Glimpses of medical Europe (1908) (14766534814)

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
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons



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emerged fromthis old loft, covered with cobwebs and dustand candle grease, I bore in my arms a loadof volumes that I had long been searching forand which the old bookseller parted with fora very modest sum. As a matter of fact I believe the good-hearted old chap rather pitied me when Iasked him if he had charged me enough, forhe said: This is all clear gain to me, sir.Ive been in this business for a good manyyears and you are the first man who evercame here looking for old Pathologies. Ihave to take the things in, in the way of lots,but I never sold any of them before. Alas^for my honored specialty! I felt depressed,despite my unearthed treasures. Buying books, by the way, is the leastbothersome thing one can do abroad, theyare so quickly disposed of. When I buy abook I have it done up securely, write myname and home address on it, stamp it, anddeposit it in the nearest post-office. Thatsall there is to it, and when I get back home thebooks are there waiting for me. All old books 200
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LIVERPOOL in Englisli, and all books not in English, go induty free, so there are no customs to bother one.Its an awful temptation to include in thiscliapter a little pilgrimage that a small butselect party of good Americans, whose in-terests are medical, made down into Wales.How they stayed at one of the cleanest andcoziest of Welsh inns ever, whose name, *Thex\ngel, was not the least of its delights. Howthey went to an old parish church and sawthe culmination of an episode that began ina Berlin pension which happened to houseat the same time a youthful American medicalman and a young and charming Welsh lady.But all of this is a secret. And far be itfrom the writer to betray confidences. Liverpool is not only journeys beginningbut sad to say it may be likewise *journeysend. I do not wish to write a final chapterfor this book, for books of travel should haveno final chapter. No more, I maintain, thanshould books of love or of science. Just asno life is wholly complete, so no story of