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VIENN \ AFTER 
 THIRTY- FOUR YEARS 
 
 BY 
 
 WILLIAM OSLER, M.D. 
 
 Regitu Prqfettor of Medicine 
 at the Umvertity of Oxford, Oxford, England 
 
VIENNA 
 AFTER THIRTY-FOUR YEARS* 
 
 I SPENT the first four months of 1874 here. 
 I came from Berlin with Hutchinson, an 
 Edinburgh man (Sir Charles F., who has re- 
 cently died), and we 1'" d together near the All- 
 gemeines Krankenhaus. \s illustrating the total 
 blotting out of certain memories, particularly 
 for places, I may mention that strolling to-day 
 up the Alserstrasse I could not recall the street, 
 much less the house, where we had lived for the 
 four months. I found my way readily enough to 
 the Riedhoff, where we were in the habit of din- 
 ing, and where I first met my old friends, Fred 
 Shattuck, E. H. Bradford, E. G. Cutler and 
 G. K. Sabine of Boston. An extraordinary de- 
 velopment has taken place in the city within 
 thirty years, and I scarcely recognized the Ring- 
 strasse. Then, only the foundations of the new 
 university buildings and of the Rathaus had 
 been begun. Now these, with the parliament 
 house, the cour^^s of justice, the twin museums 
 of art and natural history and the new Bourg 
 
 * Reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association, 
 60: 1623. 1908. 
 
8 
 
 VIENNA 
 
 Theater, form a group of buildings unrivaled in 
 any city. 
 
 THE GERMAN CONGRESS FOR INTERNAL MEDICINE 
 
 Tlie primary object of my visit was to attend 
 the Congress fur Innere 3fedizin, and I had the 
 pleasure of having with me my old student and 
 friend. Dr. Joseph H. Pratt of Boston. We 
 reached Vienna in time for the preliminary Sun- 
 day evening social gathering in the Kursu. jf 
 the City Park. Here we foc nd a greeting in tn-- 
 German fashion and a hearty welcome from the 
 president, Professor MuUer of Munich. The 
 work of the congress began at sharp 9:30 on 
 Monday morning with a discussion on the "Re- 
 lation of the Diseases of the Female Generative 
 Organs to Internal Maladies." Unfortunately, 
 the large University Hall, in which the meeting 
 was held, was most unsuitable. Though seated 
 not very far away. Professor Rosthorn's remarks 
 were almost inaudible. It is a miserable mistake 
 in introducing a discussion on any subject to 
 speak for more than half an hour, but to continue 
 for an hour and a quarter is too much for human 
 endurance, and a great many did not wait for 
 Professor Lenhartz's discussion of the problem 
 from the standpoint of internal medicine. Noth- 
 
AFTER THIRTY-FOUR YEARS 
 
 ing new was brought out, and so far as I could 
 gather, Professor Rosthorn took much the same 
 ground as Clifford Allhutt in his well-known 
 Goulstonian lectures dealing with the intimate 
 relationship through the sympathetic nervous 
 system of the generative functions with those of 
 the other organs. 
 
 Quite an animated discussion followed, in 
 which Stintzing, Turban, Klemperer and others 
 took part. Dr. Singer read a most interesting 
 paper on "Intestinal Diseases in the riimac- 
 teric," calling attention particularly to ' Vequent 
 hemorrhages which he had known to arouse sus- 
 picion of malignant disease. 
 
 In the evening the city fathers gave a mt-gnif i - 
 cent banquet to the congress in the superb hall 
 of the Rathaus. At three long tables were seated 
 some 600 guests. 
 
 On Tuesday morning Professor Neisser of 
 Breslau opened the discussion on the "Present 
 Position of the Pathology and Therapy of Syph- 
 ilis." This was a splendid address, delivered with- 
 out notes, in a good clear voice, and the subject 
 matter arranged in a most order' ^ manner. He 
 dealt particularly with the three points brought 
 out by recent investigations — Schaudinn's dis- 
 covery of the spirochete, the discovery of Metch- 
 
