fall of Rome. Dr. Edwin S. Gault, patron of parasitology lab, had some very excellent slides to aid us. Again and again he would say: I'd like to talk to you for a few minutes ... The lights were doused, the lantern put to work by Dr. Peale, the quaint facts recited ... while we all gave up the ghost in despair, put our heads on our arms and drifted off to an hour of surreptitious but grateful slumber. 144 To prove to us that not all that we dealt with was harmless child's play, Amedeo Bondi went abed with a virulent dose of Brucellosis, the organisms being freshly imported from the Michigan State College epidemic areas for Dr. Kolmer's vaccination research. Bill Goode, chief of the hospital lab crew, expert in all matters technical, was to enlist in 1941 for serologic research work in embattled Britain. Lucid Dr. Aegerter, v ith Dr. Lennon, who is now a Wake Forest Medical School Pathology associate, padded about the room where we muddled through our cultures, serologic reactions, carbohydrate fermentations, hanging drops, Gram smears, hapless mice, rabbits and guinea pigs. Exacerbations of the course arrived promptly every Friday morning at nine A.M., until crisis and lysis hit on the morn of December fourteenth. On that sad day George Randall slept one hour too long, arrived as the rest were departing. To proctor Gault he announced: Well, here I am, give me the exam. Then, while the good doctor fluttered about, perplexed by the ethics of the situation, saying in a dozen ways, I'm not sure we can give you credit for this . . . Randall took the exam. (P.S.—and passed.) Jose Luis Vila and Lamar Knight applied immunology excellently, discovering by heterophile antibody tests that they really had infectious mononucleosis and not lymphatic leukemia as they horrifiedly supposed. Unusual cases being the spice of medicine, some few that we saw cannot be left for the limbo of forgotten experiences. There 1. Tho course included hours ol bleary-eyed straining over the microscope. 2. Interpretations ol culture peculiarities woro made by Mr. Goode. 3. Moraan's inquisitive questions wore answered by Instructor Lonnon. 4. Etzcl. Donahoo. Ealy and Ellison pooled thoir mentalities over knotty problems. 145 Professor John A. Kolmer was the young Italian who guzzled a bowl of chicken chow mein, and arrived at T.U.H. with the acute enteritis of trichinosis. Dr. Babcock discovered a young negress with classic malaria who had found herself sent to surgery with a fancy differential diagnosis on her chart. Dr. Konzelmann presented us with the autopsy findings in a female dope addict who had acquired chronic malaria (sans mosquito) from the needles passed around from addict to addict in the heroin circle of which she was a charter member! A Chinese committed suicide with barbital because his liver fluke cirrhosis was unbearably agonizing; at autopsy he exhibited a primary hepatoma to boot. A Cuban mining engineer with elephantiasis came to Dr. Fay for a neat cold coil to fit his rectum so that the worms in his pelvic lymph glands would think he was vacationing up North. 1. Miss Sag© gave sympathetic aid to puzzlod investigators. 2. Optic and gluteal relaxation was found in a strotch. a chat and a cigarette. 3. Dr. Edwin S. Gault ave us learned and lengthy lectures on parasitologic sub)octs. 4. We were all amazod. as was Casoy Hoss. by the completeness of the slido collection. 5. Dr. Spaulding demonstrated his anaerobic culturo methods to various groups. 146 DR. JAMES KAY PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS We marvelled at the keen perception and the highly developed acuity of sense of Dr. Kay. His lectures provided our first realization that diagnosis is an art and needs intensive training. Famed Sammy Kaye's orchestral theme was modified to suit the occasion: This is whispering Jimmy Kaye signing on. Swing and sway to 'Beat the Meat of My Heart.' Twice during the course of his lecturing he snarled at coughing students: You don't have to make such a devil of a racket, you know ...” Once he resigned, but fortunately for us he returned the next week. (Sure had us worried though!) He told us: Physical diagnosis requires intellectual honesty. . . . No one is innately a good diagnostician; assiduous training does it. . . . The very difference between a general practitioner and a specialist is that the specialist does a rectal examination. Practical section work was experienced at home and abroad. At Episcopal, Dr. Kay when taking the roll was informed that Bianco was ill. Ah, yes,” he remarked dryly, Kala-azar, I presume.” 1. A critical Porchonock observed as Peters practiced diagnostic proceduro on Bill Ramsey. 2. Dr. Kay demonstrated preferred techniques of diagnostic approach. 3. Pedro Durand attempted to follow the good doctor's instructions exactly. 4. Cardiac murmurs were new and confusing to Bush, as they woro to all of us. 5. Donahoo and Crispin sought to establish knowledge of vascular sounds. 147 Dt. Larson was amusod by our awk- Dr. Livingston oxplainod the kymo- Exhausted by teaching us prescription ward pharmacologic iumblings. graph he devisod to an interested writing. Dr. Follows took a live o'clock Barenbaum. siesta. Dr. Allred E. Livingston PHARMACOLOGY Dr. Livingston and his staff spent inestimably long hours of arduous labor in preparing the lectures, laboratory experiments and quizzes by which they sought to acquaint us with the drugs,—their official names, dosages, physical and chemical properties, pharmacological actions and indications for therapeutic use. We had met Professor Livingston earlier, when he took the rogue's gallery pictures for the roll books. His portraits made us look like Public Enemies and. in view of our ignorance of drugs and their dosages, we were! Albright. DeKlyn and Butters found unexpected poaco in tho study of drugs. During oral quiz days wo woro allowed a short respite botwoon attacks. 148 In his lectures, he outlined the properties of the various therapeutic agents so clearly that our fears were dispelled, we relaxed in a cozy feeling that, perhaps after all, we might be able to pass the course. His collaborators entered the classroom at various intervals to discuss specific phases of the science. In the laboratory, we spent a great deal of time sniffing corks and tasting the different medicaments. Acute olfactory and gustatory sense was of little consolation to Barenbaum, however, for in the unknown-exam the first liquid he gulped was cinnamon, and from there on in his world was composed of cinnamon specimens. Dr. Larson, assisted by Drs. Bradley, Cunningham, and Fellows, guided our experiments on the chemical properties of the drugs. We compounded a few drugs of our own (later quite sensibly tossed them down the drain), compared tinctures, extracts, elixirs, etc., and studied so many incompatibilities we decided that in our practices we'd stick to patent medicines. After warning us of imminent danger, Dr. Larson dressed like a visitor from Mars, and, as we cringed with fright, he ground potassium chlorate and sulfur together in a mortar. He ground and he ground, while to our ears came a sound as loud as that of distant rales. Sheepishly, he removed his twelve protective layers and said, Well, sometimes it does explode! Dr. Fellows asked Joe Brau the dosage of a drug used in a prescription. Joe's God only knows, drew the terse reply, Okay, God gets 100 and you get zero! We flattened our arches by standing for hours at the table doing animal experimentations. We learned about the fundamental actions of the most important drugs, made miles of kymograph records and piles of notes. Many a cat or rabbit accidentally expired at exactly six o'clock. At the close of the course we handed in what Dr. Livingston called a notebook, but what was in reality a set of textbooks bound in one cover. We know, because we had to make 'em! 1. Wilbur acted as guinea pig lor Risk and Waltz. 2. Animal oxporimontation was in the capable hands of Dr. Livingston. 3. Dr. Bradley ©xporimontod with one ol the now-style gas masks. 4. The lecture-conference course covered the entire subject ol Pharmacology. 149 THE JUNIORS Close on the heels of the graduating Seniors come the Juniors. They, too, went through the traditional tribulations and experiences of the pre-clinical years ... of learning that much anatomy will stick if it is associated with actual tail-tales and conversely, that a systematized visualization of the structure, per se, . . . also pounds in the facts concerning things anatomical ... of trying not to feel conspicuous when wearing their first white coat (sometimes even forgetting it was on and wearing it to Fishers!) ... of being pushed into the elevator so that you were the one that squashed Melvin or John or Garret of the triumvirate . . . fussing with all the cutaneous nerves on the back . . . the platter of 14 snow-white fractured skulls . . . Emil the sentinel at the embalming-room door at the close of each of the chief's lectures . . . Huber's backing into the skeleton: Oh, excuse me! —as a bony arm fell around his neck ... his pastel colored ties . . . remembering the visceral lectures . . . Pritch with his arms full of the innards belonging to the beautiful girl in the glass case of 603 . . . passing on the corny jokes that circulated every day during dissecting hours . . . Wunk's Disease ... a fecolith . . . Ihoy are, generally speaking, an industrious lot . . . whirling around in the circle of Willis . . . the proposed operation to anastomose the gall bladder with the cerebrum so that the bile can concentrate . . . watching the master of pantomime Saylor tell the story of the strychnine-fed dog . . . with gestures . . . the horror of respective landladies when milk bottles carried chemistry specimens . . . Spiegel's convulsive cats . . . neat order of physiology desks ... or else! ... the tricky Stannius’ ligature and the frantic grabbing of elusive frogs. Back row, loft to right: Christian, Greco, Bonzer, Ermilio. Corbett, Ernst. Frumin. Third row, loft to right: Braitman. Donahoo, Gaydosh. Borry, Hoachlander. Cutlor, Bock, W. E. Brown. Collier, Diohl. English. Hawkins. Howard. Lawrence. Second row. loft to right: Finnegan. Foerlsh. Hazlott, Bailey. Goughnour. Brundago. Closson. R. C. Brown. Kunz. Halloran. DiSilvestro, Hand. Framo, Lool, Bew. Ambrose. Kirby. LaFollette, Iordan. Bumgardner. Callison. Front row. left to right: Boyer. Evans, Hill. Davey, Gerlach. Allen. Boatoff, Comaretta. Clubb, Casanova-Diaz, Golubolf. 150 . . . have learned to shoulder the responsibilities assigned to upperclassmen . . . Then through the laborious laboratory courses of the second year . . . making a pharmacology bible . . . Uncle Elby's renowned kidney lectures . . . autopsies and necrobiosis with Gault . . . growing, staining, culturing the little bugs . . . over the loudspeaker— Draw what you see under the YOU KNOW WHAT! And in clinical pathology . . . If your partner faints when you get in the vein—follow him to the floor! The six-hour-a-day lecture schedule of the Junior Year.. . broken only by the daily two-hour clinical sessions in the hospital. . . puffing up the OB fire-escape to find themselves five minutes late . . . English: What is God telling you now? Burnett: Any surgeon who does a mastectomy when only a benign growth is present should be ostracized!—and I'll help you hold him ... the Essay exam on TB . . . Preventive Medicine and Public Health or: Philadelphia Water is GOOD Water . . . Astley quizzing on surgical diagnosis: Now, I am an old woman of 68 with chronic constipation . . . ask me some questions! . . . Lansbury: I wondered why she bled so and then I saw I not only punctured her ear-tip but also my own finger . . . the heart to heart talks of Durant . . . Babby's Monday morning film commentators . . . the slip, flop and gurgle . . . They learned and forgot, relearned and reforgot but gradually a scant glimmering remained to be a foundation in their final year of medical school . . . Back row. leit to right: Trotter, Rudolph. Richardson. Natoli. McCoy, Wiockowski. Nunnally. Prowell. Third row. lelt to right: Whalen. Worlhon. Schwab, Luther. Robortson. McElwee, Rosenberg. Phillips, Rowland. Posatko. Luster. Saidman. Pialtzgraii. Mathias. Second row, left to right: Mallory, Walmer. Woyland, Marshall. Loomis. Wozniak. Leonard. Schultz. Newhart. Mattleman. Shacklctt. Myhre. Bensol. O'Brien. Front row. lelt to right: Rodwell. Limbert. Queeney, O'Donnell. Shelley, Osbourne. Smith. MacFarquhar. Shugert. Wohl. Mauror. Schilp. 151 MEDICAL CORRELATION Dr. Kolmcr demonstrated method of vaccination on pafiont Randal .............fhon gave Hotimoior lomo insid© dope on gangreno. Medical correlation under Dr. John A. Kolmer was our introduction to the tribulations of clinical medicine. Cleverly arranged to show the applications of anatomy, physiology and chemistry, those fundamental sciences, already drilled into our thick skulls, this series of weekly cases whetted our appetites for things PRACTICAL AND CLINICAL. Poor little Lawrence led off with his leaking rheumatic heart and terrible thoracic pain; poor little Lawrence (quaver in the MU A M .... T e PfCTupi. OF OBATU.. ftU Nea TO T«£ UAST HUMAN WITH THE DEADLY fOF LYMPHATIC C WHO CAME. W 71 EPORE US WITH r If pL£Uft.tfY.WEMOPTY i?H s OF UO AR PNEUMONIA . ANdAUVTHe CLASSIC UwPoftTUNATt Gentleman WITH 0ANTI'S SYNOROMfe: SPLENOMEGALY. ANEMIA. ClfUUUKtf ... Now AWAIT-v in£ A PoRftO OPERATION COURTESY PR W.W. ' bWCOJ r----------- voice) never did run, jump or swim with other boys, . . . nor live long. And so from week to week the orator-preceptor Kolmer led us on tiptoe down the ever-more-clear labyrinths of human disease. Cases were never drab; a coy woman with portal cirrhosis, a gentleman v ith Banti s disecse, hypertension carried to cardiac collapse in a petulant Jewess, a ruptured artery of Charcot, a staphylococcus-infected knee, a supposed case of benzol poisoning turned out to be fatal subacute bacterial endocarditis, a case of pernicious anemia; these and many others were drink to our thirsty minds. Specialists Oppenheimer, Hamilton, Huber and others 152 came to emphasize certain correlations of material as seen in these unfortunates before us. Medical correlation has been one of the peculiar features of training at Temple, a loan from the tried medical practice of apprenticeships. That we should early come to deal with patients whose needs we understood, served truly to make our studies vital. We would only wish that such correlation had had an even earlier beginning, and that there had been earlier student responsibility for case work. As we gapod with interest. Dr. Tuit described techniques ol skin tosting for allergy. A wide scope oi disease was covered in the wookly clinics. TRICHINOSIS . . • MR. A.O .C., WHO AT£ A bOWL oP XUlCH.tN“CHOW MtlN AND CAM . TO Uf IN OP MUSCut. LOCALIZATION , WITH SORfc 1 GiPOlAOtPS'A “• 0lA 6Tt$ (' , )} ...TOUNA WOMAN WITH PUTH SIS . PAR. ADVANCED. R'C-WT U?P£0. tO fc 153 MINOR SURGERY THE DIDACTIC PRINCIPLES OF SURGERY A crammed utility box, filled to overflowing, was the lecture course in Principles of Surgery. Our initial exposure to this most significant subject was in the deft hands of smiling, chuckling, lovable Dr. William A. Steel and his cigar-inhand henchman, Dr. Giambalvo. With a gentle guidance they worked patiently and clearly, using charts, diagrams, slides and drawings to make the endless fundamental principles of hemorrhage, shock, wound healing, bums, infection and disinfection seem simple to us. So simple was it all, that after adhering to the preexam advice to: Answer it short, concise and brief . . . Answer only the questions asked , and G.P.G.'s burly admonition that he was well acquainted with the wily tricks of the trade of bluffing, our final papers became a come-back-early-in-the-fall-for-an-extra-session boomerang for seventeen hapless colleagues who did answer briefly. THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE STEEL CLINIC With bygones as bygones, we found ourselves awaiting eagerly the opening performance in our junior year of Billy Steel's THREE RING CIRCUS. Aptly nicknamed it was, for, as we sat on the edge of the surgical amphitheater's curvesome seats, we saw our practical lecture room principles of surgery unfold in panoramic fashion. The contagious enthusiasm of Steel, the gospel-true classroom lecturer, presaged our enjoyment of the stocking-capped impresario Steel, the precise surgeon, in his case-packed clinics. Never were clinics prepared with such care, organization and thoroughness as in those memorable Wednesday afternoon sessions. This truly great traumatic surgeon and his integrated staff graphically presented with mathematical precision the wonders of the surgical treatment of burns and scalds, gangrene and necrosis, thrombosis and embolism, shock and coma, amputation and Buerger's Disease—all augmented with giant diagrams. 1. Dr. Giambalvo demonstrated methods oi regional anesthesia. 2. Dr. Steel's clinics have boon a source ol pleasure icr hundreds oi graduates. 3. Dr. McDcvitt holds one oi the cards used to supplomont descriptive lectures. 154 Among the most interesting clinics were thoso The characteristic intermittent claudication was demonstrated bv Dr. McDevitt. on Buerger's disease. On© can close his eyes and still see . . . the youngster of 62 who bantered with the chief... the luckless interne whose blanched lower limbs, immersed in hot and cold water-tubs, impressed the pain and discomfort of intermittent claudication . . . the orderly, quick, realistic pantomime of resuscitating the seemingly doomed patient with cardiac cessation . . . the vagaries of anesthesia administration simplified ... the 45-second guillotine amputation by Drs. Steel, McDevitt and Giambalvo . . . the tricky long acorn-tipped vein extractor which actually worked to perfection (in the hands of the master) as he deftly performed a venectomy . . . our grumblings as the choice seats were found occupied by underclassmen saturated with ahead-of-their-years desires to see breathtaking feats. THE CORRELATIVE CLINICS OF DR. COOMBS Every physician will be called upon in his practice to apply the principles of surgical technique and procedures as clearly delineated in the weekly clinics by Dr. J. Norman Coombs. Considered here for the most part, were everyday problems, which, unless handled astutely, could cause dangerous complications. We were brought to realize that a sebaceous cyst, if properly extirpated, is not likely to recur. Lymphangiitis or lymphadenitis are not usually commensurate with correct handling of a boil, nor will minor surgery of the hand be fraught with concomitant teno-synovitis, with its often disabling termination, if proper precautions are taken. No doctor should subject a patient to subsequent hyperesthesia of the finger-tip by cross-incising the finger. Inasmuch as circumstances may require a general practitioner to perform a herniorrhaphy or an appendectomy, the techniques were vividly portrayed by projected illustrations of the salient steps while Dr. Coombs performed and simultaneously explained the operations. Dr. Giambalvo porformod a number of operations for our instruction. The application of Unna's boot was a mighty important technique to learn. 155 A thorough inspection oi procedures and rosults was made at tho Whcatsheaf Lane disposal plant. PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH The essentials of these courses were flavored with personal anecdotes, baking and cooking tips, doodles and instructive trips into the suburbs of Philadelphia. Many amusing lingual slips were made: Gosper told of a histological'' test which can , i-, i • , . , Kearney. Hume and Murphy wero among those who caught be made on water; Rabinovitz claimed the the train to sharp Dohme. talkUL hMiCAtStuOExT A-. jATutOVY Hi HT wm • V V A4H .___ V uOW.OC WaO lT D vj we in Pft.t.viNTiVfc HtUCtMfc Y IN |Wfll-tSS� 0N e Oohn CM.Y 156 Dr. Harriot L. Hartley daily human water consumption was 150 gallons; lovable Dr. Hartley, speaking of the anti-sterility vitamin E: I've never had any success with it!” Adding hastily, amid the guffaws, ... in my practice. We heard that phenol is the alcohol of carbolic acid, that CO... is a hormone for respiratory stimulation, that a breeze moves at 60 miles per hour! I notice a striking similarity in these Public Health reports, Madame Hartley informed us, and I'm not certain, but some seem to be exactly like those in the last five years! Strange. Very strange. 1. Tours woro conductod alter the fashion of renowned Mr. Cook. 2. Hoovor. Lloyd and Hine gravely considered the problem of wator supply and demand. Aftor walking and grouping in lines for hours, wo provod wo attended by lining up to sign the ledger. 157 Tho courso encompassed all aspects ol the investigation and study ol diseased tissue. ESSENTIALS OF PATHOLOGY by Smith and Gault Following the order of presentation in their book of that title, Drs. Smith and Gault opened our eyes to the world of tissue abnormalities, enabling us to better understand both cause and effect in disease. Freely admitting that no one can know all, they generously enhanced our knowledge by bringing guest teachers into the lecture room—Moon, McFarland, Boyd, Long and others, who presented their interpreta- smoke was in order before entering tho Herman and Knoch discussed Moon's concept Microscopic work. Slidos, slides, slides, autopsy room at P.G.H. of homoconcentration in shock. slides, slidos. tions of new approaches to the subject of pathology. By the stimulus of these many teachers, pictures of tumor growth, mitosis, radium activity, leukocytic and phagocytic activities, an ordinarily lifeless subject v as given vigor. Lectures were mainly attended by Dr. Smith, Dr. Gault, Dr. Konzelmann and Dr. Aegerter. Dr. Smith unintentionally referred to Hertzler as ” . . . that old-style horse and doctor buggy. He informed us, in his inimitable style, that Any tumah on the femah may bs a cahcinomer. In the first gross pathology exam, the cervical stump showing a Nabothian cyst was variously called: a hydatid cyst, an umbilicus, a stye! . . . much to Dr. Fishback's delight. Kotloff sat on the front row as Dr. Gruskin lectured. The Spring air being too much for Lee, he dropped off to sleep. Dr. Gruskin directed a question at the reposing beauty and Benson, unable to awaken his pal, answered the query for him. Next time, Gruskin pointed his finger at Lee, shook his head at Jake and shrieked, No, not you, do you hear? But dis time . . . dis time I vant vat you should answer, do you HEAR? The same lecture we learned that ... now everyone is either a Shick or a Dick! Dr. Gault laughed at our discomfiture as we labored over the tumor section: Oh, they'll grow on you! He patterned our weekly quizzes and noted, with a humor we somehow couldn't appreciate, our fatalistic attitude at the furious piling up of work . . . slides, slides, more slides . . . endless reviews of the pretty slices of tissue, all neatly polychromatic . . . CLINICAL PATHOLOGY was given by Dr. Konzelmann (affectionately titled, unbeknownst to him, as Uncle Elby ). The course v as well organized and instructive. It wasn't his fault that our blood counts ranged from anemia to polycythemia in two consecutive readings. His final exam was a lulu; we'll never forget those tables of spinal fluid findings. After the final exam, Hines, Edwards, Snyder, Korsmo, Hoffmeier and Ruhe went to the Ringling Bros, sideshow for more pathology. They interviewed Artie the wind-belly, Koo Koo the bird girl, the Gibbs sisters (ischiopagi), the achondroplastic, the giant and fat girl, Popeye the nose swallower, and finally the shapely Odette, a headless wonder who was kept alive by tubes and respirator! !. Interest was unflagging when Dr. Smith lectured. 2. Only the CORRECT post-mortem procoduro could satisfy Dr. Gault. 3. Dr. Konrelmann read pathology in the organs removed by Bush and Burkhardt. 4. Dr. Acgorter's opinion was much in demand in tho museum. 5. Dr. Peale assisted at the projector during illustrated lectures. 6. Dr. Fishback gave brief talks on the gross appearances of pathologic specimens. tv £ itzatj sd f zom LciL- oz at ox ij and tactuza zoom . . . mat tk 2 £ i LC . . . medicine is a profession and not a trade. Trade is occupation for livelihood; profession is occupation for the service of the world. Trade is occupation for joy of the result; profession is occupation for joy in the process. Trade is occupation where anybody may enter; profession is occupation v hero only those who are prepared may enter. Trade is occupation taken up temporarily, until something better offers; profession is occupation with which one is identified for life. Trade makes one the rival of every other trader; profession makes one the co-operator with all his colleagues. Trade knows only the ethics of success; profession is bound by lasting lies of sacred honor- Faunce. THE GREAT PASSION OF MY LIFE: RE-DIAGNOSE! —W. Edward Chamberlain Our dedicatee exemplifies the many-sidedness of human nature. Watch him lecture to the Freshman, help Dr. Jackson with the biplane fluoroscope, dictate reports in the Viewing Room, or bring new hope and trust into the mind of a frightened patient. Then try to fit any of those pictures into the same frame with Ed the carpenter, machinist and inventor, or Ed the fisherman and camp-fire buddy. Have you seen his movies of bear hunting and mountaineering in California? Or heard the story of his Winter Journey on skis across the Sierra Nevada Summit Range? Have you heard him talk of his personal friendship and experiences with Ishi, the Stone Age Man? Or about his attempt at amateur navigation in the submarine-infested North Atlantic in the winter of '17? The Editor once spent an hour or so browsing amongst Ed's books. Sandwiched in between Babcock's Surgery and Gray's Anatomy he noted engineering and physics textbooks, manuals of air navigation and meteorology; biographies of Franklin, Benvenuto Cellini and Will Rogers; books on international law, world affairs, New Deal economics and eugenics; Mutiny on the Bounty and Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides ; books by James Truslow Adams, Walter Lippmann, Dorothy Thompson and Emil Ludwig. There were whole libraries on such items as the Battle of Jutland, archery, skiing, photography, nuclear physics and medical economics. If a man's library is an indication of the directions of his interests, Ed is indeed many-sided. 1. Dr. Chamberlain presides at the weekly chest conferences. 2. Slides for illustrated locturcs arc carefully chosen. 3. Summer hours are most enjoyably filled with carpentry work. 4. The new biplane fluoroscope is a valuable aid to diagnosis. 5. Comment in pediatric conioronco is made by Dr. Roesslor. 6. Dr. C and Dr. Zwerling compare the gas and Coolidge tubes. 1G3 Memberships in Scientific Societies: America.-. Association, Pennsylvania State Medical Socle t y , Philadelphia County Medical Society, American Roentgen Ray Society, American College of Radiology. Radiological Society of North America, American Radium Society, American College of Physicians. College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Harvey Cushing Society, California Academy of Medicine, Sydenham Medical Coterie, William Watt Kerr Club, California Academy of Sciences, The Franklin Institute, Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, Babcock Surgical Society, American Association of Physics Teachers, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Laennec Society of Philadelphia. Association for the Study of Internal Secretions, Deutsche Roentgen-Gesellschaft. Clubs and Fratornal Organizations: Boh©-mian Club, Alta Vista Lodgo, Alpha Kappa Kappa Fraternity, Gyro Clubs of Philadelphia and San Francisco. Medical Club of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Country Club, Manufacturers and Bankers Club of Philadelphia. Civic Organizations: Philadelphia Health Council and Tuberculosis Committee. Board of Directors of Associated Hospital Service of Philadelphia, Commonwealth Club of California. While at homo, his favorite chair and his dog aro almost constant companions. Such a ubiquitous fellow must have had a varied and interesting life. In his younger days he devoted time and energy to such activities as clerking in a corner drugstore, running a messenger and delivery service, an apprenticeship in a machine shop, and in pre-medical years (while majoring in physics and engineering), his summer vacations were profitably employed in selling and installing acetylene gas lights, water systems and hydraulic rams for owners of mountain homes and hotels up in the high country, where electric lighting and power lines had not yet penetrated. As a small boy, his chief interest, though definitely not his sole interest, appears to have been in mechanics. He drove a car, under the proud supervision of his Dad, at the age of eight years and was soon an expert trouble-shooter when it became necessary, as it frequently did in those days, to get out and get under. He likes to visit the Smithsonian Institute, in Washington, where duplicates of his old motor cars of 1899 to 1910 are on display. In high school days he ran the half-mile in 2:06 (not bad, though it broke no records), and he found time to develop quite a creditable talent in music and photography. For some years he 163 Office hours are briof. but jampacked with work. Here he adjusts a thorapy tube over a breast tumor. was devoted to hunting bear and deer with bow and arrow, but we're getting ahead of our story, we must go back a bit. Ed was born at Ann Arbor, Michigan, on August 5th, 1892. His parents were both Californians and he missed being a Native Son only because he arrived while his father was House Surgeon in the hospital of the University of Michigan. On his father's side, he came by his medical leanings quite logically. His great-grandfather Brookie graduated from Missouri in 1850 in the class with the father of Will and Charlie Mayo. That same great-grandfather practiced in Spring-field, Illinois. He owned and operated the corner drug store where Abe Lincoln and his gang came to tell stories and chew the rag around the old iron stove. All four grandparents crossed the plains in covered wagons. His maternal grandparents, Edward Rahm and Louisa Mueller Rahm, were Pennsylvania Dutch from Harrisburg, which accounts for his well known streak of stubbornness. When he delivered the oration as valedictorian of his high school graduating class on December 17, 1909, it was from the same platform from which his mother had delivered her valedictory exactly 20 years earlier to the minute! He inherited his intense love of the high mountains from her. In 1911, she and his father bought some pine forest land in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The whole family spent the summer building a rustic 1. The point in question with Dr. Nolson is an agenesia of right lung. 2. Conferences, attondod by seniors, aro interesting and highly enlightening. 3. Plalybaaia is not infrequently tho topic of conversation 4. Dr. Chamberlain can draw from a wealth ot ______ t .. ... experience. 5. Ho saves time while waiting lor Chicago connection camp on the beautiful site, 6000 feet above sea-level, on the banks of the Truckee River a few miles from Lake Tahoe. At the age of one year, he visited the Chicago World's Fair. It is believed that it was in the Day Nursery of that famous Exposition that he first met Genevieve. At any rate, she was visiting there, from McHenry, Illinois, and they have been together more or less continuously ever since. Both moved to Oakland, California, in 1894 and went to grammar school, high school and two years of college as classmates. When married, in 1915, they had already been pals for about as long as either could remember. The rest of the story is mostly ''Radiology. When he graduated from the University of California Medical School, in 1916, he planned to enter either obstetrics or pediatrics. The bomb explosion that sent Tom Mooney to the penitentiary killed the leading roentgenologist at the University of California. His former teacher, Howard E. Ruggles, the roentgenologist at the University of California, persuaded him to enter the field in which he has remained ever since. In 1916, he was Ruggles' office boy and Visiting Roentgenologist at the French Hospital, San Francisco. In 1917, he was made Head of the Department of Roentgenology at the Mare Island Naval Hospital, with the rank of Lieutenant, junior grade. That same year he was ordered to Philadelphia en route to 1. Dr. C op®rat«3 th multiplane Huoroscope which he devised. 2. He manages to give porsonal attention to many patients daily. 3. The old gas-tilled x-ray tube was devilishly temperamental in Dr. C's opinion. Scotland, as Roentgenologist to the U. S. Navy Base Hospital No. 2 in Strathpeffer, Ross-shire, where he remained until January, 1919. For the ensuing year and a half he was roentgenologist to three San Francisco hospitals,—Children's, Hahnemann and St. Mary's, and made a living in his private office in the downtown area. The men with whom he worked during the year in Scotland were all from the medical school of Stanford University, and in 1920 they persuaded him to close his office and devote full time as Head of Radiology at Stanford. In 1926, at the age of 34 years, he became Professor of Medicine in charge of Radiology. He transferred to Temple in 1930. 103 DR. SHERMAN F. GILPIN ran, Massachusetts field artillery, Philadelphia General Hospital . . . fired brutally at paretics, bulbarpalsied folk, brain tumorous ones, apoplectics. Hear those crackling Gilpin phrases! . . . Get in there and pitch, dad! . . . They tossed their cookies right in my face! . . . Now I don't usually get mad at things, but when a guy's been on a bender for six weeks, for God's sake don't think of leprosy! . . . Polio's a personal tragedy, not a national calamity! . . . See that M.S. jiggle! . . . You know me, ask me anything; you won't make me sore . . . and then John Konzelmann suggested Spiller's syndrome! . . . Wow! .. . The serology of psychotics is always worth a look . . . Clinical Neurology was a spicy journey into strange areas of human disease, with slangy, brisk, volatile young Dr. Sherman Gilpin as guide. Refreshingly honest, skeptic to the hilt on certain phases of questionable etiology and therapy, Dr. Gilpin subjected us all to the not uncertain rigors of form lectures and P.G.H. clinics on neurologic disease. There was that trio of tongue twisters: Round the rugged rocks the ragged rascals NEUROLOGY P.G.H. being the Happy Hunting Grounds of neurologic rarities and Temple Hospital being a catchall for hopeful patients expecting miracles from Gilpin, Fay, Chamberlain et al., our clinics and ward walks filled our albums of experience. Cases of Friedreich's We woie taught the various te-ts lor detection ol neurologic disorders. Lectures as well as clinics wore in chargo oi Dr. Gilpin. 