Excerpt from Vienna After Thirty-Four Years I was surprised to hear Professor Muller 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 Kmnkenhaus 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 of nurse; not of course, that she is necessarily either unin telhgent or inattentive. Indeed, as we passed a bed in which there was a new patient whom the junior assistant had not seen, he turned to one of the nurses, who in reply to his question said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.