ne Chinese Times of the 25x December 1886, contains a generously nppree ye if womewhnt exeggeruted and devoted to the Viceroy's Hospital at tientsin. We say exaggerated, beowuse it is rather absurd to assert that i jeutein medical treatment of a kind not dreamt of in London, Paris or Berlin la boldly and successfully applied, and ° that operations regarded in Europe as dans gerous if not absolutely tatu!, beonuse almost invariably ending in pyeu erysipelas, ure performed there with impunity und without extraordinary precautions, So, though it make the unskilfal Inugh it cannot bot make the judicious grieve to find the members of the T tal staff sigualised as men endowed with "experience in the surgical nud curative atte and who, science of West, by their Buouninn methods combine fall theoretion! knowledge with the facts before them and not nocord= ingly." The writer mast be startlingly nor ant of what has been accomplished in atill being done at other places Chins, notably at Swatow, Amoy and Canton; be must have some ides altogether peculiar to himself of whut the Bnooninn method ivy and he does barnful honour to medicine, us indeed he would to any art of science, by ascribing full theorelion! knowledge to nny of ite professors, The sume over. wrought style marke his resenrolies into the nature of leprosy, OPINE BERG IMM" Ca Mitt They are interesting and will probably turn out to be ims portant, but they are neither difficult for hvgardous and anfortuuately they have hitherto been fruitless. We do wot doubt that these and some other still more Iudicrous ex ours jons of the leader writer beyond the limite of his brief are extremely uns welcome to the estimable perso: whose honvar they are wade, shall nob therefore further them, Apart from them a certain amount of valuable information is given Lont the resources and working of the outsin hospital and about the pros spects of the median! ecliool attacked to it, objects of the institution are two, amely to afford relief to 'a namber as possible of sick an ing natives, and Lo supply mater ing purposes. 'I'he former wed; as regards the latter all have something more to any.
ally founded by the London wary Society, the hospital has been adopted by the Viceroy who ow supports ib out of his own tron ry. It is commodious and exten. nive, comprises wards, wailing and consultation rooms, library and ao forth, and is well supplied with drags and struments. It possesses an efficient stoff, and lias gained the confidence of
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