University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine - Scalpel Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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HARRY C. CAMPBELL, B.S., V.M.D., M.D., D.D.S. Professor of Veterinary Baeieriology into a lab anyhow. Now I want to make this course as practical as I can-man on the back seat there, youire down to Farmer Jones' place at Squeedunk Hollow to see a case of black leg and he asks you, 'Say, Doc, howis come those two heifers got it and not those old cows? Any danger of their catching it? What would you tell him? CPausej Well, you can't tell the man you don't know. Next man, what do you say? 'Well, Iid tell him . . f That's right, separate the sick ones from the well ones and give serumf, Now here are those guinea pigs Dr. Cris- man and I injected yesterday. Like I told you, they should be all right for forty-eight hours but this one is dead . . . Now, men, Idon't like to tell tales out of school but Gottshall killed this guinea pig. You know there's more than one way to skin a skunk, one way you can have a date with your best girl that night and the other way you stay home and bury your clothes, well, the same thing holds here, one way you hold the guinea pig and the other way you choke him to deathf' Now the next organism is the T. B. bacillus. They tell us that it is an acid-fast organism. The man on the back seat there, what does that mean? 'VVcll, it means that, that, uh-i Ycsg now, men, I don't like to root and toot my own horn but I've handled about as much T. B. as most any man alive and you can take it from me, they aren't always the same in taking the stainf' The above might be taken from any one of the lectures as Dr. Campbell, his coat buttoned irregularly, swayed precariously over either end of the lecture platform, expounding the intricacies of bacteriology. We will never forget the pleasant, frequently humorous, and thoroughly practical manner in which the course was presented. We will always remem- ber the sound homely philosophy woven into the lectures and be better men and better veterinarians for having had the good fortune of such a practical and erudite professor. GENERAL PATHOLOGY ROFESSOR lNIcFarland will always be remembered as the man who first ushered us into the fascinating study of morbid anatomy. The simplicity and gentle- ness of his character and his fine manner of expression will ever be remembered. In his series of three lectures a week, through- out the first term of our second year, Professor lVIcFarland strove to present us with the va- rious details of general pathology. His series of lectures covered elementary pathological processes of both retrogressive and progressive nature, inflammation, regeneration, and other vital processes 'gwhich underlie the end results studied by the morbid anatomistf' VVe still have not forgotten his excellent presentations of the Science of Teratology. The fine special lectures we received in this direction were difficult to comprehend, but nevertheless we did glean some unusual knowledge from them. VVC, of the Class of 1940, have been favored with good fortune to have been students of this distinguished professor.

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Stock Judging: Pleasant remembrances of the Pennsylvania Stock Yards will remain with us always. It is too bad, Dr. Dick, that you would never agree with us on our placings, you didn't seem to believe in the majority rule principle. It is a good thing for the class that there were a few men in it that had stock judging previously or else there would have been a lot of animals flattered to death, and a lot insulted to death by our amateur stock judges. The Veterinary School track carnival at the VVidener Farms, starring Flash Ger- berich and Speed Gleiser, crack milers, will also not escape our grey matter. Both men didn't look any too flashy or speedy when they got to that tape which seemed to be run- ning away from them. Speed Gleiser hasnft been doing any speeding since then, but that is because everywhere he goes, he sees Go Slow signs. I am sure the Dean will not forget that trip either, after putting his hands into his coat pockets and finding them full of sawdust. No, Dr. Dick, we didn't put any sawdust in your pockets. Nutrition: Classification of soils, soil physics, maintenance of soil fertility, classification of foodstuH's, their production, preparation, and use, and nutritional diseases comprised this year's course in our Junior year. This was our most extensive course. We did everything from plowing to building silos, and filling them. Our most difficult problem, however, was deciding how much proteins and car- bohydrates to give a cow so that she would give us a lot of milk, and not lose her shapely angles. Gone with the wind: Aeolian soil. Poultry Husbandry: Here we met up with a League of Nations in the Avian world. Spanish, Polish, Andalusian, etc., chickens were among the delegates. VVe learned how to please our fine feathered friends with nice coops, proper diets, the right kind of atmos- phere so they would give us our morning eggs. I'm sure that many of us have eaten so many eggs for breakfast during our scholastic careers that we can't look a chicken in the face. The most exciting incident that occurred in connection with this course was the unusual explosion under the hood of Dr. Dick's new car at Dr. Goldhaft's laboratories at Vineland, New Jersey. Maybe it was sabotage. The strangest things do happen over there in Jer- sey. It is a fine state Cgeneral opinionj. Genetics: The last roundup. On our trail to journey's end, we stumbled and nearly tripped on many a chromosome and gene. In algebra we learned that x X yzxy, but now they taught us that xXy: gives you a lot of weird combinations. Crossing overs and link- ages nearly caused some crossing over of the gyrgi of our cerebral grey matter. You told us, Dr. Dick, that Mendel failed his final examinations because of exhaustion, and over- worry, so please donit be angry with us if some of us should fail ours. That will prove that we were very conscientious in our extensive studies, in spite of the fact that in our first year you told us not to worry too much. It is in this final course that the so-called rail birdsi' were at the height of their careers. Spitballs and rubber bands were the newest accessories for the study of genetics. Every- time the post mortem corps would come into class slightly belated, one was reminded of a Nazi Blitzkrieg by the goose-stepping genet- icists. Now that it is all over, I think it is only proper that we thank Dr. Dick for his ever- lasting patience with the noisy bicentennial class and the railbirdsg for his untiring efforts to teach us something about animal hus- bandry, and to hope that he doesn't get another class like us. -'Q BACTERIOLOGY OW, men, I could make this the hardest course in the school. If I Inadc you learn how these organisms grow on this and that, how they take this stain and that stain, whether they ferment lactose and pup, pup, pup . . . g impractical. Only man could use it is a laboratory man and you'll have to learn all over again if you go

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JOSEPH MCFARLAND, M.D., SC.D. Professor of Pathology GENERAL AND SPECIAL PATHOLOGY HE terror of the Sophomore year does not look so formidable when one ob- serves it from the vantage point of the Senior yearg however, We worried about it plenty in those dim, distant days. From the first class in Histopath. to the last in special Histopath., not a lecture went by that was not preceded by the rumor of a quiz. If one had prepared for a quiz the previous week, one came out muttering strange curses about male bovinesg if you made a good guess and were prepared, you came out smil- ing and tolerantly listened to the explanations of the slides. If you stayed long enough you could hear the slides sputteringly explained to the professor. The course, a supplement to Dr. lIaFar- land's lectures, was definitely organized and supported by a good collection of slidesg many from Nebraska, that famous research state. The set of notes accompanying the course were very helpful and labor saving. The course was ably presented from that hyperemie epi- thelium to sections literally packed with 'toomor tisshue. ' Some very fine artists were discovered among the students, although some of the boys were too bashful to bring theirs in, even after repeated urging by Dr. lVIartin. Miller and Bodine turned in beautiful drawings, but they must have worked twenty-six hours a day to keep up with the terrific pace set by Dr. Martin, which caused the nickname of '6Relentless Harryv to be bestowed upon him by one of his colleagues. POULTRY DISEASES HE course in Poultry Diseases was presented to us in the second semester of our Senior year. The form portrayed in the presentation, was similar to that of Special Pathology, by that I mean the rapidity by which the contents of the course was given. The course was given one hour a week, and was presented by Dr. Evan Stubbs, a person who has a world-wide reputation in the subject of Poultry Diseases. From what can be learned we are the only Veterinary School EVAN L. STFBBS, V.lVI.D. Professor of Veterinary Pathology