ABSTRACT
A preliminary note may be made on my travels. As it was important to come into touch not only with private
and public physicians in each country and town visited by me, but also with as many other people as possible who were affected by insurance or other measures of medical help, I decided to travel by road. I had a competent chauffeur, whose skill was severely tried, as for instance in the Maritime Alps, in travelling from Trieste to Zagreb, and from Breslau to Posen and Warsaw. We had with us a lady secretary and typist. By this method of travelling we came into personal contact with more of the people than would have been otherwise possible. I wish I could enliven my pages with extracts from our domestic diary, but must refrain, as in the main these extracts would be irrelevant to my quasi-medical record.
