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

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THE OATH SWEAR by Apollo, the physician, and Esculapius, ft Health, ft All-heal. all the gods goddesses that according to my ability judgement I WILL KEEP THIS OATH this stipulation — to reckon him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him H relieve his necessities it required, to look upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers, to teach them this Art if they shall wish to learn it WITHOUT FEE OR STIPULATION that by precept, lecture, every other mode of instruction. I ivill impart a knowledge of the Art to my own sons. those of my teachers, to disciples bound by a stipulation oath ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MEDICINE but to none others. I will follow the system of regimen which according to my ability judgement. I consider FOR THE BENEFIT OF MY PATIENTS abstain from whatever is deleterious mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel. in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion. WITH PURITY 8 WITH HOLINESS I WILL PASS MY LIFE 8 PRACTICE MY ART I will not cut persons laboring under the stone, but will leave this to be done by men who are practitioners of this work. Into whatever houses I enter. I will go into them for the benefit of the sick. will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief corruption; AND FURTHER from the seduction of females or males, of freemen slaves. Whatever in connection with my professional practice or not in connection with it. I see or hear, in the life of men which ought not to be spoken of abroad. I WILL NOT DIVULGE as reckoning that all such should be kept secret. While I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life the practice of the Art respected by all men in all times! But should I trespass violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot!

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An affirmative to live the forthcoming pro-festional years with sincerity, humility, and decency for the benefit of the infirm.

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Dedication A teacher who can arouse a feeling for a single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. Johann Wolfgang Von Gothe Elective Affinities. Book II, Chap. 7 In the black days of 1941 and 1942 while the United States reeled before the Japanese war machine in the Pacific, many American men and women were donning uniforms for the first time in preparation for the long road back from the brink of defeat. Others, some of whom had prophesied the Japanese treachery, were being activated again, this time for the second World War within twenty-five years. One of these men, Captain Richard A. Kern, U.S.N.R., was assigned to the U.S.S. Hospital Ship Solace. In a way history was repeating itself. Captain Kern had served on the Solace in World War I as a member of the Atlantic Fleet. But now the deceivingly tranquil South Pacific had been substituted for the cold North Atlantic as his theater of operations. In 1940, when Britain stood alone, the then Commander Kern became chairman of a committee to investigate the expandability of medical school professors in the