Identifier: lettersfromforei00eccl (find matches)
Title: Letters from foreign lands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Eccles, R. G. (Robert Gibson), 1848-1934
Subjects: History of Medicine Physicians
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Medical Fortnightly
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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\It was at Dole, a small village near here,in which Pasteur was born, and about mid-way between here and Clermont, in Ville-franche, that Claude Bernard, the greatpathologist and anatomist, was born. AsGeneva is the most common entrance toSwitzerland, by tourists coming directlyfrom Paris, it will be well to advise all whoanticipate taking such a trip to study ahistory of Geneva in advance, for no whereelse has so much of literary, scientific, andhistoric interest been concentrated. Scarce-ly a great name of the past half milleniumcan be found whose bearer has not spentsome time in this remarkable city. Thebeauty of its situation is common knowl-edge and needs no repetition at this time. Returning once moie to the considerationof Western France, from which our historicnarrative carried us, we will take a hasty
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91 glance at the chief points of interest thatwere visited, learn what connections the)-had with the evolution of medical science,and see something- of the people and theirways. In taking that part of our tour weentered France, from England, by wa)T ofSouthampton, the Channel Islands, and St.Malo. We visited Mont St. Michel to seeits strangely placed abbe), perched on thesummit of the huge, conical rock wherehouses cling all around the sides and base,and to see its wonderful tide that, whenrising, rushes over mtny miles of sand)--beach faster than a horse can run. We sawthe curious St. Servan bridge, on stilts,that carries passengers acioss the ba)7 aswould a ferry boat. We watched the near-by bathers, and the public Baigneurs,who are all men, caring for the ladies, whoventure into deep water, and teaching themhow to swim. We interested ourselves inthe Octroi and their methods of collect-ing taxes on all sorts of goods that arecarried into the cities for sale. In theUnited States we k

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