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

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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.

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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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Dr. Young presented the gastrointestinal tract to ns in all its glory and gave us many wise words on its function and the importance of fluoroscopy in locating its lesions. Dr. Blady discoursed upon the larynx and neck and the salivary glands to us in an interesting lecture on the use pi X-ray in the diagnosis of disease in these regions. Dr. Bird, who spent most of his time with us behind a red eye shield, demonstrated many fractures and dislocations to us in our sections in orthopedics. Dr. Roesler held our interest with his demonstrations of the heart and mediastinum, the ahorta, the veeuah enhva, the ezophagoose and the ahorlic stenoze.es. He also dropped pearls of philosophic wisdom anticipatory of his subsequent lectures in cardiology. The junior members of the department. Dr. Robbins and Dr. Fisher, were always ready to help us in studying films in the hospital, and their patience and willingness to explain made it a pleasure to go into the viewing room in quest of information. The climax was capped in the senior X-ray conferences, when the residents picked the cases with a view of stumping the chief, and the rest of us tried to outguess Dr. Weiss and Dr. Soloff. These exercises served to crystallize the results of the roentgenologic teaching to which we had been subjected since our earliest days in the study of medic ine.