University of the Pacific School of Dentistry - Chips Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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F . A l l v i I i I 1 l l ! l l 1 I I 3 1 F l l l 1 v ! , Miss JESSIE G. mens Perhaps she frowned-when boisterous youth The college's stern decrees o'erlooked, Or laggard idled on the way And hours for study oft forsook. Perhaps she smiled-or gently praised Wlieii steadfast, earnest efforts showed With pleasant word, or kindly nod Oft helped us bear a heavy load. Sweet sympathy for him who tried ' And barely kept the weary paceg Gr pondered, was the far-off prize Sufficient for the hard-won race? So, honored by each class, we send A prayer that she may long be spared. And to this tribute may we add With all our faults, She was our friend. G. C. 33 K., ,14

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v x MISS GRACE SXVEENEY O one has ever suggested that there was any other dental iniirmary worthy of the name in San Francisco, except that of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. No one has ever suggested that any improvement could be made on the present system. No one has dared to suggest that the personnel could be changed without grievous injury. From the superintendent clown to the youngest operator, everything and everyone moves in clock-like order. Foremost among those in authority we must humbly bow to Miss Grace Sweeney. It would be hard indeed to imagine an in- iirmary without her presence. When she but absents herself for an hour or two, how empty the crowded room seems, how quickly conditions become chaotic. Like a hive of bees bereft of the queen, each worker feels that an impending calamity hovers over him and order is only restored by her personal presence on the scene of action. So to Miss Sweeney we tip our glasses and hope that she may perpetually remain in our midst-a mascot to the Dental De- partment of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. - 32

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IVIYTI-IS, IVIYSTERIES AND MEDICINE OF ANCIENT EGYPT ' IIE origin of the healing art may be traced through archaeological researches in Egypt, Chaldaea, Babylon, India, China, Greece, Italy and Scandinavia to the divine intervention of gods and goddesses. Prehistoric remains of antiquities, inscriptions, hieroglyphics, temples, pyramids, and mounds with all our accumulated knowledge of the past 10,000 years, indicate that from the earliest dawn of history man in- habited the alluvial valleys of Mesopotamia C15 between the Euphrates and Tigris in Asia Minor. Garden of Eden. XVherever the garden spot of Eden may have been located, whether it was in Syria, near Damascus, in Chaldaea, in Persia, on the banks of the River Nile in Egypt or at the foot of Adam's peak f2j on the Island of Ceylon, we find traces of medicine and medicine gods and goddesses protecting the lives and welfare of our earthly forebears. D Tauranian Lake Dwellers. The antediluvian C35 lake dwellers of Switzerland, the pre- historic inhabitants of the age of stone and the age of bronze in the llritish Isles, the builders of shell mounds of Denmark and India, and the mound builders of the Mississippi valley and other parts of America-all had their divine physicians and protectors. Noah's Flood and Egyptian Civilization. VVe may or we may not accept the tradition of the Noachian inundation with its extermination of mankind and its subsequent regeneration from Shem, Ham and japhet, the sons of Noah the great Mesopotamio-Aravat navigator C4j and the Tauranian races from other sources, nevertheless the cradle of the human race, so far as is known today, was rocked first in Asia Minor, while the cradle of civilization in its remote prehistoric dawn of antiquity, rocked first on the banks of the fertile Nile. Egypt, it is claimed, was peopled by Mizraim, son of Ham KSU, the son of Noah. The father of history, I-Ierodotus, who lived about 500, Ii. C. maintains that Menes the first king and founder of the first dynasty lived 12,500 years B. C. 34