University of Maryland School of Medicine - Terrae Mariae Medicus (Baltimore, MD)

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A quintet nf ijcntose hunleis. BIOCHEMISTRY The University of Wisconsin has long been noted for its ability to |)rociu(o hiocheniists and not the least of these is Dr. Kinil Schniidl. who was appointetl 111 ihi ' (Irparliiifiit in 1925. During the second semester of the first year we became well aware of the fact that he was out to teach us our last loniial course in chem- istry, especialh as applied to the human body. We also learned that he fostered a well-trained ulcer which like any such deyice acted up right on schedule when spring came around. But with the help of Amphojel and with Ur. Schmidt spending Easter yacation following his ayoca- tion — golf — we suryiyed the rigors of the cour.se in good measure. We became intimateh acquainted with the Krebs cycle. We also haye memories of juggling a gallon jug on the BTC in an effort to collect a 24 hour s])ecimen. of running a PSP, and of chewing a block of wax until our jaws ached in an effort to show that we. too. had enzymes. ' )r i) saw the ap|)ointmeiU of Dr. Kdward Herbst to (he staff aM l it was under his tutelage 21

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Ten thousand words are better than one picture. How many neurons are there in the CNS. FRAl K H. J. FiGGE, Ph.D., Professor of Anatomy has been on the faculty since 1929. He spends most of his time in research dealing with the cancer problem. In his teaching capacity he has been head of the Histology faculty since 1949. HISTOLOGY During our freshman year we were fortunate indeed to come in contact with Dr. Frank H. J. Figge and his staff who taught us not only his- tology and embryology but also how to critically analyze motion pictures. We were tutored in aspects of cellular structure, their relationships in the various organs and systems and their func- tions. The workings of the microscope were no longer strange to us. This question is a snap. 20

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EMIL G. SCHMIDT, PH.D.. LL.B., Professor oj Biological Chemistry and Head oj the Department. He has been with the university since 192.5 after receiving his Ph.D. from the Univer- sity of Wisconsin. He has been head of the department since 1948. we were introduced into the complexities and functions of coenzymes and the utilization of glucose. It might be said that he carried us from coenzyme I to valine. It was here we got our first practical experi- ence as to what lay ahead for us as clinical clerks and interns. We became very familiar with Benedicts, benzidine, BL N and BSP. It was here too that we tried to convince ourselves that maybe two blood sugars from the same sample could read 264 mg different. We were also plagued by that most irritating of inventions, the decimal point. When plead- ingly we took the sample to Dr. Schmidt with the correct answer but the decimal in the wrong place we only got the answer. Sorry, son, that patient died a week ago. Lejt: Now you push the button down, the needle goes ' round and round, and the pH comes out here. Lower: I ' ll be darned if I see any ions. But what if you ' re color blind? 22