11)15 Pritchard in oral quizzes, which is saying a good deal. Donahoo, back ihere, what do you think? . . . How about Joe Reno? . . . and pipe-sucking, quid-chewing Joe rarely fails in a rare-bird diagnosis. . . . Crocker, 1 know you, what's your bet on this? . . . and so on until we had. perhaps, reached no positive conclusions, but had learned some straight thinking from Dr. Mayo-fellow Gilpin. 1. Dr. Taofinor ironed out some pressing points for Mills and Miller. 2. Joo Mcdwick stopped to chat with Dr. Esslinger in the nouro ward. 3. The class saw classical material ol chronic nature at P.G.H. ataxia, Huntington's chorea with the obeisance gait Gilpin can ape so easily, transverse myelitis traumatic, Potts' paraplegia, The terrible case of colored Hensley Jack-son —with his progressive muscular dystrophy, amyotrophies, myasthenia gravis patients, P.A.'s, C.A.'s, M.S.'s, C.N.S. luetics, good Irishmen and Russians who loved their 'tea too well and so had polyneuritis or the snakes, tabes, Charcot joints, lead wrist drops, serum neuritis, von Recklinghausen's multiple neurofibromatosis, angle tumors, Parkinsonians, cerebellar ataxies and pituitary tumor cases, hydrocephalus and all brands of trauma ... we saw them all, and stored away their memories. Speaking of serum post-injectional neuritis, Jake Benson had a T.A.T. injection and a humdinger of a kickback. In clinic Gilpin showed a youth whose peripheral neuritis and paralysis had followed a shot of tetanus antitoxin. Jake's anxiety (already keen from an attack of alopecia areata) flared into acute neurosis . . . and Gilpin flared back at Jake, until explanations cooled the general atmosphere. Drs. Silverstein, Taeffner, McCravey, Smith, van Meter and others escorted us on ward walks crammed with interest, showed us the problems of practical neurology and neurosurgery. The good Dr. Gilpin was the rival of Dr. lit: DR. W. WAYNE BABCOCK DR. W. EMORY BURNETT DR. G. MASON ASTLEY SURGERY Surgery, in its first student phase, was a vivid impressionism of men and women in suffering. Then it was technicality, not greatly concerned with the ingenuity of men called surgeons tampering with the mechanisms of the body. Surgery v as simply repair of misfortunes visited upon folks of all walks of life, of all ages and stations. Yet Surgery was and is incomparably Medicine, its super-specialty, its most envied skill, its purest attribute and finest mission . . . most men consider it so, whether professional or lay . . . lacking one thing only (and we cannot say this with complete fairness), that in the main it attempts to cure rather than prevent. That is scarcely a discredit, but rather an admission that human prevention simply cannot keep pace with the God-sent interruptions to men's complacent health. Dr. David Riesman, in his talk before students, made the sage remark that: Surgery is Physiology turned useful. Every clinic and lecture impressed us with respect and admiration for the men, our professors, who UNWlffc tNOUCv TO MWt P.i 0 -tMPuo9fctWIA IN ONt FEww (JvvOoP Acute 168 with trained hands and fundamental knowledge are making a new Surgery of a new Physiology; and who. by experiment and bloody sweat, are gnawing away at the fringe of yester-year's impossibilities.” Dr. W. Wayne Babcock, the Chief, with his mild, quiet speech, but deadly efficiency and sure reactions at the operating table, may possibly be best characterized in an rific explosion, and a sheet of flames singed the brows of the students in the first row of the amphitheater. Pandemonium reigned; a moment later someone noted that the patient had disappeared! Hasty search revealed the young assistant Babcock in the next room finishing the operation, very calmly, very precisely.” Dr. William A. Steel was forever endeared C.W6AT WALL . ORIGIN UNKNOWN LURCHC ALLX CATia.PAT £ 0 ■. —. i uRn SCAR DEFORMITIES SA REQOift.N.'. OuASTlC PRO CtOuCE ? MALiCNANI TliRMOMA OP THE MEDIASTINUM IN A. ov� T n op 19 HtPAiKNCEOE-P . fOaR.EC OR 6 1' L Aft K� '.fc A'„ nerve stvea ANCfc .... e ftcoo . HERNIA MONSTROV'A... ANO VET WE CAME T0 V-TmE UOCPiTAl FOR A OuB.NETr sronchopneomonia...; 1 Anot for hernia at all; C ptu ClftRUOS� S WITH---- X AVC.TEV afcO.UlR- INC CuRGlCAU' Palliation . couoaeo laowjtw To eacuLOuS' PfcRiTQNiT ... V .__________1 .Two s'tace Pneumonectomy for aaoNcwoc.ENvc- CARCINOMA VW5E J UPeaXPECIALTY or HEOICINE (T)UliCERV IN ITS FIRST STUDENT PHASE IS A VlVlO V. IMPRESSION OP MEN ANO WOMEN IN SUFFERING . CJ) LATER IT BECOMES WELL MOvEO WITH MOST INGENIOUS TECHNICALITIES. Much LATER. AFTER HEART- BREAKING APPRENTICESHIP. |WE MAY sDuRSELVES EQQME SURGEONS... . � £ Tull AN'tfllUO anecdote by his contemporary Dr. William A. Steel: Many years ago, Dr. Babcock was assisting at an abdominal operation upon a very feeble old lady. She was under ether anesthetic by open drop technique. Midway through the procedure someone wheeled a new-fangled electro-cautery outfit into action, turned it on. A spark flew, there was a ter- to us by the well-staged performances of his Three Ring Circus, with Dr. Giambalvo and Dr. McDevitt. Who did not shudder at the diabetic gangrene amputation, Gritti-Stokes was it?, when Jim Balvo hacked through a leg and tossed it with a resounding thump into a bucket . . . and the patient had only a spinal. 169 DR. F. L. ZABOROWSKI Dr. J. Norman Coombs clippod iho appendices from a number of the 1941 class members. Wiatcr and Woston waited their turn as Woidnor palpated an ascitic abdomen. With spinal anesthesia.” quoth Dr. Steel, the blood pressure always falls ten points, from about 70 to 60. An operation was beginning and he turned to Dr. Giambalvo: Doctor, how far did it fall in this case?” Giambalvo, softly: ”70 to 40, sir.” Steel, not hearing: Yep, you see, just as the book says, 10 points! The incisive Dr. G. Mason Astley left in his wake a multitude of neatly turned bits: 'There is great momentum to disease” . . . All diseases have a natural history” . . . Fatients limp in, leap out, overjoyed to find the lump's not cancer” (to which Dr. Burnett adds the corollary: Many a cancer of the breast has run out the aspirating needle!”) . . . What do you think of? Well, how about syphilis and tuberculosis, those two common denominators of disease? . . . ’ Garbled verbiage is verbal garbage . . . Figgers can't lie, but liars can figger . . . these cancers are right in the bite of the anal sphincter” ... or if they're higher, we see the rhythmic colicky pain of peristaltic-pound against obstruction . . . Gall stones have been considered by pathologists to be bacterial sarcophagi. As for case reports, we must thrust ourselves into the iron discipline of accuracy and surety; as Dr. Simon Flexner has said: How I detest the words perhaps, might, apparently, always and never!' And after we had heard again and again of the slip, flop and gurgle of a reducing hernia, Dr. Astley himself was unfortunate enough to suffer from a hiatal hernia of the best quality. With smiling, casual Dr. W. Emory Burnett, clinics were quasi-serious, full of witticisms like: Chronic remunerative appendicitis,” of American slang like: Streamline it, boys, and you're better off!”, of gags like: The grey-haired man standing in the back row will please come down!” . . . (Dean Parkinson who had quietly slipped in) . . . of quaint phrases like this one apropos an advanced pulmonary CA: He's heading down the last long mile to a comfortable wooden kimono in a quiet churchyard.” Dr. J. Norman Coombs, quiet, easy, calm, was the very epitome of the deft surgeon into whose hands fearful folk entrust their lives. In his clinics he would discourse while holding a tongue forceps, reminding himself 170 perhaps, that the wise man judiciously holds his tongue, and would thereupon prove the saying. We cannot forgst Dr. George Rosemond, who lectured on Bahhhopsies. Or photographer Zaborowski, who remarked of the medical men: Today they admit a patient to the medical ward, give him sulfanilamide for three days, and if he shows no improvement, take a history and physical. Or Dr. Large of the roll book. Or Dr. Roy Astley who pinch-hit for his father. The acid test on Wodnssday mornings was to diagnoso surgical cases undor Dr. Babcock's critical y«. Dr. Foy spun golting yarns in tho lockor room. Dr. Wilkins gavo surgical hints to Hoovor and HoHmoier. Drs. Burnott and Babcock in the pit at P.G.H. Lectures on surgical procoduros were gven by Dr. Coombs. Whatever the facts drilled into us, we must learn an obedience to the rules of experimental medicine, on whose solid base allopathic medicine finds its security. Claude Bernard, father of Physiology, said: If you find a fact that disagrees with accepted principles, discard the principles and accept the fact. Naturalist Louis Agassiz, telling Senator Hoare of a trout he had caught in a certain lake, was roundly upbraided. Why, that can't be. I've fished that lake for twenty years and never heard of such a trout being taken there. And what's more, they don't grow that big! Next summer the naturalist fished the lake once again and caught a second fish exactly like the first. He packed it carefully in ice and mailed it to the Senator. Came a telegram: Dammit, Agassiz, there goes a lifetime of fishing, kicked to death by one cold fact!” 171 PEDIATRICS v' T. F. MrNAIR SCOTT. M.D. Professor T. F. McNair Scott, whose collaborative work with Rivers on lymphocytic chorio-meningitis has gained wide repute, was as British as Tommy Atkins. He gave us a most excellently organized, fact-jammed, but highly technical series of lectures, covering the care and diseases of the newborn, the growth, development and feeding of normal children, and the common disorders of childhood. We learned to treat the beb-bie and not the stool ; that no diagnosis of incipient lues should be made before two months; that with an acute disease: Treat the disease, and with a chronic disease: Treat the bebbie ; we saw a vivid portrayal of the TNR and the Moro reflex; an uneras-able fact dinned at us was that hawks get their vitamin D from the feathers of their prey; we heard the now famous lectures on acid-base balance, major classics of clear exposition. The appearance of the inimitable Dr. Pascal F. Lucchesi, chief of the Philadelphia Hospital for Contagious Diseases ( Muni to most of us), brought forth wild demands for a Story, story! And before he began his well executed lectures on the diseases that are catching, his eyes would twinkle, his moustache begin to grin, and he'd say, I heard a cute one . . . say, have you heard the one about the Roosevelts and the Raskobs? But no mere funny man could give a lecture series, a series of clinics such as the seniors savored at Municipal itself (that windy barn), and be fomenter of so much public health work aimed at the contagious diseases. 1. Dr. Livitsky and Tommy Wilson conferred on pediatric topics. 2. Ward-clinics were sometimes in charge of Dr. Cucinotta. 3. Horman discussed feeding problems with Dr. Kendall. S. Lunch timo in the crib ward. 172 The infectious childhood diseasos wero summarized by Dr. Lucchosi. And as an interjection, the commoner types of neuroses and behavior problems of children were most aptly described by you Dr. Pearson established rapport with tho student in discussing tho problem child. might-not-believe-this-but-it's-true Dr. Gerald Pearson, psychiatrist and co-author with Dr. English of our familiar text. JUNIOR ACTIVITIES 173 Back row, loft to right: Hanisok. Brown. Blosor, Goldberg. Klimai. Kitznuller. Davidson. Dannenberg. Center row. loft to right: Brinson. Bollo. Fickos. Grant, Dunning. Ambroso. Kolinsky. Bucher. Engle. H. K. Fischer. Kremens. Hecbnor. Front row. left to right: Goux. Hazlott. Burbank. Harbach. Hammett. S. Fishor, Gable. High. Garvin. Reed. Hill. THE SOPHOMORES The Sophomores returned (some of them early) to find that the Medical School Campus had been reduced to a total of one (1) square yard around that lonesome oak on Broad Street. During the Epochal First Year of Medicine, they had developed a united esprit de corps and as fate was kind to most, they assembled with appropriate arrogance to make history of year number two. During their two years, anecdotes and incidents occurred to shorten the curricular life: The inchoate hours in anatomy lab and lecture . . . learning of the human economy . . . why, bless your souls ... I give you full permission to study your anatomy with any opportunity that presents itself . . . Now, trace a drop of lymph . . . learning to know the significant ring of the emphatic phrase . . . Remember, you pass this way but once! ... of remembering Huber lecturing near the sink in 413 and, as it began to gurgle noisily, stepping quickly away— Just so you would know it was the sink! ... the guest double-jointed demon- strator who passed the hat ... the Pritchard welcome of: Now class. I'll take up with you ... and with one sweeping stroke of two hands filled with vari-colored chalk made an embryo appear, accompanied by a staccato barrage of facts. How woe-betide were the members, who in the beginning had smiled to themselves and said: This ought to be a cinch. I've had all this in college! . . . then came the initial Saturday morning quiz where blood congealed in the veins as he strode in, black coat, piercing gaze and all— What color does van Gei-son's give? . . . feebly, r-red . . . then, that's fine, fine, now- next man, YOU tell me—right! ... the beaten and grooved path between chemistry lab and the rendezvous down the hall (production center of raw material) . . . Hamilton's famous story of the unmoved (three months) farmers of Minnesota . . . Shrader's: Now when you turn off that water and stop rattling the glassware . . . WHO told you to touch THAT flask? . . . the checking-in of lockers . . . Saylor's: Hell man, you can't break that, it's made of iron! 174 1. . . . anxious momtnln spent waiting for practical exam grados . . . 2. . . . relaxation found in the jivo and jam. classical and modern . . . Smoking physiological drums ... the tracing varnish that soap and water would not remove . . . Hickey: This ingenious mechanism that someone left in the lab, they tell me it's a cocktail glass, will serve as a bell! . . . skeptically wondering if the lab notebooks could be checked that quickly . . . finishing the comprehensive exams and leaving Temple singing Dr. Roxby's Apple Tree Chorus: In the shade of the Old Apple Tree There'll be room for you and for me, We can sit there and cram After Roxby's exam, For our make-up in A-naa-to-mee! . . . into the Sophomore (Greek for know-nothing”) year . . . Kay’s dog-eared little pile of notes . . . special anatomy and the one about the young lady with ozena engaged to the young man with anosmia . . . Ladies and Gentlemen . . . disease of insidious onset ... it steals on its victim like a thief in the night! . . . pills, potions, powders, prescriptions . . . more physiology fill-in exams . . . Klymas': ''Yes, I hear the murmur, but what is that shush-shush?” . . . myriads of pathological slides all neatly correlated and described by the brand new text . . . next year—Clinicians! . . . Back row, loft to right: Sokalchuk. Moncndoz, Lucent . Wicks. Third row. loft to right: Vogolor, Rico. Rumsoy, Sabol, Kubor. Rickor. Second row. loft to right: Moatz. Sargont. Pierson. Marks. Wagcnhals. Macklcr. Trimmer. Lciser. Ponneys. Maskenzio. Todhuntor, Rauer. Rooso. Zorbo. Front row. left to right: Richardson. Robbins. Lehman. Urich. Tahara. Sodwick. Morrow. Meades. Ochen-rider. Murtagh. Wallace. Toland. Kriebel. 173 DERMATOLOGY That this study is more than skin deep was revealed by dignified, affable Dr. Car-roll Wright during our introduction to dermatology and syphilology in the third year. Following the manner of approach in his textbook. Dr. Wright sifted out the essential facts of diagnosis and therapy, placing special stress on the more common local dermatoses as well as the usual skin lesions of systemic disease seen in general medical practice. In the first half of the year, scabies-specialist Dr. Friedman lectured on the parasitic diseases and Dr. Guequierre discussed skin neoplasms. Admonished by the chief to maintain a high index of suspicion for syphilis, the Great Imitator, we considered the subject in the second half of the course, emphasizing particularly luetic cutaneous manifestations. We early recognized that the mastery of the awesome terminology was not the nemesis it seemed at first sight. Numerous colored lantern slides of patients, amusingly referred to by Dr. Wright as: Elmers, Hortenses and Mabels, drove home a better understanding of the material. Weekly oral quizzes helped, not only to stimulate study, but to clarify facts, e.g., to differentiate the luetic stigmata of mulberry molars from molars having strawberry or raspberry characteristics, — a differential Budens labored over in one quiz. Baldness, said Dr. Wright, is usually an irreversible condition, and the epitome of optimism is represented by the bald-headed customer who buys hair grower from the bald-headed barber. DR. CARROLL S. WRIGHT Dr. Friedman was introduced to a young pationt by Lamar A case of dormatitis vononata was Knight. shown to tho class. Drs. Friodman and Guequierre both lectured on specific dermatoses. 17(5 ROENTGENOLOGY AND CARDIOLOGY Throughout our medical years came long-to-be-remembered contacts with cardio-roent-genologist Hugo Roesler. As he strode, garbed in his long white coat before the class, or reclined languidly in a chair while pointing at the screen with his long pointer (very long) to the significant contrasts we should not overlook, we could not help but feel that he was far ahead of his day, evolving new concepts, coining poignant phrases, putting old facts through the acid and enzyme of a critical philosophic and original mind. Biting he was at times, apt to chide with his wit and epigrams, never flagrantly humorous, but invariably with a message worth noting. We learned to identify ze ah-orrta and ze ezophagoos. We advanced with more study of the heart . . . percussing out its borders, marking with ink, and then standing before the fateful fluoroscope, finding out how wrong we could be. One day, some unfortunate explained that the reason the chest x-ray was that of a woman was because he could see the curve—there. Sadly the professor shook his head, then You are 1. Waltz stolo a snooze on day as Dr. Rooster lecturod. 2. Somo tochnicalitios wore included: tho diroction of rays, the positions of the x-ray tube, otc. an optimist! We learned of arrhythmias, of worshipers of ze horizontal position, of the EKG and to distrust the obvious. At this time, a companion to his Clinical Roentgenology of the Cardio-vascular System came into being. Opening it, we found many familiar slides and pictures that had been emphasized to us in lecture. Roentgenologic examination of the heart was now a well established process. He named the text: The Atlas of Cardio-Roentgonology. 177 Dr. Rooslor outlined thoracic topography on Yahraus. PSYCHIATRY There is no question in our minds that Dr. O. Spurgeon English, Dr. G. H. J. Pearson, Dr. Edward Weiss, Dr. Herbert Freed, Dr. Morris Brody and Dr. Camille Anderson have given us a solid concept of psycho-somatic medicine and its application in modern clinical practice. The bilateral approach to patients, i. e., considering them as likely to be mentally off balance as well as anatomically damaged, has been thoroughly driven home. And we who are heading into an America where one million of our neighbors are truly feeble-minded, six millions at one time or another to be committed for insanity, and five millions more, equally broken down, but able by our help and the help of God to carry on sufficiently to avoid legal commitment . . . when we realized that ten per cent of Americans will require psychosomatic medicine pure-dyed . . . then we listened with gravest respect. That doctors should be foremost in eugenics and in stemming the tide of mental degeneration of our race is self evident; that we of Temple have been taught it early and consistently is praiseworthy and more proof of the quality of our schooling. P.G.H. netted more than its share of this mentally disorientated human stuff. We saw them. We heard them. We were amused and stricken with them. We were puzzled and repulsed by these wretched folk so at variance with normalcy, so possessed of devils. There was the manic depressive who walked in, shook hands with Dr. English, and began: You look like an intelligent fellow, or else you wouldn't be here. Nov I’ll tell you just why I'm here . . . and went on to tell about how he'd got in a fight with a conductor on a train and got himself tossed off, how he fought with his wife, got lippy v ith the officers of law . . . and had been sent to the hospital for observation. 1. Dr. English gathered inlormation Irom patients by expert interrogation. 2. Dr. English listened thoughtfully to many harrowing tales. 3. Mr. Manic Depressive reasonably explained why he popped tho conductor's schnozzlo. 4. We got a glimpse of metrazole therapy. 178 Th© ex-dancer schizo who put her feet on English's lap and laughing inanely, asked him what he was doing after class! She skipped from topic to topic like a squirrel through the branches . . . whatta girl! There was the talented boy of 18 who sat before us with his face in his hands, shut off from reality; who had inspirations from the cosmos, whom no one understood, whose ideas and genius people did not accept . . . a classic picture of dementia praecox was he. And who does not recall the old lady in the black garb, the peacemaker, who preached before us of the deep religious significances she discovered in a roof-leak stain on the ceiling paper above her bed? There was the paranoiac whose guilty conscience was a complex mixture of sex perversion, religious fanaticism, bestiality, and persecution ideas . . . and we as his lecture audience were deeply amused by his phallic symbols, and by his weirdly abnormal sexuality. Dr. Freed gave a classic discussion on alcoholism, which increaseth desire, lessened performance, awakens sleeping dogs, is used as a social lubricant, brings on D.T.'s, may become an acute alcoholic hallucinosis, a Korsakow's psychosis, or a chronic deterioration of all brain function. From dry and decent to delighted and devilish, on to delinquent to disgusting, dizzy and demoralized, dazed and debauched until he's dead drunk went the alcoholic pilgrim's progress. Three tips: there’s no liar like an alcoholic; all alcoholics are excellent rationalizers; no alcoholic is cured until he can refuse the first drink. A masterful clinic on C.N.S. lues revealed in most striking fashion that syphilis is the great impersonator, the eraser of specialty in medicine, the waste basket of symptomatic medicine. What a physiologic eruption metrazole can bring on in a schizo! . . . convulsions with the compliments of Dr. Freed, who so strikingly demonstrated the explosion technique of restoring these confused ones to the world of reality. Nomma Ellison, class spirit of psychiatry, took the cake when she analyzed before the class an obstetric anxiety neurosis problem that was ultimately summarized by Dr. Quindlen as not a case of chronic hypertension complicated by pregnancy, but a case of chronic pregnancy complicated by hypertension. New thoories on carbohyd:a e-nuclcoprotoin personalities were discussed by Dr. Andorson. Insulin shock therapy ' as of interest to Ogburn and Pisorchia. As wo perspired over the final exam. Dr. English perused the words of Freud. 170 In the gnarled, capable hands of Dr. Jesse O. Arnold, the basic principles of obstetrics became entirely simple and exquisitely easy. No dull routine lectures came from this simplifier and trail-blazer in baby-doctorin'''! Pappy's epigrams, tersely and ingeniously expressed: Don't whip a jaded horse . . . give her a dose of morphia . . . watchful waiting . . . time and more time . . . re-study the relationships . . . relieve When white-haired, friendly. Dr. Harry A. Duncan laid aside his cigar and stood in our midst, chatting with us about the diseases of that constipated animal —woman, we felt that here was truly a practical clinician sharing his trade secrets, tested and polished by constant use. And with Dr. Forman, in the wards, we reasoned gynecology instead of memorizing it, swallowing a few more trade secrets. OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY Mills. Ogburn. Pisorchia and May left nico warm beds lor � ho 4 A. M. deliveries. the patient's head rather than her uterus, formed the building stones of our obstetrics-to-be. Then there was Dr. J. Marsh Alesbury, the Chief's big, vital, right-hand man; wisecracking, incisive, anecdote-laden, blunt almost to a fault. His famous hair-raising thriller was of the lights-out Caesarean with a post-partum hemorrhage: I think I packed my shoes and socks into that uterus . . . but I know it did the trick! And there was wily, wiry old Dr. Charles S. Barnes, in clinic, giving his thumbnail summaries of obstetrics. Traditional will be the stories of the on call nights as we stumbled up the back stairs to really see life begin (at 4:27 A. M.). Our eyes became strabismic watching the T.P.R. and fluid balance curves, to learn how not to have future eclamptics. A secure niche in our medical library will be occupied by that solver of problems in time of trouble, Dr. Arnold's Guide-Book in Practical Obstetrics. As Dr. Duncan told us of illustrative cases, quoting much from his long service at Blockley, we realized what a vast source of tales could be uncovered if we but had the time! His homey, punchy phrases were unforgettable: Might as well spit on a courthouse when it's on fire . . . Hellish itching . . . and his graphic description of lympho- 180 Conforoncos. with Dr. Arnold, kep! pace with now obstotrical trends. granuloma inguinale— It's the rottenest, pussiest, foulest, most stinking—I just can't seem to describe it! . . . Look for fibroids in an old-maid school teacher . . . Many an ovarian cyst runs out the urinary catheter ... A typical Blockley case—old Drs. Alosbury and Arnold dividod the lecture hours botwoen thorn. fibroids cemented in with P.I.D. . . . Don't send a boy on a man's job ... The hours were very short, for suddenly he was finished. We would hasten to talk to him before he lighted his cigar and departed to solve some woman's miseries. 1. Friondly Dr. Duncan reviowed gynocologic casos with Rybachok, Ruhe and Santord. 2. Dr. Quindlon was nevor too busy to help the student gain better understanding o! obstotrical detail. 3. Anocdotcs recalled by Hobe” and Ales served to givo u; easier grasp of the subject. 4. Dr. Forman had tho ability to lead us to REASON gynecology instead of MEMORIZING it. DR. JOHN R. MOORE JUNIOR ORTHOPEDICS Each Saturday morning at nine we stood sleepy-eyed on the back stairs leading to the surgical amphitheater, waiting for Dr. Moore to finish his senior session on fractures before giving us our hour of orthopedics. Garbed in a scrub suit, with pants rolled up, he would hobble, limp and stoop as he graphically interpreted the gaits and deformities encountered in orthopedic surgery. He filled the hour with didactic material, exemplary cases, x-ray films and lantern slides to lighten and vivify the subject material. After beginning with a consideration of the congenital deformities, we took up the arthritides, osteomyelitis, bone tumors, deformities resulting from C.N.S. disease and much more. Here again, we realized the importance of the basic sciences, the need for a sound knowledge of anatomy in understanding the conditions of the maimed, the halt and the deformed. How do you remember the difference between the varus and valgus deformities? Can you give the differential diagnosis of an involved joint? And will you remember to drill for osteomyelitis on the first day? Or think of it at all when the patient has a high fever and apparent joint pain? Although realizing that orthopedic surgery will be chosen by a few only, Dr. Moore gave us an admirably well-rounded resume of the subject which he dominates with all the force and surety of the athlete-scholar he is. Though one of Temple's busiest men. Dr. Moore finds time for fun and frolic. 182 Uncle Mall's locturos wore illustrated by slides and sketches. OTOLOGY Otology tableau: Class raising merry cain in No. 413; enter Dr. Matthew S. Ersner, followed by a retinue of three or four satellite staff members who disperse into seats side and front; enter colored chauffeur carrying numerous otologic impedimenta which he heaves onto the front desk; Dr. Ersner begins his lecture and, smiling as ever, begins a non-stop journey from auricle to labyrinth to neural pathways and back. After he had iterated and reiterated the basic principles of the different structures and their physiology, Dr. Ersner arrived one day with his heavily-laden assistant to begin the lectures dealing with the clinical procedures and methods. First he acquainted us with the heterogeneous bulbs, bougies and bayonets so essential to the otologic specialist. Delving deeper in his grab-bag, he brought out many different ear speculi, curettes, myringotomy knives and raspatories. As he prepared to pass the shiny instruments around the classroom for inspection, he paused to inform us with sly geniality that they were all engraved with a neat: Stolen from Uncle Matty. Didactic lectures were interrupted to put on demonstrations using ear-conscious classmates. We shan't forget the sight of Shadow Hoffmeier as he cringingly held the curved basin against his straining neck to allow his ears to be washed with a huge syringe. Strong man-of-the-barbells Ealy helped demonstrate Valsalva's well known middle ear treatment by huffing and puffing his cheeks. The front second-row right (seats 1-2-3-4) demon lecture squad of Jacobson, Iannucci, Cahn and Katz received the bulk of Uncle Matt's mild, self-answered weekly quizzing. We'll remember well the minute dissections of the malleus, incus and stapes . . . the visiting aurist from Texas . . . and Dr. Ersner's sincere, reflective pre-Christmas expression of American freedom and peace. Heard from Uncle Matt: Dr. Burnett wanted me to take a plane flight with him. Oh no, I said. I'm allergic to airplanes. One drop kills. But aren't you a fatalist? asked Dr. Mose, after all, when God calls you, you must go. I'm not worried about that, replied Uncle Matt, but what if we’re up there and God calls YOU? A final exam, a box of cigars to the first one who turned in that essay on some astonishing otologic subject (we heard that gay, earnest Elsie Reid collected, but report unconfirmed), and we had finished with things Ersnerian and otologic for a season. DR. MATTHEW S. ERSNER 1S3 RHINO-LARYNGOLOGY 1. Dr. Ridpath told us the baby's concave noso spells progrossivonoss. incentive, nogativity. 2. Many amusing incidents in his cxpcrionco wero related by Dr. Davis. 3. A concise summary ol tho sinuses in disoaso was supplied by Dr. Lemon. DR. KOLMER 50% of office cases are U.R.T. diseases or complications of such disease . . . with such warning of the importance of the nose, sinuses and throat we were off on an interesting tour with T. Carroll Davis, Dr. Robert Ridpath, and Dr. A. N. Lemon. Dr. Ridpath: The only use ever discovered for tonsils is to pay the doctor's light, gas and house bills.—in health each crypt is supposedly a watchdog, but in disease it's a garbage can and incubating chamber. Dr. Davis: I followed the obituary notices for a time, didn't see her name, so I guess she's all right! As the course drew to a close Dr. Ridpath spun us the delightful tale of The Man with the Golden Brain ; told of the sorcerer who taught his apprentice every trick save one; with crinkled eyes gave us his fantastic cosmogony: The Gods of the East and the West ... sat down to rest on an island of red clay . . . the other, to prevent water from running into his nose, shoved down the nose tip when the body was half dry ... so you can see the nose tip is half-baked! ; as a climax he analyzed nosss for personality and disease. BIOLOGIC AND CHEMOTHERAPY Biologic therapy, but more particularly, chemotherapy and Dr. John A. Kolmer will remain entirely synonymous to all Temple medical students. How and why this linkage makes an absorbing story that is the biography of our professor and his work shop. In 1912, Dr. Jay F. Schamberg, Dr. John A. Kolmer and Dr. George Raiziss formed the Dermatological Research Laboratories in the old Polyclinic Hospital. At first, research was concentrated upon psoriasis and financial support was from a private source. But the science of chemotherapy was bom with the new wizard arsenicals that Paul Ehrlich had synthesized at Speyer House in Germany. 