. Glimpses of medical Europe. Fkiedebiks Hospital—Copenhagen can country practitioner would be shown thesame consideration as an acknowledged leaderof the profession. Our first visit was to the Friederiks Hos-pital. This is the oldest hospital in the was built in 1752, over one hundred andfiftv years ago, and yet it is in remarkablygood condition, and in its hygienic construc-tion is far ahead of many of our modern insti-tutions. This hospital has about six hundred 24 COPENHAGEN beds, and the patients in their pink checkeredpajamas, with their individual sponge andtooth-brush at the he
. Glimpses of medical Europe. Fkiedebiks Hospital—Copenhagen can country practitioner would be shown thesame consideration as an acknowledged leaderof the profession. Our first visit was to the Friederiks Hos-pital. This is the oldest hospital in the was built in 1752, over one hundred andfiftv years ago, and yet it is in remarkablygood condition, and in its hygienic construc-tion is far ahead of many of our modern insti-tutions. This hospital has about six hundred 24 COPENHAGEN beds, and the patients in their pink checkeredpajamas, with their individual sponge andtooth-brush at the head of each bed, lookremarkably clean and happy. Here it was we met Faber and Rovsing, theleaders in Denmark in medicine and surgeryrespectively. Professor Faber has the clean,kindly face, with little wrinkles at the cornersof the eyes, that is common to so many menwho have successfully combated disease. Inthe depths of his blue eyes lurks also a traceof humor that makes one think of Osier. We made a round of the wards with
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