"The Committee on Endowment and Fund-Raising shall interest itself to the end that no gift, grant, devise or bequest to the Corporation for specific objects shall ever be diverted from the purposes designated in the conditions of such gift and acceptance."
(By-Laws-Philadelphia College of Osteopathy.)
In these critical war years the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy is not only carrying on its regular program of education and research, but is making a great contribution to osteopathy through the securing of her position for the future.
This year each alumnus had the umque privilege of contributing to the war effort through gifts of War Stamps and Bonds "for Country and for the College."
The Philadelphia College of Osteopathy, as a center of learning, will be an important influence in training osteopathic physicians and in molding leaders of the future, and, as such, deserves the wholehearted support of all thinking graduates and friends.
Alumni of this Institution have a justifiable pride m observing studied plans for the development of the Philadelphia College. They do not want the records of hard work and heavy responsibilities dissipated by the exigencies of war-time. They wish their interest and their gifts to be so sustained and so treated that they best serve an enduring purpose.
To accomplish such a result properly under present-day conditions, definite plans and objectives have been thoughtfully projected. The record of the College shows that she has been willing to accept the responsibilities of leadership. It shows that this College has had a decided influence on the progress of osteopathic education. It suggests that with the help of her alumni and friends the College can go forward to greater achievements, deepening and enriching Osteopathy as a profession. -COUNCIL ON DEP'ELOPMENT
EDITORIAlLY: Page VOLUME XVI NUMBER 2
"The Time Has Come!"
Edgar 0. Holden 17
"Tropical Medicine to the fore"
Otterbein Dressler 17-18
"for Country and College" 19
Bond enid Stamp Contributors 20
Published at Intervals During the College Year by the Russell C. Erb 21-22 fiftieth Anniversary Observance 23 PHILADELPHIA
"Civil Law and the Osteopathic Physician"
"Vital Subject of Student Selection" L. G. Schacterle 24 Status of D.O.'s 25 Alumni Noles 31
HE TIME has come! Such was the thoughtprovoking remark made by the presiding officer of the Board of Trustees of the College at a recent meeting. Said he: "The time has come when we must proceed to consider seriously the matter of extending and augmenting opportunities for osteopathic research in our College."
Each Department should have available sufficient laboratory space to provide adequate facilities for research and scientific investigation by members of the staff, graduate students and under-graduate students of unusual ability. The wards, clinics and laboratories connected with the College should offer sufficient material and working space for the study of special problems in all branches of osteopathic medicine.
There is a pressing need at P.C.O. for funds in support of research. If we are to train students in independent and original thinking-the very essence of intelligent citizenship as well as of competence in any profession or life work-our faculty must keep its intellectual tools sharp by itself engaging in independent and original thinking-namely research. Out of these researches in college and universities have come those basic discoveries and concepts upon which the march of civilization has depended-and will continue to depend. P.C.O. wishes to continue to do her share insofar as osteopathy and science is concerned.
Someone has said with great wisdom that greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep the way open for discovery. The College's program for the future is based on the lessons of the past and the problems of today. In these changing times the College conceives it to be her plain duty to preserve the knowledge that has been so dearly won, and to join wholeheartedly in the study of today's and tomorrow's basic proble1ns. To follow that course, the College must be independent-in order that it may freely seek and publish truth; it must build up the character of her staff and the scope of her facilities in order that it may do her work with effectiveness and distinction. As such the College is in fundamental accord with the present trend of educational thinking, with modern educational demand and public psychology.
One of the outstanding tasks our osteopathic colleges face in the future-indeed I think it is the outstanding objective-is increasingly to comprehend and to emphasize the necessity for original investigation and research. To such an ideal the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy dedicates her plan for the future. She stands resolved to get the most B.T.U.'s of education and research out of a dollar.
Let it not be said of the osteopathic profession after fifty years, that in its haste to develop its individuals, it has neglected to develop its institutions.
E. 0. HOLDEN.
(Continued on next page.)
HAT rnedical education stands in need of improvement is axiomatic. That a searching self-analysis may aid in this improvement follows as a natural corollary. These principles might well be applied to any department or division of medical education, but they apply most strikingly to tropical medicine at the moment.
The evils of today, not infrequently, reflect the neglect of the past. This principle also applies to tropical medicine. Misconceptions, prejudices and lethargy have fostered this unfortunate neglect. It has been rightly said, "There is nothing in the world that is truly altruistic." Tropical medicine in the past showed no evidences of possible personal gain, therefore, it was not a subject to be pursued with avidity. Now tropical medicine bids fair to become a "very practical" subject (Practical usually meaning dollars and cents value), thus the new wave of interest in this subject.
Criticism of the teaching of tropical medicine must not be aimed at the osteopathic colleges alone, for the other schools of medicine are equally at fault. True, some few schools can boast of a department of tropical medicine, but they can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Much of the teaching is still improvised, to say the least.
It would seem sound to require a teacher in any branch of medicine to be a practitioner in that field. The anatomy professor should be working in the dead house. How can a man teach pathology if he is not practicing pathology? It is somewhat difficult to secure men to teach tropical medicine, men who have had experience in tropical medicine or who are now practicing tropical medicine. It follows that schools geographically situated where cases of tropical medicine are available in the natural course of events should be expected to have a stronger department than schools not so advantageously situated.
The chance development of a department of tropical medicine is not enough to meet the needs of scientific
medicine. Every school must exert itself to the utmost to develop a satisfactory department. If there is not a man on the teaching staff who is already familiar with tropic:a-1 medicine by having traveled in the tropics or who IS now practicing tropical medicine, then it may be necessary to go outside the limits of the faculty and secure a man familiar with these diseases.
are many things to be said in the favor of tropical If anything approaching academic completeness Is to be obtained in the teaching of medicine, these diseases must be studied not only in times of war or emergencies but as a routine part of the curriculum.
Some of the most brilliant pages in medical history have been written in connection with tropical diseases. To be steeped in the lore of this medical history should give to the doctor a breadth of vision and understanding becoming a cultured gentleman. There is an important byproduct in the study of tropical medi:cine that has been very much neglected. The study of these diseases and how they have been ferreted out and explained may give a hint at ways and means of investigating other diseases, such, for instance, as the common cold. Then, too, there is a misconception concerning tropical medicine; all socalled tropical diseases are not confined to the tropics, but occur in temperate climates as well, as witness our new conception of amebiasis.
If these reasons are not sufficient for the study of tropical medicine, then it might be added that a spread of tmpical diseases into more densely populated temperate climates is to be anticipated because of the modem rapidity of transportation and the possibility of carrying vectors Jrom tropical countries into the more temperate climates while they are still alive.
But we should not have to create a brief for tropical medicine. This subject in itself should be sufficiently stimulating to cause one to desire to study it.
0. DRESSLER.Dr. Paul H. Hatch, P.C.O., 1926, offers this suggestion: cology, was quoted as debunking the dress the Dauphin County Osteopathic popular fallacy that flowers are harm- Society at its monthly meeting in Harful _in a sick-room, was published by risburg, Pa., on December 2 at 8 :30 leadmg newspapers in nineteen states Dr. Cathie's subject will be with clippings still _coming. in to ·· ''Spinal. _Fro_m a Practical Department of Pubhc Relations, from Standpomt. He will discuss bony and which the story emanated. muscular structure, with emphasis on mechanics.
A recent news release, in which Dr. Angus G. Cathie, Associate Professor of Anatomy at P.C.O., will ad-
Dr. Otterbein Dressler, P.C.O. pathologist, was a speaker at the annual Fall convention of the Michio-an Association of Osteopathic and Surgeons at the Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit on October 28 and 29. On 30,. J?r. Dressler spoke at both VIrgm1a Military Institute and and Lee University, at Lexmgton, Va., on "Certain Mechanical Factors Underlying Distease."
Dr. H. Willard Sterrett was elected chairman of the executive committee at a recent meeting of the Hospital staff; Dr. Carlton Street, vice-chairman; and Dr. Edwin H. Cressman, secretary. Dr. Francis J. Smith was · named as chairman of the staff; Dr. Sterrett, vice-chairman; and Dr. Harry C. Hessdorfer. secretary.
"As chairman ?f the Committee for the propos_ed new National Osteopathic Hospital, ;v-h1Ch wt; and the profession need badly here m Washmgton, our first step, naturally, is to_ ha:ve many more D.O.'s practicing in the Dtstnct of Columbia. The work i" here and Washington will unquestionably be the crossroads of the world for the next ten or fifteen yea_rs. Any n;en can qualify for examination or rectproctty, and are lookino- for a t? practice, should certainly ;onsider the Dtstnct of Columbia."
