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...apprentice might pay the master ?100 annually for as long as seven years until he "qualified" to practice on his own. By the mid-18th century, more formal training began to take hold. In 1765, after a tour of medical centers in London, Paris, Padua and Edinburgh, John Morgan persuaded the College of Philadelphia to set up the first American medical school. The prototype of the British voluntary hospital was established with the founding of the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1751, the New York in 1771 and the Massachusetts General in 1811, moving the care of the sick poor...
...Scaramouche, the author's usual demand for personal justice is transmuted into a passion for social justice, and this merging of private and public feeling lends the novel a universality Sabatini nowhere else achieved. In the Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr, he has made one of the subtlest villains in romantic literature, a good man perverted by a bad idea (aristocratic privilege excuses any crime) into a perfectly sincere monster. In Scaramouche, the hero, he has created his Hamlet...
Europe. No longer. He now seeks escape and adventure, and tour operators, quick to realize the potential of the market, have been replacing their pocket guides with pocketa-pocketa packages. "There's absolutely an amazing number and variety of adventure tours on the market," says Jim Transue, an editor of Travel Weekly. "It may be the fastest-growing part of the business...
Ghosts and Gods. More than 100 adventure tour packagers are now operating in the U.S., competing for a clientele that numbers in the hundreds of thousands. They offer mountain-climbing tours of the Himalayas, canoe expeditions down the Amazon, hang-gliding excursions in the U.S. Southwest, ghost-hunting trips through haunted English castles, and archeological tours from the Dead Sea to Easter Island...
...UFOlogists, Erich von Däniken Tours, of Hollywood, Fla., offers a "Chariots of the Gods" expedition. For amateur astronomers, there are two separate tours to Australia, both led by experts, to see an eclipse in early October. For the mystic-minded, a Meditation tour-80 true believers led by Cleveland-born Guru Alice Christiansen-took off last week for Srinagar in Kashmir, there to spend five weeks aboard houseboats on polluted Dal Lake. Mike Kong of New York City is selling an unwrapped package for nudists titled "Vacations in the Buff" (in the Caribbean), which, according to his office...