184 (Continued on page 284) DISEASES OF CHEST Dr. Cohen's lucid, succinct cmd pointed discourses on tuberculosis, the disease of genius, were admirably simplified for our palates. With tuberculosis have been morbidly linked the immortals Keats, Shelley, Stevenson, Balzac, Voltaire and countless others, who badly needed such medical pioneering as was offered by Koch, Trudeau of Saranac, the Dane Finsen, the Swiss Rollier, and our own Dr. Cohen with his dietetic-hygienic Eagleville sanatorium treatment. Along with the surgical interventions, the rest, quiet and good nursing, at Eagleville the Food's got to be good! You can give a patient the wrong medicine and he'll never know. But a rotten steak he'll know damn quick! For us who must diagnose the white plague, this terse advice: office hours in late afternoon for that temperature rise; think of t.b. with cough, pleurisy and effusion, hemoptysis, and ischio-rectal abscess; everyone can afford an x-ray, smear and culture. ABRAHAM J. COHEN. M. D. MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE In these hours the mythical Mrs. A., Mr. B. and Miss C. came back week after week, at the invitation of Dr. Mcllvain, to be accused and defended by the embryonic medics who learned how to follow the tenets of Hippocrates yet keep on the right side of the LAW. Here we heard about bizarre topics, as common law, tort, malpractice, consent for autopsy, slander and libel. We discovered, to our amazement, that in criminal abortion . . . It's the same old uterus whether married or unmarried ; that The doctor is the goat in most court cases ; that a wife or a prostitute can charge a husband (or man) with defloration; that the interne is the agent of the hospital; that there are variable ages of consent ; that we'd better be certain the patient is dead before we call the mortician. EDWIN H. McILVAIN. M. D. 185 MEDICINE Junior medicine was the logical broadening of all our previous, often tedious, studies. In clinic and wards, in lectures and discussions, there was thrown into our grasping fingers the never uninteresting material of medical practice. Dr.-Professor Charles Brown, the ruddy-faced encyclopedia of all things medical, Dr.-Professor John A. Kolmer, the earnest and indefatigable, Dr. Edward triangle Weiss, the impeccably neat in word and appearance. Dr. Thomas Durant, the admirably clean cut. Dr. John Lansbury, the master of the King's own English, Dr. George Farrar, the mild and lovable . . . these and DR. CHARLES LEONARD BROWN 186 1. Dr. Edv ard Weiss skillfully oullined diagnostic symptoms and signs in graphic form. 2. Tho gentle manner Dr. Ginsburg had with patients was a source of inspiration for us. many others gave richly of themselves and their special knowledge. And from them we have absorbed, we hope, a great factual lore of brain-ready medical tips and techniques. We could not review the smallest part of this mass of hard-won data. But, though they are only the foam of medicine, not the heart blood and red muscle, we cannot yet permit the neat phrases and humorous bits to die in the midst of our endless notes. And yet, who can say that a flip or sardonic sentence may not better give a working medical fact than a plain, drab, unembellished declaration of truth? is: Lectures on applied therapeutics wore given by the brilliant Dr. Brown. Old Herophilis of Alexandria hit it long ago when he said: To lose one's health renders science nil, art inglorious, strength effortless, wealth useless and eloquence powerless . . . and so medicine and doctors were born as antidotes ’gainst disease. But medicine develops by fits and starts and we stumble still in fits and starts from milestone to milestone; we are wise if we remain very meek in the presence of the ignorance that is often too well concealed in the big tomes on our shelves. But, meanwhile, patients continue to come to us; we cannot but develop the best bluff office and bedside manner, for when that bulging old goat lumbers into your cozy office and overflows your best chair, don't forget that under that excess avoirdupois beats the eager heart of a sweet sixteen, and her very existence hinges upon your sympathetic attention to her belchings. Too, remember that the patient with vague aches and pains has not come several miles by trolley car just to annoy you; he may really be sick. Everybody sooner or later has G.I. trouble, if it be only borborigmy or constipation. They may have peptic ulcer: be lean and hungry Cassii.” Or think they have cholecystitis, or you think so . . . wretched cholecystitis, that diagnostic octopus, seldom right. Or if they have chronic ulcerative colitis and a surgeon's been at work, they may have a bottom like a sprinkling can. Constipation, that bogey of the ads, is a unique entity indeed, for the discomfort felt by the patient parallels his concern for his bowels, which fact makes it psycho-somatic medicine and related to spastic colon, that disease which might typically be seen in a nervous salesman who has to sell so many corsets by Monday. And, no matter what the ads say, the G.I. tract was designed by God to hold feces. Amen. HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF MYXEDEMA? OF HYPOGLYCEMIA? To be honest, we hadn't. For a personal example to us: When you think a professor is more than The notes obtained in Dr. Durant's locturos wero among the best organized we'd ever had. 188 unusually dull in the afternoon after an enormous lunch, you probably have physiologic hypoglycemia. So that's it? Well, well. And . . . Diabetes insipidus is the drinking diabetes, as compared with the eating and drinking diabetes mellitus. Endocrinology grows simpler when we have heard that an achondroplastic dwarf is to a man what a dachshund is to a dog, that treatment of Simmond's pituitary cachexia with whole anterior lobe extract only emaciates the bank account, that spare-tire obesity is warning of Frohlich's, that in the old days it was a special favor to have a cretin in the family . . . they were no trouble, and they could beg with a cup to help the family finances! , that changes in the larynx are permanent; we must discount stories of men bitten by sharks while swimming ... There has been a great shunt of interest from the LIVER, that crucified organ of past years, to the glands, which offer possibility as the new goat of non-scientifically minded and speaking practitioners. And, of course, everyone likes to talk of 'the glands,' thinking of course of the gonads. The girls like to talk of glands at their tea parties and sewing circles, thinking secretly of their own ovaries, or of the sewing circle's ovaries.” And so endocrinology, like almost all bull sessions, started high (in the pituitary) and ended in the pelvis. Diagnostic acumon was developed by long hours spent in tho clinics and modicat wards. It was a thrill to work with actual patients alter having had to uso our imagination for so many yoars. Dr. Isadore W. Ginsburg. a true iriend to the medical studont. Dr. Vogol discussed Iho caso for us in those Wednesday pathology conferences. The problem of the arthritides was knotty indeed. As for atrophic arthritis . . . the joints are so stiff you'd think a little alemite squirted into them would do the trick . . . ; it's a wrecker type of disease, and one old girl who had it was justly the most bitchy old gal I’d ever seen. Concerning joint management . . . sounds like running a tap room, doesn't it? . . . we had a great deal given us, little of it specific. That commonly seen entity, the German midriff goitre of the ex-athlete who lost his activity but not his appetite, had one memorable therapeutic method; when asked to have seconds, to place both hands against the table edge and shove off, at the same time rotating the head right to left and return. This solves all postural emphysema. Medicine has its very special brand of humor; for another example, to three latecomers: Gentlemen, you're ten minutes late and have missed two and one half feet of the intestine in our headlong flight down the G.I. tract! But, in general this game of medicine is far from humorous. No, instead 'tis a sort of mental pregnancy of four years, culminating in a weak, spindly-legged brain child, who, if he's fed well, consistently and over a lifetime span, may become a doctor. Our gratitude has gone out already, and with the trials of real responsibility in practice will go out much more, to those many scholars of medicine who taught us the great simplifications that cost them years of work and thought; who have given us the short cuts and the clear concepts, without which medicine could be nothing but a burden and a hopelessly complex mountain of confusion. Many valuable points on the nephritises came from Dr. Weiss. Dr. Thomas M. Durant, educator par Dr. Louis Cohen helped train our insensi-oxcollenco. live oars for recognition of pathology. 190 APPROACH TO DIAGNOSIS By John Lansbury, M.D. The aim of the practitioner is, of course, to relieve the patient of his symptoms. The patient understands the value of such services and is willing to pay for them. Relief of symptoms, however, is a much more complicated affair than it appears at first sight, since, to do it efficiently, the doctor must diagnose and understand the cause of the symptoms so that he may remove them by removing, or correcting their cause. The public is still to some extent unaware of the value of, and the skill required in, making a diagnosis, but times are changing rapidly and more and more patients are beginning to appreciate the value of a thorough diagnostic survey. The basis for all accurate diagnosis is, without exception, a careful evaluation of the patient's history and physical findings. Failure in diagnosis results much more commonly from incomplete or inaccurate historytaking and physical diagnosis than it does from lack of knowledge on the part of the examiner. Dr. Lansbury. who gave us much sound medical knowledge. appreciation of it not infrequently distinguishes the astute clinician from the fumbling pill-pusher. One may re-affirm then, the unchanging nature of the clinical picture of disease. It is possible to read the careful records of Hippocrates made 2500 years ago and to diagnose through his observations the diseases from which his patients suffered. Little has been added to the classical descriptions of disease written by such men as Bright and Addison. In other words, the clinical manifestations of disease are, for the most part, the same yesterday, today and forever. They are, therefore, well worth the pain, blood and sweat required to commit them to memory. Patients are quite unaware of the value or meaning of their symptoms and hence almost never voluntarily give a clear-cut description of their complaints. The art of history-taking consists largely of politely but firmly brushing aside the irrelevant material offered by the patient, and extracting by friendly cross-examination a minutely exact, play-by-play description of each symptom. One should never take at face value such words as dizziness, headache, constipation, or indigestion but rather find out what the patient means by such words. This sounds very trite and obvious, but the full In the matter of physical examination one should avoid getting into the habit of doing it as a ritual. Each manoeuver should definitely settle a point before the next is undertaken. These first two steps towards a diagnosis are well recognized and thoroughly taught. The third is equally important though seldom discussed. It consists of making, either in writing or mentally, a brief summary of all the positive information so far obtained. Frequently, when this is done one finds that, from a mass of apparently conflicting and meaningless data, one has extracted a clinical picture of disease which matches quite closely one already recorded in text books or notes from teachers. The reason the two are so similar is that they have both been arrived at by precisely the same method— namely, a careful evaluation of the patient's symptoms and his physical findings. There is no quick, snap-shot or magic way to accurate diagnosis. The master minds in medicine employ the identical technique which they teach to their sophomore and junior students. 191 DIAGNOSTIC HINTS by W. Emory Burnett, M.D., Waldo E. Nelson, M.D., Isadora Forman, M.D., Frank W. Konzolmann, M.D., Sherman F. Gilpin, M.D., Goorgo E. Farrar, M.D., Thomas M. Durant, M.D., William Tinnoy. M.D., Mayo Clinic, Joseph C. Doar.e, M.D. Beware of the pitfall of a too evident diagnosis. The most prominent symptom may serve as a mask to divert attention from more important signs of disease. e A keen olfactory sense may diagnose uremia, diabetic acidosis, typhoid fever, diphtheria, pulmonary gangrene and rheumatic fever. • The greatest and most rapid loss of weight occurs in Graves Disease, diabetes, tuberculosis and malignancy. The commonest causes, in this latitude, of a fever which continues for longer than two weeks are typhoid fever, tuberculosis, un-dulant fever, sepsis, malignancy and malaria. • The more marked the symptom referable to the heart, the less likely that the patient has heart trouble. • Smell a rat in any case of hypertension under 20 years of age. If nephritis can be ruled out, the rat will often be coarctation of the aorta. Look for: 1) higher blood pressure in upper extremities than in lower, 2) pulsations of intercostal arteries. In any case of cardiac decompensation lasting over 2 years, look for something screwy. The longer it lasts, the more sure you can be that the diagnosis must be reconsidered. Think of two things: 1) constrictive pericarditis, if the heart and pulse pressure are small. 2) tricuspid insufficiency, if the liver is pulsating. 9 Mitral stenosis and or auricular fibrillation are often the mother and father of embolism and infarction. Paroxysmal auricular fibrillation, without other evidence of cardiac disease, is very suggestive of hyperthyroidism. 9 Angina pectoris is practically never seen in women apart from hypertension or diabetes mellitus. 9 When a previously active middle-aged man voluntarily goes to bed because of weakness, following an attack of indigestion,” consider seriously the possibility of myocardial infarction. 9 High pulse pressure with a normal or low diastolic pressure is seen in three common conditions: aortic insufficiency, hyperthyroidism and marked generalized arteriosclerosis. It is also seen in three relatively uncommon conditions: auriculo-ventricular heart block, patent ductus arteriosus and widely patent arterio-venous fistulae. 9 Young persons, who have received too much digitalis, are likely to develop symptoms of toxicity before dangerous cardiac arrhythmias appear. Older persons, with coronary disease, may develop the latter without warning. 9 When the signs of congestive failure are associated with a rapid circulation time, two possible explanations are suggested: hyperthyroidism and thiamine deficiency. 9 The demonstration of right axis deviation plus auricular fibrillation is almost certain electrocardiographic evidence of mitral stenosis. 9 The relationship of substernal pain to exertion is a far more important factor in the diagnosis of angina pectoris than is radiation of the pain to the left arm. 9 In patients with mitral stenosis and auricular fibrillation, the characteristic murmur of that valve lesion is frequently absent. Here the radiologic signs of enlargement of the left auricle and of the conus of the right ventricle are of great importance in making the diagnosis. 9 The bedside differentiation of slow auricular fibrillation from multiple extrasystoles may be made by the finding of two long pauses in succession. Such a sequence will be found if listened for long enough in auricular fibrillation. It will not occur in the presence of multiple extrasystoles. 192 When the heart rate is below 35 and regular, complete auriculo-ventricular heart block is almost certain to be present. • Partial auriculo-ventricular heart block should be considered when the heart rate is below 40 and 50. • Bacterial endocarditis is a more common cause of obscure fever in the elderly than has been generally recognized. The splenomegaly and embolic phenomena seen in younger patients are often absent. • Severe thoracic pain radiating to the back and not to the arms, sudden in onset, associated with prostration and with a negative electrocardiogram, suggests the possibility of a dissecting aneurysm. • Aortic stenosis is a common cause of dizziness and syncope on effort in elderly individuals. • Ventricular tachycardia is an infrequent, but serious, complication of myocardial infarction and of digitalis intoxication. It is to be suspected when, in such cases, there suddenly develops a rapid rhythm which is almost, but not exactly regular, and in which there is a variation in the intensity of the first heart sound. • Dysphagia may be associated with five cardio-vascular conditions: 1) mitral stenosis with a markedly dilated left auricle, 2) saccular aneurysm, 3) dissecting aneurysm, 4) pericardial effusion, and 5) an anomalous aortic arch. • A definite fever (more than 1 degree elevation), associated with congestive failure, suggests as most likely causes: 1) pulmonary infarction, 2) pulmonary infection, 3) active rheumatic infection, or 4) myocardial infarction. • Always remember that the diagnosis of heart disease is a serious condemnation and may strike terror into a patient. Therefore, be very certain of yourself before making such a diagnosis, and temper the explanation which accompanies it to fit the psychological make-up of the individual patient. • Precordial pain almost never means coronary disease, but with substernal pain it should always be suspected. • Weakness, sore tongue, paresthesias of the extremities and pallor suggest Pernicious Anemia. • Painless, discrete, cartilaginous, non-tender enlargement of a single group of lymph nodes points to Hodgkin's Disease. When weakness, fatigue and nervousness are associated with a generalized and nontender lymphadenopathy in a middle-aged person, examine the blood for lymphatic leukemia. In a young patient complaining of malaise of a few days duration, a mild fever and generalized, soft, tender lymphadenopathy suggests infectious mononucleosis. Examine the blood film for an increase in lymphocytes with holes in their nuclei. • Inquire into the family history of the patient presenting jaundice, pallor, splenomegaly and mild fever—congenital hemolytic jaundice may be the diagnosis. • The onset of myelogenous leukemia is insidious and the symptoms are not characteristic. Look for splenomegaly in every physical examination. • The middle-aged patient with an entirely clean tongue usually has achlorhydria gas-trica. In spite of an adequate diet, nutritional deficiency states may arise in these persons. When faced with chronic leukopenia in a neuresthenic patient, search for food allergy, malnutrition, drug idiosyncrasy or hypo-function of the ovaries or adrenals. • In the fat, atonic, middle-aged woman, the symptoms of chronic cholecystitis are often due to biliary dyskinesia arising from achlorhydria gastrica. Anemia is a laboratory, not a clinical, diagnosis. Jaundice or pallor at birth requires an immediate blood count. Transfusion may be life saving. If a patient has myelogenous leukemia, and then is fortunate enough to develop gout, his leukemia is cured as long as some damned fool doesn't cure his gout! • 25-30% of cases of polycythemia vera have major complaints referable to the extremities. Therefore, it must be considered in all cases of peripheral vascular disease. • In lymphatic leukemia with macro-lymphocytosis, too much x-ray may put the patient beyond the reach of prayer. They have a nasty habit of suddenly developing uremia if given large doses. • If a patient has G.C. for the first time, it is just an impulsive or careless application of his erectile tissues. If he has it twice, he is just a tight wad. If he had it three times, he is just plain dumb. In any case, it is no time for sounds or moralizing. 193 A pericardial effusion, which is large and recurs repeatedly after tapping, is most likely to be of tuberculous origin. • In tuberculosis and subacute bacterial endocarditis the subjective picture of the patient is often not in proportion to the objective findings. One diagnosis made the hard way, by the diligent use of common sense and the stethe-scope, is of greater teaching value than ten made for the physician by the x-ray or clinical laboratory. If a patient has a persistently positive sputum with a fibrotic chest lesion and a good general condition, think of tuberculous tracheo-bronchitis. Bronchoscopy is definitely indicated. In any case having the usual manifestations of sub-acute bacterial endocarditis, but having a persistently negative blood culture, think of Libman-Sachs Disease and disseminated lupus erythematosus. • If you have a queer case, sick for weeks with arthralgia, leukopenia, albuminuria and a chest full of fluid, think of disseminated lupus. Watch the face for erythemia. • Bet with the odds. Call every pain in the belly appendicitis and every chest pain pneumonia and 90% of the time you will make a brilliant diagnosis, the rest of the time everyone else will also be wrong. • Though the lungs are consolidated, if fever is down and the patient is getting better, chuck sulfapyridino down the sink. Whenever the patient is getting better for God's sake let him alone. The hell with the pathology! —Kepler. If you hove a case of pneumonia that responds to sulfapyridine only temporarily, don't forget tularemia or psittacosis. • A careful consideration of the patient's previous methods of living and of the bill of particulars as to how he became ill is often of more diagnostic value than much percussion and more prolonged auscultation. • If a patient has had an adenomatous goiter for many years and suddenly loses his voice, think of carcinoma even if the thyroid is not hard. Unexplained anemia in a man always means something. Among other things, examine his caecum and ascending colon carefully—even in patients under 30! Any patient over 50 years of age with exfoliative dermatitis has lymphoblastoma until proven otherwise, this includes: 1) mycosis fungioides, 2) Hodgkin's, 3) lymphosarcoma, 4) monocytic leukemia (Schilling type), etc. Pruritis and eosinophilia may be your only clues to a Hodgkin's Disease. • If your patient has the grippe and develops severe backache, look to the blood, for he may have infectious mononucleosis! Photophobia also may be diagnostic in these cases. If a patient suddenly becomes very dyspneic and physical examination shows the heart rapidly 'dilating' with muffled sounds, don't forget T.B. pericarditis. —Osier, 1891. Never forget sub-acute bacterial endocarditis in cases of unexplained anemia with palpable spleen. Diagnosis of Raynaud's Disease in a man, or Buerger's Disease in a woman is almost always wrong. If there is 1) edema of eyelids, 2) muscular pains, 3) eosinophilia, think of trichinosis, especially if there is 1) abdominal pain, 2) diarrhea and vomiting, 3) tachycardia, and 4) hypotension. Given a patient from the Eastern Mediterranean region with an undiagnosed mass in the belly, always consider ecchinococcus. If an eosinophilia is present, you can climb out on a limb with the diagnosis. • Migrating phlebitis (skipping from one small segment to another and remaining 1-4 weeks at each site), is almost pathognomonic of thrombo-angiitis obliterans and occurs in 50% of such cases. • Intermittent claudication does not always mean thrombo-angiitis obliterans. It is also one of the earliest and most common symptoms of arteriosclerosis obliterans and may last four years without other symptoms. • Given a patient with symptoms suggesting peripheral vascular disease. If arteries are occluded, 90% of cases will be either thrombo-angiitis obliterans or arteriosclerosis obliterans. If the patient is over 50, think first of arteriosclerosis obliterans. • Always consider mesenteric vascular acci-den if 1) abdominal pain is very severe, 2) physical findings are scarce, 3) the pulse and white count are high with a low temperature, and 4) if vomiting, diarrhea, or other signs of obstruction are present. 194 In a patient with low back pain or sciatica, inquire into trauma, focal infection or other toxemia and mechanical (postural) imbalance. A chronically painful back, with an exacerbation of sharp and severe root pains in a post-menopausal woman or an inactive and dyspeptic old man, suggests senile osteoporosis with a compression fracture of the spine. Calcium and vitamin D therapy will relieve the pain. • Don't neglect to splint paralyzed extremities in neutral joint positions. Fibrotic contractures are painful and very resistant to treatment. • An increase in the sedimentation rate of the blood distinguishes atrophic arthritis, rheumatic fever and gonorrheal arthritis from hypertrophic arthritis and fibrositis. Elevation of the blood uric acid and tests for gonorrhea arthritis are specific tests. In atrophic arthritis the streptococcal agglutinin titer is increased. • Dehydration, loss of chlorides, anemia or alkalosis may cause a uremia which is easily corrected by appropriate therapy. • If you are giving moderate doses of chemotherapy and blood concentration is higher than you expect, do a B.U.N. These drugs make a pretty good test of renal function. • Paraesthesias, dizziness and blurring vision, with frequent sighing respirations, may mean hyperventilation tetany. This can be proven by relief of symptoms when patient breathes into a paper bag. • Whenever the patient wears his collar backward, the first laboratory test should be a Kolmer. Never trust a single negative and always check with a Kahn, Hinton and Kline. • If any of your patients have paresis, you may try to cure them with malaria. But, Doctor, if you get it yourself and are lucky enough to have delusions of grandeur, don't let anyone spoil them. Always have plenty of good-looking nurses about to guide the wanderings of your psyche; pass on to the Great Beyond with your boots on. • When pelvic x-ray in a middle-aged man shows a marked diffuse osteosclerosis, always examine the prostate and you will frequently find that youth's best friend has betrayed his master and turned to stone. • From the therapeutic point of view, obesity is a mental habit of eating more than is needed for a day's work. When you advise a diet, give the patient specific instructions as to what to eat; don't content yourself with a list of prohibited foods. • In the management of old people, use medication cautiously and make no sudden changes in their established habits of many years. • ''Do not harm” is the first principle of therapy. • In repeated attacks of renal colic look for hyperparathyroidism or chronic pyelitis. A diagnosis not considered cannot be made. • The history may provide the clue. Babies cannot talk; mothers, even grandmothers, do. Look before you feel. The eye may see what the hand cannot detect. • No examination of a sick baby is complete without examination of the tympanic membrane and of the urine. • A rash may not be a manifestation of contagious disease, but it may be. • Pain in the abdomen is a common complaint of children. Appendicitis is relatively infrequent during the first few years of life, but it may occur even in infants. • Stop a convulsion, then do not stop until you have exhausted every possible method of determining its origin. • Sore throat, fever, pallor, or hoarseness may be the first evidence of diphtheria. An exact diagnosis can be made only by bac-teriologic examination. • Recovery from acute disease is not synonymous with return to optimum health. There is a convalescent phase. • Be honest with the child. • The child copies what he sees and believes what he hears until his confidencs is shattered. • The best, but not infallible gauge of a child's health is the measure of his growth and development. • If you remember: 1) The date and description of the last menstrual period; 2) The history in ectopic pregnancy; 3) To find the uterus”; 4) To listen to a large pelvic tumor”; 5) To be gentle but firm; 6) That a complete physical examination 195 in an adult female is not complete without a pelvic examination; 7) That a pelvic examination is not complete unless a speculum is used; 8) That unusual vaginal bleeding is always abnormal; 9) That post-menopausal bleeding means cancer unless disproved; 10) That amenorrhea means pregnancy unless disproved, we shall not have tried in vain. • A rise in the eosinophiles usually precedes the recovery from an infectious process. It is evident sometimes before the white count begins to fall. • The rapid rise of red count and hemoglobin after a severe burn or injury is a bad prognostic sign. • In pernicious anemia, hypersegmentation of neutrophiles remains in the blood picture long after the other elements have returned to normal, during the remission, or after treatment. • A reliable but simple test for carbon monoxide poisoning may be performed by mixing one drop of blood, from a suspected case, with 15 cc. of water. If compared with a control of normal blood, the cherry-red color of the carbon monoxide hemoglobin is easily recognized. This test is quite delicate. • Tuberculous meningitis is frequently characterized in the early stages by a high polymorphonuclear count in the spinal fluid. • Sediment of the urine, spinal fluid, pleural or peritoneal fluid will frequently show cancer cells when malignant disease exists in the respective areas. • The specific gravity of an early morning specimen of urine, if above 1.025, is a fairly good evidence of satisfactory renal function. • The elevation of blood urea and total nonprotein nitrogen curves, in Bright's disease, is not nearly so significant as the disturbance of the 50% ratio of urea to total non-protein nitrogen. • A fairly good, rapid histologic preparation can be made in the following manner: Place a narrow strip of cardboard, about Vi wide and three times as thick as a visiting card, between two razor blades, along one edge. Grasp this edge with a hemostat, and draw the thus-constructed double-edged knife through the tissue to be examined. An optically flat piece of tissue will thus be obtained. Carefully paint one surface of the tissue with methylene blue, keeping the other side free of stain. Wash off the stain quickly. Cover with a thin piece of glass. When examined with the microscope, a fairly well-stained histologic preparation will be seen. • Relaxed posture leads to senile emphysema, chronic bronchitis and spinal osteo-arthrosis with disabling root pains. • When difficulty is experienced in differentiating cardiac asthma from bronchial asthma, tests of circulation time are of value. Increased circulation time is found in the former; normal time in the latter. • The occurrence of attacks of paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea (cardiac asthma) is an indication of left venticular failure due to aortic insufficiency, hypertension or coronary-artery disease. • Turning the patient from one side to the other several times will often result in the detection of a previously inaudible pericardial friction rub when acute fibrinous pericarditis is present. • When the pulse becomes regular in a patient who has had auricular fibrillation and who has been receiving large doses of digitalis, it should not be concluded that the therapeutic effort has caused a cessation of the auricular fibrillation. For the patient's good, it is imperative to remember that the regular pulse may indicate an independent ventricular rhythm due to serious digitalis intoxication. • A headache which is periodic or paroxysmal, which increases in severity and which wakens a patient, should make one suspicious of increased intracranial pressure. • A headache which is constant both as to duration and severity, and which is described as a feeling of pressure, or as if a heavy weight were upon the head, or as if a tight band were drawn about the head is very apt to be a non-organic headache. • In a patient of 50 years or more who develops what seem to be neurotic symptoms, suspect an organic lesion, vascular disease, or syphilis as the most frequent causes. • A man of middle age v ho begins to show personality change, forgetfulness, untidiness, should be suspected of having C.N.S. lues, brain tumor or arteriosclerosis. • Severe, stabbing, sharp pains which are of short duration and which hop about, usually involving the lower half of the body, which disappear for weeks at a time and which are 196 brought on by weather changes, should suggest that tabes dorsalis be carefully ruled out. • Jacksonian or focal convulsions should make one rule out a brain tumor. • A minor head injury followed, after a latent period of weeks or months, by headache and mental deterioration—both progressive in nature, should suggest subdural hematoma. • A pain referred along the course of a root which is paroxysmal, severe, which is not affected by weather changes, is- worse at night, often wakes the patient and v hich is relieved by moving about, should make one suspicious of something of an organic nature which involves the root, such as tumor, inflammation. or pressure from some skeletal affair. • A severe shooting pain in the face v hich is paroxysmal, of short duration and initiated by movement, palpation, cold draughts and speaking, is a tic pain. If there is not complete relief between seizures then surgery should be approached with extreme caution. • A child who fails to develop voluntary control of micturition should be suspected of having a spina bifida with accompanying myelodysplasia. • Paraesthesias in the distal portion of the extremities, especially in a person of middle age. should cause one to suspect peripheral nerve degeneration.—most frequently accompanying a Pernicious Anemia. • Watch for retrocecal or pelvic location of appendix if the combination of typical history with very little evidence of local inflammation is presented. • Moderate but definite epigastric tenderness and muscle resistance, found on examining a patient with peptic ulcer, indicates a complication,—most commonly, chronic perforation. • Suspect appendicitis if supposed gastroenteritis lasts more than twenty-four hours. • In young adults with evidence of chronic obstruction and chronic inflammation, x-ray study of the small intestine will often reveal regional ileitis. Similarly, in more acute cases, a mass which is only slightly tender is very suggestive. • Don't forget to use the bony and cartilaginous structures only, as landmarks in the examination of the fat abdomen. With the combination of intraperitoneal infection followed by empyema, there is nearly always an intervening subphrenic abscess. • The most common cause for acute pain and tenderness in the left lower abdomen, after the age of forty, is diverticulitis of the colon. • If chills, fever, sepsis and slight jaundice occur after an abdominal operation, suspect pylephlebitis. • The vague type of dyspepsia in persons above forty is strongly suggestive of gastric carcinoma. The diagnosis of gastric neurosis in such patients should be made only after negative findings at exploration. • The symptoms of mucous stools with tenesmus, after abdominal operation, are indicative of pelvic abscess. Examine the rectum. • If parotitis develops in a post-operative patient, infection of the operative wound field can be found in the great majority of cases. • Be sure to decompress the stomach before an operation for ileus. • Don’t use gastric or intestinal suction any longer than necessary. It may seriously disturb chemical balance. • Attempt to aspirate every breast lesion as part of your routine examination. • Don't wait for fluctuation in diagnosis of deep seated infections like breast abscess. • Look out for tumor if serous pleural effusion recurs rapidly,—say every three to five days. Be sure the empyema cavity drains well until completely obliterated. • Next to tuberculosis, bronchiectasis is the most common cause for chronic productive cough in adolescent and young adults. • Never trust the diagnosis of unresolved pneumonia. • Think of carcinoma first in the diagnosis of all patients above forty who complain of chronic broncho-pulmonary symptoms. • The combination of acute or chronic cardiac decompensation with a small heart is indicative of cardiac tamponade. 