Dr. Hatch, whose office is at 1818 Jefferson Place, N.W., Washington, D. C., invites inquiries from anyone interested.
Jingle bells, jangle bells, Jingle, jangle, jay, Oh what joy your Bonds will bring To us on Christmas Day!
HIS is the season of gifts-neckties, electric shaYers, a pound of coffee, military sets, auto tires, etc. All these gifts are swell, and we'd personally appreciate any of them.
But there is one gift during these wartime days that stands out 'way above all the others. It is a gift that "doesn't wear ouf'-vVar Stamps! It is a gift to your College and a loan to your Uncle Sam.
What better way is there to combine the Christmas spirit of giving and your patriotic feelings for Democracy? Your College needs your gifts for Endowment and War Stamps converted into War Bonds are the best investments for any college and particularly P.C.O.
We need not tell you again that the War Stamp Giving Drive is going over in a big, big way. The names of the Alumni and the friends of P.C.O. listed on the next page are ample evidence that the idea of War Stamp giving has. been well received.
We believe that many more of our graduates will be listed on the Honor Roll of Patriotic and Devoted Alumni.
It is the one outstanding method of helping two birds with one gift; helping the American Eagle and at the same time the do-do at 48th and Spruce Streets. (Do-do means D.O. and D.O.)
vVe don't particularly like to be asking you for money. vVe won't have to if you give regularly. To make it easier for aU of us--our Country and our College-we are putting all our "begs" in one "ask-it."
A $25.00 War Bond from each loyal and patriotic alumnus-that is our goal. Send in $18.75 in check, cash or War Stamps-we will convert your contribution into the necessary bond for endowment.
Keep them rolling in ! Let me hear from you.
Chairman, War Stam,p Albttm Committee, Sub-C 011t11tittee, Annual Giving Fund Council.
"Fan mail" for the War Bond and Stamp Album Campaign continues to pile up on the desk of Prof. Russell C. Erb, Chairman. Excerpts from some of these follow:
''It is my hope that this will really 'slap a Jap,' and in the near future give someone that extra breath that would mean saving the life of another patient in our hospital."
-Edward G. Pierce, D.O., Cladon, Pa.
''I just plumb forgot about the War Stamp Album. It has been filled and laying around here doing nobody any good, so here it is."-Leonard R. Smith, D.O., Flushing, N.Y.
"The War Stamp Album will be coming along shortly." -Paul H. Hatch, D.O., Washington, D. C.
"Idea both sound and patriotic."-Robert W. Barrett, D.O., M. D., Lexington, Mass.
"It certainly is a painless method. isn't it ?''-Edward S. Prescott, D.O Potsdam, N. Y.
"I am very happy to make this small contribution toward the present and future welfare of P.C.O."-William 0. Kingsbury, D.O., New York.
"It has been a pleasure to do this for P.C.O."-D. Lamson Beach, D.O., West Hartford, Conn.
"A very sensible idea, both patriotic and a good investment for an up-and-coming institution."-Samuel E. Taylor, D.O., Midland, Mich.
"It's licking those stamps that gets me down! They taste horrible."-Henrietta Roome, D.O., New York.
"Believe me, it is a pleasure to have been able to fulfill my pledge."-Alice Chase, D.O., Spring Valley, N. Y.
"Glad to do it. Best wishes for success."-Dr. Howard B. Herdeg, Buffalo, N. Y.
"My sincere hope is that the campaign will be a great success."-Dr. J. L. Lebow, Philadelphia.
"Best of luck to you !''-Dr. W. D. Lumley, Prospect Harbor, Me.
Dr. Donald K. Acton Jenkintown, Pa 1926 Dr. Norman Laughton Elizabethtown, Pa. 1929 Dr. B. F. Adams W. Hartford, Conn 1931 Dr. Abraham Levin Philadelphia, Pa. 1935 Dr. Sidney J. Adelman Somerville, Mass. 1934 Dr. H. S. Liebert Richmond, Va. 1927 Dr. R. C. Ammerman S".varthmore, Pa. 1928 Dr. Paul T. Lloyd Philadelphia, Pa. 1923 Dr. W. Irvin Atkinson Millville, N. J. 1928 Dr. Harold 0. Lyman Philadelphia. Pa 1930 Dr. Paul Balbridge Geneva, K. Y. 1929 Dr. John M. Martin Blue Ball, Pa 1939 Dr. William Baldwin Philadelphia, Pa 1940 Dr. Arthur D. Mayer New York, N.Y 1923 Dr. Robert Barrett Lexington, :VIass. 1934 Dr. Robert McDaniel. Philadelphia, Pa. 1929 Dr. 0. Lamson Beach W. Hartford, Conn 1932 Dr. Roy J. McDowell Sharon, Pa. 1919 Dr. Lawrence G. Beal. Newark, N. J 1938 Dr. Mary R. Mentzer Bedford, Pa. 1927 Dr. Eleanor C. Beck 'vVoodbury, K. J 1938 Dr. William W. Miner Rutherford, N. ]. 1931 Dr. C. Markel Becker Winter Haven, Fla. 1934 Dr. Marion J. Norton Windsor, Vermont 1938 Dr. John H. Beckman Caldwell, N.J 1934 Dr. RichardT. Parker New Brunswick, N. J 1930 Dr. Frank A. Beidler Reading, Pa 1932 Dr. C. Petta piece Portland, Maine 1932 Dr. Frank 0. Berg :\1a!den, Mass 1931 Dr. Alice Presbrey Sterling, Utah 1924 Dr. A. Bernhard Richmond, Va 1939 Dr. William Prescott Potsdam, N. Y 1932 Dr. and Mrs. M. Blackstone Allentown, Pa 1934 Dr. William Prescott Syracuse, N. Y 1935 Dr. Beatrice Blawis Middle Falls, N. Y. 1929 Dr. W. Edward Prigger Penns Grove, N. ] . 1936 Dr. Eleanor E. Boa!. Philadelphia, Pa. 1938 Dr. John H. Pulker Denver, Col. 1938 Dr. William E. Brandt. Conshohocken, Pa. 1921 Dr. Allan B. Randall Red Bank. N. J 1925 Dr. Harold L. Bruner Philadelphia, Pa. 1938 Dr. J. H. Reid Rochester, N. Y 1931 Dr. Eugene J. Casey Binghampton, X. Y 1932 Dr. John Rogers Oshkosh, Wise
Dr. John Colvin Kingston, Pa 1927 Dr. Henrietta Roome New York, N.Y 1930
Dr. Guy S. Deming Swarthmore, Pa 1937 Dr. Joseph L. Root Philadelphia, Pa 1936
Dr. Wesley Dunnington Philadelphia, Pa. 1907 Dr. Robert Ross Syracuse, N. Y 1927 Dr. H. V. Durkee Bridgeton, N. J 1909 Drs. Raymond Ruberg and Dr. A. D. Eberly Lancaster, Pa. 1929 T. Louise Riddell Philadelphia. Pa. 1939
Dr. William A. Ellis Detroit, Mich. 1931. Dr. Thomas ]. Ryan Waterbury, Conn 1909 Dr. M. Lawrence Elwell Rochester, N. Y 1920 Dr. Charles vV. Sauter. Gardner, Mass. 1931 Dr. H. Walter Evans Philadelphia, Pa 1917 Dr. Earl Scally Philadelphia, Pa 1939
Dr. Leonard Fagan Burlington, N. J 1933
Dr. Joseph W. Fairlie Hatboro, Pa. 1939 Dr. James A. Frazer Philadelphia, Pa. 1933
Dr. Henry W. Frey !\ew York, N.Y 1935
Dr. William A. Gants .......... R. I. 1927
Dr. James Gates Bridgeton, N. J 1923
Dr. George Gerlach Lancaster, Pa. 1925
Dr. Arthur C. German Lyons, Mich 1932
Dr. Edward H. Gibbs Jackson Heights, L. I.. X. Y 1925
Dr. Daniel Gifford :Vlillville, N. J. 1934
Dr. John B. Green Pittsburgh, Pa. 1939
Dr. Marion Griswold Melrose, 1926 Dr. Chester L. Handy Providence, R. I. 1935 Dr. Stuart F. Harkness Harrisburg, Pa 1938 Dr. Henry B. Herbst. Philadelphia, Pa. 1927 Dr. H. V. Hillman !'\ew York, N. Y 1915
Dr. Harry Hochman !\ew York, N. Y 1936
Dr. Linford Hoffman Pitman, N. J 1932 Dr. Edgar 0. Holden Philadelphia, Pa. 1922
Dr. Phyllis W. Holden Rosemont. Pa 1923
Dr. Joseph Hughes Pearl River, N. Y 1937 Dr. Edith Incababian Wilmington, Del. 1935 Dr. William Ja.xheimer Forest Hills. N. Y. 1939 Mr. ]. St. George Joyce PhiladElphia, Pa.
