. Glimpses of medical Europe. kers violin. Therewere other girls, also with attractive eyes, andwith big drooping-brimmed hats from whichfluttered attractively long lengths of fluffyveiling, resting frequently on masses of skil-fully coiffed hair of wonderful color, sittingabout the room. Here and there with one ofthe girls, could be seen the interesting face ofa youth too clean shaven to be other thanAmerican. For we were at Lavenues, on theBoulevard Montparnasse, in the heart of theartists Latin Quarter, where the Americanart students most do congregate. And artists,even though American, do
. Glimpses of medical Europe. kers violin. Therewere other girls, also with attractive eyes, andwith big drooping-brimmed hats from whichfluttered attractively long lengths of fluffyveiling, resting frequently on masses of skil-fully coiffed hair of wonderful color, sittingabout the room. Here and there with one ofthe girls, could be seen the interesting face ofa youth too clean shaven to be other thanAmerican. For we were at Lavenues, on theBoulevard Montparnasse, in the heart of theartists Latin Quarter, where the Americanart students most do congregate. And artists,even though American, do not hesitate to ap-pear in public with their mistresses (or theirfriends mistresses) to drink their eveningBock. Neither do prominent American sur- 152 PARIS geons and physiologists absolutely refuse tocome to Lavenues occasionally on a summersevening—not to see the models of course, butmerely to hear the music. And you mean to tell me, I said to myfriend, a chap from Chicago who hadbeen for two years about the hospitals of. Paris, that you can do any real work inthis environment? Ill admit, he replied, that the life ofthe cafes does get into ones blood, and thatafter the seriousness of medical courses asthey are given in Berlin and Vienna, it wouldbe a bad thing for a man to come to Paris,if he really wanted to do any heavy work inmedicine. But there is work enough here, andgood work. The chief difficulties are in find- MEDICAL EUROPE ing it in the first place, and then buckhngdown to it after you have found it. And that is the whole story in a I have previously stated, medicine as abusiness proposition is not organized here asit is in Germany, to catch the golden windfallof American dollars by short, easily obtain-able, convenient courses, that one can takein two weeks or a month and go home atrained specialist. In Paris, one must find out things aboutmedicine for himself. There is some of thefinest work being done in medicine in Paristhat is to be found anywher
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