107 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING djh:,“pi« herewith a record of their course at Temple University Hospital School of Nursing. The period which elapsed during this three year course has been one of educational experiences, knowledge, and adventure coupled with the esthetic enjoyment of the associations and services so much a part of our daily life. This vast storehouse of knowledge and the practical application of that knowledge forms a rich background for the well prepared nurse to meet the challenges and opportunities presenting themselves today. It is quite evident that the present day function of nursing embraces not only the care of the sick, but more emphatically the educational phase of the prevention of disease by teaching and inculcating into the minds of the people those health measures which establish firmly an understanding of physical well-being. Nurses today are accepting added and greater responsibilities—responsibilities to the patient, the nursing and allied professions, and society in general. They are deep-rooted in customs, traditions, sciences, and the complexities of modern life. Our activities and duties must be renewed with the manifestation of a willingness to serve and the realization that the ultimate happiness is only obtained through service, self-sacrifice, and doing for others. ttUtifii i u ni m a x i z s. tk £ L X ik X £ £ lJ£ a a t DzmfiL TO THE CLASS OF 1941: DELLA S. BERGEN. R.N.. B.S. Principal of the School of Nursing Director of Nursing Service The nurse of today must stand at the first line of health defense in every phase of human development, in every condition of society and at every economic level. She cannot gauge her ability by the retrospective yard-stick of any one school or institution, for nursing is an unmeasured democratic service which requires an ever-increasing knowledge, an ever-widening tolerance and an ever-growing understanding. This comes only to those whose spirit reaches out beyond the narrow confines of one community, state or nation and seeks to meet the needs of the perturbed peoples of the world. As members of this class you have had your basic preparation in a school of nursing where many faculty members are of wide renown. It has been your good fortune to have been closely associated with these outstanding teachers who by precept and example have taught that professional responsibility entails the conscientious alleviation of mankind's physical and mental suffering, irrespective of race, creed or nationality. It is my sincere wish that whatever honor or success may come to you in the pursuit of your profession this factor may be the motivating influence of your life. Della S. Bergen. MARGARET E. HUEY. R.N., B.S. Assistant Director of Nursing 200 ETHEL WHITE, R.N. Assistant Director of Nursing RENA L. WHITE. R. N.. B. S. Educational Director JEAN DERK. R. N. Instructor HELEN ROGERS. A. B.. R. N. Instructor I. LILLIAN E. DOGGETT. R. N. 2. MILDRED DUNN. R. N. MARGARET BURT. R. N. Assistant to Medical Diroctor 1. EUGENIA C. WASSELL. R. N. 2. ELIZABETH C. SMAILER. R. N. 201 JEAN DERK. R.N. With the utmost respect for her activities in promoting good will and fellowship among the student body, and for her unceasing efforts in our behalf, the class of 1941 gratefully dedicates this yearbook to Miss Jean Derk. The interest, enthusiasm, and spirit of helpfulness manifested by Miss Derk as class adviser aTe without peer in our life here at Temple. She has stimulated us to develop creative concepts in daily life, as well as an insight into the potentialities and realities of our profession. Through her staunch character and magnetic personality, she has permeated the social and professional activities of the class, and imbued each and every one of us with the desire to strive for higher levels of social usefulness. Miss Derk was always prepared, not only to cooperate and assist with, but also to direct any activity sponsored by the group. Her contributions and guidance have been invaluable to us in our course, and have made pleasant those personal associations that we have enjoyed. 202 CLASS OF 1941: The honors you have bestowed upon me during the past three years by no means compare with this accorded me now. I have watched with interest your growth and development into nurses whom I hope the profession will accept with pride. Beyond expressing my sincere appreciation, what can I say? You have completed three years of endless work, great effort and much happiness and now the time has come when you should have some perception of the nursing profession. I would never attempt to bring to your minds a knowledge of the high faith and responsibility placed by society upon our profession, for you realize that already; your training has given you an awareness of your obligation. Most of you know now that field in nursing which you will follow. Ordinarily there would be little else to say to you, however, these are not ordinary times. We are watching the world, as we have known it, go up into flames. Our institutions, our customs, our very way of life are threatened by the march of barbarism. In speaking this way, I make no distinction between nations, races or creeds. The picture is black, but here and there a pin point of light is visible. We witness the actions of men and warring nations; men who give up their homes, families and lives to defend an ideal. This is not a new phenomenon. All recorded history gives evidence of the conscience of men struggling against that which would destroy their birthright, dissolve the progress they have brought about with toil and sweat. Is there, then, anything to which we can turn? I think so. There is still another fortress of hope and this will not bow to force. Even in aggressor nations, which flaunt their invincibility and their contempt for weakness, men fall ill, are wounded and die; and though the war machine be powerful, material cannot function without men. Dictators need doctors and nurses as much as they need instruments of war. They may do away with all other decency, but this particular errand of mercy transcends power of destruction. It is easy to see that in the worst of all possible worlds, we still face a fragment of good which remains out of this turmoil of blood and battle. That is our profession. There can be no more profound treatment of the nobility in the service we render, for while one shred of goodwill remains, evil shall not triumph. Class of 1941, 1 salute you I In doing this, I also salute our faith in the future. May I leave with you a few words which were written by James Allen? Will you make an effort to remember them? Into your hands will be placed the exact result of your thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less. What ever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your visions, your ideals. You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration. 203 Jean Derk, R.N. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ELEANOR N. BECK Hummelstown, Pennsylvania Chorus Manager of Basketball Team MARIELLA BOWERS Hightstown, New Jersey Secretary of Senior Class Skull Staff The work that tells is the work of the skillful hand, directed by tho ccol head, and inspired by the loving heart. -Florence Nightingale. 204 SCHOOL OF NURSING CATHERINE H. BUMGARDNER Danville, Virginia Student Council Skull” Staff CONSTANCE F. CAREY Waterville, Maine Basketball Fan She is not afraid of the lowliest service, and she does not fail in the highest. Lche. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FLORENCE M. CHRISTMAN Kresgeville, Pennsylvania Chapel Pianist JANE K. COGGESHALL Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Skull Staff Nursing is a test ol character. Richard Cabot. 206 SCHOOL OF NURSING E. MAE COOLIDGE Wellsboro, Pennsylvania Treasurer of Senior Class T. LUCILLE DOSTER Ephrata, Pennsylvania Basketball Team Class Secretary 1940 The healthy citizen is the nation's most valuable economic asset.—Annie Warburton Goodrich. 207 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DOROTHY MARIE DROZDOWSKI Shenandoah. Pennsylvania Poster Committee DOROTHY GRACE ERICKSON West Pittston, Pennsylvania Co-editor of the Skull Municipal Hospital Affiliation Student Council 1939-1940 Chorus Now seek the strength to use which thou hast spent in getting.—Robert Browning. 208 SCHOOL OF NURSING ANN EVANCHO Eckley, Pennsylvania Chorus RUTH MAE FROMME Minersville, Pennsylvania Skull Staff Visiting Nursing Affiliation The protection of health is the responsibility of the practitlonors of the healing arts. —The American Journal cf Nursing. September 1940, p. S77. 209 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RUTH LOUISE GEORGE Rigelsville, Pennsylvania Class Humorist MARIE GRENOBLE Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Treasurer of Student Council To prepare one for complete living is the function of education.—-Herbert Spencer. 210 SCHOOL OF NURSING HELEN M. HERTZOG Bentleyville, Pennsylvania Student Council Skull Staff Library Committee HELEN J. HOXIE Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Scholastic Interests The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.—Disraeli. 211 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ALICE F. HENRY Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Co-Editor of Skull'' Student Council EUGENIA M. KIELAR Nanticoke, Pennsylvania Class Poet Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady irem which he suiters. —Sir William Osier. 212 SCHOOL OF NURSING ANNE M. LINEAWEVER Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania Skull Staff Class President 1940 Municipal Hospital Affiliation ANYARITA O. MHLEY Hazleton, Pennsylvania Class President 1941 Skull Staff Student Council In timos cl stress, the health problems of the military and civilian population are inseparable. —Thomas Parran. 213 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JANE MORLEY MAGUIRE Wheeling, West Virginia Municipal Hospital Affiliation MARY JANE MALOY Bellefonte, Pennsylvania Municipal Hospital Affiliation Have no teaching without a patient for a text, and the best toaching is that taught by the patient himself.—Sir William Osier. 214 SCHOOL OF NURSING ETHEL A. RAY Clearfield, Pennsylvania Chorus RITA REDING Buffalo, New York Chorus The handing over to a stranger the care of a life precious beyond all computation may be one of the greatest earthly trials.—Sir William Osier. 215 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HELEN L. SEELY Nescopeck, Pennsylvania President of Student Council 1941 GLADYS MURIEL SONTAG White Haven, Pennsylvania Sports Fan Basketball Enthusiast Health is that quality of life that renders tho individual fit to live most and serve best. —Williams. 216 SCHOOL OF NURSING AUGUSTA SMITH Perryville, Maryland Chorus LORAINE THELMA SCHUG Atlantic City, New Jersey Chorus And all knowledge is vain save when there is work. -Kahlil Gibran. 217 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ELEANOR SCHEIBLE Oxford Valley, Pennsylvania Basketball Team Photography Enthusiast PAULINE G. TARBY Union town, Pennsylvania Visiting Nurse Affiliation The art of remembering is the art of thinking. -William James. SCHOOL OF NURSING LAURA E. WAMBOLD Nazareth, Pennsylvania Skull Staff Basketball Team MARY FRANCES WILSON Newport News, Virginia Skull Staff Library Committee Dance Committee Lot today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. -Kahlil Gibran. 219 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL NELLIE I. WARDROP Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania Class Treasurer 1940 The quotations in this section are used with permission from the following: The Macmillan Company for those by Annie Warburton Goodrich from THE SOCIAL AND ETHICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF NURSING. Alfred A. Knopf. Inc., for the quotations from Kahlil Gibran's, THE PROPHET. The American Journal of Nursing—September 1940, p977— A Tentative Code for the Nursing Profession. For myself, I have done my duty. I have identified my fate with that of the horoic dead. —Florence Nightingale. Quoted by Sir Edward Cook. 220 STUDENT COUNCIL: Standing, loft to right: Phoebe Byrnes. Anyarita Mhley. Alice Henry. Leona Knight. Soated: Marie Parry. Ruth Moriority. Corresponding Secretary; Orel Heinlv. Recording Secretary; Helon Seely, President; Catherine Bumgardner. Vice-President; Marie Grenoble, Treasurer. STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION The Student Association of Temple University Hospital School of Nursing was organized in 1938. Its purpose is to foster wholesome group living, to establish and provide maximum individual development of the student, to foster the highest possible academic and professional standards, to provide a broader intellectual and social life, and to insure a helpful understanding in student-faculty relationships. Students are formally accepted into the association when they receive the cap of the school at the completion of the pre-clinical period. A cooperative organization such as the Student Government Association in which the students share in the regulation and governing of their activities makes for a better morale in the school, and stimulates the individual to develop principles of initiative, responsibility, and self-discipline. John Dewey says that: Discipline represents original native endowments turned through gradual exercise into effective power. The Student Council is the governing body of the association and its members include: President, Helen Seely; Vice-president, Catherine Bumgardner; Recording Secretary, Orel Heinly; Corresponding Secretary, Ruth Moriority; Treasurer, Marie Grenoble; President of Senior Class, Anyarita Mhley; Senior Representatives, Helen Hertzog, Alice Henry; Intermediate President, Marie Parry; and Intermediate Class Representatives, Phoebe Byrnes and Leona Knight. The duties of the Council are concerned with the execution of the by-laws of the constitution of the organization. Problems relating to student life are discussed and suggestions made for their improvement. Through the work of various committees appointed by the president, the social and educational aspects of student life are emphasized. Formal dances are sponsored yearly by the association. The success of the dance held at Mitten Hall on January 24, 1941, reflects favorably on Frances Wilson, Chairman of the Dance Committee, and Marie Grenoble and Helen Seely who assisted her. The basketball team is the most popular formal extra-curricular activity for the students and those thus interested derive great pleasure from this sport. Lucille Doster headed the Athletic Committee, and Eleanor Beck was manager of the team. Credit is due the Library Committee— Frances Wilson, Helen Hertzog, and Frances Wingert—for their efforts in organizing the Student Nurses Lending Library. The library has expanded rapidly in the short time of its existence. The volumes consist of bestsellers of fiction, biography, adventure, and travel. Staff members and friends graciously contributed books which are the source of much pleasure to the students. The values of student government are intangible. Certainly the result is one of a socially efficient individual whose background is adequate for her to meet the demands of professional organizations. 221 INTERMEDIATE CLASS CLASS OF 1943: JUNIOR CLASS: Back row. loll to right: Viola Carl-bcrg, Mildred Ford. Mary Antennucci, Martha Poterson. Isabol Carson. Elizabeth Morgan. Elizabeth Gribbin. Grace Bohr. Bonnoll Raiierty. Thelma Kemp. Alice Belckanich. Mario Hedosh. Doris Yocum. Eleanor Mosicr, Katherine Leech. Kathleen Dahlon. Arlene Scherer. Mary Calabroso. Mary Squier. Doris Parsons. Winifred Harding. Ruth Stokes. Botty Lester. Sealed, left to right: Anna Brasko. Mary Oltcan. Paulino Zaborowski. Jane Tompkins. Flora Wilson. Anna Barrett. Marian Werner. Mildred Yuskowski. Holene Demyanovich. CLASS OF 1942: INTERMEDIATE CLASS: Third row. left to right: Sarah Prostopino. Dorothy Boring. Holen Polinka. Helen McAllister. Vivian Stahl. Elsie Washburn. Phoebo Byrnes. Clara O'Noal. Orel Heinly, Elizabeth Cav. iston, Alicia Spudis, Erna Siringhaus. Second row. left to ri ht: Monica Thomas. Constanceo Sauln. Ruth Moriority. Yolanda Banfi. Leona Knight, Elva Newhauser, Mildred Zimnisky. Laberta Galster, Freda Georgotson. Catherine Gillespie. Ruth Boyle. Ada Spcirs. Frances Wingert. Ruth Zimmerman. Frances Vercusky. Sue Super, Edna Woods. Ida Biscotti. Seated, left to right: Mary Ancoravige, Amelia Reed. Antoinette Gayusky, Dorothy Shank. Marie Parry. Mary Keeley. Helen Brill, Betty Coleman. Lucy Houck. Hazel Groff. JUNIOR CLASS A PATIENT PATIENT by Lea Smith I think that I shall never see A patient who so patiently Lets strangers wash her feet and face As our phlegmatic Mrs. Chase. A patient who, in calm repose. Lets probies irrigate her nose, Or when they give her a hot pack, And happen to expose her back, She never murmurs nor complains, But in her state of calm remains, A credit to the human race. A blessing on thee, Mrs. Chase! From the American Journal of Nursing, January 1939, page 27. 223 1. The essence of modern surgical technique as demonstrated by the Seniors. 2. Perfect drooling. 3. Miss Wasseil supervises Miss Dos-ter as she listens to fetai heart sounds. 4. Mom Smailer after a delivery. (Incidentally the patient had twins.) 5. Miss Neider has a patient in the Hubbard Tank in Physio-Therapy. 6. Kitty Bumgardner sets up for Jack-son Clinic. 7. The successful removal of a foreign body. 8. Dr. J. Norman Coombs glances at Miss Dark's book. 9. Dr. Clare on Dressing Carriage. Miss Ray is assisting. 10. Mr. Specht checks the Tidal Drainage apparatus. 11. Miss Evar.cho brings the baby from the nursery. 12. Liney removes sterile supplies from the autoclave. 13. Contentment. 14. Mother and child!! 15. Michael and his bunny. 16. The patient-lifter invented by ingenious Dr. Chamberlain is demonstrated by Miss Erickson. 17. Remember Dr. Muller? 224 NIGHT DUTY At sundown, the shadows of weakness and ill health settle down upon patients as the shadows of night cover the earth. All the distractions of the day have disappeared, and the sick folk have only their diseased bodies, distorted minds, and discouraged hearts to keep them company. They dread the night so their aches and pains torment them and rob them of sleep. -(Effi© Dinkelacker.) Night duty offers the nurse one of the greatest opportunities for the development of initiative, reliability, and self-reliance. As the above quotation suggests, night duty has an entirely different aspect from day duty. The patients' aches and pains seem less intense during the day because of the diversion of hospital routine, but they are greatly magnified at night. Thus, greater tact, patience and understanding must be displayed by the nurse. To reassure the patient, to ease his pain, and induce him into a night's rest is truly nursing. 1. EFFIE I. DINKELACKER. R. N. Night Supervisor 2. HELEN M. OTT. R. N. Assistant Night Supervisor 3. ANNA A. POLINKA. R. N. Night Supervisor on Obstotrics 4. EDNA I. STEWART. R. N. Assistant Night Supervisor A NIGHTMARE Our course of lectures on night duty v as completed and I knew my turn would come soon, but I little expected it when I v as called to the nursing office one Thursday noon and informed that I would report to 2A on Saturday night at 9 P. M. for my first night duty experience. I stumbled out—no response could I bring forth. It was too much—I hadn't even worked there, but I had heard about the t.p.r.'s and blood pressures every fifteen minutes, ice coolers, convulsive patients and craniotomies. On Saturday night, I nervously awaited the hour to report to Miss Dinkelacker, the night supervisor. In due time I was inspected — hair off collar, shoes with polish, nails without polish, and uniform neat. I arrived on the floor, and after the relief nurse explained about each patient, I suddenly found that I was ALONE with twenty-three patients including three craniotomies, one status epilepticus patient, and a cardiac patient. Buzz, buzz— two bells on, and I was off, but by 11 P. M. evening cares were completed. by that time the interne appeared, and ordered the routine 3-1-16 enema, t.p.r. and blood pressure q 15 minutes, and glucose by vein. Hurriedly I consulted my night duty lectures and discovered that I had yet to collect drugs, fix flowers, check narcotics, and clean the desk. By 5:45 I was ready to awaken the ward patients for morning care, and the sun was just coming over the flat roofs of North Philadelphia. At quarter to seven, a day nurse appeared, and I heaved a sigh of relief. My first night was over! Well, it could have been worse. CLASS OFFICERS: Loft to right: Mariolla Bowers. Secretary, Anyarita Mhloy, Proa-idont. Anno Linoawevor. Vicc-Prosidont. Mao Coolidgo, Treasurer. SKULL STAFF: Lolt to right: Catherine Bumgardnor, Anyarita Mhloy, Francos Wilson. Alice Henry and Dorothy G. Erickson, co-oditors. Anno Linoawovor, Mariolla Bowors, Laura Wambold. Another nurse relieved me for supper. I was alarmed when I heard that there was an accident case with a fractured skull in the dispensary, for I realized there v as an empty bed in men's ward. I hurried back to the floor, filled the ice coolers, and answered several bells. An uneasy feeling gripped me, and I thought it would be a good idea to make rounds. Indeed it was, for here v as the cardiac patient, supposedly at absolute rest, roaming aimlessly about the room. I heard the elevator stop at second floor. Then, coming toward me, I saw a stretcher. I had the greatest intuition to run in the opposite direction for I realized it was the fractured skull case. With Bob's assistance, I got him into bed, and 226 PRE-CLINICAL CLASS: Standing, left to right: Botty M. Jones. Doloros Smith. Susan Solkrogg. Grace Lioborman. Mary McQuiston. Kathryn Bowman. Justine Yurkovich. Seated, left to right: Marian L. Weston. Elizaboth Maynard. Mario Mirmak. Florence J. Morrison. Dorothy Bloockor. June C. Culver. Soated on iloor. left to right: Betty Crayton. Irone Riebe. Margaret A. Wiles. Cathorino Rosoll. Betty Shaw. Betty Hale. NOTES FROM MY DIARY by I. M. A. Nurse September 12, 1938: Alter a long journey on the train, I found myself with no companions in the City of Brotherly Love. It must have been brotherly love that caused the taxi strike, and there wasn't one in the town. I had to walk from the station to the hospital. After the formal interview with the director, I was shown to my room on the top floor of the modest three story dwelling labeled, HOUSE FOR NURSES. To be perfectly frank, I didn't expect the elaborate boudoir I left at home, but when I saw the two by four with two beds, dresser, a table and chair, the only thing I could do was close the door and laugh. October 13, 1938: My first birthday away from home. No cake, no candles, no party, just classes and tears. Miss Suvitsky demonstrated the art of bedmaking this morning. Tomorrow we are to return the demonstration using Mrs. Chase for a patient. November 24, 1938: My first day on duty. Passed fresh water, filled water pitchers and passed more fresh water. I was more afraid of the patients than they were of me. I couldn't give a bedpan to a patient yet, but told her I might be able to give her one tomorrow. December 6, 1938: What a day! Eight hours of class in the Med. School. Dr. Oppen-heimer taught us the torturous procedure of pithing frogs. Ugh!! Anatomy was so dry this afternoon except when my roommate asked Dr. Roxby what makes dimples. (She has two.) December 15, 1938: Gave Mrs. Johnson morning care in the brief time of two hours. I was so nervous that I spilled the water all over the floor and rubbed her back with mouthwash. December 25, 1938: Merry Christmas! Got up at five to join the other students in singing carols throughout the hospital. The atmosphere was filled with the true Christmas spirit. Beautiful greens, colored lights and large trees decorated the hospital. Yesterday I got a package from home—plenty to eat, and incidentally, plenty to eat it. January 20, 1939: Helped with a blood transfusion for the first time today. February 1, 1939: Seventeen new members added to our class. March 9, 1939: Capping. The Candlelight Ceremony at Mitten Hall impressed upon us the importance of our new responsibilities as we repeated the Florence Nightingale Pledge. May 3, 1939: Funniest thing happened today. One of my classmates was collecting visiting cards in 2B. The hour was almost up when a distinguished looking gentleman rushed in and asked to see a certain patient. Pardon me, she asked. Do you have a visiting card? Young lady, do you know who I am? —an indignant reply. No, sir, I'm afraid I don't. Well, I'M Dr. Fay. HEAD NURSES: Back row. left to right: Lois Frank. Mary Garrett. Yotta Dinning. Eva Harpstor. Helen Ritter. E. Pauline Shonk. Anne Hartman. Front row, loft to right: Joyco Poole, Mary Docktor, Mary Oswald. Leah Anderson. Elizabeth Deremor. Not picturod: Holon Bishop. Alberta Dill. Adeline English. Helen Roscoo. Mae Rubins. Mariana Smith. Poarl Tiley. Marian Tussey, Margaret White. July 16, 1939: Philadelphia is so hot. It was scorching today. I rather wish that I were working in hibernation. August 10, 1939: Vacation at last. Two weeks of rest away from the heat of the city, the responsibilities of the hospital, and the care of patients. September 1, 1939: Started my second year with renewed vigor. Received a black stripe to wear on my cap. This designates me as an Intermediate student. October 1, 1939: Classes began. That orthopedic lecture was as dry as a bone. I'm working in the diet kitchen where I am learning to set up special trays. December 25, 1939: Merry Christmas! At home. February 1, 1940: My first day in the O. R. and I'm on call. What if there's an emergency? February 16, 1940: What a day! While circulating in j. R.'s room I dropped a pin. A deep voice bellowed, Do you have to make so much noise? Scrubbed alone for an appendectomy. Thrill! Thrill! Good surgical technique a la confidence. April 8, 1940: I'm broke tonight, so instead of going to a movie. I'm reading Kitty Foyle. Oh! what a woman! June 18, 1940: I'm on obstetrics now. Had my first delivery today. More babies bom More blood in the dishpan Me without my boots And we have the cutest intern. (Hosner) July 21, 1940: Night duty on obs. What fun! Found a very peculiar order on a chart which read: Please wake S. S. Hume q 2 h., i. e. 11, 1, 3, 5, 7, to hear fetal heart sounds. That's a new one to me! August 1, 1940: Nursery is my chief interest now and all my troubles are little ones. I wonder why premies are so cute. August 17, 1940: Homeward bound once more. Three weeks this year to eat, sleep, and have a good time. September 9, 1940: Returned to T. U. H. and began my last year with a firm foundation, two stripes on my cap and Senior privileges. September 12, 1940: Moving once again. This time to 21 and 23. October 1, 1940: Affiliations with Visiting Nursing and Muni for Communicable Diseases began. December 8, 1940: Bake sales are plenty of fun and work especially the night before. Fried eggs are good too. January 6, 1941: Frequent gatherings of the yearbook staff and an extensive photographic campaign for the Skull. January 24, 1941: Annual midwinter formal at Mitten Hall was another social success. February 28, 1941: On a fourteen week sojourn to Children's Ward with pneumonia, measles, and more pneumonia. June: Graduation, the survival of the fittest and successful culmination of three years' labor. Now, I am a nurse. 22S RESIDENT PHYSICIANS RESIDENT PHYSICIANS: Back row. toil to tight: Doctors Fred Rayburn. Honry Woloshin. Goorge Mark. Howard Bakor. Wilson Snydor, John Bartram, Norman Kondall. Front row. left to right: Franklin Wilkins. Millard Lawrence. Dean Parkinson. Louis Hinman. Joseph Weber. Not pictured: Bruce Roxby. Eugene Berkman. Fred Rhinelander. Walter Cohn. Henry Wycis. O. P. Large. Arthur Seiler. Thomas Campbell. Anthony Pietrolango. INTERNES: Back row, loft to right: Doctors Francis Saul, Edward Nauglcr, Taylor Caswoll, Milton Maloney. Charles Norris. Howard Staulier. Horbert Stauffer. Halsey Warner, Harold Hyman. Middle row. left to right: Joseph Markle, Charles Price. Alfred Wagnor, Charlos Forney. Carl Fisher. Norman Learner. Front row. loft to right: Clarence Holland. John Clare. Doan Parkinson, Frank Doming. Joseph Connelly. Not pictured: Merlo Kimmol. Francis Myor. INTERNES AN ODE TO AN OLD PAIR OF SHOES by Mariella Bowers They've served their day—that old pair of shoes They're worn out completely, but still those I choose. When did I get them? Let's see, last July I wore them all season, wet and dry. These last few days they look no better polished My roommate says they'd be better abolished But I hate to give them up, they're so comfortably old Twice they've been heeled and once resoled. Six weeks of the diet kitchen—through grease and grime They're spotted and cracked till they're not worth a dime. Since their trip to the O. R., they've never been the same. They're soiled and streaked with many a stain Of soap, mercurochrome, iodine, and blood And soaked when the sterilizer ran in a flood. But now I really must throw them out They're a disgrace to my uniform, without a doubt. So tomorrow a new pair I must choose They've served their day—that old pair of shoes. IDENTIFICATION You can always tell a Probie by the expression on her face. You can always tell a Junior 'cause she's changed her looks for grace. You can always tell a Senior by her dignity and such. You can always tell an Intern, but you can't tell him much. —Anonymous. 1. Coke Session. 2. An Ode to an old pair oi shoos. 3. Sleeping Beauty. 4. Mid-Winter Formal. 5- Diet Kitchen- 6. Skull Dance. 230 AFFILIATIONS Any affiliation offers the student nurse an opportunity to broaden her basic courses by presenting types of nursing seldom seen in general hospitals. It is recognized as a valuable educational process in progressive schools. This year an affiliation with Philadelphia Hospital for Contagious Diseases was added to the curriculum. Four students in the group were able to take this affiliation for a period of three months. Theoretical knowledge in the study of specific disease, entities, medical asepsis, and practical work contributed to the course. Prevention of communicable diseases is an important part of the health program of any community. By early recognition of symptoms and isolation, it is possible to control the spread of these diseases. Immunization is of greatest importance as a prophylactic and therapeutic agent. By the use of biological products available today, the morbidity rate of certain communicable diseases has been decreased remarkably. Pictured at the right: Administration Building at Municipal Hospital (P.H.C.D.), a view of the grounds, scarlet fever ambulance, local headquarters of the Visiting Nurse Society, and the work of the Visiting Nurse in the home. For the past three years, an affiliation with the Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia has made it possible for Temple University Hospital students to have experience in public health nursing where the nurse sees the patient in his home environment and realizes the problems confronting patients who are not hospitalized. The Visiting Nurse attends the patient during acute and chronic illnesses and instructs someone in the home to care for the patient when she is not present. Many social and economic problems confront the public health nurse. Her approach to the family as a unit invokes understanding and tolerance in meeting situations. The Visiting Nurse plays an important role in health supervision. She stresses maintenance of good hygienic habits in an effort to control disease in the ever-growing field of public health nursing. 