Drs. Kenneth A. & Lillian B. Scott Providence, R. I. 1930 & 33 Dr. Walter K. Sherwin Collingdale, Pa 1936 Dr. Joseph Sikorski Wilmington, Del. 1931
The Smith Family Freeport, N. Y Dr. H. Miles Snyder Highland, Park, N. J 1930 Dr. Hilton G. Spencer Rochester, K. Y 1927 Dr. E. M. Stafford Durham, N. C 1930 Dr. George B. Stineman Harrisburg, Pa 1932 Dr. R. W. Stollery Summit, N.J 1925 Dr. Samuel E. Taylor Midland, Mich 1931 Dr. Karnig Tomajan Boston, Mass. 1930 Dr. Foster C. True Providence, R. I. 1922 Dr. A. P. Ulbrich Detroit, Mich 1937 Dr. John Ulrich Steelton, Pa. 1927 Dr. Theodore Van de Sande Toms River, )[. J 1925 Dr. George S. VanRiper New York, N. Y 1923 Dr. F. G. Webster Olean, N. Y 1938 Dr. William C. Weisbecker. Philadelphia, Pa 1927 Mrs. Alice Westerman Columbia, Pa Dr. Isabel Wilcox Atlantic City. N. ]. 1929 Dr. R. H. Wilson Carhondale, Pa. 1924 Dr. Charles F. Winton \Vilkinsburg, Pa. 1935 Dr. Charles M. Worrell Palmyra, Pa 1926 Dr. David Young Lancaster, Pa. 1937
Dr. Paul E. Young Hyannis, Mass. 1931
I., N.Y 1935 Dr. L. M. Yuninger Bird-in·Hand, Pa 1935
A \V is common sense that carries with it a definite degree of enforceability. Physicians and surgeons, peculiar to their profession, are prone to become ensnared in the complicated mesh of the law. By our definition, it follows that physicians or surgeons who do become involved in litigation are not exercising common sense continuously.
\iVhenever a physician, orally, in writing or by implication, agrees to diagnose and treat a patient, he becomes an independent contractor and the laws pertaining to contracts actively apply to him and to his subsequent actions. The implied contract pledges the physician or surgeon to treat the patient, using average or ordinary skill, due care and diligence and his best judgment. It also implies that the patient will compensate the
RUSSELL C. ERBphysician for his services. The fees need not be standardized but should be reasonable, depending on the nature of the services rendered and on the patient's ability to pay.
If, during the course of his professional acts, certain civil wrongs may be committed for which legal redress is available, such wrongs are known as torts. Torts as applying to physicians expose him to suits for malpractice. However, authorities and jurisdictions differ as to whether an action against a physician for malpractice lies on contract or in tort. The variety of legal decisions is confusing.
Malpractice, resulting in injury to the patient, comprises all acts and omissions of a physician or surgeon as such to a patient as such, which may make the physician or surgeon either civilly or criminally liable. 1 If a physician, in the course of his practice, is guilty of any dereliction of duty toward one of his patients, or fails to use proper skill and knowledge in the diagnosis or treatment
of a patient's ailment, he is guilty of malpractice. 2
1. Proof that the patient suffered damage.
2. Proof that the damage m question was caused by the physician's failure to use either average skill, average care or his best judgment.
3. Proof that the damage in question would not have been caused if the physician had used average skill, average care and his best judgment.
The burden of proof lies with the plaintiff.
If a physician decides to obligate himself to give professional service to a patient, it is assumed that treatment will be commenced within a reasonable period of time. Suppose you receive a telephone call requesting your services, you hear a recital
of the nature of the symptoms and you agree to make a professional call. The law now requires of you that you respond within a reasonable time. However, the factors that determine reasonableness of time are many and varied. For instance, a patient who complains of lumbago need not rightfully expect an immediate response, while a patient with a more serious injury or disease would naturally require a greater immediateness of response. In one case of malpractice the court held that the patient was suffering from severe injuries and that his physical state was aggravated by the malpractice of the physician. The plaintiff's wife had called the physician several times during the night, stating that her husband was suffering intense pain. The contracting physician delayed in responding to the call for eight or nine hours. The court awarded damages for the suffering caused the malpractice of undue delay. The physician did not use his best judgment in this instance.
EDITORS NOTE-The author of the accompanying article is conducting a course in Jurisprudence and Legal Medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy, where he is Associate Dean. Legal medicine, as a separate course in the osteopathic curriculum, is as utilitarian as the basic sciences. The limits of practice do not confine the osteopathic physician to the application only of his science. Practice, if it is to be successful, must come within the law. A thorough knowledge of how one's professional acts may be interpreted in the legal sense in a vi tal necessity if one is to be a successful practitioner. The physician as a professional man and because of the intimate nature of his work is more liable to legal ensnarement than probably any other class of worker. The prophylaxis of this danger lies in the thoroughness of the physician's understanding of problems in legal medicine. A progressive college prepares its students for all eventualities.
It can be seen that it is extremely important from the medico-legal standpoint to ascertain clearly the nature of the symptoms and the location of the patient before a physician accepts a case on call. Sometimes it is far safer to refuse a case than to accept and find it difficult or impossible to respond in a reasonable time.
Contrary to popular opinion, a physician is under no legal obligation to attend to or accept any case. He may refuse to do so, even if it is an emergency case and no other physician is available and even though the injured or sick person is likely to die. 4
Assuming that a physician has accepted a patient, he must by law utilize average skill, care and diligence during his treatment of the case. Note the word "average." The physician is not expected by law to be an expert; he is expected to have such knowledge and exercise such skill, care and diligence as that of the average practitioner in the same or in a similar locality. 5 Through implied contract, the physician or surgeon binds himself to exercise his skill according to his best judgment and with all reasonable care. 6 Should a method of treatment be clearly harmful, the fact that it is customarily used is no valid excuse for using it.'
Legally it is not sufficient to merely present evidence that a patient died or was injured and that a physician was negligent. Proof must be offered that the negligence of the physician had a casual connection with the patient's death or injury. 8 In some malpractice cases the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is applied. This doctrine maintains that negligence need not be proved providing the act producing the damage is such that negligence may be inferred. 9 The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is also applied in cases of damage to patients who are unconscious at the time of treatment. Under these circumstances the patient is, not qualified to testify as to what occurred during the treatment and courts cannot accept incompetent testimony.
Neglecting or abandoning a patient may bring on a malpractice suit and a physician should be extremely careful in determining when the patient is no longer in need of attention. If a physician dismisses a patient without giving reasonable notice and cause, or without due precautions, he will be liable for any damages resulting from such illegal actionY The contract relationship between physician and patient exists from the primary call until such time when the patient no longer needs the services of the physician. This is, in some instances, a difficult point to determine legally and professionally. However, professional services may be terminated by mutual consent.11 In all agreements and arrangements, legal or otherwise, it is smart for the physician to have his witness present. A nurse or a secretary is an important adjunct in this respect.
Accepting a patient or agreeing to treat a patient who is a minor or non compos mentis, without the consent of the parent or guardian may result, if dan1ages accrue, in tort action against the physician or surgeon. A surgeon cannot legally operate on a person without proper authorization and if the surgeon has been given the legal consent of a certain operation, he makes himself liable
for damages when he makes an additional operation. 12 Unauthorized surgery has been classed as technical assault and battery.
Physicians, in defense of themselves, sometimes charge or countercharge contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff. Contributory negligence can be shown when and if the patient or the attendant fails to follow the advice, instructions or directions of the physician between and during treatments. This points to the importance of a physician or surgeon being extremely careful in issuing advice,. instructions, directions and warnings. The patient or untrained attendant is not supposed by law to have a knowledge of proper medical care, nor is he supposed to be able to interpret correctly orders or directions so worded that only fellow practitioners may understand. The responsibility lies with the physician in giving clearly understood directions, but the patient is expected by law to cooperate fully with his physician in carrying out the instructions.
