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

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7 This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home ... This, gentlemen, is malnutrition . metabolism; constitional diseases of mice; and other equally varied and unanswered questions. What can the student of tomorrow expect — more anatomy or less anatomy? Well, chances are he will get more, for the future of medicine lies in bringing the basic sci- ences and clinical medicine closer together. And a biopsy was taken.

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ANATOMY Frank H. J. Figge, a.b., ph.d. Professor of Anatomy and Head of the Department (nmfiletely cifitippal with technicolor, Todd AO. cind lc ' rcoplM))iic miiduI. Two hundred fifty-six hours of gross anat- omy is simply not enough time. No, you ' re wrong! That is not a freshman student talk- ing; those are the words of Dr. Frank Figge. Nevertheless, all students will agree that this is either about five hundred hours to little or else two hundred fifty-six hours too much. But no matter the time, we still managed to cram into our craniums (cranii) tiic seemingly infinite details of human hones, muscles, nerves, vessels, organs, and fascia. With the aid of Drs. Uhlcnhuth, Krahl, Mech, McCafTerty, and the rest of the staff, we maneuvered our way past the informal table quizzes ami the majt)r exams, which we imagined to be as awesome and frightening as any human ordeal possibly could be. Strange as it may seem, the department also finds rime to tlelve into and dissect other problems: — the dynamics of amniotic lluid; the development of the mammalian lung; tiic influence of obesity on the liver; porphyrin y

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HISTOLOGY AND NEUROANATOMY WaLLH J. H. NAUTA, M.D,, PH.D. Professor of Anatomy Here we see a fecalilh in the Circle of Willis.