Medical School
DECELERATION and the. new Schedule are making this a transitional semester not only in courses but enrollment. All clinical clerks have graduated except James J. Brod, Thomas K. Burnap, David J. Stephenson, and Richard E. Turk, whose third year schools do not begin their third year classes until the autumn. One member of the second year has been advised to withdraw because of his health and one of the V-12 members of the first year class has gone back to active duty with the fleet. Veteran doctors Austin R. Grant, James L. Palmer, Dwight Parkinson, William Sinclair, Jr., and Roland E. Lapointe are registered as graduate students in the fellowship program. With these latter our enrollment at the beginning of the semester was thirty-seven. In order to continue to make room for as many veterans as possible the Faculty voted at its last meeting to continue the wartime size class of twenty-four students in the entering class in the fall.
The armed services have now returned almost all our staff members and have contributed to several new appointments. Col. Dawson Tyson, MC AUS, Assistant Professor of Surgery, is reported to be enroute from Tokyo. As a thoracic surgeon, however, he is unlikely to be released from active duty until some time during the summer.
Major Radford C. Tanzer, MC AUS, Instructor in Surgery, is still on active duty at Cushing General Hospital as Chief of the Plastic Surgical Service. Because there is a large group of patients still to be cared for by this service and an extensive waiting list for surgical procedures, it is unlikely that he will be able to return to Hanover before the autumn.
Lt. Henry A. Imus, USNR, is still on active duty with the Navy engaged in a research project associated with a problem in aviation medicine.
The appointment of Lt. Lloyd G. Bartholomew, MC AUS, as Assistant in Medicine has been terminated by a call to active duty on April i. He has been ordered to Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio, the current location of the indoctrination school for new medical officers, which was formerly at Carlisle Barracks.
Capt. Rudolph T. Textor has returned to the staff of the Eye Institute as Clinical Fellow in Physiological Optics after three years with the 406 th Fighter Group of the Ninth Air Force.
Commander James Miles O'Brien, MC USNR, .A.B. St. Joseph's College (Philadelphia) 1933; M.D., Pennsylvania 1937; communiship, Misericordia Hospital (Philadelphia 1938; Residency in Opthalmology, Wills Hospital (Philadelphia, September 1940; private practice of Opthalmology in association with the late Thomas A. O'Brien (Senior Attending at Wills), until February 1941; MC USNR, Opthalmologist, U. S. Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, until December 1941; Certificant of the American Board in Opthalmology, March 1943; Marine Corps Flight Surgeon until October 1943; Medical Officer, Naval Air Ferry Command; Senior Medical Officer, Escort Carrier duty until 1945; reported to begin his appointment as Instructor in Opthalmology on the staff of the Eye Institute on April 1.
For a similar appointment there will report on May 1 Major Milo Herbert Fritz, A.8., Columbia 1931; M.D. ibid 1934; Rotating In- ternship, Brooklyn Hospital, 1934-36; Intern- ship in Surgery, Duke University, to Novem- ber 15, 1936; Internship, Assistant Residency, and Residency, 1936-39; Instructor, Opthal- mology, Otolaryngology, Peroral Endoscopy, 1938-39, both at Duke University; private practice EENT, January 1940 to May 1941, Ketchikan, Alaska; Certificant of the American Board in Otolaryngology, 1941; MC AUS 1941; Consultant in Opthalmology to Surgeon, Alaska Defense Command, July 1941August 1943; Certificant of the American Board in Opthalmology 1942; Chief of Opthalmology, Station Hospital, AAF, McDill Field, July 1, 1944. He is still on duty at Valley Forge Hospital but expects to be inactivated shortly.
Lt. Cmdr. F. Corbin Moister, MC USNR, who was called to active duty from our intern staff on 1 April 1942 and was most recently Chief Medical Officer with an LST Group in the Pacific Area, reported on 1 April to begin his appointment as a Fellow in Medicine.
Maj. Renwick K. Caldwell, MC AUS, who terminated his internship here on 1 October 1942 to report to Camp Campbell, returned from duty in the office of the Chief Surgeon, 8th Army in the Southwest Pacific Area, to assume a Fellowship in Medicine on 1 April.
Colin C. Stewart 111, Assistant Professor in Physical Diagnosis and Pediatrics, represented the School and Hospital recently at the Boston meetings of the New England Pediatric Society and of its Council, and at the New York meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Jarrett H. Foley, Instructor in Physical Diagnosis and Medicine, has been away since the middle of March in Chicago and Rochester, Minnesota, attending gastroenterological clinics with special attention to gastroscopy. He is expected to return before the end of the semester.
Sven M. Gundersen, Instructor in Physical Diagnosis and Medicine, attended the recent meetings of the New England Heart Association and Harvard Aesculapian Club in Boston.
