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

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In Dedication .. . As Osier once said, A hospital is not a hospital if it doesn ' t have medical students . By the same token a medical school is not a medical school if it doesn ' t have a faculty. Obviously, the comparison is not complete; whereas the former statement must be interpreted figuratively, the latter one holds absolutely. As a child em- pirically reflects his parents, so also do we, the student body, hopefully reflect you, the faculty. Four years under your tutelage seem to have passed all too quickly — however, not without profit. Our medical initiation saw us begin almost completely ignorant of medicine and the things c losely about us now. Aggressive and forceful means were necessary to even begin to ply us into shape for recognition on a pro- fessional level. Brief as our contact has been, the necessity of that goes without saying. Use all of the meta- phors — avenues, vistas, horizons — you have led us to, opened up, and made us aware of many of them. Not only have you led us in positive directions but advised discriminately concerning pitfalls others had to dis- cover and negotiate for themselves. It has been said that the only thing that is constant is change itself. Both by inference and direct reference, you have pressed upon us that all important principle from the very beginning of our apprenticeship. In order that we even begin to measure up to this principle, you have had to point out to us the fallacy of a congealed mind and static thinking. More than to lay bare cert.iin facts before us, your function has been to bestow an attitude toward modern medicine. Your ideas are our concepts of medicine today. Ostensibly, students exhibit a desire to learn. Paradoxically, however, they are endowed with the protean quality of human inertia. We are no different. Esthetic motivation by itself generally is not sufficient to over- come that inertia, but combined with a persistent driving force they act together in relentless fashion to propel and to give vector to an otherwise unknowing group. To build up a force to overcome the inertia required a prodigious amount of energy. But the manner in which the overcoming force was applied represents a superior finesse. We have all assembled and met for so short a while — these past four years. You have passed on something intangible yet something with which all of us will be able to make our mark if it is used judiciously. Granted, you have attempted to instill in us an attitude toward medicine, as should be the case in all medical schools, but just as important as the attitude is the stamp of Maryland which you have blended in. May our association be both mutually gratifying and advantageous. Therefore, it is not only an honor but a pleasure for the graduating class of 1961 to dedicate the current issue of TERRAE MARIAE MEDICUS to you, the faculty.

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he Medical Profe:33ion b the U)orld ' ;5 reatcat fraternity . lOhereoer a doctor may o irv ctoLlized 50cietL| , he 15 luelcomed bi) his fcliou) doctor I A5 diaea e Itself 13 no rc:5pccter of national or racial differenced 5o the doctors, in their humane eroice, do not respect thetn. hough methods of treating injury and disease may differ in different lands, the aim is euerL|u)here the same; the mitigation of human suffering , the sauin of humvan life . n that humane purpose is firmkj based the uast brotherhood of 3Doctor5 of Tiled icinc . J

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In Memoriam . . . Maurice Charles Pincoffs, M. D. 1886-1960