The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-23

months vacation trip through part
of Europe On my return I was ask
cd by your committee of arrange
ments to tell you something of my ex-
periences. / will give you first the
| itinerary of the trip and then go
somewhat more into detail from the
medical side of it. We arrived in Ma
ples from New York at the end of
March. and from there went with
| friends on an auto trip through Italy,
part of France and Germany, visiting
Rome. Florence. Bologna, Venice,
Milan. Genoa, Nice, Lyons, Strasburg
and Heidelberg; later on by train to
Frankfort on Main, Jena, Halle, Ber-
lin, Munich, Freiberg and Berne. The
trip made through these countries put
me in touch with an immense and
varied fund OF knowledge of our pro-
fession and of its advanced work. In
the business world, you know, large
firms have their agencies in most of
the large cities The American Elk
press Company prides itself on having
Offices and agents all over the world,
but if you consider the number of rep
resentatives which we, as a medical
profession, have throughout the uni
verse, where each brother physician is
an agency in himself, the business
world, after all, fails in comparison.
While travelling abroad and meeting
daily, almost, one or more of these
agents of well doors, I was received in
every instance with cordiality. 1t may
be well to state here that 1 went with
no letters of introduction, but present
ed myself. to the heads of the large
hospitals or TO any specialist whom l
wished to meet, and in no instance
was / ever refused attention. Under
sucn circumstances one is Immediately
impressed with a feeling of relation
ship which soon blossoms into extreme
interest, and finally into fnendliness
as each brother physician endeavors
to show you all that lies in his power.
1t may please you to know that the
physicians were all surprisingly eager,
too, to hear of our sub-trOpical land
and its diseases and our treatment of
the same, and | was happy to tell them
what I could of our work and life
here. This general intercourse among
physicians is of great benefit, not only
to develop the homogeneous side, but
also in the development of medicine.
/ do not know of any science SO inter
national as ours. Does not the in
creasing attendance at our information
al congresses show that there is
great desire to make medicine an in
ternational AFFAIR."
In Europe we find the field wide,
material plentiful, and all compare
lively near at hand. At the same
time one can combine study with
pleasure very conveniently. In nearly
all cases where one wishes to do hos
pital work he can commence at eight,
or earlier, in the morning and study
until noon time The half day still
remains to you for visiting art gal
leries and museums. In the evening
one attends operas, theaters and con-
certs. In this way | spent my vaca-
Heidelberg. I located for six weeks,
three of which were spent in listen
ing to a course of lectures with prae.
teal demonstrations, from seven in
the morning on through the whole day.
Then ] did practical clinical work for
three weeks longer
These courses Of lectures comprise
all branches Of medicine, and are be-
ing held at nearly all the universities
OF Germany twice a year. The teach
err of each speciality gives a critical
essay on the latest developments in
his particular branch from a practical
standpoint, and with demonstration of
cases. The courses are for the practi-
TONERS who are located in the prov
ince to which the university belongs,
and cost the sum of FIVE dollars for n
course of three weeks. Physicians
from other parts of Germany and for
eign countries pay ten cents an hour
for each course which they wish to
attend. Three American physicians,
two Russians. one Italian and two
Austrians were attending the Heidel-
berg courses at the time I was there.
These courses are naturally combining
ana OIIc0 dIuuOuS, vet, Win inc lOHSs
beautiful twilights in Northern Eu-
rope. lasting until nine at night, one
has time to go up among the wooded
hills around old Heidelberg, and enjoy
his "abendbrot out in the open air,
and there talk it all over in company
with brother physicians from every
land. The knowledge of some other
language than your own is comfort.
To refresh myself after this siren.
mons course, / took a tramp through
Switzerland where one gets close to
nature by climbing mountains and
glaciers up into the ice grottos and
down again into the great. beautiful
green valleys, living the simple life
with the people of the country. Here,
too. in Switzerland. I looked in at
Davos and st. Moritz, Justly famous
and peculiarly adapted for eonsump-
tive resorts. Both towns are situated
high up in the mountains. The people
live out in the open air amid pine for
ests and seem to thrive exceedingly
well
Naturally, I visited many hospitals
(several in Berlin). and on the whole
the impression / received is that there
is general movement to make them