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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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hotand cold water every hour of the twenty-four. And besides Tilly is there to motheryou and to see that there are no holes inyour socks. There are many of us who willalways have a soft spot in our hearts for-Tillchen. Roughly speaking there are two parts ofthe city where medical men live. They eithergo far into the West End, or else camp downin the so-called Latin Quarter, at the doorsof the principal clinics. The West End isbeautiful; the houses are roomy and wellkept, there are lots of fresh air and flowers,and everywhere about are open-air cafesand gardens where one can hear good musicas one drinks his evening beer. But the 01 MEDICAL EUROPE West End is unhandy, it is so far from allthe clinics. Street-car service in Berlin isadequate, but it is slow. If one lives near theZoological Garden he can get to Friedrich-strasse quite quickly by the Stadtbahn, butthen one must take a bus or a car to get tohis clinic. When I lived in the West End Ifigured on killing an hour each trip, and
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Park of the Ciiarite—Church at right frequently I was longer getting to my work.The expense of urban travel is, however,very little. One can get a Stadtbahn ticketgood for as many rides as one chooses to takefrom the first of one month to the first of thenext, for three marks (72 cts.). The regulartariff on the street cars is a little less than halfour fare (ten pfennigs). One can travel quitea distance on an omnibus for five pfennigs—a fraction over one cent. 92 BERLIN For convenience and proximity to work itis perhaps wiser to live in the ^LateiniscliViertel, even though some of the houses beohler and darker, and—mayhap—more noisy.No))ody stays in the house in the eveninghere, anyway—unless it is some weak-mindedAmerican who has promised to write Berlinletters to his editor at home. We can boundthis student territory rouglily by Invaliden-strasse and Dorotheenstrasse on the northand south respectively, and extending betweenWilhelm Ufer and Grosse Hamburgerstrasse.Those who

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