Identifier: glimpsesofmedica00thom (find matches)
Title: Glimpses of medical Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Thompson, Ralph L. (Ralph Leroy), 1872-
Subjects: Medicine Medicine Education, Medical Travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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TYPES OF AMERICAN STUDENT. The Friedrichstrasse Bahnhof is in the centre of Berlin. On one side of it is the Central Hotel, and in the Central Hotel is the Restaurant Heidelburger. A man at the door, clothed in a brown uniform, touches his cap to you and says, Mahlzeit, as you enter. You pass through a number of rooms filled with tables at which sit the types of men and women that will soon become familiar to you, and you glance enviously at the tall steins of Muenchener and Pilsener and the plates of wurst and cotelette and schnitzel. Then you lose your way, and you say something to a waiter who doesn't understand your speech but who smiles and pilots you to a stairway; you ascend and enter a big room and presto — you are no longer in Germany (except for the steins), for here is English speech and familiarly cut clothes and smooth faces and the radiance of good cheer that can come only from a group of fellow-countrymen, far from home, who are united by the firm band of fellowship in medical study.
This is the Anglo-American Medical Association of Berlin, a society organized in 190 3by Dr. J. H. Honan, of Berlin, for the purpose of promoting the interests of Anglo-Americans seeking courses in medicine in Berlin. It is needless to say that Berlin is a big city; that its customs are not our customs; that its clinics and laboratories are not all in one place; and that a man, coming to Berlin for the first time, with no definite knowledge as to just what men or what courses he wants,can waste many valuable days, or weeks, in getting settled down to his work. It is the idea of the Society to obviate this waste of time as much as possible by giving the newcomer a clear idea of the various courses given, both privately and by the university;the cost, value, duration, and time of commencement of the same; to tell him what to avoid (for there are courses to be avoided, even in Berlin), and to extend the hand of good fellowship to the lonesome.

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