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

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lander's Arthritis, and writes editorials for various medical periodicals. He is investigating basic factors in causation of the arthritic state and has developed a system for objective evaluation of therapeutic results in rheumatoid arthritis. When not engaged in these or other scientific pursuits, he can be found with his charming wife. Louise, and their three children, John. Roger, and Anne. His principal literary pastime is reading various anthropological and philosophical works and, in addition, he can occasionally be found working on pen and ink sketches - a throwback to his cartoonist days. We gratefully dedicate our Skull to Or. John Lansbury - able clinician, inquiring researcher, capable teacher, and. above all, sincere friend to patient and student alike. We who are about to embark on a life-long course in the field of medicine would do well to emulate the many fine qualities of this man. 7

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search of the Philadelphia General Hospital. One day, in 1935, he was asked to lecture before the student body of the Temple Medical School as a substitute for his chief, I)r. Leonard G. Rountree. In the audience that day there happened to be an oft-present person, Dean William N. Parkinson. The Dean was quite taken with this young investigator and, as part of the current reorganization of the Department of Medicine, offered him the post of Associate Professor. This Dr. Lansburv accepted and. in the intervening years, he progressed to become Professor of Clinical Medicine, and Head of the Connective Tissue Disease Section, Department of Medicine. Temple University Medical Center. Even before entering upon the Temple scene, Dr. Lansbury became interested in the field of rheumatology when he worked with the later Nobel laureate, Dr. Philip S. Hench, at the Mayo Clinic. This interest in rheumatic diseases was spurred in 1936 when the French investigator, Dr. Jacques Forestier. came to Temple and reported his success in controlling rheumatoid arthritis by the use of gold salts. Dr. Lansbury did not confine himself to the field of rheumatology, however, until 1949. Before that time he also headed the Endocrinology Service at Temple and engaged, as he still does, in a full round of teaching, clinic and private practice. That he is active and well-known in the field of medicine is attested to by the following partial list of organizations to which he belongs, and the posts he holds in them: member of Alpha Omega Alpha, Fellow of the American College of Physicians, second vice-president of the American Rheumatism Association and Chairman of its Committee for the Evaluation of New Therapeutic Agents, former president of the Eastern Chapter of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, past president of the Philadelphia Rheumatism Society, past Chairman of the Section on General Medicine, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and member of Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Pi. In addition to these activhies, Dr. Lansbury serves as a Lecturer in Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine, and has written over seventy articles, covering mainly cndocrinologic and rheumatologic problems. At present. Dr. Lansbury is interested in the furtherance of the use of Interlingua, an international language used widely for summaries of scientific articles. He serves as a co-editor for a section in Hol- 6

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IN MEMORIAM HUGO ROESLER, M.D., F. A. C. P. Dr. Hugo Roesler died suddenly on April 26, 1961, at the age of sixty-two. Thus ended almost thirty years of fruitful association with Temple University Medical Center as radiologist, cardiologist, and associate professor of medicine. He left an indelible imprint as a preceptor, scholar, philosopher, physician, investigator, and a friend of the finest sort - a versatile combination unfortunately rare in the medical profession today. Because of his remarkable multi-faceted character one can view Dr. Roesler from many aspects. Students and residents will remember him as a teacher of first rank. Not the classroom lecturer in the usual sense, his forte was teaching in the preceptor manner. His love of philosophy paralleled his medical interests. A philosopher in his own right, “bon mots” and keen aphorisms were a high part of his conversation. Although Dr. Roesler was a perfectionist in his work and an investigator of the highest integrity, he frequently evinced a healthy skepticism in regard to many medical matters that was a delight and a stimulus to those who worked with him. A pioneer in x-ray studies of the cardio-vascular system and in electrocardiography, he was the author of many articles and three books: An Atlas of Congenital Heart Disease, Clinical Roentgenology of the Cardio-eascular System, and An Atlas of Electrocardiography (with Dr. William Dressier). His reputation far exceeded the bounds of Philadelphia: it was of international stature. . Dr. Roesler was skilled in the art of medicine at the bedside. A devotee of the comprehensive approach, he never separated the | erson from the disease. Warmth, understanding, compassion and wise counsel were as much a part of his armamentarium as the stethoscope, flouroscope, and electrocardiograph. A colorful ligure, talented pi vsician. and benign cynic, Hugo Roesler was an unforgettable person. A gentleman in the best sense of the word, he never lost the gracious continental manner of his background. Dr. Roesler was truly a figure against the sky. 8