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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f the surgery here. Appendicitis is verycommon in Sweden. In one ward nearlyevery patient was minus his appendix. Manyof the patients had also a general peritonitis.We saw one man, a student, who was a monu-ment to the care and skill of Swedish surgery.He had had a gangrenous appendicitis withdiffuse purulent peritonitis. Several metresof gangrenous small intestine had been re-moved and he had been thoroughly cleanedout and plenty of fistulse left so that he wouldhave no work to do for himself. He was beingfed through a gastric fistula and evacuatedthrough a faecal fistula. There was also ahepatic fistula. It was the third day afterthe operation that we saw him, and he con-versed with us in English. He said he had asister in Cornell University, at Ithaca, NewYork. He was being fed on a well-knownAmerican infants food. The combinationmade us feel much at home. Wedo better surgery here in Scandinaviathan is done anywhere else in Europe, saidDr. Lennanders assistant to us naively, but 54
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UP SAL A it is hard work. And he shrugged hisshoulders, as though he thought the gamewas hardly worth the candle. Not the least interesting part of our visitto Upsala was Professor Gullstrands eyeclinic. Gullstrand is a tall, thin man, nothandsome, but one who wins your confi-dence in a very few moments of conversation.You feel intuitively after being with himthat you have met a great man. He spokeEnglish. At least he said, *If you will waittwo moments, I will dispose of you. There is no better eye clinic in all the worldthan this of Gullstrands in this sleepy oldtown of Upsala. There is no detail lackingin equipment; nothing that is not essentiallymodern; nothing but the best. Things thatGullstrand has himself given to science wereshown to us modestly. We looked at ourselves in the uncanny glowof the mercury vapor light that Gullstranduses for determining haemorrhages of theretina. We saw much complicated apparatusthat we were incapable of understanding, forthis laboratory is in trut

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