231 TEMPLE PERSONALITIES ENLARGEMENT THROUGH SUFFERING Dr. W. Edward Chamberlain Once upon a time there was a nurse whose qualities were such that all men sang her praises. So kind that the bringing of solace to the sick became her chief concern, so efficient that few could compete with her in the quick relief of bodily discomfort, her discernment such that she seemed to possess more than the usual allotment of five senses, her understanding such as to suggest some God-like power of divination,—how came she to develop such extraordinary character and personality? The answer lies in the fact that she herself was a Sufferer. Christ taught, and scientists agree, that only through trial and suffering does a human being develop bigness and character. Where the way is smooth, man soon develops physical inadequacies and littleness of spirit. This is as true of nations as of individuals. It is hard for us humans to believe that anything as horrible as the present World War could possibly produce other than malign results, or could possibly have a place in the great Master Plan of Divine Providence. Yet one has not necessarily to be a Pollyanna to realize that silver linings are apt to go with clouds, and that once the verdict of history has been made apparent, many a human tragedy has its place as a necessary stepping stone in Humanity's upward struggle. Take, for example, the present plight of the blessed and valiant Britons. Were the British really a nation of shop-keepers ? Did they, like US, worship the God, Mammon? Today they have adopted new standards, by which material things have yielded to values of the spirit. Petty vices of selfishness and covetousness have been replaced by such Christian virtues as unselfish devotion to the welfare of others. Can anyone say that what produces such a beneficent change in human character is altogether bad? What of ourselves? Is it not time for us to awaken to the dreadful import of recent world events? The handwriting on the wall has seldom been so legible. The Powers of Darkness are abroad and MUST be defeated. To accomplish this absolutely necessary task, America must consecrate herself as a Nation,—you and I must consecrate ourselves as individuals. And let us not forget that in the doing of this, our bounden duty, we will grow in stature, and in favor with God and Man. 233 THIS IS WHAT MAKES THE THRILL by Julia C. Stimson, R.N. President, American Nurses' Association Young people like you, ready to start off on a professional career, not vaguely groping and unprepared, but fitted for lives of usefulness, knowing the need of the world for your kind of help, and knowing howto continue to secure the special kinds of preparation the needs demand —you represent immeasurable power for good, as citizens and as nurses. You are needed and wanted. You have much to give and your store of gifts need not be exhausted, for you know how to build up your reserves. Each year new opportunities in nursing are presenting themselves -opportunities not for the mediocre, but for the well-prepared—and each year, too, new forms of preparation for those opportunities are being develped so that you may be equal to the demands. It is this knowledge of power and possibility that makes the thrill. You all know of Florence Nightingale's lamp. With light from that single lamp nurses around the world are lighting new lamps in dark places. In the knowledge and strength of their common bond, they are no insignificant factors in advancing civilization. You are about to add your strength to theirs. As you clear away prejudices and foster sympathy and understanding; as you help to set people free from the chains of sickness and disability; as you give to little children opportunity for the attainment of their full measure of health; as you improve conditions of living; as you do these things, there is possible for you a happiness, a hopefulness, a calmness of soul that, even in this time of insecurity and uncertainty should give you courage to believe that your efforts to attain new levels of social usefulness will not be in vain. We and you, as you take your place in our profession, have much to do. New avenues of opportunity are constantly opening before us. We must know more about ourselves and how better to extend adequate skilled nursing care to every person needing it. And so as you start out you have the congratulations and the best wishes of the older nurses. We are a little older, a little wiser, perhaps, through experience, a little more confident of the need there is for you in the good life. We welcome you to the happiest and most satisfactory work in the world. Major Julia C. Stimson has had an outstanding career in nursing and is one of the leading contemporaries in the profession. A graduate of the New York Hospital Training School for Nursos, Mai or Stimson holds degrees from Vgssar College. Washington University. and Mount Holyoko College. Her wide experiences range from institutional service, social service, and war nursing to her present position as President of the American Nurses' Association. Major Stimson is the only woman with the rank of major in the United States Army. She has been honored by governments here and abroad for her distinguished work. 234 Hold high through life the little lamp you have so nobly earned. It will burn brightly through the knowledge which has been poured so abundantly into it by those who have directed your instruction and experience. As one lamp lights another, nor grows less, so shall you light a million lamps upon a thousand hills whose penetrating rays shall guide and guard the stumbling, halting steps of our civilization on its long pilgrimage toward the ideal. 235 returning fzom ±umms. z fitzaiuzzi joz a La± ±ids ['out, it fca± riiMY Ton.31 MITTEN IIAI1 Qcfclock IRISHMAN . . . the philosophy underlying good bedside leaching consists of an attempt by the instructor to interpret the reactions of the patient to his past and immediate environmental conditions; to illustrate didactic descriptions of disease by identifying the subjective and objective components of the clinical picture presented by the patient. The student here fust learns that nc complicated memory system, which makes possible the enumeration of long lists of symptoms, will serve his purpose. He here becomes acquainted with the necessity of mentally metabolizing clinical facts and of deriving lrom this process a diagnostic conclusion which ho can defend. No excuse should be taken for shoddy thinking, but, by the same token, credit should be given to the student when mental processes have been sound, no matter whether the deductions drawn are right or wrong. It is only at the bedside that the student first begins to develop sound generalizations as to the probable cause of an illness displaying certain definite general characteristics. The student soon appreciates that the recognition of the most minor physical sign, or the evaluation of a seemingly little important historical fact, may make possible a most difficult diagnosis. He learns that before each individual became a patient he v as a person and so he continues. He is taught to use his six senses, the last being common sense, in looming why the patient ails and in deciding what to do about it. He is required to know much of the psychology of a human being in distress. Knowing this, the student quickly develops for himself his own rules for bedside deportment. —I. C. Deane, M.D. .. tlzan ... on to THE SPIRIT OF TEMPLE TO THE CLASS OF 1941 by Temple Fay. M.D. Greetings! And may the road you travel ever show The footprints and the shadow of Hippocrates Who precedes you in this journey Perhaps just beyond the turn Or you may oven find him rosting at some sparkling Spring of Life V here you may well pause for counsel and refreshment. His is more than just a legendary name. His must have boon a spirit warm, intense To cheer us on until this very day. Make no mistake about his greatness Even more impressive because of the limited facilities Afforded to him in the practice of his healing Art. Each year our laboratories And our ever changing practice reaffirm his simple truths. Problems may be solved in many ways But there can be but one answer and one final truth. That Hippocrates' mind was able to comprehend Fundamental requirements of health And causes of disease Was not so strange for men thought of men And pondered deeply in the Golden Age of Greece. The fact remains No laboratories, blood counts, x-rays, nor countless drugs Wero recognized and yet disease was treated, cured and healed Almost as often as it is today. Over-impressed we stand By glittering physical attributes To pour upon the patient in the hopes Of overwhelming the disease Or removing of its cause. Yet even those who see The rapidly changing organizations of today Cannot help but pause at times And wish for quiet, cool and fragrant solitude As in the Temples of Healing long ago Where deep shadows played Silhouetting Corinthian columns on the floor Cool stones to help the fevered sufferer Long hours of careful observation. Nourishing, refreshing drinks and cooling oils Perfumed odors from the incense pots about the floor Where sat also quiet, serious men Observing and recording for mankind. Here. too. were operations on the brain Here, too, wero fashioned splints and artificial limbs Hero, too. the wounds of battle found soothing dressings and relief from pain. When darkness fell, the vigil of the night was taken up By those who studied breathing, pulse and fever changes in their wards For human wards these wero of State and man With offerings to the gods And all that solemn grandeur which brings the souls Of men close to one another and the Infinite. Then there was little knowledge, much in care And many hours spent in hopeful prayer. Today these same needs besot the man When illness strikes him down. Rest, and care, and gentle hands Mean much to help to bear his pain Food and drinks of proper kind And all bs it, much of that which helps to share the suffering And attempt to bear the burden of something Greater than man seems quite able to command. 238 And though the knowledge grows Books and words accumulate And though our mothods of disease detection and control increase Beyond the abilities of not one man to comprehend There still remains the secret of success Outside of all these modern gifts. To understand the sufferor And to help him share his plight Is the first great lesson that we should observe. To use our knowledge. Recognizing that it cannot alone avail. Will gradually become more evident As you travel on the road of Life. Faith, reassurance and the conviction That such measures for relief will soon prevail Is necessary for doctor and the patient too. There is something good v ithin the human hand Which words cannot portray But which long custom has revealed transfers From one fellow being to another The unspoken message from the past And the hope for future courage. These hands of ours Are not to be Just skilled precision tools That guido a knife or casually record a pulse. These hands can transfer more than drugs, or words, or skill of any kind. From them there flows, if you believo. The ossonco which makes of your art, Medicine, surgery or advice The more successful than the other man's. You who learn to use the modern adjuncts of today And yet apply them gently with a reassuring prayer Will find somohow a healing touch and soothing answer to the pain And when the nocds be Strong, firm and resolute hands Can force the courage that it takes To fight off disaster and impending death. Your books and teachings You will find of value Experience and skill are slow to be acquired But your success will oft depend Upon the message that your hands themselves Bear to your patient when you first grasp his When quest for help brings him to your door Or when you count the pulse Of those who face the ebbing tide of Life. March on With faith in the purpose that you hold above all else. Wind on Along this well trod road. Not with eyes downcast to soe Only the footprints and the litter left by those Who went so carelessly before But glancing now and then ahead, beyond and far above. The road winds into sunlight, health and life! The scenery here is more than grand And high above the harmony of the spheres Told us by Pythagoras so many years ago. And should you ever grow too certain of this Life Its way and its material side Glance at the nebulous of Andromeda Whose million suns and stars Are but a fltcker to the human eye And yet there lives a universe Far greeter than our own Of which the earth forms but a speck In something vast beyond our mental grasp. Carry on the high purpose of your work! The days are few. the time too brief that you may holp Before it is too late. The fight which you begin this year is too soon o'er. Live not in vain But justify your ovory day. Of all the years throughout the pest The rich fruit of science is entrusted to your hands. Guard well this treasure for Your journey may see such harmony That will never come again. Do not forgot, Hippocrates is just ahoad and not behind. You must bear on and bring the fruit To him who planted wisely in the past. You must not lose, Nor can you fail to meet him at the Spring, That Spring of Life where you and all v ill pause Perhaps to glimpse the fitness of it all, To justify a smile from him Who also bore the battle well That we may serve in hope To bring relief of pain And health of body, mind and soul. To those who struggle on this Earth The doctrine of eternal peace. And now the Temple of today Across whose scientific halls The shadow of a hand is cast Up-raised m benediction, strong, firm and large. The blessing of a man who found The health of soul within a healthy frame And knew that healthy mon should seek their God. Here. too. the faith in bringing back again The priest of Medicine, skilled in Art And yet deep reverence for the force That makes things live and breathe And praise the source of all eternal light. O'er Temple and its healing halls Lies Conwell’s shadow, a protecting wing. Seek close to home and ye shall find A doctrine of a simple man For simple souls who find tongue to praise The work which he began and still leads on. The Temple of the healing Art Is filled with shadows of the great And yet somehow there seems to be The unseen presence of this world of happy souls Urging us to carry on Not the name alone but all that is of good and helpful aid As he would have it at the first And as he has taught it to the last. 239 BRONCHO- ESOPHAGOLOGY The presence of the world-famed Jackson Clinic is felt in each of the many courses in Temple Medical School. From the initial exposure as freshmen, when we peeped at the post-graduate teaching in the Chevalier Jackson Research Department of Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy, to the senior Saturday lectures on endoscopy, we could not but realize what a widespread influence and fame the Jackson-developed specialty has obtained in modern medicine. But our contacts were entirely too few. Truth to say, we cannot understand why such transient contacts with world renowned pioneers have been given us. We live in their immediate shadows and would enjoy nothing so much as a chance to assist, or merely stand in, at the life-saving procedures which often bring a child with a nut in its lung winging from Chile, or an infant with a pin caught across the windpipe flying from Montana. It is curiously ironic that we should have had to see most of our bronchoscopy at Jewish Hospital. A few dared to open the door marked: Students and Visiting Doctors and their welcome was warm to the resplendent Jack-son headquarters on the second floor of the HONORARY PROFESSOR CHEVALIER JACKSON hospital. Some saw the green-garbed figures using their complicated and delicate instruments and a chosen few were admitted into the unsurveyed realm where drawings, paintings and countless sketches attest to the artistic skill of the Jacksons. In pediatrics, a few more had the thrill of having as a case assignment a kiddie who had been rushed many miles to have that peanut, thumbtack, coin or nail removed from his bronchus or esophagus. Some of us will, in years to come, return to join the ranks of those many experts who are trained in the special techniques of broncho-esophagol-ogy by the Chevalier Jacksons, father and son. Famous son ol a famous fathor. Dr. C. L. Jackson gives post-graduate training to men who come from all parts of the world. 240 OPHTHALMOLOGY The eyes are far and away the most important sensory organs, they must be maintained in best working order, protected, repaired, guarded. Since, through the transparencies of the lens and vitreous bodies we can clearly see representative examples of our blood vessels on the retina, in this day of vascular disease what could be diagnostically more important? Ophthalmology puts the seeing eye into the aimamen- DR. WALTER I. LILLIE tarium of every doctor, crosses specialties, is of tremendously valuable aid to general medicine. Dr. Lillie, aided by laconic Dr. Glenn Gibson, gave lectures which were supplemented by colored screen delineations. One midafternoon, as the interesting drone of ophthalmological abbacadabra filled the darkened room, an unhappy slumberer crashed to the floor with a considerable commotion. Lillie's suave lecture voice, interrupted not one whit, interposed the calm advice: Just lay him aside, boys, and flowed on with facts about the organ of sight. In orderly fashion, we rotated through the various phases of the eye clinic. There we became familiar with our teachers, Drs. Lillie, Gibson, Wolf, Lynch, Mather and Snyder. We acquainted ourselves with the intrinsic problems of ophthalmologic historytaking, functional testing, examination by use of the many precision ocular instruments and finally, with the therapeutics of orbital and periorbital pathology. Dr. Wolf reviewed poriorbital pathologies for Wonseltler and Yahraus. Apparatus for optic testing was demonstrated by Dr. Gibson. 241 PEDIATRICS, OBSTETRICS Babies by themselves make a story as ticklish as one with mothers attached. To guide our judgment and learning on the puzzling special angles of clinical pediatrics, strong new hands had taken hold. From the University of Cincinnati had come Dr. Waldo E. Nelson, authority on child diabetes, Dr. Nina Anderson, expert on infant problems and resident Drs. John Bartram and Walter Cohn. In the wards, on OPD and in classroom discussions the newcomers a.uick-ly won our highest regard for their sym- pathetic and skillful handling of both patients and us. Ray Taylor, beginning pediatric hospital service, spent a long hour searching for patient C.W.Ped.- -finally discovering to his chagrin that it was Children's Ward Pediatrics. John Ealy and Elsie Reid became premature pediatrics internes overnight when the staff unexpectedly lost a member. And pig-sticking a youngster is a man's job —yes, and a nurse can come along any time and bring a gag and blanket with her; la classroom, ward and clinic wo roviowod and practiced our knowledge of iho subjects: wo ventured out into the exciting AND GYNECOLOGY and if the bed doesn't look like a shambles after a CBC you're a hematologist and the gods of pediatrics are v ith you! Convulsions and meningismus may just mean a reddened pharynx or sore tonsils— or curtains for the little beggar. And 'till you learn to be a lab man, and acquire that touch for the illnesses of the little growing humans, well . . . may fortune keep you close to Nelson, Anderson and company. The meticulously thorough, conscientious Dr. Thaddeus L. Montgomery caught the torch thrown by the retiring beloved chief, Dr. Arnold. From Jefferson came this justly distinguished research laboratory and clinical worker, breaking the combination of Bland and Montgomery that had made our fellow medical college famous. In clinic discussions, we soon felt his unique grasp on matters obstetric and gynecologic. We were launched again into practical, if profound, obstetric studies. (Continued on Page 290) world oi patients when on outside obslotrical sorvico. 243 Back row, loft to right: Lanbach. Winstanley. Sarshik. Robbins, Spencer. Frumin, Wychc, Muncra. Third row, loft to right: H. Thompson. Murphy, Shuman, Stitt, Mount. Trapp. Yodor. Woigcl. Gordon, Rushmoro. Socond row. loft to right: J. Miller. Sawchuk. Szakalun. H. Miller, Siman. Race. MacKinnon. Parkinson. Milloron. Schwartz. Sivick, Wondling. Roichwcin. Front row. left to right: Margolis. M. Snydor, Mclman, Longo, Vadhcim, Mongos, Umlaut. Malonoy, Rath. R. Snyder, Wagnor. Lcodom. Sower. THE FRESHMEN The short one-year history of the class of 1944 seemed not unlike the chronicle of a friendless child in a phantasmagoria crowded with handshaking grown-ups. They, too, went through the bewilderment of wandering through the maze of corridors, rosters and books; of hearing weird tales from the lips of worldly-wise upperclassmen on the mortality of certain courses. They quickly shook off their fears and began to learn of the scientific attitude” . . . the normal limit of variation” and the necessary fundamental principles of pre-clinica! years that were to prepare them for the future practice of medicine: ... to prevent ... to cure ... to alleviate . . . Back row, loll � o right: Auor. Barkley. Freeman. Conni. Grover, Barnes, Lapin. Dietrich. Third row. left to right: Gamon. Caldwell. Kamen. Dudnick. Hcring. Fleishman. Gwinn. Baker. Cowdcry. Faludi. Second row. loft to right: Irey. Clare. Griffith. Gibson. Grua. Rhoades. Gaydos, Corson. Dicroli. Drumhollor. Brensinger, Bashlinc. Bryan. Bellew. Gove. Kolmer. Greon. Emich. Frantz, Gloichert. Front row. left to right: Trapp. Cross. Fctt, Diaz. Beers, McEwan. Goodspecd. Meschtor. Lachman. Griosemer. Jones. Weber, Jackson. . . . made billions of drawings . . . 244 OTOLOGY 1. Drs. Myers and Greenway. assisted by Dr. Clare, performed a radical mastoidectomy. 2. Using the troublesome head mirror and Tom Wilson as subject, Charlie Wright practiced otoscopic technique. A series of clinics, presented by the inimitable Dr. Matthew S. Ersner and his staff, showed us techniques, aurical problems and most interesting cases. Added to this we saw service in the ear dispensary of the out-patient department. Though everyone waited until the last week to write the required essay-instead-of-a-final on an otologic minutium, the theses were at last completed, so we attended the clinics for learning and enjoyment alone. One day, that day-dreaming, overworked chauffeur (who had heard it all before) staggered in with recording apparatus, while Dr. Ersner demonstrated hearing tests and their relationship to defective speech . . . another day, we saw the Barany chair dizzy a few subjects . . . and motion pictures on his own tedious and intricate operation called laby-rinthotympemopexy (which consists of making a fenestration into the semicircular canals) . . . while other clinics spotlighted ear-redresser Gosper and over-the-wall Sanford. In O.P.D., unlucky Joey Brau was bowled over by a Meniere's reaction when water was squirted against his drum (something to match his yawn-dislocation which took burly Dr. Moore four hours of hauling to reduce); we all had more trouble with that plaguey head mirror; had audiometer sport in the soundproof room; had much, much contact with bread-and-butter otitis media, mastoiditis and plain deafness. In the surgical amphitheater, students wero called to the Dr. Rachlis coached Leiphart. Lloyd and Lentz on proper Door to perform for Dr. Ersner. methods of otologic examination. 245 UROLOGY i I 1. Dr. Thomas left the field of his specialty to remove an appendix. 2. Male nurse Speck recoived instructions on postoperative caro from Dr. Hinchcliffe. Dr. Fret . expert on cystoscopic examination, gavo student demonstrations. The ten to eleven Saturday morning sessions in urology were oases from the too often cut-and-dried lectures of the clinical years. Dr. W. Hersey Thomas well salted and peppered his talks with quips and humorous anecdotes to ease the tension of routine didactic lecturing. As the class leaned forv ard in their seats to catch the drollery that came from the platform, ripples of laughter swept back and forth to testify that here no one was asleep. History was interspersed to impress the background of modern day concepts: the phallic markers used in ancient Pompeii to direct pleasure-seekers to the proper establishments. Also: Remember that lues can even ride on the edge of the communion cup! . . . and that fifteen minutes with Venus may bring fifteen years with Mercury. The astonishing number of sound, useful pointers on practical office procedures and everyday application to a doctor's practice testified that here was a professor who was primarily a clinician. Beginning his career as a cupid's repairman in the historic Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, experience in the clinics of Vienna and a long-time connection as chief of urology at Philadelphia General has made Dr. Thomas very well aware of the problems of the beginning student in this specialty. Like the famed Dr. Huah Young's epitaph: Here was no mere glorified plumber putting tubes in Ward round wore often conducted by Drs. Thomas and McCrea. 246 human drainpipes, but an intensely human surgeon patching life's mistakes. There v as that shortest Mayo Report: Patient says he has gonorrhea. Reverse of card: He has. And the unfortunate elderly gentlemen, from whom is . . . gone the parabolic stream of youth . . . now they stand and stand, and think and think . . . and think. Although we had a sparse few ward walks in our junior year, the bulk of our clinic experience was obtained in our senior year when we worked in the outpatient clinics of the medical school, in the wards of P.G.H. and in our own T.U.H. ward services. Lucky were they who scrubbed in on a urology case, for the department was more than willing to explain and give a surgical assist- Dr. Bornetoin explained cystoscopic technique . Surgeon Rosemond consulted with urologist McCrea. Jim Hovner and lannucci laughingly reviewed some ol Dr. Thomas' jokes. ant something to do. The outpatient department, under the whimsical and mechanically gifted Dr. Lawrain McCrea and his associates, kept those on service well occupied by passing sounds and massaging prostrates on those whose lives are one long repetition of buttoning and unbuttoning. Dr. Fretz, Dr. Bernstein and others reviewed the principles of urologic medicine. Our afternoons with the P.G.H. patients: chancres, condylomata, scabies; sailors of many lands who bore the tattoo marks whereof Dr. Lansbury spoke: Men who allow themselves to be tattooed with nude women, etc., are in a decidedly incautious mood—shall we say 'bubbling over with the juice of life.' Therefore, when you see tattooing think of syphilis and gonorrhea. We may never become cystoscope experts, or be able to do retrograde pyelo-grams; we may never obey Shavian Dr. Roxby's shrill declaration that No one is fit to pass a urinary catheter until he's passed it on himself, but few of us will forget the emergency of a ruptured bladder, the breaking of a chordee, acute urinary retention, or the good-humored face of the man Thomas who introduced us to urology. OUTSIDE MUNICIPAL Dr. P. F. Lucchesi The first really permanent Hospital for Contagious Diseases in Philadelphia was opened in 1865 at the corner of 22nd Street and Lehigh Avenue. After serving the city for forty-four years the hospital was moved to its present location, on Luzerne and Front Streets. The twenty-nine buildings which comprise this institution range in height from one to three stories. They have a capacity for 1000 patients and were opened to the public in 1909. To this location and in these buildings all of the contagious diseases requiring hospitalization in Philadelphia County are taken and treated. Originally the function of a hospital for contagious diseases was regarded merely from the point of view of protecting the community from contagion. Today a hospital for contagious diseases has certain legitimate activities, and it is useful to its community in proportion to the extent to which these activities are carried out. These should include the protection of the public, the care of all types of acute contagious diseases, the protection of the patients, an efficient Social Service Department with follow-up work, and the conducting of classes for medical students and nurses in the care and control of these diseases. All these items receive careful attention from the staff at the Philadelphia Hospital for Contagious Diseases. The hospital is an integral part of the Department of Public Health. And in addition to serving as a schooling ground for the students of Philadelphia's medical colleges it should be remembered that this hospital is a potential force in reserve for the care of any emergency or epidemic whether contagious or not. THE PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL FOR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES SERVICES EAGLEVILLE The annual visit to this home for the tuberculous, which was founded by Dr. A. . Cohen in 1909, has been a highlight of every senior year because of the opportunity to inspect the workings of an up-to-date efficient sanatorium, and because of associations with the excellent physicians in attendance. Though pneumothorax and the surgical treatment of tuberculosis were pioneered at Eagleville, most vividly remembered will be the sane, unspectacular, and effective middle-of-the-road methods employed there in guiding the unfortunate victim of tuberculosis from the depths of despair into a world of hope and future usefulness. EPISCOPAL The Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia is located today at its original site at Front and Lehigh. This hospital, the site of the sophomore's first attempts at physical diagnosis and of the senior's first steps into the philosophy of physical examination, was incorporated in 1851 and within the year was admitting patients. Today it is a progressive institution of 500 beds. Dr. James Kay, with his able corps, teaches the student groups the importance of accuracy, thoroughness and patience. The unforgettable quotations, standing silent guard on the walls of the wards warn the aspiring scientist of the importance of gentleness, tact and consideration. THE EAGLEVILLE SANATORIUM JEWISH Dr. Joseph C. Doane The Jewish Hospital, an institution of 470 beds, offers medical care to all types of patients except those suffering with contagious and psychiatric diseases. Senior medical students spend about four hours a day in its medical wards. Sophomore medical students come to this hospital two hours a week for approximately three months for instruction in physical diagnosis. The teaching staff which is responsible for the instruction of senior students consists of a professor of clinical medicine and thirteen assistants. To these teachers are available about forty-five active medical ward beds. Medical teaching at the Jewish Hospital is considered seriously as an opportunity to be of service not only to a splendid institution of learning, but also to a fine group of future practitioners of medicine. THE JEWISH HOSPITAL PHILADELPHIA GENERAL Dr. Thomas Durant Known to many as Old Blockley. the Philadelphia General Hospital can justly claim to be the oldest hospital in the United States. When founded in 1732, it was located at 4th and Spruce Streets and was known as the Philadelphia Almshouse. With the growth of the city the institution was twice moved, and finally, in 1834, came to occupy its present site. At the present time only a few of the old buildings remain, there having been erected a thoroughly modern, completely equipped hospital with a capacity of over 2500 patients. Here Temple students in their Junior and Senior years are privileged to study in various ward sections, clinics, and in the Pathological Department a part of the vast amount of interesting material available at this institution. THE PHILADELPHIA GENERAL HOSPITAL 251 I C I A N S ELEANOR WELLS BLACKWOOD SHIRLEY M. BLONSTEIN MARY JANE CADY GERTRUDE DU BIN SARETTA E. EDWARDS ELIZABETH RUTH EICHEL JESSIE EZRA1LSON GRACE E. FLOTTMAN SYBIL ROSE GRANOFF KATHRYN VAUGHT HUFFMAN O F RITA I. ROSENFELD IRENE GEORGE TRAGG3S EDNA S. WADDELL ELEANOR FAY WAKEMAN CHRISTINE M. WEISS DOROTHY L. WYATT Back row. left to right: Bernice Harris. Dr. Earle H. Spaulding. Mary Willwcrth. Marjorie Wattson. Sybil Granofi. Ruth Rotman. Mary Frances Tuerffs. Botty Oswald, Dr. Robert Hamilton. H� lcne Masalsky. Front row, left to right: Bettic M. West. Ida Millar. Frieda Bren:, Catherine Clarkson. Elsa Lynch. HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL FOR MEDICAL TECHNOLOGISTS By Frank W. Konzelmann, M.D. The field of Medical Technology has evolved gradually during the early part of the present century. In the beginning, young women were employed to wash and sterilize glassware. As the new techniques in clinical pathology were introduced they were gradually mastered. Apprentices were accepted in many hospitals on a volunteer basis, but the course of training was poorly organized and frequently unbalanced. There were a few outstanding courses where training was excellent. One of the best was conducted by John A. Kolmer. To be a Kolmer graduate was in it- Ttaining is garnered in the various laboratories: (1) Chemistry. Urinalysis and blood sugar analysis. (2) Sorology. Preparation of Kolmor-Wassor-mann tests. (3) Histology. Tissue preparations. (4) Allergy. Skin tests. (5) Gastric. Analytical methods. 254 Back row, left lo right: Blanche Warahafsky, Shirley Cohan. Eloanor Fredericks, Doris Edwards. Evelyn Grossman. Contor row. loft to right: Jane Lorah. Jean Hauser. Kay Collins, Grace Harrison. Edith Eckstein. Claudia Goodo. Elizabeth Baker, Lenorc Cloments, Jeanette Bisson, Nancy Herr. Catherine Cochran, Marjory Fry. Front row. left to right: Ann Mullan. Katherine Lewis, Rachel Levitz, Botty Hylo. Edith Novack, Francos Weinor. Miriam Sawyer. Betty Wilson. (1) Hemotology. Blood typing. (2) Bactoriology. Culture methods. (3) Miss MacDonnoll. indispensablo secretary to Dr. Konzolmann. (4) More hematology. Basal metabolic rates and CBC's. (S) Biochomistry. Analytical examination of blood. DR. KONZELMANN self a recommendation. When the clinical laboratory of Temple University Hospital was reorganized in 1930, it seemed to the newly-appointed pathologist an excellent opportunity to establish a well-organized school wherein a thoroughly rounded-out course of training could be offered in a period of twelve months. No tuition fee was exacted in these early days. (Continued on P. 302) Dr. Hibschman. Professor of Proctology, performs many proctologic operations. Whilo on surgical assist, some of us scrubbod lor Dr. Bacon's hemorrhoidectomies. PROCTOLOGY Anticipating the genial Dr. Harry Z. Hibschman and the staccato Dr. Harry E. Bacon, Dr. Hesser Lindig in our junior year summed up for us the proud business of the end of the gut tube as a specialty. Said he: Six minutes, and I can tell you most of what is important in proctology! 1. Hemorrhoids (plain piles to you), 2. Pruritus ani, 3. Proctitis, cryptitis, papillitis, ischio-rectal abscess and fistula in ano, 4. Papilloma and carcinoma, 5. Pilonidal cyst, sinus and abscess, and 6. Prolapse and rectocele. Take hemorrhoids Dr. Bacon, newly appointed Clinical Profossor, was Editor of the first SKULL . . . and he even beat his six minute limit! 