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

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In one of his plays, Moliere has an honorary Medical Degree bestowed upon his hypochondriac hero so he will be able to take care of his own health problems. During the ceremony our novice has a fair share of seventeenth century medical knowledge given him — Bleed 'em, purge 'em, give 'em an enema. What was good enough for Moliere is not necessarily adequate in trying to meet the therapeutic challenges of today. With man's increasing knowledge of the specific complexity of pathological physiology has, of necessity, come a myriad of methodology in treatment. From fantastic machines spewing out the tremendously powerful voltages needed in cancer therapy, to open heart surgery, whose complexity and precision are the nearest thing to genuine drama medicine has to offer, to medical therapeutics, whose pharmacological wizzard-ry has deposited a wealth of chemo-therapeutic agents at our waiting door, modern techniques in treatment have become as sophisticated as the new morality. Only one thing has remained relatively constant —the rapt expression on the face of that young man as he seeks to unscrew the inscrutable—somehow that has not yet changed. Hopefully, it never will. tReatment vi«i 3D r2llrciitPiinfr.?H3tt 3fl ben cra'f jrdjteit 3i»0bi4tv n fyt njifrccrff}fln fot n. @yt otbcnlidy jubtfcbnttbtn'fltfdjidjt tmtbtftc fdjttrtn j5,(; 3nficuin nt iicnntn bit Cbinirnici ©patumilt latum U,u”' b:mi btnfr mid $flm3u£i nfd)nibr. ©patumilt abtcfubttlc iftbtrmofltiigtftatttt ©tbel femb bty be 3rat if i c fttnrfr bit core fell (obit3ugctt fibtrjyebt rrimicbtr jtitbltnbt.jfibt bmubcnlyt bifet kttiii Dif i |t band tmltugfdjctr Cif 3nfl rumen t matt jflr ftfleleit baebtyn bflmitjil fd abtn naehbembiefttiAte rfimontii — . AC I -n ifmaugi

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Research The conventional image of the mad scientist locked in his isolated laboratory with his bubbling test tubes and cages of tortured animals has almost completely faded from the American scene, except possibly in an occasional late movie. This change has been of such a nature and magnitude that our modern-day research scientist must no longer worry that his efforts will go unappreciated or be misunderstood. While part of the credit for this decidedly improved situation goes to a more knowledgeable and concerned public, the greater share belongs to the research community itself, and with good reason. Our typical research practitioner today is likely to be a member of a research team of experts, the joint effort of which enables equal and vital contributions of clinical as well as theoretical import. The offspring of such a happy union bear real testimony to its effectiveness, for it is through such combined efforts of theory and practice as pictured here that medical progress and knowledge have climbed at such an astonishing pace. Obviously, much remains to be done; but it is within the continued joint worlds of the theoretician and the clinician that these problems will be met and ultimately resolved. 16