A Medical Tour Across the Pond
Louis Pasteur’s bedroom. Lavoisier’s laboratory. Marie and Pierre Curie’s tombs in the Panthéon. The museum of French military medicine in the Val de Grace. The little covered turnstile at the Museum of Assistance Publique, where babies being abandoned by their mothers could be discreetly and safely placed for retrieval by nuns inside the hospital. The wax dermatological models in the Hospital St. Louis.
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| En route to the Musée Curie, Robert Bartlett, second from right, explains upcoming highlights of the tour to some of the 20 participants. On his right is molecular biologist Vanessa Campo, who hosted the annual tour’s 2004 trip to Madrid, Spain. Photo: Jane Myers |
These attractions highlighted a four-day medical history tour of Paris, France, led by retired surgeon Robert Bartlett (M.D. 1963) for medical students in the Victor Vaughan Society last spring. Paris physician Jean-Christophe Mercier, M.D., a longtime friend of Bartlett’s, served as host for the tour, which also included an evening concert by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris in Notre Dame Cathedral and a closing dinner at Restaurant Le Procope, which houses a table where Voltaire sat in the early 1700s.
—Jane Myers
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