Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . buildings aresituated in a large, park-like grounds, consisting of a block or so, dottedwith summer houses, shaded by big trees, under which cosily clustertables, benches and chairs, speaking of cool glasses of beer and many ahappy and pleasant hour for the patients or guests, even though coveredwith grease and bandages. The hospital, or Elizabethan villa, named after Mrs. Unna, is thelargest building, with accommodations for fifty patients. Another villa-like building is the laboratory, with rooms for students. This is completewith bacteriological,
Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . buildings aresituated in a large, park-like grounds, consisting of a block or so, dottedwith summer houses, shaded by big trees, under which cosily clustertables, benches and chairs, speaking of cool glasses of beer and many ahappy and pleasant hour for the patients or guests, even though coveredwith grease and bandages. The hospital, or Elizabethan villa, named after Mrs. Unna, is thelargest building, with accommodations for fifty patients. Another villa-like building is the laboratory, with rooms for students. This is completewith bacteriological, histological and pathological apparatus, and withshelves filled with pathological specimens. -Dr. Unnas private dwellingis situated in the center of the grounds, and is a plain, home-like struct-ure. A small cottage is for the use of families or those who wish to bemore secluded. It was my good fortune to remain for some time in this ideal place for * Read before the St. L,ouis Academy of Medical and Surgical Sciences, September 28, Unnas School of Dermatology—Engman. 491 study, and to act while there as assistant, thereby gaining a greater insightinto the practical methods for work. Dr. Unnas hospital practice is, in fact, international, patients fromevery clime entering his clinic for treatment. While I was there Brazil-ians, Americans, Irishmen, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Russians, Germans—all were represented; presenting papules, vesicles and scales of all nations,whether from a Russian nobleman or a free American citizen, requiringalike a good, honest German lotion or grease; all coming under the treat-ment of the one—Unna. Like all Germans, Unna is very positive and,as we Americans would think, severe with his patients. They must sub-mit to his treatment or go elsewhere; but as they generally soon see thewisdom of his way, they are anxious to submit. His rounds are made at 7 A. M. and at 2 p. m., when he visits all his patients and orders their is a
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