4 VIENNA 
 
 nikoff that apes could be infected, and the dis- 
 covery of Schaudinn that the fluids of infected 
 persons reacted specifically. He dealt very fully 
 with his own experimental work in Java, much 
 of which has appeared, but it was particularly 
 interesting to hear the relation of the extraor- 
 dinary influence of atoxyl on the infected ani- 
 mals. It acts as a specific and prevents the devel- 
 opment of the spirochetes, so that if given soon 
 the disease could be completely stopped, and 
 later the animal reinfected. Neisser was followed 
 by Professor Wassermann, who described with 
 great clearness his studies on the specific reac- 
 tion. We have now apparently a diagnostic 
 means by which the presence of the disease may 
 be definitely determined at a very early stage. 
 As the reaction may be present before secondary 
 symptoms appear, it will have a very important 
 influence in early treatment. The general expres- 
 sion of opinion is very favorable to the method. 
 Professor Finger spoke o^ it to me in the warm- 
 est terms. It persists after all clinical symptoms 
 have disappeared, and a positive response in 
 locomotor ataxia and in gencidl paralysis clinches 
 the question of the true syphilitic nature of these 
 maladies. Both Neisser's and Wassermann's 
 addresses were models. 
 
.FTER THIRTY-FO^'. "EARS 6 
 
 One of the most import*-; ; communications 
 of the congress was from von Noorden's clinic. 
 Two of his assistants have been carrying on re- 
 searches on the "Mutual Relations of the Pan- 
 creas and Thyroid." For many years von Noor- 
 den has had the idea that there was some impor- 
 tant mutual influence between these two organs. 
 The remarkable fact comes out that in animals 
 frc ^ which t} • thyroid gland has been rem vcd 
 it is impossibl o produce diabetes by any of the 
 known methods, not even by the Claude Ber- 
 rird pii. fjrure of the medulla. 
 
 Of the third day of the congress I saw but 
 little. Professor Schmidt of Halle introduced a 
 discussion on "New Clinical Methods of Investi- 
 gating the Functions of the Intestine," in which 
 he went over his recent work very fully, most 
 of which has already been referred to in The 
 Journal. 
 
 DINNER TO THE CONGRESS 
 
 At the dinner of the congress His threw out 
 the interesting suggestion (apropos of the pres- 
 ence of Grunbaum and Trevelyan from Leeds, 
 Pratt from Boston, Barr from Portland, Ore., 
 and myself), that the time had come to have an 
 International Congress for Internal Medicine. 
 
6 VIENNA 
 
 The physiologists, the laryngologists, the alien- 
 ists and others have such gatherings, and there 
 now exist in France, Germany and Italy, Eng- 
 land and the United States special societies de- 
 voted to internal medicine. A congress once in 
 four or five years would be most helpful. We 
 should get to know each other and be able to ap- 
 preciate better the work done in different coun- 
 tries. Professor Schultze of Bonn gave his usual 
 humorous sketch of the proceedings of the con- 
 gress, which was greatly appreciated. A ripple of 
 excitement spread around the tables when it was 
 noticed that the places in the orchestra of the 
 pianist and the first violin had been taken by von 
 Neusser and His. The members gathered around 
 the elevated gallery and the distinguished artists 
 were greeted with loud applause and had a 
 vigorous encore. 
 
 THE VIENNA LIBRARIES 
 
 Prof. Max Neuburger, whose name is so well 
 known in association with Pagel as editor of the 
 '' Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin," very 
 kindly arranged to show me the points of inter- 
 est in the Vienna libraries. I may mention, by 
 the way, that Professor Neuburger's new work 
 on the "History of Medicine," of which one 
 
AFTER THIRTY-FOUR YEARS 7 
 
 volume has appeared, is being translated and 
 will be published from the Oxford University 
 Press. He expects to have Volume II completed 
 this year, and we hope to issue the English edi- 
 tion complete in one volume within the next 
 fifteen months. I was greatly interested to see 
 the new home of the Wiener medizinische Ge- 
 sellschaft, built under the presidency of Billroth, 
 which combines features of a library, a club and 
 meeting place. The auditorium is exceptionally 
 well arranged with seats for 300, and there is a 
 large gallery. The library now numbers more 
 than 40,000 volumes and is very rich in current 
 periodicals. The university library is one of the 
 largest in the city, and the arrangement in it for 
 the accommodation of the medical students 
 seems to be excellent. At the time of our visit 
 the section of the reading room assigned to them 
 was nearly full. A room has been set aside in con- 
 nection with the medical faculty for the collec- 
 tion of all the literature relating to the history of 
 the school, for the collection of the works of all 
 the famous old men connected with it, and a re- 
 pository for pictures and instruments, etc., the 
 wiiole to form a collection illustrating the evolu- 
 tion of the history of the medical department of 
 the university. This example could very well be 
 
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 VIENNA 
 
 followed in all of our medical schools. It has 
 been done to some extent at the University of 
 Pennsylvania, as William Pepper III has already 
 made large collections for this purpose. 
 
