. Glimpses of medical Europe. commons or, as it is more stylishlyprinted in the catalogue, Hall of say good fortune, not on account of the food,or the tiny attic room lighted by a singlefeeble gas-jet, that I occupied, but rather onaccount of the experience. I have eaten inItalian, French, German, and various otherforeign pensions, but I have never been soout of my natural element as I was here. The proper costume for breakfast was bath-robe and slippers. The maid did not appearat this meal, but we took our plates to thebuffet and helped ourselves to porridge,bloaters, and am and e
. Glimpses of medical Europe. commons or, as it is more stylishlyprinted in the catalogue, Hall of say good fortune, not on account of the food,or the tiny attic room lighted by a singlefeeble gas-jet, that I occupied, but rather onaccount of the experience. I have eaten inItalian, French, German, and various otherforeign pensions, but I have never been soout of my natural element as I was here. The proper costume for breakfast was bath-robe and slippers. The maid did not appearat this meal, but we took our plates to thebuffet and helped ourselves to porridge,bloaters, and am and eggs, which were setout in abundance; and filled our cups withtea, or with that mysterious mixture of luke- 196 LIVERPOOL warm dishwater and burned vegetable of un-known source which the great British nationjolly themselves into believing is coffee. Dur-ing breakfast hour the maid is busy polishingour shoes, and we select them from the longrow in the hall (provided some one else hasntalready done so) and go back to our room to. smoke a pipe and think about dressing sometime before lunch. There are no early hourshere as in Germany. If any one appeared ina laboratory before ten oclock the Universitywould expel him. Dinner is rendered even more dismal thanbreakfast, owing to the fact that one has todescend to the sitting-room to wait the dinner 197 MEDICAL EUROPE call and return to the sitting-room after dinnerfor coffee (I again use the English terminology). If an English boarding-house sitting-roomwouldnt drive one into the last stages ofhomesickness the conversation that is carriedon in one would. And when the deadly drugabove referred to is finally passed around, youtake a cup, for you have reached the stagewhen you dont care what becomes of you. I thought the whole thing was as bad as itcould be the first evening I put in there. Butthe second evening my American friend, whowas responsible for my being there, told afunny story and the gloom that settled overthat assembly in con
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