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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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Grounds of the Charite buttress the Stadtbahn. There are beautifulnew buildings here, notably the new Patho-logical Institute, which has for its equal onlyone other such building in the world and thatthe new Rockefeller Institute for MedicalResearch, in New York. There are also herebuildings so old that you fear lest your feetgo through the planking as you walk thewards, and the smells that arise on a hot day 9G
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Rudolph Yirchow BERLIN make you wonder if they were ever ventilated.But it is these same old buildings that call thestudent of medical history first to the Charite,for here was made much of the German medi-cine that we from the West come to seek. Personally, I am not at all romantic, butwhen for the first time I came upon the oldweather-beaten building, with its now crumb-ling plaster-walls, where Rudolph Virchowerected the frame-work of cellular pathologyfor all scientific medicine to build upon, Istood for a full hour with my hat in my hand,my mind struggling to grasp the secret of hisachievements. And when finally I came backto earth I had no desire to go through thenew Institute across the way, but reservedthat visit for another day and went slowlyhomeward. The foundation of the Charite dates fromthe year 1710. The cause of the erection ofthe first building was the outbreak of theplague in Prussia, in 1709, but the plaguespared Berlin, and the building was used asa poor-house and

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