The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-01
Prof. Truffier Makes Compare
son to Detriment Of the
French Methods.
THE DIFFERENCE Is BASIC
FsvOrs Autonomy Of Hospitals
Instead Of Centralized
System.
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PARIS. Feb. 2s.---Prof. Trufiier. who has
Just returned here from visit 20 the
chief American hospitals, delivered n lee
ture on Thursday on French and Amerl-
can surgery. For patriotic reasons ne
preferred to compare the methods Of the
surgeons Of the two countries rather than
insist on American superiority. which In
q two hour discourse he virtually admitted.
Prof. Truffier said the main difference
was . radical one. The American hos
pitals were autonomous. while the French
Institutions were centralized and all de-
pended on the Assistance Publique. Au-
tonomy. he said. permitted the Immediate
appreciation OF new ideas and tests on
n small scale. 1t spread knowledge and
the hospitals brought the wealthy In
closer contact with the poor.
Prof Truffier contrasted the 100000
given In America to various hospitals In
1912 with the $4,000 given by the AZ.
eistance Publlque A hospital admins
traitor in the United States, he said. Ii
not a fupctionary. He holds q position
which Il much sought after and next to
having had an ancestor on the Mayhower
or being a trustee OF Harvard University.
Il 10 the greatest source OF pride. Such
men. Prof Trufier said. become experts
whose advice in arranging hospitals Is
most valuable.
Praises U. 3. Laboratories.
A great advantage TO American sur
geons he said, Is that their assistants re-
main with them = long time. DR.. Gushing
was seventeen years with Or. Halstead.
and finally spent over ten years at Johns
Hopkins University. The brothers Mayo.
at Rochester. Mimi. have assistants who
are growing gray. while the French change
A.l- Ill -
professor said that the superiority Of
American Laboratories for scientific sur
gerry was inoontestable.
Prof. Truffier expressed great praise OF
the Rockefeller Institute. lie gave I'M
bounded thanks for Its results in n ma
ton which was once responsive only to
business. but has now become seized with
a passion for science" The Pasteur In
stitute, which lacks a laboratory for ex-
perimental surgery. is. he said. unable to
compare with the Rockefeller Institute.
Outlines wide Project.
Preliminary medical education in far
superior in France than In the United
States. in the opinion of Prof. Trufiier
France has failed TO get the advantages
which Capitalization might yield. The
Assistance pubilque In Its handling OF all
persons suffering from disease. might draw
ND the pathological history Of q man from
his birth TO his DEATH such records would
show how some diseases induce others
and some prevent others and perhaps
that cancer results from certain constant
morbid states during infancy.
Prof. Truiiier seems TO have been struck
during his last visit to the United States
by the predominance OF the Germans
whom he called an organized army which
10 longer becomes assimilated. He tried
TO md out the reason why Americans be-
came medical students In Germany and
not in France. lie was forced to con
clude from his Investigations that France
had nothing TO OFFER to post graduates.
The professor spoke in the most admir-
ing manner of the great institution of the
Mayo brothers. A chance remark that n
woman there brought him a certain docu-
ment led the professor to interpolate a
eulogy OF women's' work In the hospitals
in the United States.