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

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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.

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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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JOHN A. KOI MER. M l). BRCTERIOLOGV, immunoLOGV, MID PflRflSITOLOGV It was on the third of January, 1944 that Dr. John A. Kolmer dramatically introduced us to ihe subject bacteriology. With his right hand waving vigorously through the ether, his left hand tucked behind him and his head bobbing in emphasis, he informed the assemblage that bacteria arc just a bunch of old bugs, and gentlemen, to be respected but not feared. Our class appreciated the sound teaching principles demonstrated by the revered Father John, and the keen interest which he took in our problems. Dr. Amadeo Bondi, Jr. and Dr. Earle H. Spaulding added a plethora of technical details to an already fast growing collection of lecture notes and kept us constantly busy in the laboratory making smears and cultures and looking at queer creatures under the microscope. Most of us never became quite as proficient as our instructors in recognizing the wee beasties, but we were at least able to recognize Koch's bacillus or the spirochete on dark field, especially if the slide happened to be already labeled. Dr. Bondi's lecture on Brucellosis and its relationship to male potency factor tickled our communal funny bone, but Dr. Spaulding’s exhibition of the rabbit innoculated with Clostridium welchi completely pulverized our sense of olfaction. Bacteriology was appropriately terminated by a test of our ability to identify unknown specimens. Many a vest button popped when a stu-