In this letter, Ochsner responded to his protege's first letters from France, where he was working with Dr. Rene Leriche for a year. The note about the "brown bath" refers to a humorous episode at a Paris hotel (recorded in DeBakey's diary of the trip) in which he inquired about a bath, and the waiter, not understanding DeBakey's French, asked "black or brown?" and then brought him a glass of beer.
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