gave 1,526 treatments, including 68 surgical operations, for T'xiku and 600 treatments, including 37 surgical operations, for Fencho Fu, The reports make special mention of a few interesting cases. In the spring of last yeara little girl was taken to the T'aiku hospital who was nearly blind. Her moth was dead, and the nurse said the child's father lid threatened to throw her away unless the foreign doctor could restore her sight. Two operations were made on the eyes, but no human skill could restore the sight. Whether the father carried out his cruel threat on his return home is not known but the enormity of such " crime was made plain to him, One man, & Catholic, came to the Fencho Fu hospital with senile gangrene of the foot, His neighbours said it resulted from destroying his idols, He left the hospital in about three months able to walk about and do his work; but returned in a month with eczema of the foot. This was cured a few weeks and he returned again with anthrax on the back, These afflict no doubt would have deepened the convic; in the minds of his friends that the gods were angry with him, but his prompt recovery from them all must have been a source of some perplexity to them.
STRIKING CASES, One case of cellulitis was that of aman about 40 years old, He had been treated by Buddhist priests who had succeeded in preventing any of the pus from escaping-by means of sticking plasters, until the whole skin of the thigh, covering both internal and external aspects, was one pus-bucket, Free use of drainage tubing 4nd incivions and corrosive sublimate slutions put the man on his feet once more. The report adds: With Chinese trest: ment the various families of microbes are doubtless well blessed, and in many cases they might bowst as the Chinaman doe *Thave lived here for twenty xeuerations.
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