New-York tribune., 1901-07-15
DOCTORS ON A WORLD TOUR
PARTY OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS
AND SURGEONS TO VISIT MANY
FOREIGN CITIES.

A number OF the leading physicians and sur
tour OF the world. In the party Drs.
Nicholas Sem, Jacob Frank, D. r. Brewer, all
or Chicago, and William Mcdowell Mastin, OF
Mobile. Ala. They expect to visit nearly all the
principal cities Of the world and to hold clinics
IN many places before their tour is ended. There
are some important medical congresses to be
held IN foreign countries before their return to
this country, and it is thought they will be pres
ent at those congresses. in order that they may
be able to report to medical colleges and asso-
Citations here any advancenents in medical sci
ence revealed at the meetings.
In the minds OF many medical practitioners
here this tour around the world may have con-
SIDERABLE weight in placing the practitioner
abroad with medical diploma from repu-
table American college a higher plane. and
In obtaining for him the recognition which he
Is denied in many countries. The reason that
holders of medical and dental diplomas from
American colleges treated with scant cour-
tesy by some foreign medical boards when they
seek to practise in the territory within the
jurisdiction of those boards is on account of
the many medical and dental mills that were
permitted to live and thrive here for some time.
So far be learned. of the MEM
pers OF the party set out with the avowed pur-
pcs of speaking before certain foreign medical
graduates of American medical and dental
schools. 1t Is peculiar coincidence. however.
that Chicago. which is said to have done
more than any other city to bring dis
credit abroad on the medical and dental
schooi systems here. Is more largely rep
resented In the party than any other city.
Efforts have been frequently made for the for
nation Of an international medical board which
shall be kept in constant touch with the vari-
Gus medical institutions, and one OF whose OBJ
jects shall be to obtain for the holder of a
diploma of reputable school similar rights in
all parts Of the world In some countries the
graduates from the schools of those countries
seem to be able to obtain more courteses from
the medical boards there than holders of other
diplomas.
1t Is expected that the members OF the party
VIII hold their first clinic in London in few
days. These clinics which have been arranged
VIII afford 10 them. 1t is said a splendid oppor-
tunity for studying certain diseases which are
more prevalent in foreign countries than here
IT is further said that the members of the party
expect to meet at these clinics some of the lead
Ing physicians abroad and have interchange
Of ideas with them regarding the best methods
Of treating cases under observa ton and other
cases of interest. This tour will also probably
afford the members many opportunities Of see
ing foreign specialists at work in many lines Of
research and OF hearing from their own lips
about the progress Of their labors ard of what
they hope to accomplish. The foreigners will
also have a chance OF seeing American physi-
clans and surgeons at work IN the clinics and of
learning from them something about the efforts
for he advancement Of rnedcai-sciencc@ being
madc In this country.
DR. Sem is one OF the hest known surgeons In
this country. He has crossed the ocean many
times, and while abroad ne visited many hospi-
tails and clinos The subject Of one of his we'll
known books is -Four Months Among the Sur
geons Of Europe" In May. 1895 he was ap-
pointed chief surgeon Of the 9th United States
Army Corps. with the rank OF neutenant-col-
onel, United States Volunteers, and chief of the
operating staff with the army in the field. For
some years he has been professor of practical
and clinical surgery in the Rush Medical College.
and also professor of surgery of the Chicag go
Poly clinic. Or. Brewer is professor of mental
diseases and therapeutics In the Rush Medical
College. and also professor OF nervous diseases
In the Womans Medical College. the Northwest
ern University and the Post Graduate School OF
Chicago. DR.. Jacob Frank is one OF the attend
ing surgeons of the German Hospital ST Eliza
beths Hospital, Home for Aged Jews and the
Polyclinc OF Chicago. DR.. William Mcdowell
Mastin is a physician and surgeon. He was at
one time house surgeon of the hospital of the
University Of Pennsylvania and the Wills Eve
Hospital. Philadelphia He is attending surgeon
and opthalmologist TO the City Hospital at Mo
bile.