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

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IN MEMORIAM If you could not find the trophozoite of Endamoeba histolytica. I)r. Gault would find it for you. If you had any question on parasitology, bacteriology, or pathology, he was never too busy to provide you with the answer. And if you merely wanted to converse, I)r. Gault was always willing. His lectures as well as his conversation were sprinkled with subtle humor, and lie could make you chuckle as he described the treatment of tapeworm infestation or the life cycle of Plasmodium malariae. Dr. Gault, who was Professor of Pathology, died at Temple University Hospital on September 1, 1958 at the age of sixty-four. Well known as co-author of Smith and Gault’s Essentials of Pathology, he was Director of Medical Photography and Electronmicroscopy at the time of his death. He was also a consultant on tropical diseases to the United Slates Public Health Service and a frequent contributor to medical and scientific journals. Dr. Gault graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in 1920 and joined the faculty of Temple University School of Medicine in 1023. His death in 1958 culminated twenty-five years of dedicated service to Temple. Our class will remember him with gratitude and affection. EDWIN S. GAULT 1894-1958

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ESTHER MAUD GREISHEIMER, B.S., M.A., Ph.D., M.D. Dr. Greisheimer’s secret has puzzled us for four years. She claims to be sixty-seven years old, but her youthful spirit and her endless energy and vitality lead us to question her claim. We know that her charm still appeals to men in their twenties, and those in our class who have visited her home have found in her exactly the qualities we prize most in a woman —a suj erb cook and housekeeper, and a vivacious, intelligent, entertaining person. II she is truly sixty-seven, she is of interest to us as physicians, foi medical science has long sought to combat the aging process to which ordinary persons succumb. Consequently, several hours were spent taking a careful history in an attempt to discover Dr. Greisheimer s preservative. When the facts of her life revealed no answer we continued to delve as subtly and guilefully as possible, hoping that she might inadvertently reveal the information we sought. Our efforts were futile, and the secret is still Dr. Grci-sheimer's alone. Perhaps a better clinician than this historian will be able to discern or correlate the facts which escaped us. Therefore, we present the details of her remarkable, productive life. Dr. Greisheimer was born October 31, 1891, the youngest of three daughters of William and Elizabeth Andre Greisheimer. When she was two years old her mother died. Her early years were spent on her father's farm in Chillicothe, Ohio, where she attended the local grade school. Later she attended the preparatory school of Ohio University in Athens. Her first teaching experience followed. She taught all eight gratles in a one-room country school. This required walking six miles each day. for the streetcar line ended at a distance from the school. In June 1914, after three more years at Ohio University. she received her Bachelor of Sciences in Education. Her extracurricular activities included tutoring, and assisting the housemother to help earn expenses, and she was associate editor of the yearbook. Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts awarded her a scholarship, and. two years later, her master’s degree in Physiology. Chicago University awarded her a scholarship, but financial difficulties halted her studies there. Consequently she took a position as Instructor in Physiological Chemistry and Physiology- at the University of Minnesota Medical School. In addition to teaching she earned room and board by chaperoning a house of girls; she completed her freshman year of medical school and she prepared the thesis for her Ph. D. degree, which she received in June 1919. Her thesis, A quantitative study of effects produced by-salts of sodium, potassium, rubidium, and calcium on motor nerve of frog. became her first publication when accepted by the American Journal of Physiology. Leaving the University of Minnesota in 1921, she became Assistant Professor in Advanced Ph siology at