University of Cincinnati College of Medicine - Annual Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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artifact in the upper right hand corner. Ervin regaled ua by chasing every known disease up all the. blind alleys of etiology and all the endless sideeralreele 01 prognosis. We learned that even the mildest malady might gather mumew tum downhill until the cvcr-ready uracmia. cardiac failure, '1'. P. t'. or inter- current infection brought. its helpless and hapless pt'ltsscssur tn autopsy -2anl the ruins lay before us. But these things- tried our patience note at all. We were not yet. surfeited with Science. The drugs were upon us. We tasted them; we tested them: we ground them up and filtered them; we mixed them out of their social sets and watched them precipitate each other; we injected them by strange methods and intricate apparatus intn unprotesting amphibians and unconcious quadru- peds and marveled at the tabulated results thereof; we even learned their dosages. And in our introduction to them we were indeed blessed. Clear and untiring. correiating todayis work with yesterday's. Jackson made a mass of totally disjointed facts take rm 21 unified structure. The effect of one atom of arsenic prescribed in a tubful of hash was elucidated with precision. The proof is that we remember a little. But we were sorely vexed. Benjamin led us into the jungle of diagnosis. We bought our stetlmscopes and wore them on the Outside. And thus is the beginning and ending of our only chapter of original history. 111 The steel having been properly tempered, it was sent to the stone to he sharpened. . jackson protestingly, still kept hold on us and inlerrupted a fairly pleasant year by insisting upon correct and unabbreviated Latin following all importun- ings to the God of Medicine. Weiss led us further into the diagnostic jungle and left us there expiring without a murmur and without hearing one; and there we shall remainwven unto the end. Meanwhile we sat down to an enjoyment of lecture and clinic. A new air surrounded us: we were being welcomed into the study of the practice of medicine by men whn felt that we had passed the ordeals fnr admittance. We were called doctor in the clinics The Tuesday pilgrimages tn the Branch made us appreciative of the other days of the week. Great men succeeded each other before us. Each added to our knowledge of special facts and each gave us a better and fmer realization of Medicine as it should be practiced. Then the mad scramble to get a seat at the table of those who pass. And some had to wait for the second table and some for the third; but eventually nearly all of us ate. IV This sees us as we are. This year is a continuation and extension of the good things of the last. But as we waddle dyspneically to press, we fail to find ourselves setting up many new landmarks of history. We walk the wards. obtaining mental impressions of nurses rather than of leaking hearts. nephritic kidneys or acute bellies and criticizing constantly the most laudable actions of everyone in authority. For we have begun to feel our importance: we have our own opinions on treatment; we can even forsee a 2,000-w0rtl pamphlet synopsising our latest investigations in cardiology 0r whut-not. We have Visions of limousines and waiting patients and believe in them. We are the Centennial class. We have left many things undone but have accomplished more than most. We are reasonably proud of our history. And now. if you will pardon the historian, he must leave with lifty-one other members of the class to try for a hospital that is willing to take two interns in December, 1927. Page Seventy-mnc

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History of the Senior Class If we could Appropriately be as terse as that famous treatise on 'iSnakes in Ireland. we would imitate it by saying that we have no history. But it is required that we flatter ourselves by bursting into print with a chronicle of events that are almost as commonplace as they are unexeiting. Therefore, reader, you will pardon us if we are trite, because you must realize that we could not be otherwise without departing from the truth. And so, seratim. I It is untrue that we were delivered by Bunzell; we were delivered from Bunzell by good fortune and the passage of time. We were delivered from him and his mystic satellites and from that sulphuric air of defiance that hung about them; but we left the lame and the halt behind. This was a course founded upon a new principle of chemistry teaching but in its ruins were the same old kind of Hunks and plenty of them. And before we had shaken ourselves free from this. another bete- nair was upon us. Through hours of endless and dreary monotony we were pumped full of relations -hours. thank heaven, never to returnito be convinced of but one thing, that Hman is both wonderfully and fearfully made. It was. withal, a kindly group and the hours with Knower. Malone and the Xylol bottle were not unpleasant. And in the midst of these hectic days came a new interest. The complete and lucid descriptions of Physiological processes that Fischer gave us, his pains- taking choice of words, the charts and experiments that illustrated already clear language. all represented an anxiety on our behalf that gave us encourage- ment in a new pursuit. Not so brilliant zuld convincing were Isaac's Clemon- strations. These days. because they were our earliest, were our most impressionable and because the most impressionable. the longest-lived in recollection. Mornings of unremitting grind. afternoons more placid but wearisome with the sameness of that search for knowledge in the water-logged dead. And studyestudy. beneath the Damocleian sword of failure. They began in the squalor and inefficiency of the old college: they proceeded, in a few weeks, amid the con- fusion that comes with the passing of the old and the abrupt advent of the new; readjustment having been eomp1eted. they were ended with refinement and dignity in our new htlmevthe Flnest in the land. 11 Ah, chis was the winter of our discontent. We reassembled in a time of mental and physical fever and Dame Rumor stalked amongst us. IIistor- ically speaking. we were as yet nothing. Annoyed by the vacillations of second 'tlues tmeaning lieutenantst, perplexed with the therapeutics of the unknown and dreaded epidemic, we all drew together in a bond against common enemies. As the hrst-mentioned and more evil of these two things lingered, we out- mmplained the nervous wards. What with drill. K. 13. . guard duty, spon- taneous vaudeville and endless poker. we forgot medicine entirely. The ill wind, however. blowing good. brought our faults and Fine points to our door. We knew each other better thereafter and the knowledge was mostly pleasant. Returning. reeivilized. from Christmas vacations. we found the clouds of Bacteriology gathering and we took to our books with an energy that our total success in that subject betrayed later, much to the joy of the kindly Wherry. What Hermanies said. we could not understand and so it mattered little. Then came Stark with biting and. perhaps, well-direeted sarcasm. We listened without emotion tn poorly worded dehnitions 0f terrific length. Forty-storv eiaesitications fell upon unheeding ears. After an hour of this off to the piano stools and the famous slides that were learned by number or some peculiar Page Sevenly-eigh!

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GEORGE BENZING, JR. Hamilton, Ohio Age '24 Piersa! Hamilton 101110: High School, 1914. University 01 Michigan, A. 13., 1913. Student Assistant in Anatomy 1'31, C31. Instructor in Anuley H1. Prufcssnr of Anatomy tOhio College of Dental Sur- geryJ, 131, 141. Junior Inturnu 1Com! Samaritan Ilospitalj HJ. Class Vice-President, H'L Delta Upsikm 1College1. Nu Sigma Nu 11111911163111. Good Sanuriluu HUhpilal 1C1l1ff1l1l18111 A RTH 1 1K KARL BEU MLER Purl smouth, Uhio Age 2R 1'Dmr1'r Portsmouth 1011101 High School, 1911. Ohio Wesleyan University. A. 13.. l'JlT. Alpha Sigma Phi Hi'ollegm. Alpha Kappa Kappa Wiedicalk Christ Hospital H'inrinnatil. FRED EMERSON BRAMMER Chesapeake, Ohio Age 31 Rewrind Rio Grande- 1011101 High Schuol, 19118. Vah'mruisn 11niv17raily, 1911-12. 01110 l'nix'ersily, 1915-115. Unmgn Upsikm Phi NVIF-rliralJ. Uhrisl Hospital, fCincinnatM Page Eighty