"Nothing succeeds like success." Sume five or six years ago the Presbyterian missionaries from Canada: sent out to open up work in northern Hunan, locate:
station" at a market town called Chu-wang on the Wei river. They rented premises in the usual way; i.e. they paid 4 round price in order to get foothold, moved in and began preaching. Next, they were requested to move out, and nob heeding the invitation, the villagers proceeded to move them out,—also in the usual way, which of course was followed by an appeal to higher authorities, and a result they: were moved back again, this in unusually good time, with compensation for loss.
Under these circumstances it is hardly to be wondered at. that medical work, even with a foreign physician in charge, did not flourish. No one entered the hospital from the village-s, and years passed away before many came from outside. We have known physicians who had a good capital to start with,—a rotundity and avoirdupois which showed great intellectual powers,—but such adventitious aids are denied even to many missionary ps ans. Last year, however, patients began to come, aiid there were over 8,000 consultations, But this year has seen the poor doctor fairly worn out with work. Over 26,000 treatments "up to date including a large number of surgical cases. In on" month there were a dozen cases of cataract, and the number of patients daily irom one to two hundred.
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