. Glimpses of medical Europe. e privilege of seeing agreat man but they carry away little of what hesays. One man who sat attentively through ameeting, after listening to an hours lectureby Dr. Bruel, turned to me and said, Well,I got one word out of that—Tuherkulose!^^ The experiences of the men, as related overthe beer when the meetings are officially over,are always of interest. They are as varied asare the types of Americans one sees herethemselves. This is a bum town, says somefellow from the backwoods of the good oldU. S. A., who has come over with the expec-tation of helping some promin
. Glimpses of medical Europe. e privilege of seeing agreat man but they carry away little of what hesays. One man who sat attentively through ameeting, after listening to an hours lectureby Dr. Bruel, turned to me and said, Well,I got one word out of that—Tuherkulose!^^ The experiences of the men, as related overthe beer when the meetings are officially over,are always of interest. They are as varied asare the types of Americans one sees herethemselves. This is a bum town, says somefellow from the backwoods of the good oldU. S. A., who has come over with the expec-tation of helping some prominent surgeon dolaparotomies during a three weeks sojourn;Ive been here darned near my time limitnow and I havent been near enough to anoperation to see it through an says, Whats the use going to theseblooming clinics when you cant tell what thefellow^ is talking about .^ I should think theywould learn to speak English. I actually met a fellow here once who hadby mistake got into a course in gross path- 82. BERLIN ology (I havent the least idea what he thoughthe was getting). He watched the instructornervously for a while, doing a rather difficultdissection of the thoracic duct in a case ofmiliary tuberculosis, and then dug his elbowinto my ribs and said, Say, whats he wast-ing so much time on that woman for? Shesdead, isnt she? There are also men like a tall Westernerwho stalked into Biers operating-room oneday, pushing aside nurses and assistants,and who having reached the centre of theroom stopped, looked around and said ina loud tone of voice: Sav, I want to seeHyper^emia. But all Americans (Goff sei danlx) are notlike the above, and the Germans know itand appreciate it. There are always a goodlot of clean, eager, industrious, brilliantworkers here from our country, and some ofthem have turned out pieces of research fromthe Berlin laboratories of which the chiefsare proud. There is always a chance herefor such men to get any and all kinds ofwork; as well
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