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

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NEUROANATOMY HISTOLOGY Food for iluur ln. The first question in my mind is not is it a case of epilepsy? ' , but, ' where is the lesion permitting occasional excessive discharge? ' J. Hughlings Jackson. The parts of the human brain, how they fit and act together, the interlacing gray net of nerves, this delicate system that lets us act most human, and its places vulnerable to disease — all this we try to learn from kaleidoscopically beau- tiful drawings and the best of professors. In the year 1 675 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water, which had stood but a few days in a new earthen pot glazed blue within . . . they had a tail near four times tlic length of the whole body, of the thickness, by my microscope, of a spider ' s web. Anton van Leeuwenhoek. Through that wonderful piece of glass and black metal, the miscroscope. we struggle, fail to see, finally see for the first time and attempt to interpret the swirling red and blue cell patterns that make up the very small living tissue structures whose acti ity or disorganiza- tion we will later learn to recognize in the well or sick person. 24

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BIOCHEMISTRY Edw RD John HhRBST. b.s.. m.s.. ph.d. Associate Professor unci, Acliiif; Heiut of the Depl. of Bioloi ' ical Chemistry. The modern physician is learning some- thing about the chemical compounds that are normally secreted in the body and control the operation of its organs. The chemist now has his fingers on the spring that regulates our vital mechanism. E. E. Slosson. Biochemistry is a particularly hopeful science today. Biochemists apparently feel nothing of the overwhelming sensa- tion that descends on the first-year medi- cal student as he fills notebooks with geometrical jungles of formulae that mo- mentarily cross the blackboard; or spends hours before the long, black benches, dis- tilling solutions in double-jointed glass apparatus, deciphering unknown powders and permanently coloring his fingertips and trousers. But the vagueries begin to fade before the fascination of studying the ultimate and inter - related functions of human life processes. WoiiUI ( ii care to draw tin- Utritnila oj 26