Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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SCHOOL OF CHIROPODY By Dean R. Ray Willoughby T HE School of Chiropody of Temple University, which began its first session in September, 1915, is the second oldest school of its kind in the eastern part of the United States. Its curriculum is arranged so as to conform to the demands of existing state boards. New requirements will be met as they arise and the school will endeavor always to be abreast of the times. Students who graduate should be capable of passing any state board examination. The administration office of the School of Chiropody is located in the Professional Administration building, 1808 Spring Garden Street. Classrooms and laboratories are located in the Professional Building at 18th and Buttonwood streets, and the Orthopedic and Chiropody clinics are also at 18th and Button wood streets. The degree of Graduate of Chiropody is awarded upon the satisfactory completion of the course, to which both men and women are admitted. All didactic and laboratory instruction is given in the daytime, with clinics in chiropody held now in the afternoon and evening. Each subject is made as practical as possible. At the present time the course covers a period of three years of at least thirty-four weeks each year. There is no doubt, however, that in the future Chiropody will demand a full four-year course and will be preceded by one or more years of college training. 24

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SCHOOL OF PHARMACY ing commentary upon the vitality of the institution founded by Russell H. Con well. The institution of this four-year course leading to the Bachelor of Science degree is one of the greatest contributions to professional education made by our progressing century, and in large part has solved the problem of effecting a happy and operative relationship between liberal and professional training. Pharmacy is deserving of the highest type of education which can be devised: its history, nature, and only possible prognosis testify to this. It is one of the most ancient and honorable professions of man, originating in prehistoric times and antedated by none except religion. No other science or profession surpasses it in brilliant achievement and exalted humanitarianism. Mentioning such names as Serturner, Courrois, Pelletier, Caventou, Scheele, Thenard, among whom are the discoverers of some of the most beneficent substances in modern materia medica, such as Morphine, Iodine, Quinine, Hydrogen Dioxide, Oxygen, and Chlorine, suffices to recall to our minds the venerable dignity of the profession and science of pharmacy. The pharmacist is a co-worker with the physician in their common field of restoring health to the ill and suffering. In aiding to reclaim and maintain health, he is a purveyor of comfort and happiness of the highest order to the community. His profession requires hard study, long and exacting experience, close application, sturdy character, and an appreciation of values. His daily task is to work with some of the most potent and deadly weapons known to mankind, but which dispensed secundum artem, alleviate pain and sustain life. In a very real wav the pharmacist is a guardian of important constructive laws of the Commonwealth. It is in the integrity of the pharmacist that a large part of the successful administration of narcotic legislation rests. Whether as a compounder of drugs or as a commercial attache, his unique place in society necessitates a high code of ethics. Like the physician, the modern pharmacist must be a sound psychologist. He is at once the time-honored medicamentarius, a businessman, an official of the law, a social service worker, and the community's philosopher, guide, and friend. The Bachelor of Science course in the School of Pharmacy is designed to produce graduates who will ably uphold the best traditions of this beneficent profession, and who will contribute to the social, economic, and political thinking and activity in which the professionally trained should take a prominent part. '{23

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NURSING AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DIRECTRESS MARGARET McMAHON IN 1891 the need of a hospital in Tioga was urgent. An appeal was made to Dr. Russell H. Conwell, Pastor of Grace Baptist Church, to undertake the organization. Dr. Conwell accepted the responsibility with his characteristic zeal, and the result was the opening of Samaritan Hospital, with a capacity of twenty beds. On December 8, 1893, an application was made to the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County for a charter, which was subsequently granted. One of the objects in the establishment of the institution was stated to be: To provide free medical aid and surgical aid for those whose circumstances are such that they cannot afford to be treated in their own home or at a doctor s office. No venereal or incurable diseases were to be admitted, and no children under six years of age, until a special ward for children could be added to the Hospital. Another purpose of the Hospital was to train young women as nurses. The Philadelphia School for Preliminary Courses in Nursing was taken over by Temple University and courses were begun there in September, 1930. This action was taken because the numbers had dwindled so that the school could no longer he supported as a separate institution. When the new School of Medicine was built, the Dean kindly consented to the use of laboratories there for most of the classes. In 1932 there were 40 staff Nurses and 151 students attending the Nursing School Since then the School has been growing steadily. [25