Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-09
America Takes The Lead
In Medical Science
New York Passes Even Vienna in Facilities for Ply
sicians and Surgeons of POST
Graduate Study Leaves Europe far Behind.


logne of a postgraduate medical
school is another instance of the much
talked uf American Invasion OF
Europe which is disturbing the CID,
world traditions OF science as we'll as
of commerce. The Cologne Institution
is the direct result of the foundation
in 1882 of the New York Post Graduate
Medical School and the new methods
of medical instruction first introduced
IN this country at that time are now
being initiated in London and in Ger.
many, the land which for years has
been regarded by Americans as the
home of science.
AS matter of fact the dGy when
American students in every profession
thought it necessary to finish their ed.
ucation abroad has passed. The
famous institutions of the old world
still hold mech CT their fascination
but the opportunity to study at Ok
ford afforded by the requests of Cecil
Rhodes, the African empire-builder,
aroused much less enthusiasm in this
country than 1t would have even ten
years ago. Formerly every American
scholar yearned for the classic halls
of Oxford and Cambridge. or tie
atmosphere of solid learning Sur
rounding Heidelberg, Strassburg
Bonn and other German universities
The professional man felt himself
handicapped unless he had the pres.
tlge of year or two under some
celebrated European teacher.
ALI this is changed now. Even in
the arts, though musicians still flock
to Vienna and Berlin and archi.
tects and painters To the famous
schools of Paris. the States" are
steadily providing more and better
facilities, while in those sciences
concerned directly with practical
life American ingenuity has been
as successful as in everyday business.
Nowhere, perhaps, is this develop
ment so strllingly seen as in the field
OF medicine and surgery. American
surgeons are ALREADY recognized as
d
center New York now ranks with
Berlin and Vienna. Oxford has re.
Gently called to . prominent chair
one of our leading physicians.
The manon-the-strcet who suddenly
discovers that he needs a physician is
not usually in a mood conductive to
curiosity as to how his physician OBJ
tained the knowledge necessary to
cure him, and in the outside world
the problems of medical training have
aroused little interest compared with
the Importance of their results.
Three things are necessary for
the successful study of modern medi.
cine-gOod teachers, many and varied
cases from which to learn by per-
sonal observation, and adequate va
cilities for treating these cases by
advanced methods. 1t is the abund-
ance of all these essentials that has
made New York prominently one
Of the worlds medical centers.
New York is not only the largest
city Of America and the second largest
i'll the world; 1t is the dumping.
ground for thousands of immigrants
brought each year to our shores. Here
hundreds of them stay, among them
many incapable Of going elsewhere.
or every race on the face of the globe
and reared on all kinds of food and
under all kinds Of circumstances. the
most stringent laws and examinations
Camlat prevent their bringing with
them at least the possibilities OF
every kind of illness, But the more
undesirable a man is as a citizen the
more useful he is likely to be to the
medical student and cases Of disease
are seen daily III New YORK which
would not come to the notice Of a
physician in smaller place once a
year It is not immigrants alone who
provide work for New York physi-
clans, Every ailment that flesh Is
heir to, whether il comes from the
Over-taxed nerves Of the rich or the
under4aourished bodies of the poor
is to be met with here In addition,
the revolution that is being effected
in the city by the expenditure. OF
s2O0,000,000 in railroad and terminal
improvements the erection of SKY
sCrapers and bridges, brings in its
dents which also provide varied ex,
perience for surgeons. Perhaps the
only city which can be compared to
New York in the variety of the field
for medical work Is Vienna AMI
Vienna was for years the cynosure OF
medical eyes. London, a larger city
than either. has not the diversity
OF population that characterizes New
York and Vienna and the same
objection carries weight in the case
Of Paris and Berlin.
The Wilderness Of the reld and the
abundance Of good to be accomplished
in it has resulted in bringing to New
York and in keeping here medical men
whose ability and standing are recog.
nized the world over The names Of
practitioners In the Boroug Of Manhat.
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