'Tis not as easy as that however, per witness the new text-book of author-lecturer Bacon and the reels, projection machines, slides, graphs, models, etc., which he transports from end to end of the country; or the absorbed way that Drs. Schneider, Benedict and Eisenberg speak of their chosen field of practice when, with students and patients before them, they hold discourse. The closed fist with the index finger extended . . . behold the most potent weapon of proctologic armament! But proctoscopes, sigmoidoscopes, biopsy and barium visualization have proper importance as well. And proctologists as a genus are not the limited practitioners many scornfully hold them to be, but give valuable information anent systemic or locally adjacent pathologies. In the clinics we viewed the run-of-the-specialty cases: piles internal and external, pruritus, abscesses, pilonidals, etc. Demonstration and practice in manipulating instruments was afforded and it is said that Joe Brau was advised, after introducing the proctoscope, that the looseness of the sphincter was likely due to the fact that he was a mite ventrad. Our picture of proctologic surgery will remain that of a billow of smoke, like an Indian signal, arising from a frying hemorrhoid caught by the cautery, and of rear-admiral Hibschman grasping the handle of the proctoscope, then swinging the instrument back and forth like a helmsman at the wheel of a heeling windjammer. 250 For omphasit and clarity. Dr. Schnoidor usod charts in group conforoncos. Senior services and clinics were a mad shuffle, a wild kaleidoscope of old and new clinical instructors and a pot-pourri of patients of every ilk, many of them plumb disgusted because: At Temple, all you get are students. In Gastro Clinic we suffered with the wretches who swallowed our stomach tubes and were amazsd at the diagnostic value of our findings. . . . On Surgical Assist not a few of us had our fingers rapped by the Master; we contaminated everything possible and even (was it Mile. Weber?) leaned against light switches to turn day into night during crucial moments. ... In drawly Dr. Davis' Metabolic we confusedly computed calories. . . . Knobbly legs paraded by us in Varicose Vein clinic as we injected valve-destroyed vessels. . . . We invented tall stories to match the cops’ whoppers in Accident Dispensary and clumsily changed dressings under Dr. Leedom’s casual gaze. . . . In Physiotherapy with Dr. Wood, we learned how to thwart the quacks. . . . Dark-looking toes and peripheral vascular disease confronted us in the Buerger Clinic. . . . With Miss Krause on Anesthesia we pushed the first valve down and watched the patient go 'round and 'round. ... In Physical Diagnosis we met the moleskin maulers from the undergraduate school. . . . Pin pricks, pollens, gasping asthmatics and patch tests in Allergy, with Drs. Tuft, Wenger, et al. . . . Parade of geriatrics with Dr. Farrar in Hematology. . . . We spotted Endocrine stigmata in the fat girls with Dr. Wohl. . . . We followed problem children about in Dr. Pearson's Child Neu- 1. Clinical discussions were sometimes led by Dr. Lindig. 2. Dr. Eisenberg described the appearance ol the anal oriiice lor Wcssman. SENIOR SERVICES AND CLINICS rcsis Clinic . . . and nobody at all wanted even to say hello to us hopefuls in the busy Orthopedics Clinics where there was too much work for students to butt in. . . . However, future reminiscences will center about the fables and fictions of that fiendish workshop called Student Lab: . . . Miss Brig-man was perpetually confused by the Lloyds. E. J. (her devoted admirer) and J. T. . . . and the Smiths, E. J. and E. W. . . . There was Morgan, the guileless, who never forgot to remove the oil from the 97x . . . authoritative Hoover arguing with kidney-man (Spiller-syndrome) Konzelmann re the advisability of divorcing lab work from history and physical . . . and the growing list of signatories 257 Practical experience was gained on Surgical Assist, in Accidont Dispensary and the other sorvicos. who hated the useless urinalyses and the blood counts on proctologics who had already been sent home post-op . . . soft-spoken, smiling Miss Ann Spearing who was seemingly so heartbroken and apologetic when she wrote RE-CHECK!” . . . jovial Joe Medwick's turn to pick the pile-driver scope with the worn cogs, result: four shattered cover-slips. . . . Temple News' ace reporter Scoop” Rybachok wearing out the stairs to see if the glycosuria couldn't be caused by intravenous glucose . . . and Barney Oldfield Risk: Sorry, I can't give you a ride to P.G.H. I just got a pediatric case.” . . . Alchemist Maye ogling the long row of amber-filled glass bottles on the desk (not yellow, not straw-colored, but amber!!!) . . . parasitologist Ruhe and Editor Snyder making a bloody armageddon of a pediatrics cubicle while trying to get two drops of blood from a yowling infant. . . . Hill-billy Jim Rusmisell allowing the RBC blob to flood the counting chamber gutters. . . . Maude Slye Reid being mentally shot for involving Miss Spearing in a lengthy discussion of the Takata-Ara test while the rest of the section fumingly waited checks on counts. . . . Jun-ior-birdman-of-America” Beckley staining with xylol instead of Wright's. . . . Granny Waltz looking for burnt rags as Rare-bird-diagnosis Reno sent out billowing black clouds from his smelly pipe. . . . Randall's locker peacefully acquiring dust . . . Hatrack Hetrick trying to distinguish between a slide scratch and uric acid crystals . . . ah, there were multitudes more, vignettes all of them, of transition from academic student days to those of interneship. 258 DERMATOLOGY Dr. Carrol S. Wright and Dr. Reuben Friedman met us for class demonstrations and review of dermatology. Each period, with its instructive cases, some few of our classmates aided and abetted, or hindered as you will, the diagnosis . . . and their confused descriptions prompted Carrol's old refrain— that the junior class put us to sad shame. Skin diseases being the ubiquitous problem of general practitioners, the out-patient clinics were only too brief an introduction to the manifold possibilities of epidermal dysfunction. Murray Sigman, Jim Hosner, Russ Hoover and other dart and pin-ball experts have informed us that their practice at the bismuth-in-buttock injections kept them in excellent shape for competition. Intravenous neo and gold and sodium thio injections were a jittery problem of veins, veins, and who can find the veins? In brief: you think you see and can feel a vein hidden in s.c. fat; you insert your needle, miss, reinsert, go right on through, withdraw and come right on out; think of trying again; a hematoma begins to swell the epitrochlear fossa; you try another vein, get in, slide in the neo: the patient faints when the arsenic hits his tongue, or you break off the needle and you faint. And so to Unna boots, carbon dioxide snow removals of birth marks, countless quivering buttocks, warts, acne, pityriasis rosea, and the manifold troubles that distress humans to the point of their putting themselves in the hands of sagacious Dr. Wright. Dr. Friedman, Dr. Richardson and the others of the able staff. 1. Wc wot© given th© opportunity to givo intravenous injections. apply Unna' boots, etc. 2. Dr. Richardson discussod thorapy for a case of psoriasis. Perchonock and Peters gave neoarsphenamino to tho faithful Dermatologic therapeusis was summarized for Ritmillor and luetics. Reilly by Dr. Friedman. •259 CAI NOHA O t-At tL ...xv a uAv. AOSASCCD. VWftAtW x« Haag HePtg c cVMMSgv l«M� T� 'lU 5jl . «ll,Ki,(1 £u ki D•� it A .TV MATit ICAHC pfeUiMO ►, -1 ANO MANY «-T AMtAO.... J � • M«AM TO KtfcO'.T f Tu«K«.. I CAn iuttttl isasMasr as...-. A amo o «motv. T� � r , � ceo tn.o «( ; ■in I VYI9 ?U AtBV A. ion. hco. sC'Uwuc [©■HaCT CAMtty. . | NAT. PvltATivC WITH AftTlRWYt N Cm? XtuJY(MC Tn£ MCOxO ««-tOfc W.W. e.A6coi vl TO V'CATf T� « � A « VATCULAfcCCIM VCT.OwC WITM AM A. 70 A«l-Dt«T O.TH... ««NTCt.f 0 T W« [ A.a.QOC� -.- In tho ward3 and clinics, wo appliod all th© toch-niquos. procoduros and learning wo had absorbod SURGICAL AND ) Fools' progress or wise men's . . . but in a year we had grown sure that a surgeon had to know medicine inside-out, and that a medic had to be a surgeon in knowledge if not in performance; that the differences were basically slight and few. As young Surgery Resident Dr. Wilkins put it, You druggin' docs jus' send patients to us cut-tin' docs. Lectures persisted, but clinics were the keynote of learning. There was the Babcock Movie Hour at dawn Mondays, and the Coombs Quiz Conference at dawn Wednesdays, the surgical assists, services and anesthesia, the Tuesday periods with Drs. Burnett and Babcock, along with the Astley- 260 during our medical schooling, but tho loclures and quizzes continued on and on . . MEDICAL LECTURES, SERVICES AND CLINICS Thompson sessions at P.G.H. . . . this was Senior Surgery. Interlocked with it were the medical services of all kinds, the clinics with Drs. English and Weiss. Lansbury, Kleinbart, Klemm, Farrar, Ginsburg, Soloff, Donnelly, Beckley, et al.. the P.G.H.- services with Drs. Brown and Durant, and how could you miss it? case discussions of Dr. Klein. Dr. Burnett had his little club of the red A: Lloyd, Ogburn, Randall, Ellison, Benson . . . and refused to believe the Ob gag. The Chief, dictating to drowsy anesthetist Harry Donahoo, kicked poor Harry's shins with dignity and climbed back over the patient's abdomen to go on with the case dictation. In one memorable clinic he discussed the pros and cons of artificial ani. the contraptions for abdominal colostomies, and the comforts of procto-sigmoidectomy with perineal openings and no need for colon filling-stations. Dr. Brown, taking a leaf from Conan Doyle's Dr. Bell of Edinburgh, astounds us the year through with his diagnostic acuity. Dr. Kolmer gave us final ethical and practical instruction for our future practice of medicine. Dr. Swalm, Dr. Davis and dozens of others met us for a moment, piled experience upon us, deepened our feelings of ignorance, and filled us with a great shouting desire to be finished with formal schooling, to be done and put in place of responsibility ... in short, we had arrived at our interneships. 2 )1 RHINO- LARYNGOLOGY Once again we met Dr. Robert F. Ridpath, Dr. T. Carroll Davis and the others of this sunny-tempered group of specialists who continued to expand our knowledge of the nose and throat. As is their wont, many were the spicy interjections. The tale concerning the young man who bought a brassiere for the girl who was flat-broke left most of us laughing heartily, but with perplexed faces. And there was the vivid story of the little moppet who had a peculiar sinusitis. When Dr. Ridpath examined her, he discovered that surgery was indicated because the tike had stuffed a fluffy, fuzzy, flannel bathrobe-and-a-half up her nose to completely block off her accessory nasal sinuses. We saw the terrific Caldwell-Luc (we'd move to Little America to avoid one of those); heard again about nasal neuroses, the 23 possible symptoms of adenoids, the technique of post-nasal packing, that sinus pain can occur from pate of head to metatarsal arch, that with a post-op T and A: If, when asleep, they swallow more than three times a minute—they're hemorrhaging! ; we discovered that the operation of laryngo-pharvngostomy enables a patient to swallow his own words! And so to Nose and Throat Service, fumbling with that blasted head mirror and the neat speculi, guided by the droll, unaffected Dr. Davis who even offered himself as patient in order to drive home practical points of technique. 1. Much experience was gained in clinic under the patient tutelage of Dr. Davis. 2. The use of nasal speculi was investigated by Ed Lloyd. 3. Bravely, Wright submitted himself as guinea pig for Ralph Wymer. 4. Myers. Weston and Ogburn conferred on a laryngologic thought-provoker. 262 NEURO-SURGERY AND NEUROLOGY To feel oneself in the presence of epoch-making, brand-new medical ideas is a spine-shivery sensation; we cannot but feel that way with aggressive Dr. Temple Fay and his right hand Dr. Michael Scott. Water balance studies, with reverberations in eclampsia, epilepsy and head trauma . . . who would have thought plain water and salt to be so vitally important? . . . cold treatment of disease, which began with hopeful attack on cancer, but is trending toward pain alleviation, the breaking of drug addiction, surgical pre-amputation usage, use against infections of specific and general nature; new neurosurgery against mankind's afflictions; all these we have gotten from a master of colorful yarns, a restless, hot, combative resynthesizer of old medical stuff. With unparalleled audacity we were told at the outset that Neurology was the keystone of medicine, for only through our vital and gnostic senses could we either realize our own diseases, or tell of them. Could one deny such a premise? The essential cellular requirements of fluid, glucose, minerals and oxygen at a temperature were applied to the body entire, but especially to the closed box of the craniovertebral system. (Continued on Page 289) 1. Dr. Van Meter. exponent of tho study of child development. 2. Ward rounds wore devoted to unusual neurologic manifestations. 3. Dr. Wycis frequently substituted for the other lecturers. 4. A case of hydrocephalus. DR. MICHAEL SCOTT DR. TEMPLE FAY 263 1. Dr. Henny confused us with the intricate olomcntals of x-ray physics. 2. Wo camo into brief contact with Drs. Bird and Young. 3. Many clever diagnoses arose from the depths of Dr. Rooster's cellar-hole. 4. A demonstration of radium implantation was given by Dr. Blady. ROENTGENOLOGY Through our four years, roentgenology with volatile and eager Dr. Chamberlain, Dr. Roesler, Dr. Young and the rest, was a course unique and always delightful. After a brief skirmish with Dr. G. W. Henny on the fundamentals of x-ray physics, with appropriate historical early roentgen tubes borrowed from the x-ray museum, we were carried into the study of the biologic effects of x-ray and anatomy as revealed by the roentgen ray. Came Dr. Roesler the sardonic; he speedily declared himself the advocate of open windows, cold air and wide awake students. I weel pay zee hospital bill of anyone v ho contracts zee pneumonia. Iss zere anyone here who believes in zee fallacy of zee draft? I notiss zome nodding heads. Zo open zee windows! In his comradely talks, Dr. Chamberlain interspersed interesting facts about his biplane fluoroscope; about hexenschuss . . . the witch's dart of lumbago; about sacroiliac pain cured with the webbed army belt; about constipation and the mechanics of the G.I. tract; concerning itch plus tumor: think of Hodgkin's; about his Wampus —that ingeniously contrived device to show cerebral circulation, with various manometers indicating pressures of the circulating fluids. This monstrosity was bom partly out of Dr. Chamberlain's curiosity concerning the circulation problems of the well-supplied-with-neck giraffe, and partly because as an engineer-doctor the mechanics of our body fluids were irresistibly interesting to him. All Templeites think pronto of platybasia if there's a question of M.S. And we must look closely at the possibilities of the cyclotron as an aid to medicine. We had a foreign body consultation with the Jacksons. Likeable Dr. Barton Young showed us the wizardry of the olanigraph in improving roentgen views of the vocal cords, bronchi, mediastinal masses, etc. But the Friday afternoon conferences with gay Chamberlain, with Burnett, Louis Cohen and Chevalier L. Jack-son were the rarest of entertainment in their quarrel-discussions of chest disease, emphasizing again and again that radiology is surely one of medicine's most useful adjuncts when fitted with clinical data. 204 Wh«n Dr. Konzolmann collected tho card . Dr. Brown was Holding debate with himseli. Dr. Brown astonished us with not pormitted to peep. his vast modical knowledge and diagnostic acumen. CLINICO-PATHOLOGIC CONFERENCES The leaching theme that is characteristic of Temple is correlation. It begins in the freshman year with a correlation of anatomy, physiology and chemistry and continues on to the senior year when finally it brings into juxtaposition the bedside picture, the laboratory studies and the autopsy findings. Here is realized Sir James McKenzie's admonition: It is the wise physician who follows his patient into the operating and autopsy rooms, for this is true pathology! We came to our clinico-pathologic conferences firm in our convictions, our minds made up, our impressions fresh after an afternoon of arguing. Who, pray, knows more than a senior in a svmoosium with his classmates? We entered. Strewing the black table-top with our diagnostic scribblings. we took our seats. They entered. First came pathologist Konzelmann, carrying the tome of autopsy protocols under his arm. On his heels was the familiar figure of diagnostician Brown, Chief of Medicine. As Uncle Elby scooped up (with secrecy) the white cards, different in content but of uniform size (by reauest), he handed the pending case history to Dr. Charlie . . . Konzelmann retired to his corner . . . Brown, hunching his shoulders, came forward. Konzelmann leaned back and began to take the class consensus of opinion on the cause of death. Brown spoke: I see Frank gave us today, a story of a 37-year-old colored man, admitted September 9th, 19 .and as he read the summary of the poor unfortunate's case he thought aloud. Exposed to 200 receptive ears were the inner workings of an experienced mind. Emphasizing noteworthy facts, discarding ir-relevancies with eloquence and wit, he slowly unfolded a significant story of sickness . . . protracted illness . . . death. Then came a one-man debate. Finally, he too made his diagnosis, including probable organ pathology, sizes, weights and colors and then retired to the corner to hear what knowledge the pathologist found in his voluminous necropsy records. Konzelmann came forward. With a twinkle in his eye, he slowly (very slowly) told of the discoveries in the morgue—of diagnostic possibilities and then, with emphasis, he disclosed the true cause of the demise. ... Dr. Brown smiled faintly, for once again he had a bull's eye to his credit— even to the last ounce and micron! . . . thst£ circle thorn amoncj ui . . . a'ho had joined fza£s.znitU± . . . 26o Tho members of Phi Chi are justly proud of their newly acquired residence. THETA UPSILON OF PHI CHI OFFICERS FACULTY Presiding Senior Presiding Junior Treasurer ...... Secretary Chapter Editor Henry J. VandonBorg, Jr. Frank R. Boyer William H. Morgan Oliver H. Brur.dago George S. Boyer Officers VandonBorg. Morgan and Brundago preside at tho meetings. Jesse O. Arnold Mason Aslloy Robert K. Arbuckle W. Wayne Babcock Harry Bacon Allen G. Beckloy Franklin D. Benedict John O. Bower G. C. Bird John P. Emich Georgo E. Farrar Philip Fiscella Worth P. Forman Sherman F. Gilpin, Jr. G. P. Giambalvo Bradford Groon S. Bruce Greenv cy Henry C. Groff Robert Beckley George Boyer Maximillian Crispin Ward DeKlyn Harry Donahoo G. Norris Ketcham Robert Kline Henry Laughlin Robert Lentz Pedro Durand 266 Hugh Hayford D. J. Kennedy John Leedom Hosser C. C. Lindig Robert D. MacKinnon Edwin H. Mcllvain Morton J. Oppenheimer John Royal Moore William N. Parkinson William C. Prichard James P. Quindlen Chester Reynolds John R. Roxby Harold S. Roxby Bruce Roxby William A. Stool Barton R. Young F. L. Zaborowski SENIORS William Morgan John Reilly Joseph Reno James Rusmisell Edward Smith Henry VandenBerg Elliot Bush Richard Crosby John Judge Murphy Raboteau Wilder JUNIORS David Bew Frank Boyer William Brown Oliver Brundage ‘Heath Baumgartner A. S. Casanova-Diaz J. D. Christian James Davey Lawrence Limber? Sydney Livingston ‘Malcolm MacDonald William O'Brien R. R. Trotter SOPHOMORES ‘Arthur Brown Carroll Burgoon Thurman Dannenberg James Degge William Garvin Milton Grover Manson Meads Edward Morrow Frederich Murtagh Arthur Ricker ‘Sidney Sedwick E. J. Vogele FRESHMEN Albert Cross ‘John Gaydos ‘Louis Goetz William Goodspeed Lawrence Griesemer ‘Chandler Herring George Grimes Herbert Fett Fred Kelly Robert McEwar. ‘Gaylord Parkinson George Race John Rhoads Charles Rath Fenn Ralph Harry Trapp Woodrow Wendling Pledges Founded at Temple in 1907 as Omega Up-silon Lambda Fraternity, this group grew so rapidly that three years later, in 1910, it was accepted by the Grand Chapter of Phi Chi and became a charter member of that organization. Today, located comfortably at 1512 West Allegheny Avenue, Theta Upsilon of Phi Chi offers much to its members. Not only does it boast an almost palatial home, but it has a tremendous membership. Many of the school's eminent faculty members belong with this group and the student membership capably measures up to their standards. In the past two years the chapter has instituted a lecture series and has brought to Temple several lecturers of national repute in medicine. For its own members, a series of entertaining and instructive clinics, lectures and symposia is presented. Social events are frequent. The Saturday night parties and the annual dinner dance provide table conversation for weeks afterwards. The house has a fine library and study room and a well equipped basement for recreation. Most of the members dine at the house and few if any ever complain of the cuisine. 1. Th©8«� mon found that they can eat dirt cheap at the Phi Chi house. 2. For Murphy. Ballard and Durand the house pinch-hits for home. 3. Chips outnumber coins in the average medical student's card game. 4. Medical men. like lawyers, join members at the bar. ALPHA IOTA OF PHI LAMBDA KAPPA OFFICERS Worthy Superior ... Nathan Mattlemar: Worthy Chancellor .................. Moses RabSnowitz Worthy Scribe...................... Maurice Goldberg Worthy Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert A. Braitmar. Student Advisors. Dr. Philip Trommer, Dr. Jerome Miller FACULTY Morris Brody Herman Gold Louis K. Hoberman Isadore Katz Morris Kleinbart Julius Kimmelman Joseph Levitsky Jerome Miller Henry Perlman Herman Snyder Louis Tuft J. G. Weiner Julius Winston SENIORS J. Martin Eenson Joseph M. Brau Moses Rabir.ovitz JUNIORS Melton A. Batoff Robert A. Braitman Abraham M. Frumin Bernard Goluboff Henry Luster Nathan Mattleman Joseph Rudolph Julius Schultz SOPHOMORES Samuel Chachkin Abraham Ginsburg Maurice Goldberg Nathan Kolinsky PLEDGES Morris J. Frumin Matthew R. Lapin Bernard Margolis 1. Those mon officiate for Alpha Iota. 2. All Tomplo fraternitios have their Culbertsons. 3. It isn't difficult to got one of those started. 4. Even Phi Lambda Kappas keep a tkoloton in the closot. 268 Phi Lambda Kappa Fraternity was founded by a group of students at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania in nineteen hundred and seven. Since then the fraternity's growth has been slow, but steady and sound. Today, throughout the United States, active chapters have been started in forty medical schools, and in eighteen large cities graduate members have formed alumni groups. The Alpha Iota chapter was formed at Temple Medical School in nineteen hundred and twenty-eight and in the succeeding years ninety-six of its members have become alumni. With little time for non-essentials, the stated purpose of the local, as well as the national group is: To foster and maintain, among Jewish medical students and doctors, a spirit of fraternalism and of mutual aid and moral support; to promote and advance the concepts of the medical sciences; to instil! and maintain in the hearts of all members a love of and a loyalty io their Alma Mater and its ideals; to inculcate such ideals as will result in actions worthy of the highest precepts of human endeavor. In addition to its regular business meetings, the fraternity schedules many scientific presentations, complete with lectures, movies and other forms of illustrative instruction, and never has difficulty in getting a gratifying turnout for whatever speaker or topic. Scholarship is emphasized especially and to back up its insistence on scholastic excellence, the fraternity gives an award each year to the freshman member who makes the highest average in all his examinations. The Temple chapter shares a house at 1128 Spruce St. with the other Philadelphia chapters. Their many parties and socials serve to create a remarkable bond between the students of the various schools and tends to lessen the jealousies and ease the tensions which often develop between rival schools of thought. Ping Pong al Alpha lota is prcscribod B. I. D.. p. c. and h. s. Nightly musical excursions go from Bach to Boethoven and Bach again. 2(55� SIGMA OF PHI DELTA EPSILON OFFICERS SENIORS Consul ......... Vice Consul ............. Secretary Historian ............... Graduate Representative William A. Brodsky Daniel H. Barenbaum Morton M. Kligorman ... Raymond Penneys A. Herbert Marbach FACULTY Simon Ball Nathan Blumberg L. S. Caplan Louis Cohen S. W. Eisenberg Matthow S. Ersner Isidor Forman Frank Glausor Martin Gold Samuel Goldberg J. N. Grossman Sydney Harberg Maurice S. Jacobs Nathan M. Levin David Myers Irving Rush Saul P. Savitz Michael Scott Harry Simpkins Louis A. Soloff Eld ward A. Stoinfeld Henry J. Turnon E. M. Weinberger Louis Weiner Sydney Weiss Michael G. Wohl Joseph B. Wolffe Daniel H. Barenbaum Morton M. Khgorman William A. Brodsky Leon Kotloff Sam J. Garfield JUNIORS Mervin A. Mathias Morton E. Schwab irving Rosenberg George T. Wohl Lester M. Said man SOPHOMORES Jay H. Davidson Victor Kremens Bruce Makler Morton Marks Raymond Penneys Lester Rauer FRESHMEN Henry J. Dudnick Robert Robbins Joseph Gordon The Temple members form an active unit of tho Sigma Chapter. Garfield is missing from tho senior group of Brodsky. Barenbaum and Kligcrman. 270 1033 Spruce Street may seem very far from Temple, but it is the center of activities for this wide-awake group. Here meet the combined chapters from Jefferson, Hahnemann and Temple. On any given Saturday evening the house glows from cellar to attic with the conjoint festivities. These range all the way from an earnest medico-political discussion around the bar in the basement, to all the frivolity of a jam session on the third floor, and they serve as an indicator of the numerous and varied activities which relieve the tedium of week-ends throughout the year. Symposia are held at regular intervals during the school term in which the group is addressed by prominent practitioners and specialists representing many branches of medical thought. Several formal affairs are held each year in connection with the chapters from Pennsylvania, Jefferson, Graduate and Hahnemann. Banquets are given to the alumni and the incoming freshmen. Time is short and Phi Delta Epsilon makes the most of every opportunity to give its members a well rounded and broadened aspect of the field they have made their life work. The fraternity was founded in 1904 at Cornell Medical School, by a group of eight students. Expansion has proceeded at such a pace that today Phi Delta Epsilon comprises one of the largest and most powerful organizations in the medical fraternity field with sixty-two active chapters in the United States. 1. Sigma's thomo song: Beal me. daddy, eight to the bar. 2. Tho billiard table substitutes ior ping pong at Phi D. E. 3. The piano adds to tho harmony among the Phi Delta boys. 4. Pre-quii collaboration enhances knowledge lor tomorrow's exam. 271 OFFICERS Milos F. Dills FACULTY E. L. Clemens J. Garrett Hickey Wilmer Krusen J. Ray Van Meter S. L. Woodhouse, Jr. Charles H. Grimos M. J. Huftnaglo Goorge McReynolds L. R. Wolft SENIORS Hugh J. Kearney Gerald J. Piserchia John H. Weidner Thomas J. Mayo, Jr. Josoph C. Sweeney Edward J. Wiater IOTA OF PHI ALPHA SIGMA JUNIORS Francis J. Monapaco F. William Streck SOPHOMORES Frank A. Ambrose Robert W. Allen Victor J. Bierman Miles F. Dills Josoph E. Gable Ervin E. Rodriguez Joseph J. Toland, 3rd FRESHMEN Louis Cenni William Freeman Robert S. Spenser George G. Wyche John C. Urie Antonio V. Munera Founded at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1886 through the efforts of Dr. Nathan B. Van Etten, who is now president of the American Medical Association, Phi Alpha Sigma has a ripe heritage. The Iota Chapter was installed on May sixteenth, 1932, having been brought to Temple by Doctors Wilmer Krusen, Samuel B. Hudden, and Nelson B. Davis. Meetings were first held in the rooms or in the apartments of the various members. However, steady growth soon called for more spacious and more permanent facilities. Tho officers and members of Phi Alpha Sigma. 272 After considerable looking, the group finally located at 3336 North Sixteenth Street. The house, furnished with all the splendor of a mansion, boasts an excellent library, a fine recreation room, and spacious living rooms and dining room. It is rumored that some of the rooms could easily accommodate a basketball game. Primarily, the aim of the group is scholarship and the many members who have found places in the various medical school organizations, as well as the consistently high averages attained both as individuals and as a group, testify to their success in this aim. It must not be felt that scholarship is the only goal in the career of a Phi Alpha Sigma. The weekly festivities of this club, which are both local and in conjunction with the sister chapters in Philadelphia, are occasions eagerly anticipated and long remembered by all who happen to be present. 1. Sloep is the best relaxation from the medical school grind. 2. Tho kitchen is the locale of many a midnite chat and snack. 3. You can stoal forty winks if you've heard it all before. A. Kibitzer Swoonoy watches their every move. 5. The Iota men know there arc no royal roads to modicine. 2 73 The members oi Alpha Kappa Kappa. BETA OMICRON OF ALPHA KAPPA KAPPA OFFICERS FACULTY President Vico President Treasurer Secretary David Osborno Robert Knoch Paul Ambrose H. Gilb3rt Diehl W. Emory Burnett W. Edward Chamberlain Thomas M. Durant Frederick A. Fiske Eugene T. Foy Jacques P. Guoquierre Chevalier Jackson John A. Kolmor A. Neil Lemon Joseph S. Lynch Stanford W. Mulholland Earl A. Shrader David Steuart Stoughton R. Vogel During th iirst two year';, tho nvcroscopo is an almost constant companion. SENIORS Frank G. Christopher H. Roobling Knoch Frederick V . Herman I. Paul Ambrose Jack F. Bailey Arlington Bensel. Jr. Lewis W. Berry Robert C. Brown JUNIORS James F. Collier Gilbert H. Diehl David P. Osborne Joseph A. Shelley SOPHOMORES Frank Lewis Richardson Karl A. Osborne WaJtor V esley Sawyer, Jr. FRESHMEN F. Clay Gibson Donald L. Bashline Harlo B. Groves George Dietrick Lucien Barnes PLEDGES Charles Umlauf 274 Alpha Kappa Kappa, founded at Dartmouth in 1889, is the third oldest medical fraternity in the country. It numbers among its brothers some of the greatest men in medical science. The Mayo Brothers, Chevalier Jackson, George Crile and John Kolmer are all members. The Temple group was founded in 1931 as the Crescent Club. In 1932, under the guidance of Dr. Emory Burnett, it applied to and was accepted by the Grand Chapter of Alpha Kappa Kappa. Beta Omicron chapter has always been a progressive organization and ranks high at Temple. Its undergraduate members include many of the finest lads in the school. The house is well known for its hospitality. One has only to drop in any evening to realize this, for a sincere, wholehearted welcome awaits. The Saturday affairs are among the best in the vicinity and many a friendship has sprung up around the bar in Ye Old Cellar Saloon. Every year a tri-chapter formal dance is held in cooperation with the groups at Pennsylvania and Jefferson. In the Fall and Spring there is a banquet for the faculty and students. The last Saturday of each month is set aside for an informal gathering at the house at which everyone participates in a discussion of the recent advances in medicine. The national organization publishes a quarterly journal which it claims is second to none in the country in its field. Besides information on the scientific advances of far flung fraters, it contains many anecdotes of brother internes and doctors and all possible items of local interest. 1. To the tired student it’s lun to just take it easy. 2. The dining room is the heart of every fraternity. 3. Tho bartender gatherod the corn for the Hallowe'en party. •1. The A. K. K.'s too. have their bull and beer sessions. 275 BETA ETA OF PHI BETA PI FACULTY Beta Eta officer:; of Phi Beta Pi. H. L. Bottomly James E. Bowman Charles L. Brown Thomas Campbell J. Norman Coombs Leon O. Davis T. Carroll Davis Charles O. DeLucca Dan. J. Donnelly J. V. Farrell Glen G. Gibson L. Vincent Hayes Frank C. Hammond Frank W. Kon2elmann Edward Larsen Walter !. Lillie Savere F. Madonna Washington Merscher C. K. Miller Chas. S. Miller H. Brooker Mills Francis Pipkin Herbert Raines J. N. Richardson Melvin A. Saylor Henry Schneider Scott L. Verrei Edward Weiss John T. Ealy Harrison R. Hines H. Otis Kittelson John B. H. Konzelmcnn Carl T. Korsmo SENIORS Delbert B. Mallams James H. Miller Jose L. Vila Ralph M. Wymer OFFICERS Archon ......................... Newton Earl Wessman Vice Archon ........ Harry E. O'Donnell Secretary.................................... H. Otis Kittelson Treasurer........................... J. Hugh Miller JUNIORS Eugeno Frame John J. Rearick William Nunnally John Wozniak David J. Phillips SOPHOMORE Joseph Mabey PLEDGES Francis Gaydosh Dale Thompson Ernest Grua John Sabol One method of education is an ©xchango of ideas. Kittelson and Hines aro tho doubles champs of Phi Beta Pi. Evening meals are usually followed by a bil ol banter. Phi Beta Pi has for many years occupied a prominent position in the activities of the medical school. Its members are always congenial and it has long been known that the company of a group of Phi Betes ensures a good time. Any evening they may be found at home at 3327 North 16th Street, playing ping-pong or engaged in heated discussion in the library. Many prominent faculty members are numbered among their ranks and can often be found enjoying argument or refreshment after a meeting or at one of the frequent smokers. Dr. Edward Larson and Dr. Henry Schneider act as faculty advisers to the group. The chapter holds many events throughout the year. Smokers, theatre parties and picnics all culminating in the annual Founders Day Banquet in March. Beta Eta chapter of Phi Beta Pi began as the Upsilon chapter of Omega Upsilon Phi. However, as this latter national group declined. the Upsilon chapter, through the ef- forts of Drs. T. Carroll Davis and Edward Larson, applied for a merger with Phi Beta Pi and became the Beta Eta chapter of this progressive national, which numbers over 40 chapters in the prominent medical schools of the country. If you hove boon roading tho picture titles you know this is a bull session. Evoryono gets a square doal in the house of Phi Rho Sigma. ALPHA LAMBDA OF PHI RHO SIGMA President .... Vice President Treasurer Secrotary....... Steward...... House Manager OFFICERS Warner D. Bundens . Eugene Gillespie Duane Mills Clarenco Lohman William Hanisek ......Grover Zerbe SENIORS John J. Bianco Warner D. Bundens Eugene J. Gillespie Gurney E. Hetrick Clarence D. Leiphart Melvin D. Mills Taras H. Rybachok L. Hyman Sanders Paul K. Waltz Charles N. Wright FACULTY Ernest Aegerter Ralph C. Bradley Sacks Bricker Joseph C. Doane Harry Z. Hibschman John F. Huber Robert S. Huffner Thomas Klein Pascal F. Lucchesi A. A. Mitten Robert F. Ridpath W. Hersey Thomas JUNIORS Clinton S. Crissman Jon P. Evans Frederich G. Hand Eldon G. Hoachlar.der Joseph E. Hoenninger David S. Marshall Charles H. McElwee John D. Walmer Edward M. Whalen Tho membors of Alpha Lambda. 