The medico-legal aspect of injury or disease is foreign to many physicians. The importance of this aspect. however, cannot be stressed too strongly now that physicians are participating in workmen's compensation· cases involving industrial injuries and industrial diseases. Under the workman's compensation law, the attending physician must be sure of the causal relation between the alleged injury or disease and the pathological condition requiring treatment. This is necessary in forming expert opinion in evaluating disability.
In all these medico-legal and professional relationships between physician and patient, it can be seen that judgment-good, sound judgment-is the physician's greatest forte. Our colleges expend much pedagogical force in attempting to develop skill and knowledge in future practitioners of osteopathic medicine. What are they doing to effect sound judgment in the men and women who are to become the new osteopathic physicians? Lacking judgment, they lack common sense and that is likely to cause involvement with the law, civil and criminaL
1 Abbott vs. Mayfield, 8 Kans. App. 387, 56 Pac. 327.
" Carraway vs. Graham, 218 Ala. 453, 118 So. 807.
3 DeWitt vs. Schweitzer, Ohio 163, N.E. 563.
4 Hurley vs. Eddingfield, 156 Ind. 416, 59 N.E. 1058, 53 L.R.A. 135, 83 Am. St. 198; Tomer vs. Aiken, 126 Iowa 114, 101 N.W. 769; Becker vs. Janinski, 27 Abb. N.C. 45, 15 N.Y.S. 45.
5 Woody vs. Keller (N.].L.), 148 Atl. 624; MacKenzie vs. Carman, 103 App. Div. 246, 92 N.Y.S. 1063: English vs. Free, 205 Pa. 624, 55 Atl. 777.
6 Harris vs. Fall, 177 Fed. 79, 27 L.R.A. (N.S.) 1174: Houghton vs. Dickson, 29 Col. App. 321, 155 Pac. 128, 453, 148 Atl. 677.
7 Ault vs. Hall. 119 Ohio St. 422, 164 N.E. 518, 60 A.L.R. 12ts.
s Mills vs. Richardson, 125 Maine 12, 130 Atl. 353; State vs. Housekeeper, 70 Md. 162, 16 Atl. 382, 2 L.R.A. 587, 14 Am. St. 340; Toy vs. Mackintosh, 222 Mass. 430, llO N.E. 1034, Ann. Cas. 1918 C, 1188.
9 Palmer vs. Humiston, 87 Ohio St. 401, 101 N.E. 283, 45 L.R.A. (N.S.) 640; Davis vs. Kerr, 239 Pa. 351. 86 Atl. 1007, 46 L.R.A. (N.S.) 611; Evans vs. Munro, (R.I.) 83. Atl. 82.
10 Nelson vs. Farrish. 143 Minn. 368. 173 N.W. 715.
11 Gerkin vs. Plimpton, 62 App. Div. 35, 70 N.Y.S. 793.
12 Schloendor:ff vs. Society of New York Hospital, 211 N.Y. 125, 105 N.E. 92, 52 L.R.A. (N.S.) 505, Ann. Cas. 1915 C, 581; Francis vs. Brooks, 24 Ohio App. 136, 156 N.E. 609; Browning vs. Hoffman, 90 V•l. Va. 568, 111 S.E. 492.
JOINING with other osteopathic educational centres of the country, the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy celebrated the Fiftieth Anniversary of Osteopathic Education in the United States with impressive ceremonies in the College Auditorium on October 3.
The College was fortunate in having for its Semi-Centenary speaker the Rev. Joseph M. Dougherty, O.S.A., Dean of the School of Science of Villanova, who delivered a masterful address, in which he paid tribute to Osteopathy in general, but to the achievements of P.CO. in particular.
A dignity in keeping with the occasion marked the anniversary exercises. The auditorium was crowded to capacity, with representation from the administration, alumni, faculty and student body. Dr. Francis A. Finnerty, Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the College, pres,ided in the unavoidable absence of John G. Keck, President.
The ceremonies were preceded by an academic procession. The invocation was asked, and the benediction pronounced, by the Rev. Col. C. B. DuBell, College Chaplain. In presenting Father Dougherty, Dr. Finnerty referred to him as ··wonderfully interested in, and sympathetic to our institution.''
In his address Father Dougherty called upon the prospective osteopath:c physicians, in the student body to emulate the spirit of self-sacrifice shown by our armed forces in the combat areas. and not to seek personal gain or self -aggrandizement in their profession. He said:
'·Let every student here realize that his is a God-given gift to care for the sick and to alleviate human sufferings. Let each one cherish this gift as a sacred trust and be convinced that there are many, many things in this world infinitely more precious than gain or fame or personal accomplishment.··
An address which evidenced studious research' was delivered by Dean Edgar 0. Holden on "An Historical Sketch of Osteopathic Education in Philadelphia." Dr. Holden paid tribute to the pioneering leaders of P.C.O. and to its outstanding alumni.
"The Philadelphia College of Osteopathy," he declared, "was founded for osteopathic education, exists for osteopathic education, and finds in its daily pursuance one of the noblest opportunities for public service."
Dr. Otterbein Dressler, Chairman of the Semi-Centenary Committee, reviewed the development of osteopathic education in an address on "A Brief History of Osteopathy."
"The objective of any school of medicine,'' he said in conclusion, "must
be a biological system of therapeutics. \Vho cares what name it is called? Let us once and for all have done with the selfish motives that quibble about priorities in scientific discovery and the pettiness of personal recognition that has sullied the character of physicians throughout the history of medicine."
Dr. Ira \V. Drew, former Congressman, presented to the College a tablet in tribute to the members of the faculty and student body now serving in the armed forces. The "Roll of Honor" will be placed in the College Library.
An unique feature of the celebration was the decision by the student body to forego a dinner which had been planned and to substitute therefor a mass donation of blood to the Red Cross.
Scene in the College Auditorium on October 3, when the College commemorated the Semi-Centenary of Osteopathic Education.. In the inset, upper left, is the Rev. Joseph M. Dougherty, Dean of Science at Villanova College, and principal speaker; and upper right, Dr. Francis A. Finnerty, Vice-President. who presided. Dean Holden is shown delivering his address.
ERE is a rnuch talked about, but little understood, problem, definitely in the line of College Administration responsibilities and yet the responsibility as well, of every alumnus.
This is not peculiarly so of the Osteopathic Colleges. Every college and university in the land depends on its Alumni as -vvell as the organized efforts of appointed administrators to have ''freshmen'' ready for each opening date.
There is so much that enters into this acquisition of new student bodies that the subject deserves very careful consideration and most surely loyal cooperation.
Many elements enter into the sum total known as a Freshman Enrollment. What are the functions of sport scouts? Primarily to find men to make up winning teams. \iVhat do winning teams do for student enrollment? The answer is ob-
vious-students want to attend the colleges chosen by outstanding athletes.
Then there's the Alumni Regional Method. The names of prospective students are sent to Alumni living in or near the prospect's home locale. The Alumnus is usually a successful man in his chosen career-filled to overflowing with the traditions of his Alma Mater and he really presents beautiful first-hand evidences of the claims of his college-he makes an ideal visiting guidance director -the prospect and his family can't help but be impressed with the thoroughness and cordiality of the college that inspires its ·Alumni to interview prospective students!
There are many, many such means used by collegesall indirect, but nevertheless effective, methods but in the main, the business of student selection and student enrollment is not left up to the Administration. The Alumni want to have a say in what kind of timber is being selected for future Alumni. You see there is something in all this that has to do with respect for one's profession and love for the College that trained one for that profession.
On the Administration's side of the responsibility-it is not as sirnple as answering letters. sending requested catalogues and literature. Much, much more has to be clone. Particularly true is this of Osteopathy and of our College.
Sometimes the preliminary work presents such a diffi-
cult problem that it would seem the easier way to let it drift and count on the law of averages, but nothing really worth while has ever been accomplished that way, so \Ve must carry on along the rougher road.
Do you know what it means to have a representative of Osteopathy invited to lecture before a group of pre-medical students? Quite definitely the colleges do not request such lectures. No, it means the finding of channels of contact which in turn will make it possible for such lectures to be spoken for by one or another of the pre-medical societies in the chosen college.
What else does it mean? It means the choosing of both the speaker and the subject and all the finesse that is necessary to present to the audience the evidence of a
faculty background equal to the college in question. And thus far the real effort is not at all for new students--the objective is to reveal to the educators in those colleges the high standards of requirements, the quality of the educational content of the curricula comprising the study of Osteopathy.
