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

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nature for the insurance business. Just take a look at Parmenter's picture and imagine. this scene: A furious noise, a cloud of dust and an odor of gasoline. This commotion stops in front of a mansion. Out steps Doctor Junior. He ascends the steps rapidly, bows at the doorbell and announces his presence. The maid knows intuitively that it is The Doctor. He deposits his headpiece in the hall and hastens to m-eet the Lady in the drawing room. f'Yes, it is a. very fine morning. Yes, Three Weeks is a great character study. Now when she returned from the theater she was informed by the nurse that Reginald had learned how banks are made to assign and he had tried to serve the candy man around the corner the same way. As a result he refused to lap cream and breakfast cereals. Dr. J. hastens to the sick room and after inspecting the little railroad train and toy auto he announce-s that the patient has rhinopharyngitis. Pneumonis and appendicitis are threatening and if not checked coxitis may result. Skil- ful treatment may succeed in preventing these complications. He gets busy with a. prescription blank and here is the result: Hydrargerie chloridie mightie, Granum Centum unum less ninetie, Ft. Chartae as many as will makie. Sign One when Regie will takie. Delivered of this he ha-stens to his awaiting conveyance and the horn of that ve- hicle properly diagnoses the whole affair as it goes down the street: Frost! Frost! Frost! And the Senior? Most men who take up medicine are seniors from the time they matriculate. Serious men with a definite goal before them. Conscious of their op- portunities, buoyed up by the consciousness of their power, possessed and attainable, and acutely sensible of their responsibilities. This is the class of men who make the medical school, and make teaching a position of pleasure and honor and make the pro- fession of medicine what it is, and who must be looked to to develop it to its ultimate possible limits of usefulness.

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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

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Uhr Health Eeparimvni nf iltunawa Qlitg, Miaanuri BY ST. ELMO SANDERS, M. D. City Physician, Adjunct Professor of Anatomy. I HE Board of Health Department of Kansas City government is organized with the Mayor as ex-officio president, the city physician and sanitary superintendent, L'-J the health officer, the chief of police, the chief of the fire department and the superintendent of streets. This board has charge, through the city physician and sani- tary superintendent, of all matters connected with the public health and the sanitary conditions of the city, also the treatment of the poor, and the regulation of quarantine of contagious diseases. The city physician is recognized as the head of the department, ,,, ,.. l ,, .. , Ziff f f21f 4? lf, . A Q U . 'fi' ,rf Qi! 2.,,,lzz,: .7 9 w, ,:rsp?f2.b5If.3 bzfcj, ,!3YfO, l Q E and his full title is City Physician and Sanitary Superintendent. The health officer is, by direct ordinance, placed under the control of the city physician and sanitary su- perintendent. The health officer is designed more especially to look after sanitary matters, while the city physician has direct charge of all of the city hospitals, the con- tagious diseases, the dispensary at the city hall, and, since the eighth of Janaury, 1907, all emergency cases, such as accidents, injuries, poisonings and the like. For the treatment of the sick, in the dispensary service there are three assistant city physicians, Dr. Paul Lux and Dr. Julius Frischer, each of whom graduated from the University Medical College in 1905, and one colored physician, Dr. T. C. Unthank, who