paediatricians Finkielsztein,³¹⁴ Bagiński,³¹⁵ Marfan,³¹⁶ Hutinel³¹⁷ (Berlin,
Paris).
(Days off – visits to orphanages, correctional facilities, places where
the so-called wicked children were locked up).
A month at the school for the developmentally delayed, a month at the
Ziehen’s³¹⁸ neurological clinic.
My masters at the hospital on Śliska Street:³¹⁹ ironic nihilist Koral,³²⁰
jovial Kramsztyk,³²¹ serious Gantz,³²² great diagnostician Eliasberg,³²³ besides
that – feldsher surgeon Śliżewski and the dedicated nurse Łaja.
I expect to meet several such Łajas – heroines in the children’s slaughterhouse
(and pre-burial house) at Dzielna Street 39.
The hospital has shown me a child that knows how to die with dignity,
maturity, and awareness.
314 Heinrich Finkelstein (1865–1942), German paediatrician, established a model infant-care facility in Berlin in 1901, which he directed until 1919.
315 Adolf Aron Baginsky (1843–1918), paediatrician, professor, long-term director of the paediatric hospital in Berlin.
316 Antoine Bernard-Jean Marfan (1858–1942), specialist in hygiene, nutrition, and treatment of infants.
317 Victor Henri Hutinel (1849–1933), paediatrician, professor, specialist in the field of paediatric pathology, director of a paediatric hospital in Paris.
318 Theodor Georg Ziehen (1862–1950), German neurologist and psychiatrist, professor of philosophy, director of the Charité neurological clinic in Berlin between 1904 and 1912.
319 Bersohns and Baumans Children’s Hospital on Śliska Street 51/Sienna Street 60, established in 1878.
320 Adolf Koral (1857–1939), paediatrician, social activist for medical societies, in 1884–94 doctor at the ward of infectious diseases at the Bersohns and Baumans Children’s Hospital, author of a study on the hospital’s history (1916), co-founder of the Society of Social Medicine.
321 Julian Kramsztyk (1851–1926), paediatrician, social activist, head of the Bersohns and Baumans Hospital’s outpatient clinic, co-founder of the Paediatric Society.
322 Mieczysław Gantz (1876–1939), laryngologist and phtysiatrist, head of the Bersohns and Baumans Hospital, medical consultant for the Orphans’ Home.
323 Isaac Eliasberg (1860–1929), doctor, dermatologist, social activist, philanthropist, co-founder of the Orphans’ Home, member of the ‘Help for Orphans’ Society, its president from 1913.