278 SOPHOMORES H. LeRoy Allen William F. Hanis k Clarence L. Lehman John Y. Leisei Howard E. Prait Donald H. Rico Edward C. Uhrich Franklin G. Zerbe FRESHMEN William J. Brensinger Joseph Murphy Passing through the portals of 3232 North Sixteenth Street, one finds himself in a quiet, home-like and comfortable setting. Not only is there a pleasant living room with lush rugs and comfortable chairs, but there is also a fine library and reading room where members of Phi Rho Sigma may mull over rerae medicinae to their hearts' content. A splendid recreation room contains facilities for ping-pong, darts, cards, and whatever frivolity the fraters can devise. Besides their interest in recreation, the members let few chances to increase their medical lore pass by and therefore, they have instituted a series of fireside talks wherein the various faculty members present subjects of interest to one and all. These talks are eagerly looked forward to and many an evening has been profitably spent in such pursuit. The chapter was founded through the cooperation of Dr. Joseph Doane, Dr. Harry Hibschman, Dr. R. Ridpath, and the late and dearly loved Dr. A. C. Morgan. Since its inception in 1931, the chapter has grown tremendously and now comprises one of the largest of the campus groups. This shows itself in the fact that over thirty members dine regularly at the house. Social life starts early with an Open House in September for the new members. There are frequent Saturday night parties and informal gatherings throughout the year culminating in one great tri-chapter bail sponsored by the chapters at Temple, Pennsylvania, and Jefferson. Needless to say, therefore, the year's end leaves Phi Rho Sigs with many lasting memories of a pleasant year and a keen anticipation of the ones to follow. 1. Spirits rise around the bar. 2. Tho chef is the most important momber in this fratornity. 3. This year they competed with the Dartmouth artists. 4. Amateur photography is a popular hobby with the Phi Rho men. 279 BABCOCK DR. W. WAYNE BABCOCK 1. Dt. Babcock with hi« old friends and companions. Dr. William A. Stool and Dx. John P. Emich. 2. Tho student secretary and president with Dr. Emich who has boon the society's secretary lor 26 yoars. OFFICERS Honorary President. W. Wayne Babcock. A.M., M.D.. LL.D.. F.A.C.S. President Wm. A. Steel. B.S.. M.D., F.A.C.S. Vice President John P. Emich. M.D. Student President John B. Roxby Secretary ........................ Edward M. Whalen SENIORS Edwin P. Albright Robert F. Beckley J. Guy Buttors Frank A. Christopher Eugene J. Gillespie John H. Hall Ralph E. Herendeen Frederick W. Herman Harrison R. Hines Morton M. Khgerman Paul K. Lamar L. Knight H. Roebling Knoch Henry P. A. Laughhn Melvin D. Mills John J. Murphy Joseph H. Reno John T. Reilly John B. Roxby Murray D. Slgman Henry J. VandenBerg. Jr. Waltz JUNIORS Paul Ambrose John R. Bobb Frank R. Boyer Wm. E. Brown Oliver H. Brundage Casanova Diaz Toby A. Greco Granville A. Lawrence Sydney R. Livingstone Ralph D. Luthor Charles H. McElwee Earl E. Newhart David J. Phillips Jamos J. Richardson Joseph A. Shelley John H. Shugart John David Walmer Edward M. Whalen Edwin E. Wieckowskl George T. Wohl SOPHOMORES Arthur F. Brown Carroll F. Burgoon Samuel M Hazlett Robert H. High Victor Kromens Clarence L. Lehman Manson Meads Raymond Penneys Lester Rauor Sidney Sedwick The first undergraduate medical society at Temple, the Krusen Gynecological Society, was formed thirty-four years ago. It was followed, one month later, by the Babcock Surgical Society. The society was named in honor of Dr. W. Wayne Babcock, with whom the progress and fame of Temple Medical School is inextricably bound. Today the society is unique. It is the only long estab- 280 SURGICAL SOCIETY lished undergraduate surgical society in the United States v hose original patron is still active in his surgical practice. It has also had the same President, Dr. William A. Steel, since the day of its founding. It has grown progressively since its inception. Membership is based on election by the faculty and the student members. Seniors, Juniors and Sophomores who have high averages and who are not transfer-students are eligible. In April of 1937, the society celebrated its 30th anniversary at a dinner to Dr. Babcock, who was honored by the presence of Dr. I. S. Radvin, Surgeon to the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Gustav Van Lennep of Hahnemann, and Dr. Hubley Owen, director of the public health department of Philadelphia. The Babcock Society holds frequent meetings during the school year which are informal and serve as a meeting-ground for the many faculty and student members who attend. At these meetings, the students present papers representing varying degrees of original research. The papers are followed by a discussion of the problems raised in which both faculty and students participate. By far the most profitable part of the meetings are the talks presented by various speakers who are invited from time to time. Among these have been: Mordecai Price, Barton C. Hirst, Francis T. Stewart, William Z. Rodman, Joseph Price, Moses Behrend, James G. Gwathmey, Ernest La Place and Chevalier Jackson. The annual banquet of the Society is attended by students, recent graduates and practitioners from far and wide. The most cherished memories of members of the society are of the pleasant association with men of note and the opportunity to come in contact with, and absorb some of the energy and enthusiasm of, their beloved Dr. Wayne Babcock. The members oi the society in the surgical amphitheater. 2S1 WRIGHT DERMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY DR. CARROLL S. WRIGHT MEMBERS Claud© Houston Ballard, Jr. J. Martin Benson John J. Bianco Joseph M. Brau H. Emerson Burkhardt Elliot T. Bush, Jr. Edward White Caughoy Samuel J. Garileld G. Eugene Hetrick William G. Hume Jacob Katz G. Morris Kotcham Horace Otis Kittleson John B. H. Konzelmann Clarence D. Leiphart Robert E. Lentz John Thomas Lloyd Dolbort B. Mallams Joseph Xavier Medwick James Hugh Miller Wade Cooper Myers, Jr. Gerald Joseph Pisorchia Melvin D. Schmutz J. Frederic Snyder Raymond A. Taylor Jose Luis Vila Newton Earl Wessman Thomas Runyan Wilson Donald E. Wonsettler Ralph M. Wymer Jack Lasure Yahraus James Roy Good son In 1927, the Strickler Dermatological Society was formed and named after the then professor of Dermatology and Syphilology. In 1931, Dr. Carroll Wright became the professor and the society assumed its present name. The purpose of the organization is to stimulate interest in, and increase the student's knowledge of Dermatology. The meetings are often highlighted by speakers from other schools or clinics who are obtained with the interested assistance of Dr. Wright. Membership is based on interest and ability in the field of Dermatology and Syphilol-ogy as shown by yearly averages and is limited to members of the Senior and Junior class. The annual banquet is an event worth looking forward to by all the members, and is long remembered for the excellent cuisine and good fellowship which prevails. Back row. loit to right: Jacob Katz. Sam Gartield. Gerald Pisorchia. Raymond Taylor. J. T. Lloyd, Jr.. W. Garrott Hume. Josoph Brau, Jack L. Yahraus. H. E. Burkhardt. Joseph Medwick. Front row. left to right: G. Norris Kotcham. Jacob Bonson. Ralph Wymer, Nowton Wessman, Delbert Mallams. John Bianco. Clarence Loiphart. Claude Ballard. Jose Vila. IN MEMORIAM During the past year, the careers o! four faculty members of the Temple University School of Medicine came to a close. The 1941 Skull pays tribute to the memory of these physicians. ARTHUR CARADOC MORGAN A member of the 1897 graduating class of the Medico-Chirurgicai College. He was associate professor of medicine at his alma mater and at the University of Pennsylvania until the year 1922, when he came to Temple School of Medicine as professor of applied therapeutics. After 1930, he was emeritus professor of clinical medicine. He was president of both the Philadelphia County Medical and the Pennsylvania State Medical Societies, and served as associate editor of the Pennsylvania Medical Journal. On October 21, 1940, at the age of 70, he died at the Temple University Hospital. CHARLES STEWART BARNES Graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1897. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and was past president of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society. While a member of the staff at the Philadelphia General Hospital, he was also associate professor of obstetrics at Temple Medical School. His last contribution in the sphere of obstetrics was printed in the recently published Cyclopedia of Medicine. He died at the age of 78 years, on September 29, 1940. EDWARD LAMAR CLEMENS Was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1915. During World War I, he was one of the personnel in Base Hospital No. 20. Upon his return from France, he served in the neurosurgical division of the Staten Island army hospital. Desiring broader contact with active medicine, he resigned this service to enter neurologic practice. He subsequently held clinical appointments at the Graduate, Lankenau, Orthopedic, Allentown General and Temple University Hospitals. He died on the first day of March, 1941. ISADORE KATZ After completing pre-medical work at Temple University, he entered the Temple School of Medicine in 1925. Graduating in 1929, winner of most of the prizes offered, he interned in Philadelphia's Mount Sinai Hospital where, for the past few years, he was chief of the medical clinic. He was medical consultant at the Skin and Cancer Hospital, a recently appointed Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and an instructor in neuro-anatomy in the Temple School of Medicine. He died on February 20, 1941. 283 CHEMOTHERAPY (Continued from Page 184) World War I loomed gloomily on world horizons at this time too, and Dr. Schamberg plainly foresaw that salvarsan would sooner or later be cut off from America's millions of syphilitic diseased. The concentrated efforts of the Laboratories were thrown into the project of synthesizing salvarsan and, in 1915, success was theirs. The British blockade made delivery of the precious drug a very difficult matter and when a shipment was suspended, the German licensee in New York permitted the Laboratories to meet the medical demand. In 1917, when hostilities with Germany were begun, the Federal Trade Commission permitted the Laboratories to supply arsenobenzol under the foreign patents. This they did at one-third the price of the foreign drug. Later, the foreign patents were abrogated and the Research Laboratories were given the first license. As a matter of record, the issue of salvarsan brought to decision the whole problem of vital enemy patents. From the first, profits from the venture were wholly segregated into a fund for the support of research projects,—an essential in an organization without other support. In 1921, the Dermatological Research Institute was born from its predecessor; in 1922, the Abbott Laboratories purchased the salvarsan manufactory; in 1922, the Research Institute cf Cutaneous Medicine was named, located at 2101 Pine Street, and its accumulated funds and income perpetually dedicated to medical research. Since that date more than 460 publications, most of them with the collaboration of Dr. Kolmer, have been the output of this, the home of American chemotherapy. EDITOR'S NOTE The publication of a book such as the 1941 Skull would be impossible without the cooperation of all related parties. 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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY IN PHILADELPHIA Send for our nete illustrated booklet, About Temple University’’ Also copy of ACRES OF I) I .MO.M)S“ mailed upon request 2S7 STEVE WELCOMES YOU TO THE COLLEGE INN Where to meet your friends Where to make friends Where to bring your friends Something new and deliciously prepared each day in the Chef's Special • See “STEVE. He's always willing to oblige. The Recreation Center Between and After Classes DOWNSTAIRS — CORNER BROAD ONTARIO 288 “STEVE YANNES, Proprietor SAG. 9979 NEURO-SURGERY (Continued from Page 263) We gained a new concept of the vital importance of Temperature, Pulse, Respiration and Blood Pressure as indicators of the vital centers. We came a step closer to osteopathy when we were forced to admit that headaches were circulatory only, hyper-emic or ischemic, that if one were keen one could borrow from the lowly earthworm and by stimulation of skin segments diagnose disease processes deeply hidden, or invoke reflex hyperemia to aid the healing of damage. We had to reorganize all our hard-learned knowledge of tracts and processes in the great practical simplifications of neurology which reduced the spinal cord to four areas, the senses to vital and gnostic, deaths to cardiac and cerebral and pain to vascular stretch only. In the face of such vast simplifications we could but bow our heads, and offer no rebuttal. Sweat 'em, bleed 'em, purge ’em! Hippocratic medicine is born again. Epilepsy is a normal physiological process! Fire that one at old line docs and watch 'em stagger. Sub-arachnoid hemorrhage? Tap 'em. Tap 'em for diagnosis, and don't be afraid; tap 'em for reduction of increased cranio-vertebral pressure, it's good for 'em if you know your stuff; but do it slowly and carefully. Tap 'em again and again, drain 'em dry if need be, fill 'em with air for an encephalogram and put a cold helmet over 'em against the headache; only remember the Monro-Kellie doctrine and the three C.N.S. masses: brain, blood and cerebro-spinal fluid! Get your thumbs up and your feet everted, that's the way to visualize dermatomeres! Put your little finger in your eye; remember the ulnar nerve and Horner's syndrome! If it's vessel-carried pain, proved by spinal anesthesia, do a chordotomy at C5! Don't forget the case of the anomalous jugular and the high collar that began the Wall Street crash in 1929, because the broker who owned it shut off his one good vein and fainted promptly. The trip to Wilmington to change the patient's pillow recalls the story of the coat collar, made to protect C2-3-4 with their visceral segments of the pharynx and respiratory tract; hail the goose grease and sock therapy of colds! Dehydration is the bed-partner of acidosis, and edema of alkalosis! There's 40 million years of vomiting-reflex difference between a rat and a cat. Blood volume is a fixed factor with a few exceptions. Eversion of the foot is one of the first signs of brain injury, and one of the last to go. A pint's a pound the world around. Patients don't die of a skull fracture; they die of hemorrhage and edema. There is no such thing as a dry tap. And multitudes more of these constructive blocks of both neurology and general medicine. Tales tall, tales short by the man who wrote: My First Baby and Other Stories. The tale of the missionary-evangelist, obese, a grave cardiac problem, with a cervical meningioma: Dr. Fay, she wailed, as the local anesthetic was given, if you save my life I'll give you all the souls I've saved. But after six hours of sweat and curses. Fay was in debt to her. The P.G.H. inner thigh grab, guaranteed to bring the deadest drunk out of it pronto; one uses it, brings him out enough for the cops to grab; this makes the drunk mad, he begins to fight, the cops beat him over the head and bring him in again, this time with cerebral edema. And when a photograph was taken in the midst of a saddle examination, quick-witted Fay interjected: I don't want to be mixed up with the G.U. department! Dr. Michael Scott, the little chief, veteran of many problems of the convulsive state; Dr. John Taeffner, pediatrician neurologist and mentor of the P.G.H. clinics; Dr. J. 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But if we remember fundamental neurology as we've been taught it, it's our bet we'll aid in keeping the graveyards empty a longer time, and who cares about writing textbooks or being a great surgeon? • APOLOGIA A medical-student-nurse's yearbook is perhaps in a class by itself as to its permissible context. For us who deal every day with the blunt facts of life, disease and death, the lay concepts of humor, of sex, of misfortune, of history, of philosophy even, must have their bases shifted broadly and to the left. We have been careful in our choice of material. We have rooted out much that could be well objectionable to those, who are not of the profession, or to those who never lose their feelings of the impropriety of cer- tain subjects though they have been through the clinical mill. We have been tom between including the rich spiciness of certain well-savored yarns, and omitting or including certain dully perfunctory essentials of medical schooling. If there is a criticism leveled at us for our compilations, our inclusions or omissions, we offer this apology, and state again that this book is our sound attempt to tell A STORY OF MEDICAL APPRENTICESHIP, in a way that will tantalize the reader, draw him on out of sheer interest, cause him to shout with delight, say I must remember that one! , and go back again and again to live over the days without compare when we all spoke the same language, competed on the same base, and enjoyed the camaraderie of hard work. OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY (Continued from Page 243) Pelvic structure was one vital topic and Jake Benson had a report on the pelves of certain Nubian women, concubines of a Pharaoh; prefaced Jake, apologetically: These gals have been dead a long time. 290 We were maw-crammed with hormones. And then on to the clinic, in E.A., to find that pelves and hormones v ere pretty useful things to know intimately. In gynecology clinic, Dr. Duncan, Dr. Stewart (who entered the department with the new chief), Drs. Minehart, Bottomley, Reynolds, Beecham, C. S. Miller (with his lumbago), Amsterdam and the others, were only too willing to instruct us in the proper approach to lacerated cervices, trichomonas infestations, the ubiquitous P.I.D., pessaries and insufflation. In pre-natal and general obstetrics clinic, our old friends Drs. Alesbury, Quindlen, C. K. Miller, Hayford, Hoberman, et al., were there to push us along through the hurdles of preeclampsia, pelvic distortion, too much food, salt and water. Women, women, women . . . all with that tell-tale bulge of the lower abdomen, some proud, some calm, some embarrassed, some plain bored, some exasperated- -like the mother who was stork mad with twelve children and a thirteenth a-comin'. Outside-obsetrics, we cannot doubt it, was the highest point of our experiences as senior students. We had responsibility aplenty; this was potent medicine, where no one de- layed, where affairs dared not dally at the frenzy of a uterus mad to empty itself. But through the pain, the cries, this was LIFE. Few of us who watched baby after baby come into the world but thought of Oliver Wendell Holmes' remark, as he flourished a female pelvis before his classes: Beneath this triumphal arch all men pass. When we were on medicine and surgery there was a different tone for death and fear v ere close. Here in obstetrics a moment of travail, a long flood of joy with renewed life and new life. We “went on two at a time, six days inside, six days outside, answering calls to come to miserable lofts, in alleys the cops of the neighborhood never knew about and dealing with colored and white alike. The hospital had its slippery spots. Especially that first one. Thought Jake Benson, brand new at this ticklish business: God, I'm going to drop the baby, sure. I'm going to drop him; he'll slip outa my hands . . . greasy little cuss . . . goin' to drop him, sure. Came the zero hour: the nurse leaned in the door saying sweetly, Doctor, your patient is coming to the delivery room. Jake rushed to scrub, gown and get into position. Dr. Lucey leaned around the corner: Multipara? She was, so Lucey let Jake go to it. The head COMPLIMENTS OF... PUBLICKER COMMERCIAL ALCOHOL COMPANY 18th STREET AND LEHIGH AVENUE PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. BERRY BROS —BUICK 3425 North Broad Street (VEXT TO TEMPLE HOSPITAL) BUICK SALES AND SERVICE AND GOOD USED CARS 291 crowned, the body emerged, Jake winced as he reached for the legs, got a firm hold . . . and HELD! Huzza! Now to aspirate the little beggar’s mouth and pharynx; done. What next? Put drops in the eyes. Okay, the drops are over there at the cradle; take the baby there. At this moment the biting voice of Lucey: Doctor, you're four feet from the table, just how long do you think that cord is? Jack Lloyd took a hospital job in Norristown and had not been on service here. John Bianco was his teammate, already a veteran of some weeks' work. The first night on. came the summons: Dr. Lloyd, there's a patient delivering in the delivery room. Jack rushed to wash and gown, just arrived at the door to the delivery room when the head began to crown. Hurry, doctor!” pleaded the nurse, but poor Jack had first baby paralysis. John Bianco happened by, rushed to hold back the head with his bare hand; the spell broke, and Lloyd with a violent blush finished the job. Malcolm McCannel and Ed Lloyd raced to answer a call on a dingy street inhabited by negro folk. The baby was born and in a pool of amniotic fluid when they arrived. After the duties of cleansing, placenta ex- Drs. Stewart and C. K. Mill or were on hand to check our progross notes. pulsion, ergotrate administration, etc., they had time to gossip with the mammy. This was her 'steenth li’l coon and she said, I hope it's mah last. What are you going to name it? asked both doctors, with visions of a chance to name the little male Pylorus, Borborygmus, Cecum, or some other fine medical name (per the Johns Hopkins lads). Ah dunno, said the mother. Said Mac: How about Archibald? , thinking what a DARLENE ICECREAM PLEDGED TO HER PROFESSION... And to her only pair of feet! She takes good care of them simply by wearing FREEMAN Nurse's Shoes throughout her busy day. These shoes carry the weight of the body according tocasy. natural, 3-point suspension principlesbuild vitality and permit natural foot movement. THE FREEMAN co. PHILA. DAIRY PRODUCTS CO. Fourth and Poplar Streets Philadelphia, Pa. CORRECT FOOTWEAR 3628 Germantown Avenue (In the Arcade) OPEN EVENINGS - Special Discount to Nurses WHERE SHOES ARE FITTED . . . . . . NOT MERELY SOLD 292 FOR ADDED WEAR BON TON HOSIERY WHITE AND DRESS HOSIERY 3338 Germantown Ave. Philadelphia, Pa. UPTOWN CAMERA 8c SPORT SHOP PHOTOGRAPHIC AND ATHLETIC SUPPLIES 3617 Germantown Avenue O 2 Block below Erie Ave.) BERNARD’S PHARMACY 1 5th and Tioga Streets NEUBAUER BROS. FOOD MARKET FRATERNITY FOOD SUPPLIES OUR SPECIALTY WHOLESALE RETAIL 17th and Westmoreland St. SAG. 6623 GROUP PICTURES AND NURSES PORTRAITS FOR THE 1941 SKULL TAKEN BY . . . M. J. KELLY CO. S A R O N Y MEATS : — : FOOD PRODUCTS CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS FROM BILL’S 1322 W. Ontario Street • 24 So. Delaware Ave. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Bea Weber found sweet repose botwoen outside deliveries. joke on his bronchoscopisi father. Said Ed: Since you want him to be the last, how about his middle name being Omega? Very good, and so he was named: Archibald Omega McMillian, male, colored, 8 pounds and 3 ounces. Doctors, come quick! Mrs. Esther E., 1212 St., her tenth baby! Yes, ter- ribly quick for a tenth. Ed Albright and Warner Bundens looked at their watches: 4:05 A. M. (this always happens at night) and in their '32 Dodge they sped down Broad Street (temperature 25 degrees F.). The car went dead abruptly. First aid went to naught. No amount of fiddling brought life. But at this juncture the Black Maria hove into view and at 4:20 they were delivered at the home. And none too soon, for a black-topped head was emerging. To scrub or not to scrub? Bundens’ baby; and his hands were smeary with car grime. Albright held the head back with a sterile sponge while Bundens hit for the one lonely spigot in the back shed. You'd better hurry, doctor! brought him back dripping with gloves half on, shirt sleeve not even rolled; bag intact, the head delivered . . . but had two cord loops around the neck. No manipulation would free them—they grew tighter with pressure; no hemostats or scissors could be obtained before, with a rush, the infant arrived. Thanks be, the cord was long enough. Ho hum, and so to bed. Bea Weber thought interne Connelly was sleeping in the interne quarter's bed; roguishly she slipped in and took a nip at his ear . . . heavens, LUCEY! 293 Just A Reminder OF THE GOOD TIMES YOU HAD IN . . . THE CAFETERIA TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Cases, cases, cases. Learning to hear heart sounds, to palpate a dilating cervix and really know how much, to handle a mother post-natally, watching pre-eclamptics in dehydration, guarding placenta previas and threatened abortions, seeing unusuals like hydatidiform moles, supernumerary breasts, monsters, twins, Caesareans, getting to know the mothers by name and face, accepting proud fathers' cigars, visiting with the nurses, living a timeless existence where day and night flattened to sameness . . . ah, it was a great time, being in the hospital. But outside was much better. The calls for aid, the frantic rush to arrive on time (and often we didn't), to find a squalling child in a pool of amniotic fluid; the mis-judgments in timing (how we tried to keep sterile for six hours while a baby moved down the birth canal micron by micron!); the other children in the families wondering what's up (oh yes, a new baby sister); the celebration beer, cakes and eats; the unshaven fathers; the neighbor women standing by; the calls to the hospital and news that TWO MORE CALLS ARE IN, DOCTORS!, and the race across town to find unnumbered houses on dark unnamed streets was on once again. Who would have missed the fun? Who would even have missed the post-natal visits, tiresome indeed, where we found how little we knew of babies, breasts and bottles! Temple obstetrics? You go to Temple, Hines, said a Jeffersonian. That's the place where you dehydrate mothers so the baby squeaks as it slides out. Oh no, reassured Harrison, we dehydrate them only to the point where, when we hold a glass of water outside the introitus, the fetus is so thirsty he reaches out to grab it, then we grasp him and pull him through! 294 COMPLIMENTS OF ESTABLISHED SINCE 1854 D. KLEIN BROS. INCORPORATED ® Tailors of Quality Nurses Capes 715-17-19 Arch Street PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. WILLIAM A. WEAVER HOSPITAL AND INSTITUTION EQUIPMENT 6742 Lawn ton Avenue (OAK LANE) PHILADELPHIA, PA. Phone: WAVerly 6139 Phone: MAN. 3368 WOLFINGTON TYPEWRITER SERVICE All Makes Sold — Repaired — Overhauled Estimates Given Free ALL WORK GUARANTEED HOSPITAL CLOTHING CO. UNIFORMS FOR NURSES STUDENTS--------GRADUATES 1107 Walnut Street Philadelphia. Pa. Phone: PENnypacker 8576 LAMB BROTHERS STATIONERS AND PRINTERS 708 Chestnut Street PHILADELPHIA, PA. BELL: LOMbard 6957 KEYSTONE: Main 1707 People prefer FRANKFURTERS made from strictly iresh dressed meats — FRANKFURTERS “THE TASTE IS THERE 295 H J, WOLFINGTON 3810 Manayunk Ave. Philadelphia, Pa. SOLD BY QUALITY DEALERS Remember Restaurant - - 3545 - -North Broad Street 296 SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE TO THETA UPSILON OF PHI CHI (Delivered February 28, 1941—Founder's Day Banquet) APECUNIOSIS (AN-ARGENTIA - AURO-PRIVA— STUDENT'S DISEASE”) Definition: A state of lack of money or fluid assets. An endemic disease, occasionally becoming epidemic (1929), which exists in a great variety of forms. May be congenital or acquired. Pathology: Few lesions found at post mortem. Emaciation in extreme cases. Atrophy of the bank account which may be so small as to escape detection. Chemical analysis shows small amounts of copper, traces of silver (in conjugated form) and complete absence of gold. Incidence: Universal in infants. Tends to become modified after puberty but after marriage acute exacerbations recur. Prevalent among medical students with remissions in summer. Usually ends by lysis some years after graduation. After 6th decade the disease assumes a malignant form or else disappears entirely. Etiology: Occupation plays an important role. Strong familial trend. The hereditary form carries a guarded prognosis, although spectacular recoveries may take place. Males more commonly affected than females, and in married women the disease is usually secondary to the husband's condition. Metabolism: Commonest cause is faulty assimilation of current assets. Diabetes of liquid assets causes chronic depletion. Obstipation of accumulated assets is a 3rd form—here there is failure of mobilization and excretion (pseudo-apecunia). Symptoms: Behaviour disturbances: tendency to solitude and avoidance of places of public entertainment. Preference for beer rather than spirits. Intractable cases have itching of the palm. In milder cases constant tendency to borrow from friends—Eg. Bummatione Cigarettorum. Acute episodes precipitated by situations such as paying the dinner-check. Here there is transitory hypermotility of hands—successive obturation of the pockets (diverticulae vestis), blushing, stammering and a tendency to stand behind other people. At this point, the patient may vanish. Indecision over purchases, and pagamen-tus lentus are common. Astute patients may completely mask the symptoms. Signs: Inspection: Cafe-au-lait color of the linen (vesta maculata). Fimbriosis of the cuffs with attempts at repair. Trouser legs show obliteration of the longitudinal sulcus and sacculation at the knees (Presser’s sign). Shoes of dull lusterless appearance with wedgings of the heels (calcaneus cunieformis). Porridgia of the coat and vest, especially in Scots. In severe cases there may be lacunae pantalunae buttockorum with considerable areas of denudation and even penetration of the underclothing. In extreme cases the patient may be subject to legal detention until repair is affected. In the pockets the coin test is diminished or absent. Palpation of the wallet shows the walls to be in apposition and crepitus absent. Diagnosis: Usually easy with careful history and physical. Dun and Bradstreet test can be applied in doubtful cases. If this is negative, the local credit association should be called in consultation. Treatment: Increased physical and mental activity, change of occupation are safest. The prognosis is guarded. Transfusions on liquid assets are to be avoided since they tend to be habit forming. Occasionally marriage leads to a complete remission, but, it is important to be sure that the bride does not suffer from the masked form of the disease herself. Abstract of original research done by John Lansbury, M.D., v hen attending Queen's University School of Medicine (Circa 1926). Bell: STEvenson 5680 Keystone: Park 1194 JAMES E. TAGUE 8c CO. 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POULTRY AND SAUSAGE Stalls 544 and 554 Reading Terminal Market PHILADELPHIA. PA. .301 TEMPLE TECHNOLOGISTS (Continued from Page 255) The student devoted two months of practical study in each of six departments. She assisted in carrying out the routine examination of specimens received in the laboratory, under the direction of a trained technician and the pathologist. In this manner, she examined urine specimens for two months, and then moved on to blood counting and other hematological procedures. The important point was that a definite time, and only this fixed period, was devoted to each phase of laboratory technique. Several lectures were given each week on theory and interpretation of methods. The student technicians were permitted also to attend lectures in clinical pathology and autopsies with the medical students. Upon the completion of a department, each student was given a written examination. It was not long before it became apparent that twelve months were not sufficient time for a thorough training, and the course was accordingly lengthened to eighteen months, so that three months could be devoted to each branch. This arrangement permitted the accommodation of 18 students. Because of the need for additional instructor technicians, a tuition fee of $100.00 was charged for the entire course. The American Medical Association and the American Society of Clinical Pathologists had, in the late 1920's, investigated the training of laboratory technicians, and after discovering that many hospitals were really exploiting their volunteer workers, the American Medical Association with the advice of the Society of Pathologists, drew up a code of basic requirements for a suitable course of training. Those hospitals which would meet these requirements would be listed by the A.M.A. as an approved school. Graduates of approved schools were eligible for registration with a Board of Registry, established by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. The A.M.A. further urged all hospitals which desired the listing as class A, to employ only registered technicians. Since its beginning, the School at Temple University Hospital has been approved, and its graduates have been registered. In 1939, with the cooperation of the College of Liberal Arts, the course was further extended to a four-year course, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology. The first two years are devoted to courses in the sciences, such as Chemistry, Physics and Biology. The usual college fees are charged for these years. The last two years Konzelmann and Horendoon lounged in (ho technological domain. are spent in the hospital laboratories. The tuition fee for this period of practice training is $200.00. Up to the present time, 143 have been graduated from Temple's School. 