. Glimpses of medical Europe. mpanied by the usual retinue of assistantsand nurses, and noticed nothing in his mannerof handling the patients that differed from theordinary routine of one of our better classAmerican hospitals. Povsing, of whom everybody speaks as theadmitted leader of surgery in Denmark, is asplendidly built, handsome man, with blondcurly hair and moustache. He is a worker,and there are lines in his face that show day we met him he had begun operatingat eight oclock in the morning; he was stilloperating when we left the hospital at oneoclock, and he had three major kidn
. Glimpses of medical Europe. mpanied by the usual retinue of assistantsand nurses, and noticed nothing in his mannerof handling the patients that differed from theordinary routine of one of our better classAmerican hospitals. Povsing, of whom everybody speaks as theadmitted leader of surgery in Denmark, is asplendidly built, handsome man, with blondcurly hair and moustache. He is a worker,and there are lines in his face that show day we met him he had begun operatingat eight oclock in the morning; he was stilloperating when we left the hospital at oneoclock, and he had three major kidneyoperations yet to do at his private hospitalin the afternoon. The sun sets late at 25 MEDICAL EUROPE Copenhagen in May, and one can put inmany hours work a day. We watched Rovsing do an appendix oper-ation. It is not uncommon for medical menwho return from Europe to say there is nosurgery there. They should see Rovsingoperate. His technique compares favorablywith that of any American surgeon you care to f4l /- .^ ^^.Mh^:* V. mention. He is swift and skilful. He has hisdetails arranged to a nicety that is astonish-ing, and his assistants know exactly what todo without being told. In addition he makeshis diagnosis before he operates. A picturesque feature of the operation wesaw was the yellow oilskins and rubber bootsof those who participated. It made us thinkof the deck of our ship in a storm. However,we all agreed that it was pretty work—aspretty work as any of us had ever witnessed. 26 COPENHAGEIS^ The Kommunehospital, which we next vis-ited, is built in the form of the letter H, withan extra bar across the top. Inside are courts,beautiful with trees and shrubbery and flowersand green grass. The buildings of the newSt. Louis City Hospital could be set in one ofthese courts, and there would still be some ofthe shrubbery left. This hospital was erected
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