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

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Joan H. Gault, M. D. the large group: she relied more on Ruch Patton than on Selkurt, which would have been admirable had her interpretation been more helpful. Moving on to the cardiovascular system, Dr. Franco Barrera took his turn at murdering volume conduction, in preparation for a nicely-done series on the electrical aspects of the heart. Then Ascanio reappeared and redeemed himself by making the pump's pumping properties fairly clear-Starling's Law apparently accounts for most everything good and bad the heart does. Next (approximately), Dr. Joan Gault took the podium and some kitchenware, for the purpose of elucidating the microcirculation. Dr. Gault had the peculiar and distracting habit of punctuating her narrative with randomly placed chuckles which soon triggered a kind of feedback loop that got us all nowhere. It went something like this: she would make a sober statement about, say, capillary sphincters, then, for no obvious reason, chuckle. The class, finding this juxtaposition of sphincter and chuckle somewhat comic, would in turn itself nervously chuckle. Dr. Gault, her humor now seemingly reinforced, would make a sober statement about, say, arteriolar bifurcations, then chuckle. And so it went. Dr. Mary Wiedeman, of national repute in microcirculation research, presented a truly elegant laboratory demonstration employing her own films and a live bat under-microscope, and-perched on a stool-lectured to us on the eye and later on hormones. Lecture after lecture: we heard from Dr. Barrera again, on the lung (good); Dr. Michie went hopelessly around circles in the renal counter-current multiplier (bad). Dr. Ted Rodman Mary P. Wiedeman. Ph. D.

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Guido Ascanio, M. D.

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Frank Barrera, M. D.