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

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ing in medicine and most of us enjoyed ii and profited by it. The remainder of our laboratory course was devoted to the study of the actions of drugs on animals. Main an interesting moment was spent in anesthetizing animals, isolating various organs, and recording the effect ol some drug kymographically. It was all very wonderful and new, and we all felt that with a thorough knowledge of pharmacology, we were ready to cope with the therapeutic problems of practice. However, our instructors revealed to us the disen hearten ing fact that no drug has exacth the same effect in different individuals, or even in the same individual under different circumstances, and they did their best to guide Our faltering pharmacological footsteps. They crammed into us the doses of the hundreds of drugs, and then informed us that the U.S.I . dose was only a guide, to be modified by something called clinical judgment. They kept us in endless suspense with their procrastination in posting grades, and they kept our souls in constant torment with theit endless requests for more work on the notebooks. Vet, in retrospect, we owe them a great debt, for the knowledge they dispensed will become the cornerstone of our therapeutic amiamen-toritun and the basi of our claim to recognition as healers of disease.

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PHRRmACOLOGV Morpheus was without charm, and the dried sclerotiura of Claviceps purpurea was the answer to a crossword puzzle, when we as adrenal-insufficient sophomores embarked upon our course in Pharmacology. Bui by the time the course had ended, we were conversant with the doses of all the alkaloids, glycosides, anti-luetics, an-thelminthics, and cathartics, and we knew how to compound an emulsion, didn't we? Under the able guidance of Alfred E. Livingston. Professor and Head of the Department, and his associates. Dr. Hayes, Dr. Larson, anti Dr. Fellows, our class did absorb much knowledge concerning the actions and uses of drugs. Dr. Livingston’s lectures on anaesthetics and on digitalis will be remembered as classics of informality. anti Dr. Larson’s gems on diuretics. Dr. Hayes' dissertations on anti-luetic therapy, and Dr. Fellows’ leisurely expoundings on sulfones and penicillin were equally appreciated. The beginning of our first trimester's work in the pharmacology lab dealt with some of the phases of pharmacy; For example, we learned (1) that the U.S.P. and N.F. is not a backwoods railroad, (2) the identification of drugs; many of us still remember the horrible taste of Syrup of Senna, worse than Philadelphia water, (3) the compounding of prescriptions. More than one broken emulsion had to be poured down the sink. Vet it was all part of our thorough train-

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PATHOLOGV It was the third trimester, the end of the second year, and a summer not soon forgotten. The current vogue was a bare back, a dripping forehead, and steamed, foggy lenses. Pathology. Concentrated pathology; live, eat, sleep and dream it. Four hundred and thirty-one slides demonstrating the response of body tissue to disease and as many or more gross specimens in “Bottle-ology”. and we had to know them all! But. with four hours a day and six days a week, even Sophomores can learn, and learn we did. “Know the first five chapters. Know them cold. Read them over and ovei again, then you will have no trouble. “There is not a superfluous word in the text. Read it all. Know it!” Remember those words and the men who said them. I)r. Lawrence W. Smith. Dr. Edwin S. Gault, Dr. Acgerter. Dr. Peale. Dr. “Pete , and Dr. Valentine? Remembet iheii advice, their quizzes, their contagious enthusiasm, their everlasting patience, their understanding, and their help, and how we needed it? Our red bible, “The Essentials of Pathology , became our constant companion. As the miraculous pitcher, it was never drained. It left its mark in our minds, and a red smudge on our trousers. Its clinical approach through three hundred actual case histories with associated slides of pathologic processes, brought us closer than ever before to the fascinating and exciting