. Glimpses of medical Europe. the last few years;that if you want a live, up-to-date town, youmust come to Vienna. Of these opinions, you can take your , I found here a pleasing mixtureof old and new. And as far as first place inmedicine goes, there is ten times as muchmaterial as you could use in a lifetime, andten times as many brilliant young and fam-ous older men, as you could ever expect towork with, both in Vienna and Berlin. While the past fairly bristles with greatnames (and Rokitansky, Hyrtl, Hebra, Bill-roth, and Nothnagel may be mentionedamong this number), neverthe
. Glimpses of medical Europe. the last few years;that if you want a live, up-to-date town, youmust come to Vienna. Of these opinions, you can take your , I found here a pleasing mixtureof old and new. And as far as first place inmedicine goes, there is ten times as muchmaterial as you could use in a lifetime, andten times as many brilliant young and fam-ous older men, as you could ever expect towork with, both in Vienna and Berlin. While the past fairly bristles with greatnames (and Rokitansky, Hyrtl, Hebra, Bill-roth, and Nothnagel may be mentionedamong this number), nevertheless, the presentoffers its full share of famous men in allbranches of medical work. Here are to befound Eiselsberg, Schauta and Wertheim insurgery, obstetrics and gynaecology respee- 131 MEDICAL EUROPE lively; Lorenz the orthopedist; Neusser, YonNoorden, Ortner, and Kovacs in medicine;Escherich in childrens diseases; Fuchs andSchnabel in ophthalmology; Wagner andChvostek in neurology; Riehl, Finger andEhrmann in ALL(iKMi:iNF,S KraXKEXHAVS—YlKNNA In the laboratories are Toldt and Zuker-kandle in anatomy, and Shaffer, Ebner, andRabl in histology. There are Weichselbaumin general pathology, and Paltauf in experi-mental pathology. Exner is chief of thedepartment of physiology. Of Exner, a very good story is told. Andone might mention, incidentally, that Viennais rich in medical stories. At the Univer- 132 VIENNA sity, a joke book is kept in which is writtenthe amusing answers that students have givenfrom time to time, as well as jokes that havebeen turned on the professors, as in thepresent instance. Exner, as everybody knows,suffered from goitre, which had received theusual treatment. One day at recitation,Exner asked in the course of a quiz on goitre,What is the result when the thyroid glandis removed.^ Why, replied the student,the patient becomes an idiot. In allcases .^ asked Exner. Yes, Professor,the student replied, earnestly; in everyinstance. Another story
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