The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-12-15
VIENNA.


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This city has no superiority over
Berlin as regards its medical advant-
ages, except in that they have one
immense hospital here, it was founded
in 1884, and has been added to from
time to time since; it is built in the
form of squares, a court being in the
center of each square, thus affording
direct air and sunlight to each and
every room. The courts are covered
with grass and trees, having promenade
walks through them, and benches all
about for the exercise aud rest of the
patients, who are to be seen by the
hundreds parading up and down the
courts, etc. all of them dressed in the
loosely fitting regulation hospital
clothes of blue ana white striped suits
The hospital is SO large and the courts
80 numerous that every OSttremter art
(foreign doctor) attending is furnished
with chart to enable him when lost
to find his way through the labyrinths
to the front entrance. They ran up a
large white flag on the mast over the
hospital front on the 21st of September,
that morning ending the proceeding
thirty. six hours during which time not
u blhHlC u0utu III thO hOoPithA- .
1t has been the custom to TO this since
the hospital was founded, but since it
has grown 80 large the time between
the raising of the white flags has natur.
ally grown longer, this being the firsl
raising of the flag since seventeen
years.
Prot. Blllroth holds the surgica
clinics at the hospital, he is considered
the greatest surgeon of Austria, hold
ing the position in the estimation ot
the people here that Prof. Won Langen
beck, now deceased, did i'll Berlin
Langenbeck fame was such that hi'
instruments were bought up at fabu-
lous prices and held as mementoes
some OF them can be seen in differen
store windows in Berlin and many
even here in the windows labeled, "al
instrument used by Prof. Won Langen
beck"
The University is architectually on,
of the most striking buildings in cit!
full of architectural surprises. Th,
outer part is of stone, the inside
entirely of marble, not pillar, column
or floor of aught else. The double
flight of steps leading to the mail
entrance has been skillfully made
part OF the general design, and with il
beautiful carvings and fountains on tn
open ground in front of it, is quit
unique. Within, the vestibule has
floor of variegated marbles. leading u
to the marble grand stairway which i
massive and imposing The first foo
is devoted entirely TO the exhibition
galleries which are lighted from th
roof; in the second and third storie
are tue lecture rooms and the medica
museum. From the tower and balco
nies the student has beautiful view o
the surrounding city, the neighborin
hills and the charming scenery. /
fifteen minutes interval exists betwee
lectures, during which the student
march TO the third floor where the mex
lecture is held, marching down agai
at the end of the hour to the following
lecture which is given on the secon
floor, thus alternating throughout tn
day; this plan is to enable them t.
move about and stretch themselves 70
short while. The faculty boast tina
their building is so large that thei
5000 students are not 50 crowded a
to have to sit one on top of another i
the lecture rooms; they have to sit OH
beneath the other, however, whic
amounts to the same. L luckily go
here few days before the opening G
Il University ,matriculated immediate
ly and thus secured one OF the bes
seats on the front row in BillrOth'
surgical amphitheater at the hospital
and a near one in all of the professors
lecture rooms at the University, thi
being a great advantage, for the furthe
up in the rows one gets the more head
he has to look over and through. an
some OF them none OF the thinnest
and those gents who came late an
who consequently Lave to roost wa
up on the top rows, all have oper
glasses through which to witness tn
operations and demonstrations. The
tell on BilIroth that a prominent ma
of this city once went to him about
| troublesome stomach, his stomach wa
all wrong. he had no appetite, etc
Billroth put him to sleep with chloro
form, took out his stomach, washed il
aud hung it out of the third stor
window to dry, a puff OF wind blew
down just as a puppy came around til
corner, who immediately grabbed it
BiIlroth hallooed at him from tn
window, rushed down the steps an
ont OF the building, but only streak {
dust showed the track the puppy ha
LETT behind him. Billroth was horrO
struck, what if that man should awake
and find his stomach gone? Remem
hering a pig he had in the yard VIII
ate four times his own bulk of foo
thrice daily, he determined that pi
o should divide; he rushed for the pig
cut out halt his stomach, patched hiI
up as good as new. took the other ha
and sewed it in the place of his oil
one. When the man awoke he remark
ed that his stomach felt fresh and flint
but his appetite for potato peelings an
slop was marvellous.
A FEW ITEMS ABOUT THIS CITY.
The church of Saint Stephen is I'll
most important edifice in Vienna. j
erection began in 1918 and finished
1910, the sOnth tower was completed
l45O, the building of the north tow'