 The Hofhibliothek is unusually rich in manu- 
 scripts and early printed books. I was anxious to 
 see the copy of "Christianismi Restitutio" of 
 Michael Servetus, 1553, in which for the first 
 time the lesser circulation is described. This is 
 one of the only two known copies in existence. 
 The entire edition was confiscated, and the 
 author, at the time a practitioner in the little 
 town of Vienne, near Lyons, fled for his life to 
 Geneva. Here his heterodoxy was quite as ob- 
 noxious to Calvin, into whose hands he fell, and 
 he was burnt at the stake in the same year. The 
 "Restitutio" is one of the rare books of the 
 world. Only two of the 1,000 copies known to 
 have been printed have survived. The one in the 
 Bibliotheque Nationale originally belonged to 
 Dr. Mead, and the history is fully given in an ap- 
 pendix in Willis' work, "Servetus and Calvin." 
 The Vienna copy is in excellent preservation, 
 beautifully bound, and states on the title page 
 that it came from the library of a Transylvanian 
 gentleman living in London. It fell into the 
 hands of Count de Izek, who presented it to the 
 
AFTER THIRTY-FOUR YEARS 
 
 9 
 
 emperor of Austria. It is a thick, small octavo of 
 about 700 pages. The first one to give credit to 
 Servetus for his discovery of the lesser circu- 
 lation was Wotton, whose "Reflections Upon 
 Learning, Ancient and Modern," 1694, is a most 
 interesting book, for an introduction to which 
 I have long been grateful to my friend, Dr. 
 Norman Moore. The other work that I was most 
 anxious to see was the famous manuscript of 
 Dioscorides, prepared at the end of the fifth cen- 
 tury for Julia, daughter of the Emperor Flavins. 
 It is one of the great treasures of the library. 
 Now to us in the West only a name, Dioscorides, 
 an army surgeon of the time of Nero, fills a great 
 place in the history of medicine, and is still an 
 oracle in the Orient. He was not only a great 
 botanist, but he was one of the first scientific 
 students of pharmacology. Scores of fine edi- 
 tions of his work, with commentaries, were 
 issued in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 
 Two years ago this Vienna manuscript was re- 
 produced infac simile at Leyden. Though very 
 expensive, the two volumes costing $150, it is a 
 work which all the larger libraries should get, 
 and it is just the sort of present librarians should 
 make our wealthy consultants feel it a privilege 
 to give. 
 
10 
 
 VIENNA 
 
 THE HOSPITALS 
 
 I was surprised to hear Professor MuUer say 
 that he thought in hospital architecture Vienna 
 led the world, and that there was here a group of 
 architects who were adepts in all matters relat- 
 ing to hospital construction. I have come to his 
 conclusion, on what may appear to be very has- 
 tily acquired data. It is not often that in the 
 same day and in the same institution one passes 
 from eighteenth to twentieth century condi- 
 tions. Dr. Koessler took us to the old medical 
 clinic, now in charge of von Neusser, where I 
 found the old wards very much the same as I re- 
 member them in 1874. Except in minor details, 
 not only Oppolzer and Skoda, but probably also 
 Peter Frank and de Haen could return to the 
 Allgemeines Krankenhaus and not be surprised 
 by any very unfamiliar sights. There is the same 
 extraordinary wealth of clinical material. I must 
 say it was a surprise to see the old type oi nurse; 
 not, of course, that she is necessarily either unin- 
 telligent or inattentive. Indeed, as we passed a 
 bed in which there was a new patient whom the 
 junior assistant had not seen, he tur icd to one of 
 the nuises, who in reply to his question said, 
 "Yes, Herr says she has mitral stenosis 
 
AFTER THIRTY-FOUR YEARS 
 
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 and insufficiency!" I was interested to see in tiie 
 ward a ease of Pick's disease, the pericardial 
 pseudoc rhosis of the liver. The old question 
 comes up here as to priority of descripti n. In 
 the special number of the Wiener klinische 
 Wochenschrift, issued for the congress, Professor 
 von Neusser desciibes it as "Morbus Bam- 
 berger." He states that in 1872 Bamberger de- 
 scribed the condition as a special malady which 
 he had already known for a long time and which 
 up to that time had not been recognii.ed in the 
 literature. Certainly Pick desei ves credit for hav- 
 ing brought together all the known facts relating 
 to a clinical condition to which very little atten- 
 tion had been given before his paper. I had a 
 most interesting talk with Pi :nd Brauer and 
 Wenckebach on the whole question, which is 
 not one simply of pericardial adhesion. Wencke- 
 bach has helped to solve the problem in a recent 
 number of Volkman's Vortrdge in an article on 
 the "Relation Between Respiration and Circula- 
 tion." Brauer of Marburg, who is coming over 
 to the session of the American Medical Associa- 
 tion, will discuss the subject in connection with 
 his operation of cardiolysis. 
 
