Henry Bowditch and 'The Young Stethoscopist'.

摘要

In his newest book, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, David McCullough focuses on the 19th century and devotes a chapter to "the medicals." The latter included Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Jackson, Jr., Mason Warren, George Shattuck, and 1 of my favorites, Henry Bowditch (Figure 1). Why did these young medical students brave an arduous 4- to 6-week trip by sailing ship, across the often tumultuous Atlantic Ocean, to Paris? What was the medical environment like there? Whom did they study under? What did they learn?