After all the preliminary work is done, after all the ethical means for publicizing the college, and its faculty and curricula, there still remains the physical side of enrollment. Every communication must receive personal and pertinent attention, and that means that approximately three letters must be sent to each inquirer until it is determined whether or not the inquiry has rnerit for immediate consideration. Then comes the routine of acquiring transcripts of credits, references, selection based on background and integrity, acquiring qualifying certificates, induction with the Class. Sounds simple, doesn't it-yet it represents at least 40 man hours per student.
Have you considered the handicaps and barriers that arise in this process ? Just an hour or two lacking in preprofessional credits and a whole new "set-up'' for that particular student must be engineered. Perhaps all he needs is a summer school course, maybe a review of secondary school credits, but whatever his case indicates it becomes a separate problem.
Then, since 1940, there has been the Draft to present another and decidedly definite handicap. At the close of
our enrolling period this year we had146 applicants-of this number at least 36 had to be rejected because of aptitude and scholastic shortages-of the 116 remaining 50 were called by their Draft Boards, so we opened a Freshman Year v.;ith 68 matriculants.
What became of the work of visiting 35 colleges throughout the year-or the 40 man hours per prospect in the evaluation of credits-the three or four letters per prospect-the routine effort that comes under the head of Administration responsibility? Lost? Not at all-this can all be charged to Public Relations and Professional W elfare. This all redounds to spreading the knowledge concerning Osteopathy and its influence in the world.
This isn't all so much reading matter for our Alumni-it is a call to loyalty and duty. If P.C.O. means anything at all to you, you will want others to attend your Alma Mater. Yours isn't the only college that has had problems to solve down through the years. Every college has the same problems in lesser or greater degrees, but yours is a college that has carried on despite handicaps which were almost disastrous. Yours is the college that gave you the degree that makes it possible for you to be whatever you are today as far as the profession is concerned. What you are personally, you are through ancestry, background and personal discipline.
But if you think it an evidence of intellectual capacity to be able to advise a friend where to get a good suit of clothes or a choice meal, or tires, or whatnot, then you should realize that you are identifying that capacity when you show satisfaction and pride in your Alma Mater, particularly when you show enough interest in a youth who seeks your advice just as you sought advice-Remember? You, too, have a responsibility unless your philosophy is that Osteopathy can die with you. You, too, are responsible for the continuous growth of your profession. Ever hear a Yale man say "So What?" when comparisons were being made? Yale-Harvard-University of Pennsylvania, M.I.T., etc., all can count on loyal Alumni to send in recommendations on worthy prospective studentssons of graduates or sons of friends of graduates. Are you less loyal than they? Does Osteopathy mean less to you than medicine means to those graduates?
You, too, have a responsibility to yourself, your Alma Mater and your Profession!
Bates College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Brooklyn College 10
Catholic University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
City College of New York. . . . . . . 2
Elizabethtown College . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Franklin and Marshall College. . . 1
George Washington University.... 1
Grove City College . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
John's University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
LaSalle College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Lebanon Valley College. . . . . . . . . . 2
Long Island University . . . . . . . . . 7
Muhlenberg College . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
New York University 3
Pennsylvania State College. . . . . . . 1
Rutgers University 3
Saint Joseph's College . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Shenandoah College . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Temple University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
University of Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . 1
University of Delaware . . . . . . . . . 1
University of Maryland . . . . . . . . . 1
University of Pennsylvania. 5
Upsala College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Villanova College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Washington Square University. . . 2
West Virginia University . . . . . . . . 1 Xaviour University . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 •
Two years 18
Three years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Four years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A.B. degree 15 B.S. degree 18 M.A. degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 M.S. degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
As the DrGES'r went to press the Osteopathic Hospital was entering the final phases of an intensive maintenance campaign for $35,000 for expansion, improvements, and the general "gearing of the hospital to war-time den1an ds. ''
vVith hospital staff members cooperating in the campaign, and direct appeals made to patrons and friends of the institution, the drive, in last reports, was making substantial progress.
Louis G. Schacterle, secretary of the College and Hospital Corporation, is directing the campaign, assisted by the following committee:
Dr. Carlton Street, chairman; Albert ]. Taylor, secretary; Thomas W. Anderson, Walter T. Andrews, Dr. William Barnhurst, Dr. James M. Eaton, Dr. H. Walter Evans, Dr. Edgar 0. Holden, John G. Keck, Dr. Herman Kohn, Dr. ]. Ernest Leuzinger, Dr. D. S. B. Pennock, Dr. C. Haddon Soden, Dr. H. Willard Sterrett, Dr. Karnig Tomajan, Herbert P. W eierman, Frank P. Will, and Miss Margaret Peeler.
From both Dr. Chester D. Swope, Chairman of the Committee on Public Relations, A.O.A., and Dr. Francis A. Finnerty, President of the New Jersey Osteopathic Association, comes, simultaneously, information concerning a new ruling on the status of osteopathic physicians.
The ruling was a Man Power Commission decree which holds that osteopathic physicians .should be deferred from military service if Selective Service believes their services to be sufficiently in demand by civilian communities.
Paul V. McNutt, Man Power Chairman, made the ruling in a letter to Dr. Finnerty, in reply to a communication in which Dr. Finnerty expressed the desire of osteopaths to participate more fully in the war effort, either as commissioned officers in the Medical Corps of the Army or Navy, or on the home front.
Dr. Swope forwarded a memorandum from the J\Ian Power Commission, addressed to the various state chairmen of the Procurement and Assignment Service, warning them to keep "hands off" selective service classification of osteopathic registrants.
The Man Power Commission's policy reinforces the stand previously taken by Major-General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director, who has spoken vigorously in favor of the deferment of osteopathic physicians, at least until provision is made for commissioning them as medical officers in the armed forces.
Dr. Swope also forwarded to presidents and secretaries of State osteopathic associations a more recent action on the status of osteopathic physicians, this time the approval by the President of the National Defense Appropriation Bill, which specifically provides fo-r the appointment of osteopathic graduates as medical officers in the Navy.
Section 102 of Title 1 of the law, relating to the Navy Department says: "The appropriations for the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1943 shall be available for the pay of commissioned medical officers who are graduates of reputable schools of osteopathy.
"Bill" Brandt, P.C.O., 1921, now manager of the Service Bureau of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, with headquarters in New York, reminds the osteopathic profession that it should be proud of the World Championship achievement of the St. Louis Cardinals because Dr. Harrison \Veaver was in charge of their physical efficiency.
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The Osteopath of yesterday is the Osteopathic Physician of today. Even the old-timers are not protestmg-too loud.
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Osteopathic Medicine to the fore!
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D.O.-used to mean ''Dig On." That seemed to lack wartime appeal. Some of our "fair-sailing" brothers interpret it as ''DIVE OVER"-to the enemy camp.
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Both sides of the Onestion of Medicine and Osteopathy = the A.M.A. and the A.M.A. Yon got it. That's right.
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You can deprecate Andrew Taylor Still but you can't Destroy the Truth.
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Famous Life Lines-the Spinal Column . . . Osteopathic Research . The Endowment Fund of P.C.O.
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After the \V ar I am planning to By the way, just what am I planning?
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We are being weighed on the scale of Osteopathic Worth. There is such a thing as an Educational Balance. But look out for the hand on the scale.
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Only an informed profession can be an invincible profession.
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You just can't "stump" the individual thinker.
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WHY, Research? To make strong the thing that will make Osteopathy strong. Research is not just around the corner-it is what you make it.
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Yours for the same traditional Osteopathy you have always revered.
NED LOWE.
New books recently added to the College Library are : "Introduction to Gastro-Enterology" -Alvarez.
"Treatment in General Practice"Beckman.
''Clinical Parasitology"-Craig and Faust.
"Textbook of Gynecology''-Cnrtis. "Obstetrical Practice"-Beck. "Neuro-Anatomy"-Mettler.
''Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics"-Goodman and Gilman
"Clinical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine"-De Rivas.
''Textbook of Snrgery"-Christopher. "Anatomy of the Human Body"Gray.
"Clinical Cardiology"-Dressler. ''Textbook of Clinical Pathology"Kracke and Parker.
According to Prof. Russell C. Erb, Associate Dean and Professor of Chemistry, we coffee drinkers are all ''dope'' fiends .
"The coffee shortage," says Prof. Erb. ''has confronted the country with the startling fact that we are slaves to the caffeine habit. If we do not get our morning coffee it is not the taste we miss, but the stimulating effect of a seductive. but powerful drug."
