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Title: Letters from foreign lands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Eccles, R. G. (Robert Gibson), 1848-1934
Subjects: History of Medicine Physicians
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Medical Fortnightly
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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This great painter is buried here,inthe Chapel of St. Jaques. From Antwerp we proceeded to Brussels,the Paris of Belgium. It is in many waysa small replica of Paris. Its Grande Placeis declared to be the finest medievalsquare in existence. Its Galerie St. Hubertand connecting- arcades constitute aspretty and attractive a shopping place asthere is in any country. Its Palais deJustice is one of the largest buildings inthe world. It occupies more ground spacethan St. Peters at Rome and cost ten mil-lions of dollars. On the Rue Royal is thehouse in which the Duchess of Richmondgave the celebrated ball on the night beforethe battle of Waterloo, and to which Byronrefers in his poem on that battle. In thePlace d Orange there is a statue to Vesa-lius, the man who redeemed medicine andsurgery from ancient ways. He was bornhere. We have already referred to him asa professor at Padua and elsewhere. This,too, was the birthplace of van Helmont andhis statue call !)■ seen in the grain market. 144
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< d OS « cfl<! CAT. 145 He modified the system of Paracelsusinto a more acceptable type of medicalpractice. After visiting- the field of Waterloo weproceeded to Cologne, saw its renownedcathedral and the old home of Karl Marx,the great socialist, as well as a number ofthe interesting- things around and in thatcity, and then proceeded to Bonn. TheUniversity of Bonn is its chief sight. Herethe present Kmperor of German)^ wastaught, here Johannes Muller, to whom ref-erence has alread)- been made, prosecutedhis medical studies. Here Helmholtz taughtand here Iviebig, the world-famous chemist,graduated. Here, too, Karl von Noorden,now professor of Physiology at Vienna, andgreat authority on diabetes, was born.From Bonn to Mayence we sailed on thefar-famed River Rhine, saw its castles, itsvineyards, its romantic and attractive scen-ery, and its Lorlei. After a short stop atCoblenz we continued our journe3T to Bingenwhere we again made a stop and then pro-ceeded to Mayence. Coblenz is

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