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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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ch that covers awide range of medical thought, and has beenof the greatest service to mankind. Mesnil,Besredka, Laveran (the discoverer of the mala-ria Plasmodium) and other great men are foundworking at the benches in this department. The Chemical Institute we are taken acrossthe street to see. If we are fortunate, Jupillehimself may be our guide and may point outto us the bronze statue representing his ownstruggle with a mad dog. Jupille has thehonor of being the only concierge in Paris whohas his own statue within the portal which heguards. At the Chemical Institute we visitfirst the laboratories of Etard and Bertrand,which are used only for research work. Buthere are also the teaching laboratories incharge of Professor Duclaux. The course inbio-chemistry was transferred here from theSorbonne in 1889, and here are given coursesin practical analysis of physiologic and patho-logic products. A number of Americanshave availed themselves of the opportunityoffered for work here. 172 y...
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¥■ Chemistry Institute PARIS I liad no letter of introduction to Metchni-koff, but he received me most graciously. Heis a fine physical tyj)e of man and most genial.He wears long hair and a beard. Both arewell streaked with gray. He impresses youas a strong man both mentally and physically. The career of Metchnikoff has been aninteresting one. He was born in Russia, sixty-two years ago. It was in Russia that hereceived his preliminary schooling, but hisadvanced study he did in Germany. In 1870,when twenty-five years of age, he went backto Odessa to take the chair of Zoology. Hehad done the ordinary things well. The greatthings came twelve years later. In 1882, atMessina, he made the first observations thathave led to the most brilliant and interestingchapter that we have in pathology; phagocy-tosis. This conception of battle between thewhite blood corpuscles and bacteria has beenone of the most dramatic pictures in the wholehistory of medicine. This discovery came at a most opportu

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