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The Linacre QuarterlyVolume 23 | Number 4 Article 5November 1956Medical MelodyCatholic Physicians' GuildsFollow this and additional works at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnqRecommended CitationCatholic Physicians' Guilds (1956) "Medical Melody," The Linacre Quarterly: Vol. 23 : No. 4 , Article 5.Available at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnq/vol23/iss4/5., It is not known whether the Muse of music, Euterpe, is a blood relation of C\ Aesculapius, the god of medicine , but • we suspect that some relationship ex- C\.. ists -. however tenuous. As evidence for th,s hypothesis, we offer the fol-lowing musical compositions and an C\. a ppropriate (?) medical connotation: • The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) Rounds (Diamond) Wasps (Vaughan) Ionisation (Varese) The Slippers (Tchaikovsky) Undertow (Schumann) Mass of Life (Delius) John Brown's Body-(Bishop) Surprise Symphony (Haydn) !\~ademic Festival O verture (Brohms) Trial by Jury (Gilbert and Sullivan) Hunt Symphony (Haydn) In the Beginning (Copland) M~ther Goose Suite (Ravel) Enigma Variations (Elgar) T~e Lost Chord (Sullivan) Night on Bald Mountain (Moussorgsky) Slee pin~ Beauty Ballet (T chiakovsky) Fantaslic Symphony (Berlioz) Fancy Free (Bernstein) Nutcracker Suite (Tchiakovsky) Pomp and Circumstance (Elgar) Yeoman of tha Guard (Gilbert and Sullivan) The Medical Student Ward Walks Antihistamine Therapy Electro lyte fher o;:,y ln tervertebral Disks T richophytosis Autopsy Tissue Culture Clinicopathological Confe rence Graduation Practice Consultation Obstetrics Pediatrics Internal Medicine Laryngology Dermatology Anesthesiology Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Neurosurgery Some Other Man's Specialty Nursing Staff Kind permission was given to reprint th b, h" 1%6 issue of Physician's Bulletin pu:li~he~veb; ~~ih L71jyp•:~:d ~n thel dS_epte mb1·"' Indiana. . o., n 1onopo 1s, 126 LINACRE QUARTERLY IMPORTANT PUBLICATION J ohn L. Thomas, S.J. Review by Rev. John J. Egan The Cana Conference of Chicago Sometimes good things do come in small packages. After having made one's way through many large and frequently loosely writ-ten works that present partial viewi: as complete guides to mar~ riage, it is .gratifying to find a rela-tively thorough, well-balanced and realistic work in a pamphlet of seven chapters and I 04 pages. Beginning Your Marriage is a small booklet . that has been · pub-lished by the Cana Conference of Chicago to fill the need for a brief text for engaged couples on the questions about the final days of courtship and the initial days of wedded life. Intended for engaged couples. it" presupposes the deci-sion for marriage and is not con-cerned with such preliminary ques-tions as basic sex instructions, dat-ing or courtship problems. The author is the Reverend John L. Thomas, S.J., assistant di-rector of the Institute of Social NOVEMBER, 1956 Order at St. Louis University. His deep interest in the problems of the modern marriage and the fam-ily is evident from his other wor~s. as The American Catholic Fam-ily ( Prentice-Hall. 1956) and a Guide t o Catholic Marriage ( Bruce, 1955) on which he col-laborated with Clement Mihano-vich and Brother Gerald Schnepp. S.M. His qualifications are those of a priest and professional sociol-ogist writing in an area of his field in which he has specialized. It is only natural that the preoccupa-tions and viewpoints of the sociol-ogist ra ther than those, e.g .• of the psychologist. economist, or physi-cian, should be apparent through-out the work. The booklet is of peculiar value because of the broad but detailed presentation of a Catholic philoso-phy that the author has been able to inject in his terse treatment of the various practical problems that 127 

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