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

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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

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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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in the country which receives a special course in Poultry Diseases. The theoretical content of the subject was supplemented by various forms of practical material. Specimens of various types of poultry pathology was obtainable and presented to us during the course. In the clinical laboratory, some of us were fortunate in being able to apply practical laboratory technique in the diagnosis of the various poultry dise.ases. We were very fortunate in having a man of Dr. Stubbs' ability and reputation to present this ever important course to us, and I feel sure that a great deal was gained from it. COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY ETWEEN 12 and 1 P. NI. we dived into the realm of the unknown, visions Cmostly dreamsj of darkest Africa and distant jungles. literally teeming with wild life. An inexhaustible laboratory for the scholar of Comparative Pathology. Lay down your pencils, sit and think for a moment of the embryological development of the turtle. Now let's compare this with that of the primitive artiodactylaf' We laid down our pencils, and sat-mostly. Gentlemen, I don't give a -mn whether you remember a lot of this and that, but I do want you to learn to thinkf' It is a most diflicult task to teach such an extensive and important subject in one short hour each week for one semester, particularly when it included teaching us all to think. It wasn,t long before we unintentionally began to think, about eonstipated carnivores and heterozygous bastards of low fecundity fmanj. The professor warned us that 12 to 1 P. M. was a poor time to try comparing anything, except the physical condition of our stomachs and of certain relaxing classmates. Freel, Bodine, and Miller presented us with the best anatomical and physiological ex- amples of complete mental and physical re- laxation, but whether or not these could be ROBERT O. BILTZ, V.M.D. Research Assoc-iafe in Animal Palhofogy classed as pathological were not definitely determined. Now that we are through, and can look back with proper perspective, the true worth and importance of this course is revealed. Long will we remember Dr. Fox's contagious smile and infinite patience-Hour sincere thanks to a swell prof. 533 POST-MORTEM PATHOLOGY O THE clinician who wishes to in- dulge in the periodic brain dusting recommended by Osler there are few more valuable correetives than a renewed acquaintance with the facts of morbid anatomy as revealed in the post-mortem room. There is perhaps no other branch of Veteri- nary lNIedical Science which requires more acute powers of observation, interpretation, and sound knowledge than the study of Post Mor- tem Pathology. It may be truly said that a world of disordered function and altered struc- ture lies revealed in any lesion if we only have