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

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“Where are you going?” “To History of Medicine class.” “You must be a very lonely man. . . and contrastingly, their size is perhaps—I say, ‘perhaps,’ advisedly in the light of some new information recently discovered here at our laboratory-70 microns by 16 microns. Frequently you'll find them next to the good old unit membrane (75 angstroms wide). By ‘next to is meant anywhere from . . . oh, 1 say 10 to 140 millimicrons . . . “I’d like to put about 0.8 decimeters of steel between him and me.” “I’d like to put about 50 grams of that steel through about 5 millimeters of his skull!” “The Ccrcbcllo-dcnlato-rubro-thalamo-cortico-olivo-ccrcbcllar tract,—got it?” “Do you sec what happens when everything atrophies but the speech center?” ♦ “Okay, okay, class, knock it off. So none of you did recognize that slide. Tomorrow’s the final microscopic histology exam and we’re still not half-done reviewing these slides. “Next slide, please. . . .What is it?” Lacrimal gland!” “Excellent! Anybody not sec that? Okay, what did you think it was?” Doctor Troyer. sir, I thought it was pancreas.” “Pancreas? Do you see any centri-acinar cells there?” “Yes sir.” “Where?” In the upper right-hand corner.” “Where?” “Right there!” 1 don’t sec any. There! Right there!” 1 don’t see any.” “Ha! Naturally you don’t sec any, you think its the lacrimal gland! Ah, ... ha. ha, ha . . .Okay class, do you all sec the little green martians in the upper right-hand corner— they have relatively large eyes and long antennae . . .” Fred If. Rogers. M.D., Acting Chairman. Department of Community Medicine “IVe spent 6 hours in this anatomy lab preparing for the final practical exam tomorrow and I’m freezing!” “IVe been here 7 hours. “Aren’t you cold. “Hell! I’m frozen stiff! “Why don’t you go home? “1 couldn't stand the tension.” A toast! A toast!” “I’ll drink to that!” “Quiet, everybody! Quiet! “I’ll drink to that!” “To anatomy ...” “Even I won’t- drink to that!” “Here, here! Here, here! “Okay, now lets get back to the Christmas party. “May I have some more punch? “No. Please?” ♦

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. . the superior vermis consists of the lingula; the lobulus centralis; the monticulus, which is divided into the culmcn and declivc; and the folium vermis. On the under surface, the inferior vermis includes the tuber, the pyramis, the uvula, and the nodulus . . “Say. did anyone get that in their notes? . . . Did you get that in your notes? . . . Did you?” “Shush. I’m trying to sleep.” “Now quiet. When I tell you what I have to say. don’t look surprised, and don’t run to the exit. “Okay . ..” “The grades for the first test arc posted.” “Wow!” Quiet! You want to create a stampede?” “Sorry . . . Now about the grades for the second test or the histology exam, or the . . .” “No, no! Just the one anatomy exam. “Have you found any way of getting the smell of formaldehyde and flesh off your hands?” “No, nor will I ever!” “What in the name of all that’s holy is this?” “That’s my lab coat.” “What do you want me to do with it?” “How did you do? “Three satisfactories, four unsatisfactories. How about you?” “Five satisfactories and two unsatisfactories. but I failed Daddv’s section.” You what?”' “Yes, I know. I failed Daddy’s section. “You arc a most distinctive individual.” “I’m a pinhead. “Agreed.” “I was hoping you could wash it. Mom.” “Wash it? I’m going to line the garbage can with it.” “Well, doctors . . . “Doctors’, again. Something must be wrong! You’ve gotten the results of your first exam. “Frankly, the faculty is most dissatisfied with so many unsatisfactories. ..” Hmmm ... I never saw a multiple choice question one-and a-half pages long before. Well, I’ll just read it slowly. It should be easy enough. Let me see. Answers one and three are out—they both have double negatives. Answer number two is a bit too humcrous. It must be number four! I.et me see what number four says again. “That doesn’t look good either—too many statements in the answer. One of the statements must be wrong. “It must be number two. Sure, that’s it. The Rod has a sense of humor. He’s ribbing us again. Number two it is!” “Yes sir! The bronchopulmonary segments are: in the right lung, the apical superior, posterior, anterior, the lateral and medial basal, anterior basal, lateral basal, and posterior basal; in the left lung, the apical posterior, the anterior, the lingula, the superior inferior, the anteromedial basal, the lateral basal and the ... the ... ah ... ah .. . The what?” “The, ah ...” “tsk, tsk, tsk,. . . too bad. “I don’t want to talk about it. .. .What did you get for number 1 7?” Which one was that?” “It’s hard! Four years of straight honors and now I’m mediocre.” Yes, from A’s to U’s is an abrupt transition. “Are we really mediocre, though?” “I’m beginning to feel that we probably are.” “The one which was a page-and-a-half long.” “Oh, . . . that one. Number two, the humorous one.” Right! That’s what I put. The Rod sure docs have a sense of humor, doesn’t he?” “He sure does.” “Sorry fellows, but you are wrong! Number four’s the correct answer.” Number four? With all those statements? You must “What did he say? “He said, ‘In those regards Sweetheart needed no instructions.’” “I thought that’s what he said’. be kidding.” lit “I never kid.” How do you know?” I study very, very hard. Excuse me, gentlemen.” l ie’s bluffing. The answers are posted. Let’s go see.” The answer to number 17 is ... I hate humorless people. 1 hate bluffers.” “You go get the head sawed in half; I’ll continue dissection what’s left of her neck.” “Do 1 have to?” “Okay, I’ll get the head sawed in half and you continue dissecting what’s left of her neck.” “Do I have to?” »

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nHSfms a.wtovi kxam Gross Anatomy 1970 7. 2H. aJ. fi'A Aa f J 11111.1 M I ft, .AAM Pact ”7 In each of I’m 2 following questions blacken tm bra Wet In front oI tho otto right tinam A skin melanoma (mullpnant pigmot»ted tumor) located in the i lfrht Biddle scapular region !«• going to be excised. Which one of tho following lymph node groups should also be removed b« auai i tumor aotuiU.ic ft? ( ) gluteal ( ) inguinal ( ) occipital (pi axilla : f ) yu|h i It ! a 1 jugular A 19 year old college student suffered a dislocation of tho let carpo-m tncarpal joint of her right hand. After the reduction and following physiotherapy, her progress was very unsfttla factory. At • new examination the pretty patient showed: jo -1 i Jong her right wrist, wasting of the thenar BUbi'le , «i i-ktirh . of the pinch and grasp, hypocsthesla on the two luti r •I digit ol bet right hand and negative x-rays. After reading tniw history, which one of tne following would be your dlacnowiav ( ) irjury of the ulnar nerve at the elbow ( ) injur)’ of tuc % Jlan nerve at the cubital fossa t ) injury ol thi iaOi.tl nerve at the wrist flp ii t of t . u ui.tn n : t kriat (carpal tunnel » nJioao . “Now class, we’ve been through much together, through sunny, through stormy weather. Through all you’ve carried quite well the load and so to you belongs this humble ode. Dr. J. Robert Troyer -V