Professor Russell C. Erb. Associate Dean of P.C.O is much in demand as a speaker at service clubs and other organizations.
On October 6 Prof. Erb addressed the Bala-Cynwyd-Narberth Rotary Club on ''The History of Osteopathy." Other recent addresses were on "Protection Against Gas," before the Whitemarsh Township Auxiliary Police, and "The Treatment of War Gas Casualties," before a group of Conshohocken, Pa., physicians, dentists and nurses.
The College Library expresses its appreciation of 230 recent book donations from the following:
-Dr. Edgar 0. Holden, Prof. Russell C. Erb, Dr. Frederick A. Long, Dr. W. B. Gould, Dr. Mary Hough, Dr. Edward G. Drew, Dr. Alice Presbry, Dr. Robert M. Colburn, Dr. Paul P. Smith, Dr. Ernest M. Hunt, Dr. Julia E. Foster. Dr. Paul Baldridge, Miss Margaret Peeler, R.N., Miss Ruth Doggett, R.N., Miss Daly, R.N., S. J. Candas, freshman, Mrs. W. Jaxheimer, C. B. Gudebrod, Mrs. Mormann, L. Friedman, Mr. Sweade, Gastro-Enterological Society, and Philadelphia Inqmrer.
I'm sick and tired of rumors, They take up too much time, They haven't any reason, And much less any rhyme.
They tell us that the draft will get All students in a year, That medicine, gone socialized, \iVill catch us in the rear.
They tell us that the Army men Are harboring slight suspicions, About the Navy liking us To give us all commissions.
They tell us of a dandy school Selling M.D.'s by the dozen, Designed to make lieutenants Of uncle, nephew, cousin.
They tell us of inspections, Rump meetings, bureaucratic, No anemia to these ntmors, They're all so darned emphatic.
They tell us that our higher-ups, Are sitting on their fat, That others could do a better job, If they could come to bat.
They're coming by the hundreds, These rumors thick and fast, I wonder what we'll talk about When Hitler's shot his last.
They're like our buxom women With girdles under ration, Bouncing through this land of ours Strictly without foundation.
So go peddle all your rumors, They leave my mind quite stunned, The roomer that I most admire Is that ''blue-eyed baby blonde" !
Dr. Otterbein Dressler and Louis G. Schacterle. Admissions Director. visited Albright College on the ev'ening of November 4 and were cordially received. Dr. Dressler spoke on "Mechanical Principles Underlying Disease."
The Women's Auxiliary of the Osteopathic Hospital ushered in the Fall season of activities with one of its major undertakings of the year-a card party and bazaar, held on October 20 in the Assembly Building of the Woman's Club of Germantown. Proceeds will go to the hospital.
Three outstanding figures in medicine, pharmacy, and chemistry were the speakers at a faculty meeting in the College on the evening of October 27.
They were Dr. Arthur Osol, Dean of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; Dr. Joseph S. Hepburn, Professor of Chemistry, Hahnemann Medical College; and Dr. Damasco De Rivas, Professor of Tropical Diseases in the Graduate School, University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Osol spoke on ''War-Time Instruction" ; Dr. Hepburn, on "Scientific Papers," and Dr. De Rivas, on "The Teaching of Tropical Diseases."
On another page of this issue there appears a photograph of the P.C.O. Roll of graduates in the armed services.
The College has tried to rnake this roll complete, but we have reason to believe that not all graduates in service have notified us.
We therefore request that all alumni, on entering the armed services, or on the receipt of promotion. notify us promptly, giving full particulars so that the Honor Roll may be kept accurate and up to date.
Responding to a request for his lecture on ''Mechanical Principles Underlying Disease," Dr. Otterbein Dressler, pathologist, addressed a group of sixty pre-medical cadets of Virginia Military Institute on October 30.
Preceding the lecture, Dr. Dressler and Louis G. Schacterle. Director of Admissions. entertained at dinner Lieutenant Robert Carroll, head of the Department of Biology; Cadet Reeves, president of the Virginia Academy of Science; Cadet Marston, and Dr. Dickerman, a P.C.O. graduate, class of 1934, of Staunton, Va.
Our College is indeed honored by this great Southern institution in the reception granted our representatives and the enthusiastic approval given by the students to Dr. Dressler's lectures. This marks the third visit to V.M.I., and a return engagement was urged by both Lieut. Carroll and the students.
"The Prevention of the Common Cold'' will be the subject of an address to be delivered by Dr. George S. Rothmeyer, Professor of Anatomy, before the pupils of the Lower Merion Junior High School at noon on November 18, at Ardmore, Pa.
This device for the resuscitation of new·bom babies was presented to the Osteopathic Hospital on behalf of the Junior Aid by Mrs. James M. Eaton, president. Receiving the resusci· Ialor on behalf of the hospital is Dr. Francis E. Gruber, Associate Professor of Obstetrics, as Miss M. Frances Bond, nurse, looks on.
The E. & J. Resuscitator, Inhalator and Aspirator is especially designed for !he resuscita· lion of the new·bom. Its automatic breathing device gives an added margin of safely for many doubtful cases. The combination of the machine is of such a nature that it eliminates the use of three separate pieces of equipment. The machine is particularly needed in difficult deliver· ies or for the resuscitation of prematures. II actually performs the function of normal respiration for asphyxiated or anesthetized infants.
Dr. Carl Fischer, outstanding osteopathic physician and tennis star, was a tennis pupil of the famous "Bill" Tilden, who in turn became one of Osteopathy's staunchest sup· porters. Dr. Fischer is a P.C.O. man, Class of '25.
Dr. Otterbein Dressler, who has been supervising the donation of blood to the Red Cross, urges both faculty and students to continue their contributions to the Blood Bank. A considerable number of faculty and students already has given blood. Those desiring to make the contribution should first make an appointment by calling Mrs. Herr at the Red Cross Blood Donor Service at 1424 Walnut Street, telephone, PEN. 3969.
Raymond Goldstein, P.C.O. senior, has called the DIGEsT's attention to an advertising card in the trolley-cars which has attracted wide attention. The ad inquires : "If the letter 'T' were added, and the letters in the word 'Osteopath' were re-arranged, what article used by young and old would be named?" The answer is "TOOTHPASTE."
Dr. W. Le Verne Holcomb, '27, of Buffalo, N. Y., has been indulging his hobby as a hunter. He and AI Zahorsky, one of Buffalo's top-flight wing shots, got six partridges in an hour recently. Zahorsky killed three grouse out of four flushed. Dr. Holcomb, hunting with him, dropped two birds.
"Just use the fish, which will be more in· te,resting," WTote Dr. George W. Gerlach, 1925, 545 N. Duke Street, Lancaster, Pa., when the DIGEST asked him for his photograph in connection with his election to the Board of Trustees of P.C.O.
Believe it or not, in all of these long years, forty-four, in the history of the College there have only been 16 Smiths graduated. That should be a record for "low." Yes, there have been 12
Browns, 11 Davises, 11 Millers, 10 J ohnsons. The J oneses fell far short of ration card level--only 5. Way above them were the Wilsons, with 8; the Evans, with 7; the Maxwells and the Moores, with 6.
Names that are outstanding, although surprisingly limited in numbers were the Snyders, with 4, and several others, as the Thorburns, the Youngs, the Gants, the Prescotts, the Longs, the Drews, the Lewises, and the Fischers, with 4.
Consanguinely, there appears 1 English, 2 Frenches, 2 Germans-you will notice that the Germans are outnumbered. With due respect to Charlie McCarthy, we have had 2 Coffees-1 Sweet, 1 Sour.
Miss Rita Draper, columnist of the Camden Courier-Post Newspapers, recently visited P.C.O. upon invitation of the Public Relations Department. Her impressions of Osteopathy and of P.C.O. appeared in her column October 16.
"Osteopathy," wrote Miss Draper, "is an old, old idea, and yet a new one. Being comparatively recently brought to public notice, it has entered the same struggle for recognition through which all new ideas are destined to go--a sort of baptism of fire."
"Briefly, the osteopath of today might be described as a medical man with a new idea. He considers the body in the light of a delicately adjusted piece of machinery, every part of which must be where it belongs and must work as it should, if the product and output of the machine are to meet the standard.
