The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-04
r" HEALING Art.

THE HEALING ART.
How It ii Studied and Praotissd At the
University Of vdenns
W. s. Kisselburgh to Tie Troy finies
There is probably no school in tho
world which affords such extraordinary
Opportunities for the education of ply
sicians is the university ST Vienna: The
general hospital attached Is the dni-
Yersity covers an area ST sixty acres les
timatedl and: all elm jos are. held with
in it's bounds, so that it will be under.
stood the instruction is chiefly demon
strative, and most of the lectures are il
Illustrated by ward and out door patients.
Hospital wards contain 5000 BEDS the
most of which are occupied, and The
enormous mass of material thus afford
ed for the purposes of study and OBJ
servation is not surpassed anywhere.
Post mortems are made upon all who
die in the hospital and the leichen kam
mer or dead-house presents busy
scene of anatomical investigation each
morning from 8 to 10 o'clock, in which
hundreds of students take hand in
the dissection of the various parts of
the human body. I should advise
you, my dear friend, in your pro.
jected trip to Vienna to forego visit
to this p5rtidn IF the Institution; for to
1ayman lsichen kamner can have few
attractions. If, however, you get the
opportunity do not neglect to attend,
under the guidance of some one of the
many American physicians who are al
ways to be found here perfecting them
selves in special departments of their
profession in some one of the many
clinics connected with the university.
There, for instance, is tho clinic of Pro-
lessor Billroth, the most successful alb
domina1 surgeon in the world. You
may not understand word he says in
his lectures, but you will observe him
operate and see the wonderful dexterity
with which he handles the knife. Twice
within the last two weeks he performed,
before his class, the operation of exect-
ing the pyloric end of the stomach
actually cutting away portion of that
organ and sewing the intestine to it
and in both GASES the patients have
progressed so far oh the road to recovery
that there is now no doubt Of their
ultimate restoration to health: It is
not a good day for, Billroth when he
does not have ;. an ovarian tumor
or some other malignant growth to
remove from the abdominal regions.
There, too, is DR.. Baun's gyneocolog-
ical clinic, illustrated by from ten to
twenty cases, from childbirth to prolap-
sus, with operations, every. day.. DR..
Storck's clinic-devoted to the throat
and it's organs-is especially interesting.
The morning I visited it there we're at
least fifty patients awaiting treatment
for diseases of the throat in all their
varying forms. The patients are sepa-
rately examined by each student and
then are passed over to the hands of DIR.
Storck, who determines the exact nature
of the disease, and prescribes the treat
ment, which the students administer.
On this particular morning the profess
or has arranged a most instructive
exhibition for his class-haV-
ing secured the presence, of singer
from the opera house, who. submitted
her throat to a careful instrumental in
spectiop, and while thus exposed dis
playing the beautiful operation of the
vocal chords when agitated, as in the
act of singing, to the gaze of tho be-
holder. wish I could describe the
complex movements of those chords as
they were subjected to this novel test,
but I can only assure you that nothing
more wonderful or beautiful can be i'm
agined than this exhibition proved to
be. The various clinics on the eye and
ear are regarded by students here
as far superior to any others in Europe.
For the diseases of the skin no place
offers such advantages as Vienna. DIR.
Kaposi, the son-in law and successor of
the great Hebra, holds d clinic daily
from to 10 A. NJ: The patients pass
before the class in an almost nude state,
while the doctor gives short lecture
on each grou p or form of skin affection
before them for observation: There
are out of list of about 1900 students
at the university something like $50
Americans in attendance upon the vari-
Gus clinics. The most of them are men
who have been in successful practice at
home, and some have even attained en-
inence in special departments, such as
surgery, but have come here to avail
themselves Of the superior advantages
afforded for acquiring more scientific
knowledge of particular branches of
their profession. Several ladies are
among the number Of students-the
Misses Allen and Dexter, of Philadel-
phia; Miss Sargent, daughter of the ex-
Senator from California and Minis
ter to Berlin; Miss Gailbraith, of Penn
sylvania, and Miss Dorsey, of Massa-
chusetts. They ale all making remark
able progress in their studies, and look
forward to useful if not eminent careers.