under the care of our lady physician, Dr. arily occupied by the women's dispensary ho old dispensary buildings are tempora
Anna Larsen. Last year no fewer than 44,000 patients were. treated at the combined dispensaries. These figures will be far surpassed this year, for 15,000 patients have been seen up to date. The physicians have repeated calls not only to patients in the city but to distant cases, often in the most influential families. in the locality. Two of these men living more than ninety south-west of the city recently united in presenting a gorgeous tablet (pien) which now glorifies the hospital gate. It was presented with the usual accompaniments of banging fire-crackers and profound: bows and was. followed by the inevitable feast to the donors. There is the usual eulogy in gilt letters wherein the bold statement is made that foreign medical science is superior to that of China; but, as one of the donors hastened to explain, this revolutionary sentiment is in such lofty style that only a very learned man will be in any danger of catching its significance! A similar tablet was presented to Dr. Larsen at the same time, And while we- are talking of thins medical we may record an instance whicl we respectfully commend to the thoughtful attention of the doctors. Our- physicians are wonderfully successful in the use of a remedy recently adopted for opium poisoning. The other daya man applied to the ransomed by their friends. This latter, while it has intensified the terror of the assistant: for some of the anti because he had had a quarrel -with some members of people has, simultaneously set up and increased the bitterest feeling, and at his family and had made up his mind to present the greatest antagonism exists be-commit suicide! tween these and their ci-devant associates.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.