John B. McKenna, Instructor in Physical Diagnosis and Clinical Neurology, attended the March meeting o£ the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society at the Boston City Hospital.
George A.--Lord, Instructor in Surgery, attended the meeting of the New England section of the American College of Surgeons held in Boston recently.
"Interruption of the Sympathetic Nervous System in Relation to Trauma" by Lt. Col. Dawson Tyson and Capt. J. S. Gaynor, was published in the February 1946 issue of Surgery.
Robert E. Bannon, Assistant Professor of Applied Physiological Optics, attended the February meeting of the New York Academy of Optometry to present a paper on "Orthoptics and Visual Training."
1896 Berthold S. Pollak, F.A.C.P., was recently saluted in The Medical Way for Cape May County (N. J.) doctors as a "distinguished physician, scientist, educator, author, publicist, administrator, a man of high ethics and integrity, a gentleman and friend." He interned at Pottsville, Pa., Hospital and served a residency at the Philadelphia Polyclinic Hospital where he joined the Schuylkill County, Pa., Medical Society. Upon moving to Jersey City in 1899 he joined the Hudson County Medical Society, of which he "eventually became vice-president and president. He also served for many years on the Public Health Committee, Committee on Legislation, and Committee on Tuberculosis of the State Medical Society. He is a Fellow of the American Medical Association and of the merican College of Physicians. He is a Certificant of the American Board of Internal Medicine, a member of the American Heart Association, the American Trudeau Society, and a director of the American Tuberculosis Association. He is also past president and member of the executive committee of the New Jersey Tuberculosis League, a member of the executive committee of the Hudson County Tuberculosis League, and chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of the Deborah Sanatorium, and he has been medical director of the Hudson County Tuberculosis Hospital since December 1906. He has been a delegate to the Tuberculosis Council of the International Union against Tuberculosis at the meetings in London in 1921, Paris 1922, Brussels 1923, Lausanne 1924, Washington 1926, Rome 1928, Oslo 1930, The Hague 1932, Warsaw 1934, and Lisbon 1937. He is also visiting Phthisiologist at the Medical Center in Jersey City and consulting Phthisiologist in St. Mary's Hospital, Hoboken; Bayonne Hospital, St. Francis Hospital, Jersey City; and Beth Israel Hospital, Newark.
1928 Stephen Dow Mills, F.A.A.P., has announced his return from military service and resumption of the practice of pediatrics at 133 South Euclid Avenue, Westfield, N. J.
1932 Arthur D. Ecker, Instructor in Clinical Surgery, at the College of Medicine of Syracuse University, has returned to his post and may be found at 1108 Madison Street.
7935 The quondam Lt. Cols. Stewart S. and Bernice M. Alexander announce the arrival on March 16 of Judith weighing 7 lbs. 13 oz. Maj. J. Kenneth Keeley, MC AUS, dropped in from temporary duty at Randolph Field to tell us what happened after he was called to active duty from his surgical fellowship at the Mayo Foundation on the 15th of August, 1941. His first duty was at the Air Corps Station Hospital, Fort Douglas, Utah, and his next stop was at Manila where he arrived in October. On the first of December with 350 men he was with the Headquarters Squadron of the sth Air Base Group on the Del Monte Pineapple Plantation, setting up a 1000-bed hospital. When the war started half of the B-17S from Clark Field were there. From then on, functioning as an auxiliary, this field served as the northern base of McArthur's Darwin shuttle. On May 10, 1942 there were 1000 men left and 400 air corpsmen under Doctor Keeley. The next stop was Malaybalay, Mindanao, where a Philippine army training camp was used as quarters for some 1100 men who arrived there after a trip in their own trucks without molestation by the Japanese who permitted them to bring what food remained. In November 1942 they were all transferred to Davao where there had been a big Japanese settlement with an army and navy base. There the American prisoners were confined in a former Philippine Government penal colony where they were joined in a week by 1000 more from the'lsland of Luzon. Each day every prisoner went out to work on the farm. In May 1944 the camp was closed and all the prisoners were moved to Manila. On the 4th of July 700 survivors started on a two months' trip by ship to Japan In September they arrived in Mojii where they were loaded on a train for a 36-hour trip with seven stops which brought them to the mountain camp of Funatsu run by the Mitsui Company where a smelter was in continuous operation processing lead ore. The prisoners were divided into night and day shifts and put to work in an atmosphere supercharged with sulphur fumes without any attempt at safety precautions. There followed thereafter a continuous series of fatal accidents resulting from overturned railway cars, falls down mine shafts, and walking into tanks of molten lead. The barracks were heated only by charcoal braziers with insufficient fuel. There was from eight to ten feet of snow on the ground and an average night temperature of zero. The diet was scanty and consisted of rice and radish soup. By the end of two months 95 percent of the prisoners were suffering from edema and 90 percent were enduring night-long pain from peripheral neuritis Malnutrition was made worse by the constant trading of food for cigarettes which still further reduced the meager rations. By the time spring opened up the narrow-gauge railway no one was expecting to last out another year of war but a small amount of fresh food and a slight improvement in the rations restored stamina somewhat and enabled a considerable number of them to survive until the 27th of July when they were all suddenly moved to another camp at Toyama. There they found 300 prisoners of war of seven nationalities that had been bombed out of Osaka. They found part of the original headquarters files which were in such condition that it was perfectly obvious thathe Japanese had lost all track of their prisoners and did not know who they were or where they were quartered. By that time the- rules and regulations had become very simple. A prisoner commander was appointed and if anyone escaped he was shot. On September 2 which was V-J Day plus three weeks, two' Army Air Force pilots appeared to arrange for the trip to Tokyo for repatriation, which occurred on September 7. After a week in the Tokyo-Yokohama area Doctor Keeley was flown to Okinawa and then to Manila where he boarded a transport which arrived in San Francisco on 3 October 1945. He feels that he has been approximately restored to health or will be at the end of his 90 days' prisoner of war leave and four months of terminal.