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McDevitt Terms expire in 1942 Dr. J. M. Alcsbury Dr. R. D. MacKinnon Dr. M. B. Have rs Dr. W. T. Snagg Dr. B. R. Young Terms expire in 1943 Dr. H. Taylor Caswell Dr. John J. Ford Dr. Matthew S. Ersner Dr. Save re F. Madonna Dr. James P. Quindlen 303 INDEX Albright, Edwin Pierce 5622 32nd St., N. W. Washington, D. C. Ballard. Claude H., Jr. 900 Fairfield Ave. Kinston, N. C. ... Barenbaum. Daniel H. 519 N. 4th St. Philadelphia. Pa. Beckley. Robort F. 168 E. 5th St. Bloomsburg, Pa. Benson, J. Martin 741 S. 57th St. Philadelphia, Pa. Page .... 18 ... 108 ... 46 ... 113 ... 47 BELL: REGcnt 3863 KEYSTONE: Park 2601 SINCE 1887 HERMAN GOLDNER CO., Inc. 425 West Lehigh Avenue PHILADELPHIA, PA. PLUMBING. HEATING and POWER EQUIPMENT JENKINS VALVES “STRONG STEAM TRAPS COMPLIMENTS OF Page Bianco, John James 200 South Pine St. Hazleton, Pa................................. 91 Boyer. George S. 318 V . Packer Ave. Bethlehem. 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Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, Pa. ............................ 74 Edwards, George W.. 2nd 309 Cherokee Drive Orlando, Florida 104 Ellison, Nomma F. 1057 East, 2nd South Salt Lake City. Utah ......................... 50 Etzel, Conrad A. Shippensville, Pa.......................... 126 Gaebe, Laurence C. New Salem, North Dakota 62 Garfield, Samuel J. 5151 Whitaker Ave. Philadelphia, Pa............................ 44 Gerth, E. Witmor 114 So. 6th St. Columbia. Pa. ... 115 BELL: MARket 1846 KEYSTONE: Main 1045 ALBERT HEPWORTH MACHINE TOOLS S. W. Cor. 5th and Arch Sts. PHILADELPHIA. PA. Rockford Machine Too! Co. Axelson Mfg. Co. NURSING HOMES SHARON HALL West Philadelphia KENWOOD (Nervous if Mental) Chestnut Hill LOWEST RATES 24 Hour Nursing Care Graduate Staff SHARON HILL MANAGEMENT. Inc. 35 No. 40th Street Gilbertson, Eva L. Maddock. 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ESTABLISHED IN 1817 WILLIAM BARNETT SONS INCORPORATED SUCCESSFUL LAUNDRY SUPPLIES 730-732 South Broad Street Philadelphia. Pa. THE IVY HILL CEMETERY Easton Road Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pa. ESTABLISHED 1867 Hoffmeier, Charles L. Walkersville, Md. 105 Hoover, Russell Dean 29 Hope St. St. Augustine, Florida 117 Hosner, James W. Kittanning, Pa. ............................... 23 Hume, W. Garrett 512 W. 23rd St. Wilmington, Delaware 40 Huss. William E. 839 Columbia Ave. Lancaster. Pa. 13 Iannucci, Christopher Alfredo 2112 Reed St. Philadelphia, Pa....... 95 Jacobson, Sidney 4217 Viola St. Philadelphia, Pa. ... 96 Katz, Jacob 1807 South 6th St. Philadelphia, Pa. 97 Kearney, Hugh J. 101 N. Harvard Ave. Ventr.or City, N. 1........................... 68 Ketcham. G. Norris 1312 Foulkrod St. Philadelphia, Pa. 119 Kittelson, H. Otis Sioux Falls, South Dakota .................... 55 Kligorman, Morton Modvone 315 V . York St. Philadelphia, Pa. 98 Kline. Robert W. Washington Hospital Washington, Pa. 99 FINNAREN and HALEY INC. Sixtieth and Thompson Streets 24 North Fifty-second Street 5629 Chester Avenue 4665-67 Frankford Avenue POP. 5976 BAILER MERSHON PLATING CO. CHROME PLATING - NICKEL PLATING POLISHING 300 Telephone: Chestnut Hill 0295 1221 North Street Philadelphia. Pa. INDEX Knight, Lamar L. 1538 West Court St. Gainesville, Florida 102 Knoch, H. Roebling 545 West King St York, Pa.................................... 100 Konzelmann, John Bruce 2969 Memphis St. Philadelphia. Pa. 52 Korsmo, Carl T. 125 N. Main St. Punxsutawney, Pa. 109 Kotloff, Leon 7353 Chelwynde Ave. Philadelphia, Pa. 45 Laughlin, Henry P. 143 King St. Hagerstown. Md. 31 Leiphart. Clarence D. 269 E. Market St. Hellam, Pa. 92 Lentz. Robert E. Allentown, Pa. ... 75 Linguiti, Paschal A. 1324 S. 31st St. Philadelphia. Pa. 17 Lloyd. Edwin J. North Baltimore. Ohio 112 Lloyd, John T., Jr. Atlantic City. N. J. 15 Mallams, Delbert B. 1200 Market St. Ashland, Pa. 14 Mayo. Thomas J.. 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Y. 33 RADcliff 6631 LAYMAN’S CAMERA SHOP 3220 Germantown Avenue PHOTO SUPPLIES PHOTOFINISHING DONE ON RUSH ORDER A Majority of the Snapshots in the “1941 Skull” Were Finished By Us Across the Years -FROM BABYHOOD TO MOTHER' HOOD VITAMIN D Milk is especially important. The baby requires it to build growing bones: to help make teeth hard and sound: to build a healthful, beautiful body. In girlhood Vitamin D is needed. During maternity it is demanded to help maintain mother's teeth and bones while she is nourishing her baby. Wise doctors recommend ARISTOCRAT Vitamin D Milk—the improved food-drink. SCOTT - POWELL THE ARISTOCRAT DAIRY 443 N. Thirteenth Street Philadelphia. Pa. 307 45th and Parrish Eve. 1234 FRANK L. LAGAN geo. h. McConnell PHILADELPHIA SURGICAL INSTRUMENT CO. 1717 Sansom Street — Distributors — HAMILTON WOOD AND STEEL TREATMENT ROOM FURNITURE CASTLE STERILIZERS RIT. 3613 PIERRE UNIFORMS MANUFACTURERS AND DESIGNERS OF QUALITY INTERN SUITS 224-226 South Eleventh Street PHILADELPHIA, PA. You Are Entitled to the Best . . . Insist on Pierre9s to Be Sure You Get It EVERY GARMENT GUARANTEED TO GIVE COMPLETE SATISFACTION m Bell: MARkct 1036-37 Keystone: MAIN 7613-14 INDEX Myers, Wade Cooper, Jr. 5201 Seminole Ave. Tampa. Florida .............................. 35 Ogburri. Leon N. Angier, N. Carolina 58 Perchonock, Meyer 1712 N. Wilton St. Philadelphia, Pa. 43 Peters. Frank S. 53 Prospect St. Nanticoke, Pa. .............................. 82 Piserchia, Gerald J. 225 McAdoo Ave. Jersey City, N. J...... 71 Rabinovitz, Moses 2912 Germantown Ave. Philadelphia. Pa. ......................... 93 Ramsey. William H., II 714 Old Lancaster Rd. Bryn Mawr, Pa. ............................. 27 Randall, George Edward 10-02 River Road Fair Lawn, N. J. 80 Reid, Elsie E. 102 N. Surrey Ave. Ventnor, N. J. .............................. 79 Reilly, John T. VanBuren Rd. Morristown, N. I. 28 Reno, Joseph H. 2028 N. 15th St. Philadelphia, Pa. 26 Risk, Catharine Boyd Summit. N. J. ............................... 78 Ritmiller. Leroy F. Ashley, North Dakota ........................ 63 Roxby, John B.. Jr. R. D. No. 1 Souderton, Pa. ............................. 107 Ruhe, David S. The Morning Call Allentown, Pa. ... 106 Rusmisell, James A. Buckhannon. W. Va............................ 83 Rybachok, Taras H. 756 N. 22nd St. Philadelphia, Pa. 59 Sanders, Lee Hyman Rocky Mount. N. C. 60 Sanford, Caroline 27 E. CUff St. Somerville. N. J........................... 66 Schmutz, Melvin A. New Harmony, Utah 64 Shembab, Cecilia H. 1406 56th St. Superior, Wisconsin ... ..................... 65 FRANK HELLERICK CO., Inc. BUTTER : EGGS : CHEESE and POULTRY 120 Callowhill Street 349-51 New Market St. PHILADELPHIA COMPLIMENTS OF A WELLAVISHING FRIEND HORACE T. POTTS CO. 126 YEARS OF DEPENDABLE STEEL WAREHOUSE SERVICE PHILADELPHIA. PENNA. 309 INDEX Sigman. Murray D. 36 Rhode Ave. St. Augustine. Florida 103 Smith. Edgar J. Castine, Maine 25 Smith. Edward W. Wykagyl Gardens New Rochelle, N. Y. 32 Snyder, J. Frederic 23 W. Cottage Avo. Millersville, Pa. Ill Sweeney. Joseph Clyde, Jr. 330 N. Penn St. York. Pa................................... 70 Taylor, Raymond A. 180 Peyton Rd. York. Pa. ... 24 VandenBerg, Henry J., Jr. 300 Gladstone Ave. Grand Rapids. Mich. 30 Vila, Jose Luis P. O. Box 68 Yabucoa, Puerto Rico 128 Waltz. Paul K. 6611 Germantown Ave. Philadelphia, Pa. 89 Weber, Beatrice A. c o Comdr. H. C. Weber (M. C.) U. S. Naval Hospital Great Lakes, 111.......................... 36 Weidner. John H. Alsace Road Amity St. Reading, Pa................................ 69 Wessman. Newton E. 109 W. 14th St. Sioux Falls, So. Dakota ... 54 Weston, Jean K. Glen Riddle. Pa............................ 73 Wiater, Edward J. 121 N. Fourth St. Reading. Pa................................ 72 Wilbur, Carl E. 6132 Columbia Avo. Philadelphia, Pa. Wilder, Raboteau T. Aberdeen. No. Carolina 57 Wilson, Thomas Runyon 21 Pittsburgh Circle EUwood City, Pa............................ 86 Wonsettler, Donald Eugene Scenery Hill. Pa........................... 84 Wright, Charles N. Jarvisburg, No. Carolina .................. 61 Wymer, Ralph M. Now Concord, Ohio ......................... 53 JOHN C. KIMMERLE 8C SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS 2127 North Broad Street PHILADELPHIA. PA. MADDOCK 8C COMPANY 42 N. Sixth Street TOOLS Philadelphia. Pa. ARMSTRONG BROTHERS Lithe Tools BLACK 3C DECKER Electric Tools BROWN 8C SHARPE Milling Cutters and Tools CARBORUNDUM Grinding Wheels CLEVELAND Twist Drills, Reamers, Tool Bits GREENFIELD Taps, Dies. Screw Plates NICHOLSON Files and Rasps STARRETT Machinists’ Fine Tools TOLEDO Pipe Threading Tools WILLIAMS Drop Forged Wrenches. Clamps FULton 3157 FULton 0500 Since 1895 R E I N H A R T WINDOW’ SHADES LINOLEUM CO., Inc. WINDOW SHADES, LINOLEUM FLOORS VENETIAN BLINDS. TILES. ASPHALT RUBBER. CORK. LINO TILE 1627-29 E. Passyunk Avenue Philadelphia, Pa. KEEP UP TO DATE WITH THE CYCLOPEDIA OF MEDICINE, SURGERY and SPECIALTIES See: BOB and DICK CRANDALL Yahraus, Jack Lasure 439 N. Duke St. Lancaster, Pa. 85 310 STAFF OF TEMPLE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ANATOMY John B. Rcxby, M.D., Professor of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology. William C. Pritchard. M.D., Professor of Histology and Embryology. John Franklin Huber. A.M., M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology. Others included in the department are: Moe B. Markus, D.D.S.. Clinton S. Herrman, M.D., F.A.C.S.. Joseph C. Donnelly. A.B., D.D.S.. M.D.. F.A.C.S., Philena Evans Chase. A.B.. Ph.D., Frank Glauser, M.D., Jean Kendrick Weston, M.A.. Ph.D. BACTERIOLOGY. PARASITOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY John A. Kolmer. M.S.. M.D., Dr. P.H., D.Sc.. LL.D., L.H.D.. F.A.C.P.. Professor of Medicine and in charge of Bacteriology and Immunology. Edwin S. Gault, M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology. Earle H. Spaulding. B.A., Ph.D.. Assistant Professor of Bacteriology. Others Include: LoRoy J. Wenger, M.D., William G. Goode, Dorothy Sage. B.S.. M.A., Louis Tuft, M.D. Augustin R. Poalo, A.B.. M.D.. Robert H. Guiberson, B.S., M.S. BRONCHO-ESOPHAGOLOGY Chevalier Jackson, M.D., Sc.D., LL.D., F.A.C.S., Honorary Professor of Broncho-esophagology. Chevalier L. Jackson. A.B., M.D., M.Sc. (Mod.), F.A.C.S.. Professor of Broncho-esophagology. Emily VanLoon, M.D., F.A.C.S., Associate Professor of Broncho-esophagology. CHEMISTRY AND TOXICOLOGY Melvtn A. Saylor, B.S., M.D., Professor of Physiological Chemistry. Mona Adolf. M.D., Professor of Colloid Chemistry. Earl A. Shrader. B.Sc.. M.S.. Ch.E.. Ed.D., Assistant Professor of Physiological Chemistry. Robert H. Hamilton, Jr., M.A., Ph.D., M.D., Assistant Professor of Physiological Chemistry. DERMATOLOGY AND SYPHILOLOGY Carroll S. Wright. B.S., M.D., Professory of Dermatology and Syphilology. Jacques Guequierre. B.S.. M.D.. Associate Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology. Reuben Friedman, M.D., Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology. Other members of the department include: J. Neafie Richardson, B.S., M.D., Kenneth M. Reighter, B.S.. M.D.. Stanley Joseph Skromak, M.D., Gennaro C. Nicastro. M.D., M. H. Samitz, M.D. GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS Thadaeus L. Montgomery, A.B., M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor end Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Harry A. E uncan, M.D.. A.B.. F.A.C.S., Clinical Professor of Gynecology. J. Marsh Alesbury. M.D.. Clinical Professor of Obstetrics. Others in the Obstetrical Division include: C. Kenneth Miller. M.D.. Chester Reynolds. A.B., M.D., Lewis Karl Hoberman, M.D., James P. Quindlen. M.A., M.D.. Helen Hayes Ryan, M.D., Hugh Hayford, M.D.. Julius Amsterdam. M.D., Joseph Lomax, B.S., M.D. Others in the Gynecological Division include: Clayton Beecham, A.B., M.D., F.A.C.S.. Charles Scott Miller. M.D., F.A.C.S.. Isaaor Forman. M.D., Harry L. Stewart. Jr., A.B., M.D., Harold L. Bottomley, M.D.. John R. Minehart, A.B., M.D.. Saul P. Savltz, M.D. LARYNGOLOGY AND RHINOLOGY Robert F. Ridpath. M.D., Sc.D.. F.A.C.S., Professor of Laryngology and Rhinology. T. Carroll Davis. P.D.. M.D., F.A.C.S. Clinical Professor of Laryngology and Rhinology. Charles Q. DeLuca. M.D., Assistant Professor of Laryngology and Rhinology. A. Neil Lemon, M.D., Assistant Professor of Laryngology and Rhinology. J. Wesley Anders, M.D., Associate in Laryngology and Rhinology. Charles H. Grimes, M.D.. F.A.C.S.. Associate in Laryngology and Rhinology. Samuel S. Ringold, M.D., Lecturer in Laryngology and Rhinology. Morrill Bemis Hayes, A.B.. M.D.. Instructor in Laryngology and Rhinology. Kerman Snyder. M.D., Clinical Assistant in Laryngology and Rhinology. Morris S. Ettenger. B.A.. M.D., Clinical Assistant in Laryngology and Rhinology. MEDICINE Temple University Staff Charles Leonard Brown. B.S., M.D., F.A.C.P., Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Medicine. John A. Kolmer, M.S.. M.D.. Dr. P.H.. D.Sc.. LL.D.. L.H.D., F.A.C.P., Professor of Medicine (Immunology). Edward Weiss, M.D., F.A.C.P., Professor of Clinical Medicine. Allen G. Beckloy. M.D.. F.A.C.P., Clinical Professor of Medicine. Michael G. Wohl. M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology). Joseph B. Wolffe. M.D.. Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology). William A. Swalm. M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology). 311 STAFF G. Morion IUman, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine. John Lansbury. M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine. Roy L. Langdon. M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine. Thomas M. Durant, B.S., M.D.. F.A.C.P., Associate Professor of Medicine. Samuel A. Savitz, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine. George E. Farrar, Jr.. B.S., M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology). Daniol J. Donnelly, M.D.. Assistant Professor of Medicine. Louis Cohen, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine (Chest). Henry C. Groff, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine. Other members of the faculty include: Ellis B. Horv itz, M.D.. Reuben Davis, M.D., Louis Tuft, M.D.. Leroy J. Wenger. M.D., Ralph A. Klemm, M.D., Morris Klein-bart, M.D., Louis Soloff, A.B., M.D., Max B. Walkow. B.S., M.D., Robert F. Sterner, B.S., M.D., Savere F. Madonna, M.D., Max Schumann, M.D., George Isaac Blumstoin, M.D., J. Paul Austin, M.D., Isadora Wilcher Ginsburg, A.B., M.D., David Suiter, M.D., Emanuel M. Weinberger. M.D., Milford J. Huffnagle. A.B.. M.D.. Victor Andre Digilio. B.S., M.D., David Steuart, M.D.. Frank M. Dyson, M.D.. Josoph A. Pescatorre. M.D., I awronce N. Ettolson, B.S.. M.D.. Leon S. Caplan. M.D., C. Charles Imperialo, A.B., M.D., Lestor Morrison, M.D., Jerome Miller. M.D., Oscar T. Wood, B.S., M.D., Stoughton R. Vogel. M.D.. George E. Mark, Jr., B.S., M.D., Bruce Steele Roxby, A.B.. M.D., Frederick Walker Ravh irn. M.D., Robert Cohen, M.D., Howard W. Baker. M.D. Philadelphia General Hospital Staff Edward Weiss. M.D., F.A.C.P.. Professor of Clinical Medicine. Thomas Klein, A.B., M.D.. Professor of Clinical Medicine. Thomas M. Durant, B.S., M.D., F.A.C.P., Associate Professor of Mediclno. Louis Cohen, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine (Chest). Others include: Reuben Davis. M.D.. Jack W. Welty, M.S., M.D., Stoughton R. Vogel. M.D. Jewish Hospital Staff Joseph C. Doane, M.D., F.A.C.P., Professor of Clinical Medicine. Nathan Blumborg, M.D., F.A.C.P., Associate Professor of Medicine. Edward A. Steinfield, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine. Others include: Henry I. Tumen, A.B.. M.D.. Maurice S. Jacobs, M.D., Joseph G. Weiner, M.D., Sydney Harberg, M.D., Eugene M. Schloss, M.D., Meyer Somers. M.D., Edwin LeV inn. M.D.. Mitchell Selick-man, M.D., Albert Adlin. M.D., A. Rosenfeld, M.D., Louis Zisserman. A.B., M.D., J. George Teplick. A.B., M.D., Samuel Baer, M.D. Episcopal Hospital Staff James Kay. M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine. Others include: W. Gordon McDaniel, B.S., M.D.. S. Lawrence Woodhouse, Jr., A.B., M.D. Eagloville Sanatorium A. J. Cohen. M.D.. Clinical Professor of Medicine. Louis Cohen, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine. Special Lecturers Victor Robinson, M.D., Professor of History of Medicine. A. J. Cohen. M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine. Edwin H. Mcllvain, M.D., Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence. Arthur 0- Penta. M.D., Instructor in Medicine. NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY Temple Fay. B.S., M.D., F.A.C.S.. Professor and Head of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery. Sherman F. Gilpin, Jr., B.S., M.D., Clinical Professor of Neurology. Michaol Scott, B.S., M.D., F.A.C.S.. Assistant Professor of Nourosurgsry. Others on the staff include: James J. Waygood. Ph.B.. M.D., Paul Sloane, A.B., M.D.. Alexander Silverstein, M.D., John H. Taeffner, B.S., M.D., J. Ray Van Meter, R.S., M.D.. Lieut. M.C.. U.S.N., Georqe N. Raines, B. S., M.D., Lieut. M.C.. U.S.N., Henry Wyeis, B.S., M.D. OPHTHALMOLOGY Walter I. Lillie. M.D., M.S. (Ophth.), F.A.C.S., Professor of Ophthalmology. Glen Gregory Gibson, M.D.. Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology. Others include: Lewis Randall Wolf. B.S., M.D.. M.S. (Ophth.), Joseph S. Lynch, B.A., M.D., M. S. (Ophth.), Louis F. Hinman, B.S., M.D., M. W. Snyder, B.S., M.D. ORTHOPEDICS John R. Moore. A.B.. M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Orthopedic Surgery. Others in the department include: Worth B. Forman. M.D.. Frederic William Rhinelander. 2nd, A.B., M.D., Eviqene F. Berkman, B.S.. M.D.. Arthur F. Seifer. B.S., M.D. OTOLOGY Matthew S. Ersner, M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Otology. Edward K. Mitchell, M.D., F.A.C.S., Associate Professor of Otology. Others include: Julius Winston, M.D., S. Bruce Greenway. M.D., David Moyers, M.D., Simon Ball. M.D., Burech Rachlis, M.D., Louis H. Weiner, M.D., Harry G. Eskin, M.D., Frank L. Follweiler, B.S., M.S.. Ph.D., M.D., Francis A. Harold Sanders. A.B., M.D., Irving Arnold Rush, A.B., M.D., James H. Kates. M.D. M2 STAFF HANS W. CHRISTOPH, Inc. MANUFACTURERS OF SURGICAL AND ORTHOPEDIC APPLIANCES ARTIFICIAL LIMBS 1927 33 DcLancey Street (N. E. Corner 20th cr DeLancey Streets) PHILADELPHIA, PA. Phone: RITtcnhouse 6225 6226 Private Branch Exchange Bell: Locust 5460 Keystone: Race 3296 MILDEN 3c WHITE, Inc. Established 1874 POULTRY GAME TERRAPIN FISH AND ALL SEA FOOD 1212 Filbert Street Philadelphia. Pa. Suburban Hardwood Floor Company FLOORS LAID, SCRAPED AND RENOVATED FLOORS SANDED BY MACHINE 1218 Myrtlewood Avenue LI.ANERCH, PA. J. I. RIGGINS SUNSET 999 You Are Cordially Invited . . . to visit the Caldwell store, where you will find a courteous, friendly staff at your di$' posal for the purchase of gifts for every occasion, at prices you may submit to the most careful comparison. Makers of the 1941 Class Rings and Pins School of Nursing Temple University Hospital J. E CALDWELL CO. JEWELERS' SILVERSMITHS STATIONERS Chestnut and Juniper Streets PHILADELPHIA PATHOLOGY Lawrence W. Smith. A.B.. M.D., Professor and Head of Depcstment of Pathology. Frank W. Konzelmann, M.D., Professor of Clinical Pathology. Edwin S. Gault, M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology. Othors in tho department include: Ernest E. Aegerter, A. B.. B.S., M.D., Machteld E. Sano, M.D., Augustin R. Peale, A.B., M.D., Lee E. Lawry, B.S., M.D. PEDIATRICS Waldo E. Nelson, A.B.. M.D.. F.A.A.P., Professor of Pediatrics. Samuel Goldberg. M.D.. F.A.C.P., F.A.A.P.. Clinical Professor of Pediatrics. P. F. Lucchesi, A.B., M.D.. F.A.A.P.. Associate Professor of Pediatrics. Nina A. Anderson. B.S., M.D.. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Others in the department include: Joseph Levitsky. M.D.. Domenica Cucinotta. M.D., Sidney Weiss. M.D.. Norman Kendall. M.D., John Bartram, B.S., M.D.. Walter L. Cohn. B.S.. M.D. PHARMACOLOGY Alfred E. Livingston, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology. Edward Larson, B.S.. M.S.. Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacology. Others in the department include: Ralph C. Bradley, B. S., M.D., Edwin I. Fellows. B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Raymond W. Cunningham. B.S., M.S., Ph.D. PHYSIOLOGY J. Garrett Hickey. M.D., Professor of Physiology. Ernst Spiegel, M.D., Professor of Neurophysiology. Morton I. Oppenheimer. A.B., Ed.M., M.D., Assistant Professor of Physiology. Dean A. Collins. Ph.D., M.D.. Assistant Professor of Physiology. PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH Harriet L. Hartley, M.D., Professor of Preventive Medicine, Hygiene and Public Health. Lyle lenne. B.S., Ch.E., Assistant Professor of Sanitation and Public Health. Walter S. Cornoll. B.S., M.D., Dr. P.H., Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine, Hygiene and Public Health. T. Ruth Weaver, M.D.. Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics. J. Moore Campbell, B.S., M.D., Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine, Hygiene and Public Health. Miriam Warner, M.D.. Dr. P.H., Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine, Hygiene. and Public Health. Others include: James Hale Paul, M.D., Donald Riegel. M.D., Dorothy Donnelly-Wood, M.D. 313 STAFF PLYWOOD ALL DESCRIPTIONS PROCTOLOGY Harry Z. Hibshman. M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Proctology. Harry E. Bacon, B.S.. M.D.. F.A.C.S., Clinical Professor of Proctology. Others include: Franklin D. Benedict, M.D., Samuel William Eisenberg, A.B., M.D., Hosser C. C. Lindig, B.A.. M.D., Henry C. Schneider, B.A., M.D., Valentine R. Manning, Jr., A.B., M.D. PSYCHIATRY O. Spurgeon English, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry. Gerald H. J. Pearson. M.D.. Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry. Others include: Morris Brody, M.D., Camilla Anderson, M.D., Herbert N. Freed. M.D. RADIOLOGY W. Edward Chamberlain, B.S., M.D., Professor of Radiology. Hugo Roesler, M.D., Associate Professor of Radiology. George C. Henny, M.S., M.D., Director of Department of Physics. Barton R. Young. M.Sc. (Radiology), M.D., Associate Professor of Radiology. Others in the department include: Robert K. Arbuckle. B.S.. M.Sc. (Radiology), M.D.. Gustavus C. Bird, Jr., M. D., Thomas A. Campbell, A.B., B.S., M.D., Augustin R. Peale, A.B., M.D., Joseph Weber. B.S.. M.D.. Henry B. Zwerling. A.B.. M.D. SURGERY W. Wayne Babcock, A.M.. M.D.. LL.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery. William A. Steel. B.S.. M.D., F.A.C.S.. Professor of Principles of Surgery. W. Emory Burnett, A.B., M.D., F.A.C.S.. Professor of Clinical Surgery. John Loodom, M.D., Associate Professor of Surgery. G. Mason Astley, M.D., Associate Professor of Surgery. John P. Emich, M.D., Associate Professor of Surgory. J. Norman Coombs. M.D., F.A.C.S., Associate Professor of Surgory. Giacchino P. Giambalvo, M.D., F.A.C.S., Associate Profossor of Surgery. Others include: Daniel J. Kennedy, M.D., M. H. Gen-kin, M.D., F.A.C.S., Louis Kimmolman, M.D.. Joseph N. Grossman. M.D.. R. D. MacKinnon. M.D., Morris Franklin. M.D., F. L. Zaborowski, M.D., Eugene T. Foy, M.D., George P. Rosemond, B.S., M.D.. Martin H. Gold, M.D., L. Vincent Hayes. M.D., Frederick A. Fiske, M.D., B.S., C. Howard McDovitt, M.D., Harold Coffman Roxby, B.S.. M.D., Herbert S. Raines, A.B., M.D., Theodore H. Swan. A.B.. M.D., Richard P. Thompson, A.B., M.D., M. Roydon C. Astley. A.B., M.D., O. P. Large. M.D., Franklin Bailey Wilkins, B.S., M.D., Millard Null Lawrence. M.D. UROLOGY W. Hersey Thomas, A.B., M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Urology. Howard G. Fretz, A.B., M.D., Associate Professor of Urology. Lowrain E. McCrea. M.D., Assistant Professor of Urology. 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Westmoreland SC 15th Streets LOOS DILWORTH, Inc. OILS NAVAL STORES PHILADELPHIA. PA. COMPLIMENTS OF DR. and MRS. DANIEL A. POLING Where the PILLING surgical instrument and business started 127 years ago near Second and Dock Streets. The firm has been in continuous operation since then. WE MAKE AND SELL AT RETAIL Instruments for general surgery, ear, nose, and throat, bronchoscopy, neurosurgery, diagnosis, and all hospital and physicians supplies. Pilling'Made Instruments Cost No More Than Good Instruments Should GEORGE P. PILLING SON CO. ARCH 23rd STREETS, Philadelphia, Pa. 315 Lady: Can you recommend a safe contraceptive? Doctor: Yes. Take a drink of soda wator. Lady (astonished): Is that all? When am I to take it. before or after? Doctor: Neither before nor after, but instead. Dr. E. H. Mcllvain claims there are three kinds of liars: (1) the ordinary liar, (2) the damn liar, and (3) the export v itness. The following medical expert was just one step ahead of the third degree liar: With erudite profundity. And subtle cogitabundity. The medical expert testifies in court; Explains with ponderosity, And keen profound verbosity The intricate nature of the plaintiff's tort. Discoursing on pathology. Anatomy, biology, Opinos the patient's orbit suffered thus: Contusions of integuments With ecchymose embellishments. And bloody extravasation forming pus. A stato of tumerosity Producing lachrymosity. Abrasion of the cuticle severe. All diagnosed externally. Although he feared, internally Sclerotic inflammation might appear. The jury sits confused, amazed. By all this pleonasm dazed. Unable to conceive a single word. All awed, they think with bated breaths Tho plaintiff died a thousand deaths— What agony and pain he had endured! But then the counsel for defonso. Devoid of garrulous eloquence. Asked, Isn’t it true that all you testified Means merely from a punch or two The plaintiff's eye was black and blue? “Yes, that's correct, the doctor meekly sighed. The following is an outline of Man's Menu from Birth to Death: 1. Milk. 2. Milk, cod liver oil, orange juice. 3. Milk, cod liver oil. eggs, bread, spinach. 4. Oatmeal, bread and butter, green apples and all day suckers. 5. Ice cream soda and hot dogs. 6. Minute steak, fried potatoes, coffee and apple pie. 7. Bouillon, roast duck, scalloped potatoes, creamed oyster plant, fruit salad, strawberry ice cream, demi-tasse. 8. Pate de foi gras, Veau a la Blanquette, potatoes Parisionne, egg plant a l'opera, salad Chiffonade, peach plombierre, demi-tasse. Roquefort cheese. 9. Two soft boiled eggs, toast and tea. 10. Crackers and milk. 11. Milk. Tho president of the Women's Auxiliary to the Medfcal Society of Pennsylvania recently formulated the Ten Commandments for Doctor's Wives. Her commandments are: 1. The doctor's wife must not know the meaning of the word jealous. 2. She must never gossip. 3. She must be like Caesar's wife, above reproach. 4. She must be self-reliant and exercise self-control at all times. 5. She must be willing to run a cafeteria, serving meals at all hours for her husband. 6. She must be able to think sanely and quickly in emergencies. 7. She must be a diplomat, see all, hear all, be able to talk a lot, yet say nothing. 8. She must learn to bear without complaint disappointments in her personal plans. 9. She must be both mother and father to her children, because doctors are often too busy to discipline their own offspring. 10. She must be a good amateur doctor, because doctors never take time to doctor themselves. A liberal reward will be offered to the first man reporting such a woman. © A little knowledge, so they tell me. Is a very dangerous curse. But it’s been my observation That a lot of knowledge's worse. Take a simple little matter Like a frontal sinus pain. If a doctor is tho victim It's a tumor of tho brainl Now. a laymen may have colic. So severe it makes him howl. But he doesn't even give a thought To cancer of the bowel. A patient stumbles in the dark He curses and he phooeys But just let the doctor stumble And he has C.N.S. lues. A physician has pneumonia Where the patient has a cold, And his tremors from sclerosis. Not because he's getting old. Oh, it’s nice to be a doctor When you're feeling fit and well. But when pains and aches befall you Let mo tell you. boys, it's HELL! Shingle of one of the founders of the Royal Society: I, John Lotsom, Purges, bleeds and sweats 'em; Why then, if they prefers to die, I. John Letsom. Dr. Arnold: Boyer! Boyer! Where is he? Does anyone know if he's ill? Joe Reno: If he's not, he will be when ho finds out he's been called on! Thus the woman's secrets I have surveyed. And let them see how curiously they'ro mado. And that, though they of different sex be, Yet on the whole they are the same as we. For those that have the strictest searchors been, Find women are but men turned outside in; And men, if ihey would but look about, May find they are but women with their inside out. ■—Aristotle. 316 V IGNIFICANT FACT, too obvious to require much elaboration, is the growth of the Campus Publishing Company. From seven to seventy yearbooks in three years, to make us the largest exclusive yearbook publishers in the east. One way to explain it is to say that Campus in not an engraver, a printer, or any other type of processor, but a service organization well acquainted with the “ins and outs” of yearbooks; co-ordinating all the phases of yearbook planning and processing. Not being a processor, we can cover the field more completely. There is no budget too small or too large in which we are not interested, nor any reproductive process that we cannot supply — letterpress printing, engraving, offset printing, or gravure. Using these processes to the best advantage, we now make available five different means to a good book. In letterpress printing, “MASTER-PRINT” and “ENGRAV-PRINT.” In offset printing, “MASTERTONE” and “VELVETONE”-and in gravure, “REGENTVURE.” All five, from start to finish, are handled alike, receiving the same “Perceptiplan” servicing; specialized handling of your yearbook from the “infant idea” to delivery of a fine finished edition. All five are Campus books through and through. These five — differing in price only as they differ in desired effect and budget limitations—possess in full those superiorities in appearance, economy, and general effect that have, in three years, made Campus the leading service organization that it is. . , , PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. (I Jit ft (IJ 1500 SPRUCE ST.. PHILADELPHIA. PA. This is a Campus “Master-print ’ yearbook. • !‘iuafc‘! . . iti-ots aLL-tjian js. to iks. oath. . . . vvj,ip;.r. u i ■ RSiT S5UP036 SCHOOL kTm TO r ) 'W‘ id?£ rA - W-ApoIlo tfa j pfrysidan and TsculapiustCPieakhAM-nealbaD thejgods goddesses that according to-my ability . judgement. i- , s MrfmwVi Oxth rt-, this 5tipuJacJon-tD reckon rrirn who taught me tfiis Axt eqiialjy dear tome as my parents to share my substance v with him rrlieve his necessities ifiequiied to look upon his oflspnnglitthe same fooling asmy own brotherSSto teach them this Art if they shall wish to learn it. ■VITHOV'PFEE 6k S®VlA -SKI Jy !2£ in ro% houndljy astipufo ACCORDING TO THEl WOF ' 1EDICI1n E, hut to none otherslyi T c fowjhcs stcm ofrpgimen which-according to Try oJnUty Khjudgcment. I consider FOfUm'BE'NEFlT OF PATIENTS abstain from whatever is deleterious fo mscfievous. und give no deadjy medictne to -any one if as ed nor suggest any sued couqsertjin (life manner I wi lnotgive to a woman avessary toj roduce m WRfTr wifn Hol$ M pass MtoLife pkacti W. its -w rntr VUZTAA 1 fT t «- (W jcmuiCJ l f IHVUM y cc at m 'TiWhatever in connection with nty gro vssionar practice or nor in connection with it.' see or hear. -v tf n the fifeqfmen. whichought not to he spohen a I w ipoi’(Divulge as reciting that aTT such should be kept secret While I continue to keep this Oath unviolated. tV may it be granfe o me to enjoy life 5 the practice or the Art respected by all men in all times! ®ut should ) trespass fTviolate this Oath ;� V may the revere be my lot! ,7Jl Kf CT . fisazd a tunzLj bit o ft iioiofiliij . The years of medical school training behind him, the young doctor looks forward to a lifetime of service to his fellow man. Greater than any other remuneration which he will receive for that service will be the satisfaction and the joy which spring from aiding others in the struggle to achieve health and happiness. He may rejoice that his chosen profession, to a greater extent than any other, offers this as its chief reward. As a corollary to this it may be stated that the doctor's happiness depends on the realization that he has used, to the best of his ability, every resource available to him for the betterment of his patients’ condition. This means that the fundamentals of medicine taught him in undergraduate days must be an integral part of his being, systematically catalogued for practical use. It means that he must consider himself always a student, constantly keeping himself abreast of the rapid advances in medical science. But it means more than all else that he must see in them beings capable of experiencing happiness and sorrow, love and hate, hope and despair, and must realize that it is his lot to see far more of the latter than of the former in his dealings with ailing humanity. And it is in his contact with these phases of life that the physician with the understanding heart is able to render inestimable service. No text book of medicine can prepare him for this, important as may be its information in other respects; better for this purpose the book of books, the best seller of best sellers throughout the centuries, the Bible. May it be the physician's constant desire that his talents may be so used with the aid of this book that it may be said of him when his work is finished, Well done, good and faithful servant. —Durant. . . . an Jt£ 2£ 2 . . . 319 LIBRARY TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENIEB . ouz iatja an DATE DUE JUN 3 198 ) 1 T3 9 C A V CORO rniNTCDINU l A. copy 2 1941 LIBRARY TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENIEH