Medicine at Home and Abroad
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customs; and, of course, always with the naive assumption that one's o^l and one's own stick are inviolable. I remember being told, on returning ?'< visit to some children's hospitals in Barcelona, that we have nothing whate'i learn from Spain, apart from guitar playing and bull-fighting; my inform u course, has yet to go there to confirm this opinion. It was amusing to setsr this the remark of a worthy but equally untravelled Spanish physician ^ 'i the sort of occasion when thoughts are uninhibited and tongues loosened, f' i to my gambit on English medicine: " Well, Britain is an island; and is'3are insular n
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