. Glimpses of medical Europe. rs. Then it is necessary to sig-nify ones desire for a hospital appointmentearly in ones career and to wait for a va-cancy. Men are frequently out five or sixyears before they receive their is no danger here of a patient in amunicipal institution falling into unskilledhands. Not only is there skill and efficiency,but there is universal kindness used in thehandling of patients. There is always a kindword and a smile; a pat on the shoulder or agrasp of the hand for the patient. We saw alodgekeeper put his arm about a raggedurchin who had lost his
. Glimpses of medical Europe. rs. Then it is necessary to sig-nify ones desire for a hospital appointmentearly in ones career and to wait for a va-cancy. Men are frequently out five or sixyears before they receive their is no danger here of a patient in amunicipal institution falling into unskilledhands. Not only is there skill and efficiency,but there is universal kindness used in thehandling of patients. There is always a kindword and a smile; a pat on the shoulder or agrasp of the hand for the patient. We saw alodgekeeper put his arm about a raggedurchin who had lost his way, and lead him tothe ward he desired, and the doctor met himwith a smile, and the nurse beamed on we, outside in the warm sunshine of thecourt-yard looked at each other, but we weresilent. III. MORE ABOUT COPENHAGEN THE FINSEN INSTITUTE AND ITS FOUNDER. A VISIT to Copenhagen is not complete,even if you are not medically inclined, with-out a view of the Finsen Institute. There isprobably no name more generally known. throughout Scandinavia than that of NielsFinsen. There is probably no remote hamlet,tucked away in the interior of Denmark, thatdoes not contain some individual who cantestify to the efficacy of the Finsen light inthe treatment of lupus. When Finsen died here in Copenhagen 31 MEDICAL EUROPE on September 24, 1904, the Journal of printed the following editorial: In the death of Niels R. Finsen therepassed away one of the heroic figures inmodern medicine. In spite of chronic andincurable disease, Finsen, with rare persist-ence, developed phototherapy on a strictlyscientific basis so that it became definitivelyestablished as a successful means of cure inlupus vulgaris. He early recognized that ifthe great forces contained in light ever couldbe used in the science of practical medicineit would result only from investigations ofphysical, chemical and biologic nature, to-gether with practical experiments in differentdiseases. Apparently, his earliest p
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