 If anyone interested in hospitals — in every 
 possible detail, construction, situation, general 
 
12 
 
 VIENNA 
 
 arrangements for the comfort of the patients, for 
 the convenience of the students, for the advancj- 
 meui, of science— if such an one wishes to have a 
 Queen-of-Sheba sensation, let him visit the first 
 group of the new buildings of the Allegemeines 
 Krankenhaus. They have begun the rebuilding 
 with the departments for women, and two of the 
 three clinics, for midwifery and gynecology, are 
 completed, one for Professor Schauta and the 
 other for Professor Rosthorn, recently called 
 from Heidelberg. About 10,000 deliveries a year 
 take place in the three clinics, one of which is for 
 midwives. The new clinics are exact duplicates 
 of each other, and each has accommodation for 
 about 200 patients. The buildings are of four 
 stories, a central building with wings, built of 
 brick and stucco, with spacious corridors, large 
 windows, tiled floors and white oil-finished walls. 
 Inside and out they form the most attractive 
 hospital buildings that I have ever seen. But it is 
 not so much this aspect that gives one that sink- 
 ing of the heart of v^hich the Queen of Sheba 
 complained when Solomon showed his treasures 
 —it is the organization and the completeness of 
 the arrangements for teaching and for the scien- 
 tific study of disease. One large floor is assigned 
 to students, who all live in the building while 
 
AFTER THIRTY-FOUR YEARS 
 
 IS 
 
 attending the midwifery eases. Each clinic has 
 its own laboratory, a special museum for teach- 
 ing purposes, a library and a fully equipped small 
 laboratory adjoining the gynecologic operating 
 room so that an opinion may be given immedi- 
 ately as to the nature of a growth. Down to the 
 smallest detail every care has been taken to make 
 these two clinics the most perfect of their kind, 
 and if the hospital is completed on this elabo- 
 rate plan it will, indeed, be worthy of the fame of 
 the Vienna school and there will be nothing like 
 it in Europe or America. The government foots 
 the bills, and the total cost of the two build- 
 ings has been 9,000,000 kronen ($1,800,000). 
 
 Professor Schlesinger very kindly took us to 
 the Franz Josef Hospital, also a new building, on 
 a less elaborate scale but vary complete iu all its 
 appointments. It is particularly well arranged for 
 the acute infectious diseases, and the most elabo- 
 rate precautions are taken to isolate and disin- 
 fect the patients. Professor Schlesinger is very 
 popular with American students, and we found 
 working in his wards Dr. George Cheyne Shat- 
 tuck III of Boston, and young Dr. Fischel of St. 
 Louis, both of whom have for some months been 
 acting as voluntary assistants. It was interesting 
 to see two wards devoted entirely to erysipelas; 
 
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 VIENNA 
 
 as far as possible all the cases in the city are sent 
 here. Connected with this hospital is a beautiful 
 new children's department, built by Professor 
 Schlesin^^er's father-in-law. It looked to be an 
 admirable model for the new Harriet Lane 
 Johnston's children's department at the Johns 
 Hopkins Hospital. In the arrangement for iso- 
 lating cases, in the simple and easily worked 
 character of the wards, in the laboratory arrange- 
 ments and in the special incubators for feeble 
 babies the hospital seemed much in advance of 
 anything I had ever seen. 
 
 The scientific laboratories of the medical 
 school have been completely transformed. Dr. 
 Frohlich took us through Professor Meyer's 
 Pharmacologic Institute and through the new 
 physiologic laboratory and the anatomic depart- 
 ment—such a contrast to the old days! 
 
 CRITICIS :l OF WORK Ol CONGRESS 
 
 The general impression one gets of the work 
 of the congress is very favorable. Too much, per- 
 haps, is attempted. There are too many papers, 
 but the keenness of the men and the scientific in- 
 terest are most stimulating. As I remarked about 
 the congress two years ago in Munich, there is a 
 strong tendency in internal medicine to-day 
 
AFTER THIRTY-FOUR YEARS 
 
 16 
 
 toward physiologic and chemical problems. On 
 the long list of papers, eighty-eight in number, 
 there were only about five dealing with bacterio- 
 logic questions. An extraordinary number dealt 
 with questions in physiologic pathology and 
 presented the results of experimental work. 
 
