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

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In 1940, Dr. Nelson was appointed Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Temple, being made Medical Director of St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in 1947. Under him, a small neighborhood hospital has developed into a complete child health institute and major referral center in the Mid-Atlantic states He is best known as editor of I he Textbook oi Pediatrics which is in its ninth edition and has been translated into numerous languages. A featured speaker at meetings and medical schools throughout the world, he is also known for his earlier contributions in the fields of tuberculosis and juvenile diabetes. WALDO E. NELSON, M.D. 1898- In 1930, when Dr. Chamberlain came east from Stanford University, his department oi radiology at Temple was one of the first to boast a well equipped machine shop and engineering assistants. He was a neuroradiologist before this subspecialty actually existed. A charter member of the Harvey Cushing Society, he was president in 1950. Among his outstanding contributions to the field of radiology were the development of air myelography and studies of basilar invagination in the skull. W. EDWARD CHAMBERLAIN, M.D. 1892- Dr. Bacon graduated irom Temple in 1925 and acquired extensive training and experience in proctology both in this country and abroad He returned in 1942 as Professor and Head or the Division of Proctologic 5urgery. He is founder and chairman oi the Colon and Rectal Surgical Section of the International College of Surgeons Dr. Bacon is the author or co-author of fifteen textbooks on proctology and is credited with 344 articles. He has nearly thirty years of experience in surgery for rectal cancer, and was one of the first apostles of the famed pull-through operation. Dr. Bacon was the founder and first editor of the SKULL in 1925 HARRY E. BACON, M.D. 1900- SKETCHES BY LEO STREIETZ

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Tor m the last analysis human societies m.ike their healers, and tin healers then make (he doctrine, and eventually d the maker ol the doctrine happen to espouse the scientihc method, a feedback phenomenon tiepins the doctrine because it is true begins to make true heal ns 01 the healcis. and the healers, using the truth begin to remake the society that made them —Allen Gregg, M.D.