. Glimpses of medical Europe. ildings divided into wardsfor patients that are temporary and do notdemand the care and expense of the other hand, there are small buildings,to o;ive most careful detailed treatment to suchpatients as demand special care. There arelaboratories without number; chapel and con-servatory; everything, in fact, that one canthink of. This hospital will care for eighteenhundred sick. It covers so much ground thatthe cost of land alone would make the erectionof a similar institution in New York City, inany accessible place, prohibitive. Then aside from these g
. Glimpses of medical Europe. ildings divided into wardsfor patients that are temporary and do notdemand the care and expense of the other hand, there are small buildings,to o;ive most careful detailed treatment to suchpatients as demand special care. There arelaboratories without number; chapel and con-servatory; everything, in fact, that one canthink of. This hospital will care for eighteenhundred sick. It covers so much ground thatthe cost of land alone would make the erectionof a similar institution in New York City, inany accessible place, prohibitive. Then aside from these great city hospitalsthere is a list of private institutions too longto chronicle. In some of these places, how-ever, the Americans find their best opportunityfor work. In the x\ugusta Hospital there is 105 JNIEDICAL EUROPE Krause the surgeon, and Ewald the internist(he does not Hke to be called a stomachman). The Jewish Hospital has Israel insurgery and Lazarus in medicine, two of theleading men of Berlin. At St. Hedwigs there. Hf ::? I .*s».« »•*? * ^QP^^ft^ifeSr:-? Grounds of Moabit Hospital, is Rotter in surgery and Wirsing in can an American physician who isjust over on a sightseeing trip and does notwish to stay in Berlin for extended work, seewhat these hospitals have to oifer.^ Simplyby butting in. Go to the portier, pass outyour card, and a mark (two bits), and you 106 BERLIX may rest assured that you will see all there Isto see. It is really remarkable, how Germanphysicians and surgeons, some of world-widefame, keep their good nature and maintain auniform courtesy, interrupted at all times andall hours as frequently as they are by Americanvisitors; yet I have not known of a singleinstance where courtesy was failing to a fact the American usually complains of thedetail with which an institution is shown him,and comes away from a hospital at which hehas expected to spend thirty minutes onlyafter a three or four hours personally con-ducted tour
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