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

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many to think that they could cut and get away with it, only to have Dr. Lee come in one day and say eight of you men were absent yesterday. l.et's see, they were so and so, and so and so. This lowered the incidence of cutting for a couple of days, and then off it would go again. No one ever worried about overcuts, though, and we imposed on him, but he just wouldn't report anyone. Dr. Lee's jurisprudence dealt more with the tricks of horse gyps and we all were kept awake by his narratives of these men. Inter- spersed among the trivia were items of im- portance, but not so numerous as to become burdenso111e. JOHN D. BECK, V.M.D. Professor of Vefcrilmry .'lIer11'e1'r1c I' Q33 MEDICINE HE course of Medicine was presented to our class in an installment manner, by that, I mean in an interrupted schedule. Uur class began Medicine or Phy- sical Diagnosis in the last semester of our Sophomore year, and was presented by Dr. John Beck, being supplemented by practical demonstrations. At that time Dr. C. J. Blar- shall was living, but unfortunately we never received any personal instruction from that great man, much to our regret. I feel sure that a great amount of knowledge was obtained from that course, which aided or prepared us for our clinics which we began our following semester. In our first semester of our Junior year, we continued on our exploit of hfcdicine, but due to certain circumstances, we were unable to continue. VVe picked it up again in the second semester of the same year Cwithout a definite professor, so to speakb, but it was not long before we made the acquaintance of Dr. H. K. Royer, who as the baby of the faculty, put some life in it. Some, it is said, did not think a great deal of the contents of the course, by that I mean the guest lectures. I do not know how much was gained by the student in this experiment, but I understand that a similar schedule was not followed this year. iNIaybe too much Aconite was spilled last year. In our Senior year we began where we left off, the course being presented in a different manner. INIany amusing and interesting in- cidents took place during this period, such as hog chlora discussions, and there was a time when a certain person Cnot mentioning any namesl was sent to the front of the room be- cause he was being disturbed by others. All in all, I feel sure that a great amount was learned by us in the course in INIedicine, and that all of us enjoyed the relationship of two grand individuals, namely, Dr. Beck and Dr. Boyer, and as a class we hope that success abides with them in the future. Q3 CLINICS ITH the advent of our third year we were allowed in the clinics without being greeted by the business end of a hose. Clinics were divided into small animals and large animal medical and sur- gical. VVe spent three weeks per semester in each clinic. During our Junior year we served

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ROGER S. AMAUON, D.Y.M. Professor of Veferfuary I'l1ysioIogy gray matter than its insidious approach would depict, we soon learned that we were no longer dealing with morbid facts but with an ever- changing interdependent complexity of organs, and systems of organs. This was our initiation into the deeper aspects of fundamental Veteri- nary llledicine, without which previous and usbsequent studies would be useless. For serio-comic relief we are indebted to the pr0fessor's deft, persistent encircling of a classmate, until he was quite hopelessly en- tangled in a mesh of contradictory answers. The humor was heightened by the good-na- tured grin after a particularly stunning reply. Laboratory proceedings involved close atten- tion to dangling wires and smudged charts. The peak of boners being reached whe11 Dr. Amadon vainly endeavored to find one start- ing point on a smoked drum, on which Klr. Fields had neglected to apply a paper. Sporadic threats to cast antiquated equip- ment upon the VVoodland Avenue car tracks enlivened the hours spent in studying proto- plasmic reactions: hours that are to be more profitable as the years roll by. The Class of 1940 wishes to take this oppor- tunity to express its thanks to Dr. Amadon for a great course from a great guy. PODOLOG-Y AND J URISPRU DENCE 0 IIANY, a horse walks, trots, or runs, and to many a horse still walks, trots or runs, except when he doesn't. That a horse would paddle and strike and forge, and stand under and about a hundred other things, all while in the process of keeping twice as many feet as we use from getting all tangled up, was a surprise that we were not well pre- pared for. But Dr. Lee held forth on just this subject, and proved that such things do happen. When talking about horses, and their ills, words fall from VV. Jfs lips faster than bullets from a machine gun, and unless Dr. Lee slows down, he is going to find himself without any- thing to say, and that will be a tragedy. The peculiar part is that he talks fast and furiously, and yet always has something worth while saying, even if he does tell some anecdotes of amazing latitude. Even under his rapid fire, our professional sleepers were able to take their rest only a little more fitfully than in more slumberous lectures. Dr. Lee is always solicitous that his dreamers are undisturbed as if he recognized and admired the ability to sleep under adverse conditions. llis habit of not opening his roll book led GICORGE P. WILLIAMS, Jn., AB., LLB. lfzsirueior in l'f'fer1'r1ar,y -lllF1AN1H'IIllI'IlI'f'

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HARRY K. RUYER, Y.NI.D. Inspector in Veferilzary .'lfefI1'c1'I1e as assistants for the Seniors and we usually had two. As Seniors we were greatly out11un1- bered by a brazen lot of Juniors who ran things their own way. Fields, Hughes, and burly Fleck were the only Seniors to see an operation all year, although it is reported that Parker and Spielholtz once wormed cleverly through the maze of legs and planked their respective noses on the operating table CSpeil- holtz had all the better of thisj. SMALL ANIMAL CLINIC The Veterinary School is justly noted for its small animal clinic. The volume and variety of cases and the ability of the staff have won national recognition for the clinic. The student had many opportunities and the staff was always willing to listen to and discuss sug- gested treatments, although one had to be a good runner to talk to Dr. Sheidy more than thirty seconds at a time. There were the usual number of complaints about roll call, perscriptiondemons, and soft. trodding staff members with the abrupt approach. It is regrettable that more time was not available for helping in Dr. Lentz's clinic as it was a pleasure to watch the old master treat the cases and handle the clients. LARGE ANIMAL CLINIC Large animal surgery clinic was conducted principally by Dr. Lee. Drs. Emmerson and Able were usually around to help as they went about their x-ray duties. It was a distinct and valuable privilege to work with Dr. Lee and we will long remember his witty remarks, love of an argument, and wide knowledge of equine problems. VVe feel that Dr. Lee's tem- perament is improving with age as he only Hred Joe sixteen times this year. IVe will never for- get Dr. Lee's admonishments to those un- fortunate enough to make a mistake and be caught Cneither will those admonishedj. lVe all share Dr. Leeis lament of the frequent scarcity of cases and agree that a school am- bulance would do much to remedy this serious weakness in the large animal clinical set-up. LARGE ANIMAL MEDICAL Conducted by Drs. Beck, Royer and Fish, this proved a very interesting clinic. Through the cooperation of the Department of Public Wlorks we usually had some cases and when we didn't the time was occupied in the teach- ing of those many everyday operations of prac- tice, that one must actually do, to master. lVe restrained animals, passed stomach tubes. FRANK H. LENTZ, Y.Bl.D., PI-LG. .ls.v1'.vf11r1f Professor of .lf!lff'7'li!1 .lferlzra and I,,Il1I'VIIIl!'1f