ABSTRACT
In the decades after 1815 France was the unquestioned world centre for western medicine. Students flocked there not only from other European nations but also from North America to learn the latest doctrines and, to be trained in the most modern techniques. This phenomenon has attracted much attention from historians concerned with such issues as national styles in medicine and in the transfer of knowledge and technologies. In particular, Russell Maulitz has analysed the attraction of French medicine for British students, while John Harley Warner has examined the way in which the French experience was represented by American students upon their return to their native land.1
