There has been a good d of sickness in this section this fall, especially fever of one Kind or another. An unusual number of cases have beea brought to the foreign dispensaries for treatment. Though they seem to realise the potency of foreign medicine and have some faith in the foreign doctors skill, the Chinese in the interior are not ready to cast aside their superstition and trust entirely to the doctors, ax evinced in case which come under our notice the other day. An old woman who was ill and was being treated by a medical mission Worker, deeming the medicine entirely insufficient of itself, thought to cure her disaas by taking the ashes of incense which had been burut before an idol and snuffin some of it up the nose, the rest being mixe t with water and drunk. Such is enlightened China in the interior!
16th November.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.