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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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7 andone on which hangs much of practical in-terest for future medical science. A visitto suburban Zaandam is always in order asevery traveller wants to see where Peterthe Great donned the attire of a commonworkman and sought to learn the m3Tsteriesof Dutch ship building, in order tostrengthen the mnritime power of Russia.When in Zaandam tourists can scarcely seeanything for the numberless windmills. Injourneying from there to Haarlem thesedominate everything but the dikes. Thewooden shoes, baggy trousers, and strangehead-gear of the men and the equally fan-tastic costumes of the women are everywhere in evidence. Ever3Tbody there seemsto work, but the women and dogs are thechief beasts of burden. All the farmerstry to own a number of dogs to do theirheavy work, but when too poor to buy thesethey do not hesitate at yolking up theirwives and daughters to the carts, andplows, cr loading them up with immensebaskets filled with produce to carry to mar- 141
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142 ket. When not thus employed every wo-man in that country keeps hard at work,anyway, cleaning and scrubbing them-selves and homes. Nowhere else in theworld is there so much elbow-grease putinto the scrubbing of floors, doors, or fur-niture. This kind of work seems to be aperfect mania anions them. The great in-dustry around Haarlem is the raising of lilyand other bulbs for foreign gardens. In theseason of flowers the country around Haar-lem is one vast flower garden. From thereto L/e)Tden is a monotonous repetition ofdikes, dogs, ditches, and dams, with wind-mills by the hundred. The great attractionof Leyden is its university. The Leyden jarof the electrician got its name from here,Here Boerhaave first used the thermometerfor clinical purposes, and here he estab-lished the first successful clinics at a uni-versity in order to facilitate the educationof medical students. Here he gave thefirst special lectures on ophthalmology andhere, in his clinic, he compelled Peter theGreat to a

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