. Glimpses of medical Europe. the visit is hardly necessary. Everythingwas essentially the same as in American orGerman hospitals. The patients were allclean, the beds were clean, the nurses wereimmaculate. In the gynaecological wards,which we first visited, we saw over the beds(here the diagnoses are written in Latin script)the words, Endometritis, Myoma uteri,Salpingitis, and so on. We did not see anyoperations but the operating-rooms were ade-quate and apparently aseptic. In every wardthere were two separate operating-rooms; onefor septic, and one for non-septic cases. The nerve clinic inte
. Glimpses of medical Europe. the visit is hardly necessary. Everythingwas essentially the same as in American orGerman hospitals. The patients were allclean, the beds were clean, the nurses wereimmaculate. In the gynaecological wards,which we first visited, we saw over the beds(here the diagnoses are written in Latin script)the words, Endometritis, Myoma uteri,Salpingitis, and so on. We did not see anyoperations but the operating-rooms were ade-quate and apparently aseptic. In every wardthere were two separate operating-rooms; onefor septic, and one for non-septic cases. The nerve clinic interested us was remarkably well equipped. In addi-tion to the ordinary electric, massage, andRontgen-light apparatus, there was a largeroom for hydrotherapy. For the hose douche,there were installed engines in the basementwhich insured constant pressure of any de-sired degree. The neurologist (his card is inRussian and Im sure the reader works hardenough as it is without having to translate it) G4 ST. PETERSBURG. told us that one hose douchewas enough in a case of I saw the stream turnedon I beheved him. The onlything I ever saw that comparedwith it in force was the stream /from the nozzle of one of theNew York fire-boat hoses that is arranged tohit the roof of a twenty-story building. Nowonder the Russians hate to bathe if theiridea of a bath is conceived from this appa-ratus. One bath would be water enough fora lifetime. Seriously, though, there wereample bathing facilities in all the wards. Thebath-tubs were large, with an ample supplyof both hot and cold water and with inletand outlet pipes of large diameter, so thatno time need be wasted in filling and emp-tying the tubs. We saw also in this depart-ment a patient treated for tri-facial neuralgia by means ofthe Rontgen ray. Such treat-ment was new to us, but wewere assured that the ideawas ^aus Ameriha.^ In the pathological labora-tory I felt more at home than in any place Ihave been since I lef
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