University Medical College - Scalpel Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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JOHN R. WoRLEY, Osawatomie, Kas. H. O. VVITTEN, Coffeyburg, Mo. JE qv A VV'ill leave his footprintsg where, the Lord only knows. Talks slowg thinks slowerg his military bearing out of all proportion to his military grades. Official physician to the Class. ,.1'- Sv 'oW f E, f all f. TA E :,..ff - fr 1: ,,-1- : ll, C E, 'fn Aj-'- ,, QA AQ X f lik tx K 'eww V af X vr 1 . N ' is ' p--N ' f WR-Si - , pk . .i ifeizaxw ' 1 ' ' '-ti NY . . , 315.951, 3 it 'Q i1i53'l'f-il I :W l l M uff. . - . will X .,' ,.-X ir XX iilktlx- Q X ' ex X X X I if i X X XXXX XX XY XX N N XX

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R. C. TRUEBLOOD, Beloit, Kas. -E President JIIIH-07' Class. Scaljvcl Ed1'zf01'iial Staff. XVill minister to the spiritually as well as to the physically diseased. Qne of those fel- f lows who put cream and sugar in their Con- somme at the 13 banquet. J. H. TAPSCOTT, Lone jack, Mo. FE, State Nornzal, IfVa1're1zsbzz1'g. Quiet, unassuming, a good st most. Roy FRANCIS VYON CANNON, Galena, Kas. Advocates use of argyrol for hemorrhage May he add yearly to his store of knowl edge as he has to his name. Member of S P. S. C. G. udent-al-

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Ellie linhergrahuaie BY ARTHUR E. HERTZLER, A. M., Ph. D., M. D., Professor of Diseases of Women and Clinical Gynecology. By fundergraduatei' is meant a medical student in the catalog sense. By doctors he is sometimes regarded as a foetal doctor but he isn't at all. Phylogenetically all foetuses are alike, little frizzie-wizzies with little boxing-glove-like nubs for extremeties, With small fluid-containing projections for a head with a much preponderating mass es- thetically called the caudal extremity. Medical students are not all alike any more than all doctors are alike. Some wise one has said that the boy is father of the man, or something to that effect. Now the undergraduate is not only the advance agent of the future doctor but a real true-to-life model. As the student is, so will the doctor be. No school ever made a doctor and no school ever prevented a man from making a doc- tor of himself if he has ever felt The Great Hunch. Now we teachers tin the catalog sense please rememberj sometimes speak of how so-and-so has come out since he was a freshman. That is nothing more than a piece of conceit on our part. So-and-so has been out all the While and we have just found it out. I discovered this delusion some years ago. Now when I see a Shell I just suspend judgment. Somebody may come out-that is where I can see him sure enough but there is no creation de novo, as the wise ones say, for he has been there all the while. In other words, he has just be- gun to perambulate within the range of my vision fapologies to Houser.J Now I regard it as necessary to flunk twenty per cent of sophomores. Not that any certain number need it any more than any others but for its salutary effect on the class following. A As already stated, I have for some time felt that students are not rightly judged when they are considered as biological entities. I could never get a working system, however, until Parmenter produced his really notable sketch. He there presents, alle- gorically one might almost say, the whole history, not of each year of student life, but of the different kinds of individuals which go to make up the medical profession as a whole. We recognize in the Freshman the type of medical man who is serious and en- thusiastic, but is limited in his range of knowledge and conception. He goes about his professional work with a deep feeling of responsibility. He abort-s typhoid fever and pneumonia fand believes itl. He has unbounded faith in aconite in fevers,' and in antiphlogistine in inflammation of the bowels. He is the homeopath of the regular profession. The professional Sophomore is not so numerous but he seems more so for the same reason that you cannot judge the number of coyotes by the sound, nor the size of autos by the odor that lingers after them. He is the heap big doc. He speaks of ripping open abdomens as if they were pumpkins, and I sometimes think he believes the two are synonomous. He knows not only medicine in all its branches but also the stump and the roots-particularly the latter. He knows a lot of other things. He can tell by the plants in the window if inside you buy three roses for a quarter, or if a uni- formed gent is there to mix things for the stomach. He also knows that a red sign does not always mean a drug store. The Junior is the real smooth article. It was for him, as a matter of fact that the term, undergraduate, was coined. He represents a class of individuals designed by