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the student who desires to pursue research in any 

 special branch or to acquire experience in clinical medicine. 



As one looks back over the past hundred and fifty years 

 it may be said that the French have excelled as clinical 

 observers and as students of the symptomatology of 

 disease. They have been peculiarly talented as clini- 

 cians and remarkably acute in the detection of pictures 

 of disease by bedside study and investigation, and in the 

 correlation of these pictures with the underlying patho- 

 logical changes. The same may be said today. In no 

 country is the clinical symptomatology of disease studied 

 with greater acuteness or intelligence than in France. 



The organization of the hospitals as relates to special 

 laboratories for experiment and research has hitherto 

 not been so attractive as in some other European coun- 

 tries; but great advances are being made, and varied 

 opportunities for serious post-graduate study may be 

 found now in many of the clinics as well as at the Pasteur 

 Institute. This is especially true with regard to diseases 

 of the nervous system. 



Regular courses of lectures and clinics, all of which 

 are open to the public, are given annually by different 

 members of the faculty. These exercises, which vary in 

 character from year to year, are often as valuable to 

 the post-graduate as to the undergraduate student. 

 The opportunities for clinical observation in the hos- 

 pitals of Paris during the daily public visits of the physi- 

 cians are almost unequaled. 



Libraries and Museums. Paris offers also great 

 advantages in the way of libraries. The Bibliotheque 

 Nationale, with its unrivaled collections, affords every 

 opportunity for general study. The Library of the 

 Faculty of Medicine, with 160,000 volumes, is accessible 

 to all students, and the privilege to work in the Library 



