Abstract

THE medical traveler is no new phenomenon. Long ago Paracelsus, who was born near Zurich, said that a doctor must be a traveler because he must inquire of the world. He himself set out on his travels in 1513. His tour lasted twelve years and first took him to Bologna and Padua in Italy. Thence he went to France, Spain, the Netherlands and Sweden and later journeyed east to Turkey and Russia. Thomas Linacre, who became the first president of the Royal College of Physicians in 1551, graduated at Oxford and then went to Italy to travel. John Caius of . . .

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