1936 Jules H. Bromberg, who is applying for license to practice medicine in Newark N. J., has written me a news letter which I will abstract: He entered the army in October 1941 and after ten months ki the-States joined the 180 th Station Hospital as Roentgenologist, spent three years overseas, having :been stationed in England, North Africa,; Corsica, Sardinia, Rome, and France. He: encountered Richard C. Potter Jr. in North Africa but saw no other classmates until a few weeks ago when Clifford W. Mills regaled him with the advantages of the practice of obstetrics and gynecology in South Norwalk, and Harold B. Orenstein appeared in the Pathology Department of the Montefiore Hospital after duty with the Marines on Guam, Okinawa and at Tingtao. Jules has been on a Fellowship in Radiation Therapy in Bellevue Hospital since August 1945 and is aiming; for Board certification in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiology.
The Hermann N. Sanders announce the arrival of Mary Alice at Manchester, N. H., on February 2.
1937 Major John Thompson Cartwright began an appointment in Internal Medicine at the Roan and Strauss Clinic in Bismark, North Dakota, on the first of April, but he has seen a lot of the world since June i, 1941 when he was called to active duty from the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. He began at Lovell General Hospital as Assistant Chief of Medicine where he came out a Captain when, at the end of eleven months, he was called to the 20th General Hospital, the Pennsylvania unit, which two months later was cut up, with the 24th Station Hospital being sent to Fort Bragg; from there to Indian Gap; and then to Newport News. Fortythree days later he debarked at Suez and then was ordered to Tel-Litwinsky, Palestine, as Port Surgeon, while the Allies gathered troops in the Near East in anticipation of the fall of Stalingrad. Then he was ordered to the Bilharrzia Institute for. Tropical Medicine at Cairo, and on January 2, 1944 rejoined the 24th Station Hospital for Bombay. From there he was flown to Assam where his unit set up at Johart to care for a railway battalion, casuals, and the personnel of the Army Transport Command air base which was servicing the fliers making the trip over the Hump. During this assignment he was head of the tropical medicine section and spent some time also at Shillong, the capital, where there was a hillstation army rest camp. On 4 March 1945 he came back by air with stops at Delhi, Karachi, Cairo, Casa Blanca, the Azores, Bermuda and Miami. He spent some time at the Fort Dix reception center, took a twelve weeks' refresher course at the England General Hospital, had a month's recurrence of sand fly fever, followed by a thyroidectomy at Tilton General, and was then ordered to the Third Service Command Headquarters. After four months as a tropical disease expert at Fort Devens he was inactivated on 2 March with terminal leave to 25 June. Aside from a trip to Hanover he has spent the last few weeks at Littleton, Mass., getting reacquainted with his wife, Roberta Patterson, and small daughter, Suzanne.
Commander Frank G. Soule Jr., MC USN, is still on duty at BuMed where the only Dartmouth man he sees is Joe Placak. John Gordon Soule arrived on 19 February which he thinks may interfere with his plans for attending reunions.
Commander Harry B. Eisberg, MC USN, has come ashore from the USS Kwajalein and is living in half a Quonset hut on Mare Island in°San Francisco Bay with Ann and the little one. His immediate future is uncertain but by May or June he expects to be somewhere in the East studying orthopedics.
IC]yj Irving E. Brown Jr., Barron F. Mclntire Jr., and Eugene B. MacGregor '3B are all residencies at the Maine General Hospital in Portland.
