. Glimpses of medical Europe. l. Occasionally he wouldmanage to get the end of it in the corner ofhis mouth, but would withdraw it quicklyand look at it reproachfully. I could almostfancy he was chiding it for not giving him alonger smoke. Professor Vealberg, who hasthe chair of experimental pathology, is a short,somewhat fat, enthusiastic man. Rather quickin his actions, he is, as the Germans would say,not possessed of sitzfleisch. The students atUpsala are surely getting lots of good path-ology under these excellent men and theirassistants. What is true of pathology is no less true ofthe oth
. Glimpses of medical Europe. l. Occasionally he wouldmanage to get the end of it in the corner ofhis mouth, but would withdraw it quicklyand look at it reproachfully. I could almostfancy he was chiding it for not giving him alonger smoke. Professor Vealberg, who hasthe chair of experimental pathology, is a short,somewhat fat, enthusiastic man. Rather quickin his actions, he is, as the Germans would say,not possessed of sitzfleisch. The students atUpsala are surely getting lots of good path-ology under these excellent men and theirassistants. What is true of pathology is no less true ofthe other departments. There is a fine ana-tomical institute here, of which Professor 52 UP SAL A Hammar is the head. It is modern and finelyequipped. In chemistry, Hammarsten is toowell known to need comment. Most of us w^hohave studied medicine at home have used histext-book. After we had finished our roundof the laboratories, we were taken to theUniversity Hospital. This is a large, roomybuilding, situated in a beautiful park, in. \ -^ 111 ir~z .^~~ Anatmmi. AL I\-Tn VI ];—{ which convalescents mav wander about totheir hearts content. The hospital has some-thing over three hundred beds; patients aredrawn from all over Sweden. Both ProfessorPetren, in medicine, and Lennander, in sur-gery, were aw^ay, so we did not meet them, butwe obtained a good idea of the work thatwas being done here from their at Upsala it was that we had to get outour best German and air it. Previously we 53 MEDICAL EUROPE had conversed in English with nearly every-one we met. It really is remarkable howuniversally English is spoken here in Scandi-navia. Again were we surprised at the excellenceof the surgery here. Appendicitis is verycommon in Sweden. In one ward nearlyevery patient was minus his appendix. Manyof the patients had also a general saw one man, a student, who was a monu-ment to the care and skill of Swedish had had a gangrenous appendicitis withdiffuse p
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