. Glimpses of medical Europe. say, going to pass them by, and take you ona little pathological journey that many of you,perchance, have made yourselves. There is a very quiet street in the north-western part of Berlin which you can get toeither by one of the new automobile busses onFriedrichstrasse, aided by a short walk, ormore directly by a Luisenstrasse tram. Thisstreet is Philippstrasse. If you have come bythe tram you have only to walk a few steps, 116 BERLIN when you come to a door flanked on one sideby the danghng brass plate of a Friseur and onthe other by the equally arrestive brass s
. Glimpses of medical Europe. say, going to pass them by, and take you ona little pathological journey that many of you,perchance, have made yourselves. There is a very quiet street in the north-western part of Berlin which you can get toeither by one of the new automobile busses onFriedrichstrasse, aided by a short walk, ormore directly by a Luisenstrasse tram. Thisstreet is Philippstrasse. If you have come bythe tram you have only to walk a few steps, 116 BERLIN when you come to a door flanked on one sideby the danghng brass plate of a Friseur and onthe other by the equally arrestive brass sugar-loaf cone of a Delicatessen. The number overthe door is 21. You go through the doorand on through a court-yard to a red brickdwelling covered with green vines. You enterthis building, turn to the left, and walk upfour very long flights of steep stairs, and enter. a small room, lighted from the roof ])j smallwindows. In this room there are some longunpainted tables and a dozen or so roughlyfashioned three-legged stools. Away oflf in Little Rock, or in Bombay, orin Glasgow, or in Buenos Ayres, or in Mos-cow, or in Cape Town, or in Tokio, or in anyplace in the world where some man hasrecognized the fact that Medicine is a beau-tiful woman but a woman who reveals her 117 MEDICAL EUROPE charms only as knowledge advances to meetand appreciate them—away off there, the manis packing his grip and is going to seek forknowledge that he may become more worthyof his chosen mistress. He will sail the seasin a big ship, and he will take the automobilebus on Friedrichstrasse or the tram on Luisen-strasse, and he will pass the brass plate or thearrestive sugar loaf, and he will climb the fourflights of narrow, steep stairs, and sit on thethree-legged stool at the unpainted table. Forhere shall they all meet; they who havelived in the half light of a beautifu
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