This is wartime. Lines have been drawn. There is not a chance to wm as an independent school of the healing art, unless we rise to the occasion. We are not indispensable. This profession must realize that it is a minority group. We have not as yet proved our case. We have been pleading a cause evidently without adequate briefs based on facts, data and figures. There is no such thing as stopping or "laying off' at this juncture. But if we keep on knocking at official doors we must have in our possession bulging portfolios containing irrefutable information concerning scientific and technical work well done. The osteopathic profession must realize-111ust be made to realize that their support morally and financially is an indispensable factor in the picture of the eventual universal recognition of osteopathy as a school of the healing art. There is no other road. Much of the way to the paved is through comprehension of the need for a greatly intensified program of osteopathic research. Just about everybody in any line of endeavor seems to appreciate this necessity-this mother of understanding, resolve and resourcefulness at any price! Why cannot we appreciate this cranny, in our case?
The annual convention of the New York State Society, which was to have been held in Rochester on Sept. 25 and 26, was re-allocated to New York on October 2, 3, and 4 to enhance a state-wide celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Osteopathic Education.
The fiftieth anniversary dinner was held in the ballroom of the Hotel Commodore. More than 500 were in attendance, and, under the leadership of Dr. Thomas R. Thorburn as toastmaster, a most inspiring program was presented. Dr. George W. Riley, Past President of the American Osteopathic spoke on, "The History of OsteopathiC Education in New York State."
Dr. William Mather Lewis, President of Lafayette College, and Dr. Otterbein Dressler, of P.C.O., were the principal speakers. Dr. Lewis' address, "The Challenge of Today," was cast over a nation-wide hook-up. Dr. Dressler spoke on "Fifty Years of Osteopathic Education." The Hon. Bruce Barton addressed the meeting on the subject "The World Is Sick." Donald J. Hardenbrook, President of the New York Osteopathic Clinic, described the clinic's work.
Other speakers included Dr. Melvin B. Hasbrouck, President, New York State Osteopathic Society; Dr. Lawrence S. Robertson, Dr. R. MacFarlane Tilley, and Dr. Russell C. McCaughan.
The annual convention of the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Association was held in Pittsburgh on September 25 and 26. It was one of the best, in point of attendance and interest, in recent years.
Every committee gave evidence of taken its work seriously, particularly so in the matter of publicity and entertainment. To the Proo-ram Chairman, Dr. Harold Miller unstinted praise for the of the arrangements for speakers and topics. A lively interest was shown in every phase of the convention. and its success, in spite of many war'-time restrictions. has made it a memorable affair. ·
Dr. H. L. Orth-the President for this year-the DIGEST offers every good wish, and to Dr. H. Walter Evans -president during the past year-we offer our congratulations upon so successful an administration.
Dr. A. C. Baugher, president of Elizabethtown College, and Dr. 0. J.
Snyder, founder of P.C.O., were the principal speakers at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Osteopathic Education by the Lancaster County Osteopathic Society and the Women's Auxiliary on October 3 at the Hotel Brunswick, in Lancaster, Pa. Dr. Baugher's subject was "Pre-Osteopathic Education."
The observance was marked by a dmner, during which the guests listened to a radio address by Dr. William Mather Lewis, president of Lafayette College, which was given over a nationwide network.
Dr. L. C. Mook acted as toastmaster. At the speakers' table were Dr. and Mrs. Mook. Dr. and Mrs. 0. J. Snyder, Dr. Warren A. Sherwood who gave the invocation; Dr. and' Mrs. David Young, Dr. and Mrs. George Gerlach, Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Kegereis, Dr. and Mrs. Baugher, and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Smith.
Decorations were carried out in the patriotic therrie. Dr. Elwood W. Smith was chairman of the dinner committee and Mrs. D. G. Young chairman of the auxiliary committee. The function was also in observance of the opening of the new Lancaster County Osteopathic Hospital.
Drs. J. Ernest Leuzinger, Edward G. Drew, James M. Eaton. H. Willard Sterrett and John C. Walsh took an active part in the 15th annual Clinical Assembly of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons at Kansas City. October 10 to 15. ·
Dr. Leuzinger spoke on "Management of Bronchogenic Cancer" ; Dr. Eaton, on "Low Back Problems and Disc Lesions," and Dr. Walsh. on "Continuous Spinal Anesthesia," with discussion by Dr. Drew, who also took part in a symposium on "War Injuries."
The Philadelphia County Osteopathic Society, of which Dr. Carl Fischer is president, is to be felicitated upon the high-grade programs presented at its meetings.
For the November 19 meetino- of the society Captain R. C. U.S.N., will be the principal speaker. His subject will be "First Aid in Chemical Warfare."
At a previous meeting-a symposium on ''Foot Conditions"-the speakers, all P.C.O. men, were Dr. C. Haddon Soden, Dr. William L. Tannenbaum and Dr. Ernest F. Ruzicka. '
A recent distinguished visitor to P.C.O. was a man who, perhaps more than anyon_e _else, has been responsible for an_d out progressiVe osteopathic educatwnal polic!e?. He is Dr. John E. Rogers, pract!Clng osteopathic physician, of Oshkosh, Wis., and Past President of the American Osteopathic Association.
Dr. Rogers, returnino- home from a in Washingtrm, paid a visit to his colleague and friend of lon.,.. standing, Dr. Edgar 0. Holden, of P.C.O., to whom he paid tribute as "one of the outstandino- men iri osteopathic education." "'
Dr. Rogers expressed his pleasure and g:atification over the many changes and Improvements at P.C.O. since Spring Garden Street days.
The most pressing need in Osteopathy today, Dr. Rogers declared, is "continuation of emphasis upon osteopathic education."
"Everything else, in and about the profession, is built on the foundation of osteopathic education," he said.
By a peculiar coincidence Dr. Rogers was born on October 3. the date of the founding of the country's first osteopathic educational institution.
Cunningham, recently-appomted Curator of the College Museum, reports that 66 new specimens have been added to the collection in the last two months, bringing the total number of specimens up to an even 300.
Dr. Esther Anna Flom, '42 and Dr. Abe Guberman, '42, will be married on December 6 at 4 p.m. at Beth El Temple, Front and ·wiconisco streets, Harrisburg, Pa.
Doing post-graduate work at P.C.O. are:
Dr. Anne Marshall, Kirksville graduate of 1913, who has been living in Florida and who is now doing general work
Dr. Eugene E. Ruby, A.S.O. graduate, 1915, who is doing post-graduate work in cardiology.
Fifth-year graduate work is being taken by Murray J. Backes, Harry E. Binder, John W. Sheetz, Jr., Raymond Ruberg, and Elliott R. Disbrow, Jr.
Approximately 40,000 persons were treated in P.C.O. clinics in the last year.
In the hospital 4,792 persons received treatment for a total of 37,039 patient davs.
:1\pproximately 500 babies were born in the institution, while clinic physicians attended at 372 home deliveries.
Approximately 5,000 persons were g1ven accident and emergency treatment.
From Dr. John E. Rogers, Past President of A.O.A., comes to John Tully, editor of the 1942 "Synapsis," high commendation for the excellent quality and character of the year-book Says Dr. Rogers:
"It is really the best thing I have seen relating to any osteopathic institution. It gives the entire story You and your staff should feel very happy over the work that this has accomplished for the profession I think this publication will be used effectively."
Thirty-two nurses aides of the Navy League Service have begun volunteer duty at the Osteopathic Hospital.
Nattily uniformed, they have been assigned to duties in wards and private rooms under the direction of Miss Margaret Peeler, Directress of Nurses.
On Armistice Day, November 11 last, an anniversary was reached 111 College history.
Thirteen years before, on November 11, 1929, the College occupied the present quarters.
Two members of the Executive Faculty of P.C.O. won signal honors at the recent convention of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons at Kansas City. They are Dr. H. Willard Sterrett, Professor of Urology, and Dr. Edward G. Drew, Professor of Gynecology and Clinical Surgery.
Dr. Sterrett was elected a Fellow in the American College, while both Dr. Sterrett and Dr. Drew were elected to the Board of Governors of that organization. Dr. Sterrett's honor was in recognition of his outstanding work in the field of urology.
Morgan W. von Lohr's new address is: Ph. M. 2/c, U. S. Navy Service SchooL Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich., c/o Dispensary.
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Lawrence S. Robertson is President of the Osteopathic Society of the City of New York for the second successive year.
Frank P. Dobbins, of New York City, is a Captain in the Eng. Amphibian Command, Camp Edwards, Massachusetts.
Alice Chase writes enthusiastically of her work as Directing Physician of the Health-Rest, Oakbrook Spring Valley, N. Y.
