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

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Dr. Morton J. Oppenhviincr “Today’s lecture? Sure, it’s on the cochlear microphonics of the Mongolian Gerbil.” “Great! We’ll be right along. We’ll see you there, doctor . . . Who has the cards?’’ “It’s a good thing these windows don’t open. “Why’s that?” “I heard that two years ago he threw a mut out on to Broad Street because the dumb dog died on him in the middle of an experiment!” “Psychiatry is the basis of clinical medicine.”

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“1 want to be the anesthetist. You be the record keeper.” ‘‘Thank you.” ‘‘The note-taking system is simple. Everyone in class pays twenty dollars. One guy takes notes during the lecture, freeing everyone else to sit back and listen carefully to the lecturer. And if, by some chance, you, perforce, miss a class, you have the class notes to read. It’s as though you were there.” ‘‘The system has definite potential.” “Save.” ••92 ”23.” ”24. Spades arc trump.” Dr. Guido 4scanto

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Dr. Robert H. Hamilton “Gentlemen, all you need do is decapitate your frogs, put them on the turntable, spin the table, and observe the preparation’s behavior with regard to balance. It's really a simple experiment.” “It surely is that.” I don’t want to talk about it . . . What did you get for number 17?” “Which one was that.” “The one about the cochlear microphonics.” “Oh, that one. The answer is that it exists after death. “How do you know?” “It’s in the class notes.” “What is a cochlear microphonic, anyway?” “I dunno.” “Put out those cigarettes. You all arc not allowed to smoke during physiology lab. “Madame, pardon me, I mean. Dr., how come you’re smoking? “I’m allowed. I’m a professor.” “Who is taking physiology notes today?” “The Manus.” “Oops! That’s enough cards, let’s get to class. 4 “And so, class, you have, or should have, in your notebooks the structure of all the essential sugars; of all the purines and pyrimidines; of DNA and RNA, of ATP, GTP, GDP, GMP. ADP; of NAD, NADP and FAD, of vitamins A, B B9, Bg, B j 2-C, D, and E; of the twenty-one amino acids of— “This is a marvelous review for the exam.” “Yes, everything is so much clearer now.” BIOCHEMISTRY MIDTERM EXAMINATION Page I INSTRUCTIONS Below are the structures of all the compounds you have learned to date. The structures drawn are quite correct. The rest of the examination will refer to these structures and. . . “Pssst . . . psst . . .” “Yes?” “I’m sick. Me, too. Everything I know about biochemistry is on this first page and they’re taking it as their starting point. I mean, what’s next? “When I was a student at about your level, I read about cancer of the esophagus. After that, whenever I swallowed, I felt the food rolling over the tumor as it passed to my stomach. I was a tragic figure walking in sadness always. Just imagine; me, with cancer! And so young! “Finally, one of my professors could bear me no longer and decided to csophagoscope me. When I felt that huge rod pass down my gullet, I knew I didn’t have cancer.” “He could put a corpse to sleep.” “Yes, but he has a good notetaker. “Oh, yes, 1 almost forgot: ‘Biochemistry is the basis of clinical medicine.’