. Glimpses of medical Europe. Dr. Busk said that a great manypatients found their fate here. I could readilysee how such might be the case. Take a man,who for cosmetic reasons, has probably kepthimself away from society for a long time, andlet him find himself the fortunate possessor ofa new face, into which acharming young lady lookssteadily for an hour eachday, is it unreasonable thathe should ask the charminglady if she would always lookinto his new face across thebreakfast-table ? In addition to the Finsenlight there is a room for Ront-gen-ray treatment here and aroom for universal light b
. Glimpses of medical Europe. Dr. Busk said that a great manypatients found their fate here. I could readilysee how such might be the case. Take a man,who for cosmetic reasons, has probably kepthimself away from society for a long time, andlet him find himself the fortunate possessor ofa new face, into which acharming young lady lookssteadily for an hour eachday, is it unreasonable thathe should ask the charminglady if she would always lookinto his new face across thebreakfast-table ? In addition to the Finsenlight there is a room for Ront-gen-ray treatment here and aroom for universal light baths. The latter aregiven by means of an arc light of 120 for the bath consists only in thesubstitution of a pair of automobile goggles forones ordinary raiment. Experiments whichhave been carried on in the Finsen laboratoryseem to show that this universal light bath willprove efficacious in the treatment of chroniccardiac affections, and a new building is soonto be built especially for this treatment. 37. MEDICAL EUROPE The laboratory of the Einsen Institute iswell equipped, and general research is con-stantly carried on by several trained labora-tory workers. Dr. Busk, who took us about,is a young man, enthusiastic, a worker and acosmopolite. He knows, it seems, all the citiesof the world. He told us that an x\mericanmedical concern some years ago advertisedEinsen-light treatment. They claimed to beworking in cooperation with Dr. Finsen andto be backed by the Danish a matter of fact they were not using theFinsen light and of course their treatmentamounted to nothing. Dr. Busk said that hetried to get a denial printed in some of theleading newspapers, but they were too busyapparently to print it. We explained to himthat looking after the business of their adver-tisers did keep the American newspapers, asa rule, very busy. IV. STOCKHOLM THE HOME OF GREAT INVENTORS NOTEWORTHY MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS. If one has time to spare there is no betterway o
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