. Glimpses of medical Europe. ne of your hairs. We will admit thatthis is perhaps exaggeration, but we want toprove the point that he is a great man, a manevery dermatologist in every civilized countryhas heard of. Therefore I was somewhatsurprised when, stopping a uniformed attend-ant in the courtyard anrl asking for Sabour-auds clinic, the attendant told me he didntknow of such a man. I saw a nurse hurryingpast, however, and asked her. She, too, pro-fessed ignorance with an extenuating smile,which I accepted at its face value. Finally Icaptured a young house physician and hedirected me. All
. Glimpses of medical Europe. ne of your hairs. We will admit thatthis is perhaps exaggeration, but we want toprove the point that he is a great man, a manevery dermatologist in every civilized countryhas heard of. Therefore I was somewhatsurprised when, stopping a uniformed attend-ant in the courtyard anrl asking for Sabour-auds clinic, the attendant told me he didntknow of such a man. I saw a nurse hurryingpast, however, and asked her. She, too, pro-fessed ignorance with an extenuating smile,which I accepted at its face value. Finally Icaptured a young house physician and hedirected me. All this is apropos of a prophets honor inhis own country. I remember once trying to 10 145 MEDICAL EUROPE find at the University of Pennsylvania a manfamous in scientific medicine throughout theworld. I made the mistake of going to theUniversity Hospital instead of to his labora-tory, which is a building or two removed,and five officials had to be called in rotationbefore one was found who had ever heardof the eminent A COLLKCTOR OF CiGAR BdTTS Howeverin to writedaily skinthat I wishroom itselftables andIt is largecrowd into it is not Sabouraud that I startedabout especially, but it is the greatclinic of the Hospital Saint Louisto attempt to picture. The clinic-is high-posted and bare. Threea few chairs are its only furniture,enough for a hundred people toat a pinch, though the adjoining 146 PARIS waiting-room will seat six or seven this room pour daily from three or fourto six or seven hundred patients—childrenfirst, then women, then men. These peopleknow what is expected of them. The childrenare quickly divested of clothing and broughtnaked to the chair of the examiner. Usuallythere are three examinations going on simul-taneously, with Gaucher, or De Bourmann,or whoever is on service at that particulartime, going from one to the other and pickingout for special study a case that is the chairs of the examiners aregrouped the eager student
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