 INFLUENCE OF VIENNA ON AMERICAN MEDICINE 
 
 As a medical center Vienna has had a remark- 
 able career and her influence, particularly on 
 American medicine, has been very great. What 
 was known as the first Vienna school in the 
 eighteenth century was really a transference by 
 van Swieten of the school of Boerhaave from 
 Leyden. The new Vienna school, which we 
 know, dates from Rokitansky and Skoda, who 
 really made Vienna the successor of the great 
 Paris school of the early days of the nineteenth 
 century. But Vienna's influence on American 
 medicine has not been so much through Skoda 
 and Rokitansky as through the group of brilliant 
 specialists — Hebra, Sigmund and Neumann in 
 dermatology; Arlt and Jaeger in ophthalmology; 
 Schnitzler and von Schrotter in laryngology; 
 Gruber and Politzer in otology. These are the 
 men who have been more than others responsible 
 for the successful development of these special- 
 
16 
 
 VIENNA 
 
 ties in the United States. Austria may well be 
 proud of what Vienna's school has done for the 
 world, and she still maintains a great reputation, 
 though it can not be denied, I think, that the 
 Aesculapian center has moved from the Danube 
 to the Spree. But this is what has happened in 
 all ages. Minerva Medica has never had her chief 
 temples in any one country for more than a gen- 
 eration or two. For a long period at the Renais- 
 sance she dwelt in northern Italy, and from all 
 parts of the world men flocked to Padua and to 
 Bologna. Then for some reason of her own she 
 went to Holland, where she set up her chic." 
 temple at Leyden with Boerhaave as her high 
 priest. Uncertain for a time, she flitted here with 
 Boerhaave 's pupils, van Swieten and de Haen, 
 and could she have come to terms about a tem- 
 ple, she doubtless would have stayed perma- 
 nently in London, where she found in John 
 Hunter a great high priest. In the first four dec- 
 ades of the nineteenth century she lived in 
 France, where she built a glorious temple to 
 which all flocked. Why she left Paris, who can 
 say? but suddenly she appeared here, and Roki- 
 tansky and Skoda rebuilt for her the temple of 
 the new Vienna school, but she did not stay long. 
 She had never settled in northern Germany, for 
 
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 17 
 
 though she loves art and science she hates with a 
 deadly hatred philosophy and all philosophical 
 systems applied to her favorite study. Her stately 
 Grecian shrines, her beautiful Alexandrian 
 home, her noble Roman temples, were destroyed 
 by philosophy. Not until she saw in Johannes 
 Miiller and in Rudolph Virchow true and loyal 
 disciples did slie move to Germany, where she 
 stays in spite of the tempting offers from France, 
 from Italy, from England and from Austria. 
 
 In an interview most graciously granted to 
 me, as a votary of long standing, she expressed 
 herself very well satisfied with her present home, 
 where she has much honor and is everywhere 
 appreciated. I boldly suggested that it was per- 
 haps time to think of crossing the Atlantic and 
 setting up her temple in the new world for a gen- 
 eration or two. I spoke of the many advantages, 
 of the absence of tradition — here she visibly 
 v/eak'^'-'^d, as she has suffered so much from this 
 poii 1 ihe greater freedom, the enthusiasm, 
 and tnen I spoke of missionary work. At these 
 words she turned on me sharply and said: "That 
 is not for me. We gods have but one motto — 
 those that honor us we honor. Give me the tem- 
 ples, give me the priests, give me t^e true wor- 
 ship, the old Hippocratic service of the art and 
 
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 VIENNA 
 
 of the science of ministering to man, and I will 
 come. By the eternal law under which we gods 
 live I would have to come. I did not wish to 
 leave Paris, where I was so happy and where I 
 was sei-ved so faithfully by Bichat, by Laennec 
 and by Louis" — and tears fillea her eyes and her 
 voice trembled with emotion — "but where the 
 worshippers are the most devoted, not, mark 
 you, where they are the most numerous; where 
 the clouds of incense rise highest, there must 
 my chief temple be, and to it from all quarters 
 will the faithful flock. As it was in Greece, in 
 Alexandria, in Rome, in northern Italy, in 
 France, so it is now in Germany, and so it may be 
 in the new world I long to see." Doubtless she 
 will come, but not till the present crude organi- 
 zation of our medical clinics is changed, not until 
 there is a fuller realization of internal medicine 
 as a science as well as an art.