. Glimpses of medical Europe. uffering canput a price on his services. This custom ofgenerosity in giving service and trusting to alike generosity in receiving reward for thesame is a beautiful one, and cuts out frommedicine what William James would call*the Trades Union Wing of the profession. The Russian country through wdiich wetravelled on our way to the German borderwas not without interest. We were meteverywhere by children begging for children were the best natural actorsI have ever seen. A ragged urchin who ap-proached me had the faculty of filling hiseyes with tears at w
. Glimpses of medical Europe. uffering canput a price on his services. This custom ofgenerosity in giving service and trusting to alike generosity in receiving reward for thesame is a beautiful one, and cuts out frommedicine what William James would call*the Trades Union Wing of the profession. The Russian country through wdiich wetravelled on our way to the German borderwas not without interest. We were meteverywhere by children begging for children were the best natural actorsI have ever seen. A ragged urchin who ap-proached me had the faculty of filling hiseyes with tears at will. It was wonderful towatch his changing expression; the cunninggleam that he sized you up with, the tear- 68 ST. PETERSBURG stained face of appeal, and the grin of satis-faction with which he departed after he hadgrafted you for all your loose kopecks. Another thing that surprises the travellerhere in Russia is the large number of smallhospitals scattered throughout the is scarcely a town of any size whatever. Pir-^iAN Ila-am- but has its hospital. Certainly we would notlook for hospitals in towns several times thesize in America. The little liospitals aresituated on the edge of the town, usuallywhere there is plenty of open space and buildings are of brick and are one storyhigh. Trained nurses in uniforms and youngphysicians in white duck are in about these hospitals is scrupu- 69 MEDICAL EUROPE lously clean. There is no dirty bed-linen, nodisagreeable odors, no unclean of these hospitals has an adequatelaboratory and surgical equipment. All of this is far removed from what wewould naturally expect to find in this con-tradictory country, but a reason for thesehospitals may be sought in the desire of thezemstvos to lessen the economic plague incidentto the ravages made by disease and epidemicson the poorly-fed and badly-housed zemstvo, or territorial assembly, by theway, is a body composed of representativ
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