Paris School

“The single element in American accounts of Paris yet consistently missing from accounts of London was enthusiasm about free access to medical facilities and instruction.” . . . that the official course of instruction in the hospital wards and lecture halls of Paris came free of cost to foreigners was a point “that American observers made persistently and emphatically. . . . It was access more than scientific brilliance that chiefly decided Americans on the French over the British capital” re access to cadavers and “to instruction from the living body at the bedside” (Warner I, 70-71).