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

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In the laboratory we delved into the secrets of life itself. Few things in medical school wrere more awe-inspiring than the isolated turtle heart beating away in its beaker of Ringer’s solution. 1 he famous experiments al Starling. Carlson, and Cannon were repeated in order to fix in our impressionable minds the physiological basis of medical practice. Dr. Spiegel’s preeminence as a neurophysiologist awed us as we listened to his lectures on the physiology of the central nervous system. Sitting on his high stool, pointer in hand, quizzing a befuddled student, he is best described by a para phrase of Dickens’ sketch of Pickwick: A casual observer might possibly have observed nothing unusual . . . but to those who knew that the gigantii brain of Spiegel was working behind that forehead, and that the beaming eyes of Spiegel were behind those glasses, the sight was indeed an interesting one.” His treasured notes and his performing cats both served to impress more deeply upon out minds the principles he taught. l he Saturday morning correlation conferences found the physiologists always in evidence, recalling forgotten facts, and driving home once more the importance of physiology in modern medicine.

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PHVSIOLOGV Having studied the structure of the human body in the anatomy laboratory, we went to Physiology to discover how it functions. Dr. Hickey was still the professor and head of the department during our first semester. How he managed to deliver an organized lecture from the scraps of paper he pulled out of his pockets, no one could fathom. He was a kindly, helpful, and unobtrusive gentleman, whose one peeve was the lack of orderliness in the laboratory. Dr. Oppenheimer. a graduate of Temple and a student of Dr. Hickey’s, succeeded him as professor when he retired. The new Chief's innate ability to explain complex phenomena simply and un-pedantically endeared him to all of us. His lec-tres on respiration, circulation and gastrointestinal physiology were easy to understand, informative and interesting. Soft-spoken Dr. Collins. who left in our sophomore year only to return two years later, was affable and benign in his presentation of difficult concepts, accomplished by constant repetition and punctuated by long and significant pauses. Dr. Greisheimer. a newcomer to the department in those days, gave us lectures on kidney function, with the latest word on the mathematics of renal clearance tests. Her headlong haste made note-taking difficult, but it was well worth the trouble. MORTON J. OIMT NHKIMI R. M l).

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Jvjsi a Moment, Doctor RO EflTGEnO LO G V Our first exposure to irradiation was at the hands of Dr. Henny, who explained atomic theory and the fundamentals of the X-ray from the standpoint of physics. He made us all marvel at his knowledge of the mathematics of the X-ray and we were convinced that, with but short time to calculate, he was the man who could complete the answei to the old puzzler about how many potato peelings it would take to shingle a lamp post. Next. Dr. Chamberlain kept us spellbound with his interesting lectures on “Anatomy as rescaled by the Roentgen Ray and later, in our sophomore year, with Pathology as revealed by the Roentgen Ray”. Dr. Chamberlain has a par-liculai knack of reducing problems to their simplest elements before attacking them. His ex- W. HOWARD CHAMBER!. l M I). animations accomplished the gigantic task of making us stop, amid the swirl of the accelerated program, and think without worrying about the outcome. Dr. Chamberlain's overwhelming enthusiasm for all of his interests is the envy of not only our class, but of everyone who meets him. We will never forget Boeck’s sarcoid, cannon ball metastases. the famous platybasia and the mechanics of the craniovertebral cavity. Dr. Chamberlain's wonderful cerebrospinal fluid system. which he spent much of his spare time building and repairing, does everything but think.