E. Campbell Berger, New York City, is in the service. His address is Pvt 64th Station Hospital, Fort Jackson: S.C.
W. E. Rees, Cleveland, Ohio, is Instructor of Physical Training, PreFlight SchooL U. S. Navy, Chapel Hill, N. C. 1932
R. Arthur Fish is in charge of the staff at the New York Osteopathic Clinic as Board of Management Chairman.
L. R. Farley is on the surgical staff of the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine, Portland, Me., and writes he has confined his practice to surgery since J anuary. 1939. His new address is, 5 Deering Street, Portland, Me.
• 1935
A. A. Golden, ·wilmington, Del., is now Ph. M. 2/c, U. S. Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.
Samuel H. Scott's new address is: Ph. M. 2/c, U. S. Naval Air Station Disp., Floyd Bennett Field. New York.
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Dr. Barrie Lyman Davenport, Jr., and Dr. Mary Mowry Davenport (Chicago College) announce the birth of a son, Lyman Alan Davenport, on September 29, 1942. Dr. Davenport's address is 1180 Smith Street, Providence, Rhode Island.
Clarence Edwin Long, Jr., of Buffalo, N. Y., is a 2nd Lt., Med. Administrative Corps, and is at present assigned as Asst. Personnel Adjutant to Med. Dept., Station Complement, Station Hospital No. 1, Fort Bragg, N. C.
Marvin E. Blumberg 1s m the United States Army. His address is: Sgt. Med. Det., 111 th Infantry, Fort Monroe, Va.
Lewis B. Schneider's new address is: Cpl. 444th Bomb Sq., 320th Bomb Gp., AAB No. 2, Lakeland, Fla.
Herman Caplan, Philadelphia, 1s a private in the Army Med. Det. Dispensary, 1301 st Service Unit, New Cumberland, Pa.
Loren G. Woodley, Beach Lake, Pa., is now Private, Med. Det., 166th Field Artillery, Camp Sutton, N. C.
J. Irving Schwartz is now in the United States Navy. His address is: Ph. M. 2/c, U. S. Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.
Dr. Robert R. Brown announces the opening of offices for general practice at 79 Trapelo Road, Cushing Square, Belmont, Mass.
S. L. Bailey, 551 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. C., died recently. Dr. Bailey was Associate in Histology and Embryology for the academic year 1927-1928. Howard R. Manchester, '28, of Plainfield, N. J., at Philadelphia. aged 45.
John W. Drew, P.C.O., '39, son of Dr. Ira W. Drew, iSI now in Northern Ireland, where he was recently promoted from First Lieutenant (Reserve) to commanding officer of his company.
Captain Drew was called to active duty on January 28, 1942. He was · placed with the Armored Force at Fort Knox, Ky. After graduating from the Armored Force Replacement School he was assigned to duty with the 47th Medical Battalion. He served with the medical unit for two months and then was transferred to the 13th Armored Regiment, Maintenance Company. With his division he was then transferred to Fort Dix, N. J.
From Fort Dix his divis,ion moved in May. A cable several weeks later revealed that he was in Northern Ireland. Since his arrival there he was appointed aide to the leader of Poland, Premier General Sikorski, during the General's visit to our troops stationed there.
Captain Drew prepared a new method for evacuating wounded men from tanks, earning commendation.
JOHN G. KECK was re-elected President of the Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy, at the recent annual meeting. Mr. Keck also is President of the Board of Directors of the Osteopathic Hospital. Dr. Francis A. Finnerty, of Montclair, N. ]., was elected Vice- President. New members elected are Dr. George Ill. Gerlach, of Lancaster, Pa., and Dr. Carl Fischer, of Philadelphia. Louis G. Schacterle was re-elected as Secretary, and John H. Schenck. Treasurer.
The Honor Roll of P.C.O. men in the nation's service, reproduced on this page, contains these names, as of October 3, the day it was presented to the College :
Rob. B. \Vomble, Jr., '42 -killed in service
Joseph C. Snyder. '36 John W. Drew. '39
Lester Eisenberg, '38 Nathan Goldstein. '45
Daniel B. Bond. '42 :VIilton Carr, '45
Martin L. Krieger, '45 George J. Borgman, '44 Joseph Connelly, '43 Gus. L. Schulz, Jr., '41
Robert B. Mayer, '45 Anthony Gagliano, '45 Harold Levin, '45 Marvin Blumberg, '39 J. Irving Schwartz, '41 :\L Vv. Von Lohr, '28
Herm. P. Zaehringer, '37 E. Campbell Berger, '31 Herman Caplan, '40 Frank P. Dobbins, '29 A. A. Golden, '35 W. E. Rees, '31 Le•vis B. Schneider, '39 Samuel H. Scott, '36 Clarence E. Long, Jr '38 Loren G. \Voodley, '40
We wish we had the space to name every single alumnus in our THANK Y 0 U for the wonderful response to the Second Annual Maintenance Appeal for the Osteopathic Hospital.
This year we kept the returns from our alumni in separate reports and the volume of responses has been not only gratifyingsoul-satisfying is nearer the word.
THANK YOU for your gifts, but more particularly, THANK Y 0 U for the evidence of your loyalty.
Louis G. Schacterle, Campaign Director.
At the recent New York State Osteopathic Society Convention the following Alumni were elected to office :
Howard B. Herdeg, 1923, Buffalo, elected President.
F. J. Beal, Jr., 1932, Syracuse, reelected a Director.
Alexander Levitt, 1925, Brooklyn, elected Director.
M. C. Vaughan, 1923, Rochester, elected Director.
H. W. Frey, Jr., 1935, New York, elected Sergeant-at-Arms.
Robert E. Cole, 1924, Geneva, reelected Secretary.
Delegates from New York City included the following: Lawrence S. Robertson, '29; R. Arthur Fish, '32; J. Marshall Hoag, '34; Alexander Levitt, '25 ; H. Van Arsdale Hillman, '15; Henry Frey, '35; Eugene R. Kraus, '13, and Edward H. Gibbs, '25. George W. Riley, LL.D., '42, was also among the delegates to the convention.
Our thanks to the Secretary of the New York State Society for sending
in news of the recent Society elections, and to Edward H. Gibbs, '25, for news of New York City alumni.
Your classmates and fellow alumni are interested in what you are doing, just as you are interested in their activities.
The DIGEST will welcome brief items of news about you, Doctor, so send them along occasionally, addressed to Dr. Guy S. Deming, Alumni Editor, Osteopathic Digest, Philadelphia College of Osteopathy.
FOR SALE McManis de luxe operating table: good as new; not a scratch; cost $400; will sell for $250; also McManis straight table, new ; cost $225 ; selling price, $125 ; owner gone into service; address or call 611 Witherspoon Building; Dr. 0. J. Snyder.
Your Purchase of Defense Savings Stamps Demonstrates Your Faith in the Freedom and Security of the United States.
Today P.C.O.'s First Responsibility Is to the Country. The Skills of Our Profession and the Strength of Our Student Body Are Offered and Stand Ready for the Nation's Needs.
OSTEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHA
"We must transform our BUYING power into GIVING power." -President Roosevelt, in recent War Chest address.
IN ITS ANNUAL MAINTENANCE CAMPAIGN FOR $35,000 THE Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia
asks YOUR help in attaining these WAR-TIME objectives:
ENLARGED SCOPE OF ESSENTIAL OSTEOPATHIC RESEARCH
INCREASED REHABILITATION PROJECT FOR REJECTED SERVICE MEN
ENLARGED FAGILITIES FOR WAR-TIME CIVILIAN CASUALTIES NEVv DEP ARTiv!ENTS OF INSTRUCTION WAR MEDICINE
ADEQUATE TRAINING OF PHYSICIANS AND NURSES IN TROPICAL MEDICINE
GEARING OF HOSPITAL AND COLLEGE TO THE WAR EMERGENCY
ADDITIONAL WARD SPACE
ADEQUATE NURSES' QUARTERS
MODERN HEATING UNITS
GREATER SOCIAL SERVICE F AGILITIES IMPROVEMENTS IN DIET KITCHENS
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SUPPLIES FOR INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS
EXPANSION OF PUBLIC HEALTH ACTIVITIES
(1) Accelerated Courses (three calendar years)
(2) N M t 1 t" d t { April 5. 1943 ew a rlcu a Ion a es: September 13. 1943 (3) Modified Curriculum to ensure comprehensive instruction in war medicine. industrial medicine. tropical diseases, public health and sanitation. etc.
