University of Virginia School of Medicine - Biopsy Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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CNS A . BICDCHEMISTRY fx Q- 3 X? ix Nxxxx Im it Q, x as iii , .rl f I f a r iii MAJ IT WAS with fear and trepidation that we entered the sanctum of the biochemists in the southeast basement of the Medical School for such had been the lame that it had spread before. Get by Chan and the rest is easy sailing are almost the First words the neophyte hears upon entering the School ol Medicine. Such is not always the case, lor, because oi, or in spite of the cajoling, one does learn biochemistry-and learn it well. 0170

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ANATOMY l-IE stench ol the cadaver, a greasy, dog-eared GRAVE, and dirty, once white, lab coats marlc the basic training course ot the embryo doctor. Though the days are long and the nights even longer, anatomy is a must-to be learned so well, and then so soon forgotten, A few, though, may refresh their memories in the fourth year with surgical anatomy where, should the First year student happen in, he would be amazed at the rapidity with which those cadavers melt away. Kg 2 H e XGNX

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at ,s 'ig Q s ai,-.sz is fa 2 H M M ,J E its . sig of N seg A lga' ' '5 f - in 5111 PHYSIOLOGY DERHAPS one of the more diversified courses in the school is physiology-so fre- quently called Brittonology. Despite the title, the course ollers biographical sketches of Cannon and Sherrington, mystery and metaphysics, a giant centrifuge, excursions up the Jungfrou, philosophy and altruism-and, oh yes, if you please, physiology, to be sure-of the mammalian body, that isl