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PROCTOLOGV Saturday was movie day for the Junior class when Doctor Many Bacon and his assistants lectured on proctology. The moving pictures, which usually starred Dr. Bacon himself wielding the scalpel, clearly demonstrated lesions and surgical techniques in preparation for the senior year’s O.R. services. Along with these were endless reproductions of barium X-rays, with explanations of the aid they give in diagnosis. Drs. Henry Schneider and Franklin Benedict alternated lectures with Dr. Bacon and from the three of them, we learned about carcinoma of the colon, cryptilis, hemorrhoids, and the myriad other lesions which are the concern of the down-under men. As seniors we were given the opportunity to work in the rectal out-patient department where we learned the procedures in diagnosing proctologic lesions, how to insert the proctoscope, and how to probe a fistula, much to the discomfort of protesting patients. Outstanding among our memories will be many of Dr. Bacon's amusing little eccentricities: for example his method of calling roll by choosing five or six names at random, or his operating with a radio tuned to a ball game or a soap opera. A department dealing with lesions of a nearby UROLOGV legion is that of urology, headed by Dr. Low-rain K. McCrea. As juniors, we were crowded into the auditorium with the senior class to hear Dr. McCrca’s amusing and enlightening lectures and as junior clerks we made ward rounds with him to see old men with prostatic troubles and younger ones with urethral difficulties. The high point in our training came when we spent Wednesday afternoons at P.G.H. with Dr. McCrea. Here we saw patients demonstrating the rare and common venereal diseases. When it was all over, if not accomplished urologists, we were at least aware that “the urologist is working with a water works where you can't sweat a joint—but you can bore a hole. 44
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CARROLL S. WRIGHT, l.l DERfTI ATOLOG V Scrofuloderma and sycosis vulgaris were but mysterious and unknown words to the students who composed the new junioi class in October 1944. In the next two years, however, these and many equally terrifying terms became thoroughly familiar and their meanings clear. I'he change was not a sudden or automatic acquisition of knowledge but the result of slow and perhaps painful toil on the part of the lecturers and clinical instructors who compose Temple’s Dermatology and Syphilology Department. I)r. Carroll S. Wright and Dr. Reuben Friedman spent many hours in darkened lecture rooms showing hundreds of colored lantern slides which illustrated the numerous and variegated lesions of skin diseases. We were told the minute differences between similar diseases one week, and the next, were required to repeat them back if unlucky enough to be requested to do so. Many of us learned how to write the prescription foi calominc lotion or scabies ointment every week in fear of having forgotten it since the last quiz. Lectures and lantern slides were interrupted several times during the year so that some of the rarer cases from the outpatient department could be exhibited. These flesh and blood ex- amples of diseases we had seen before only as pictures on a screen convinced us that people did have dermatoses other than warts, pimples, and athlete's foot. The second half of the Junior yeai found the newly hatched dermatologists assembled in the same place at the same time with the same professors. Now. however, the subject was that infamous disesase, spyhilis, and its treatment. Now that it's all over, we are still not dermatologists by an means, but we need not avoid the patient with a rash and an itch”. We can look back with the satisfying thought that we have learned more than we once thought dermatologists and s philologists had to know, and like most of school, it was fun. 43
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