Hangchow, Jan. 4.
On New Year's Day a very interesting meeting was held of the medical faculty of the city educated on Western lines; graduates of colleges in Hangchow and other cities in China, Hongkong, Japan, Germany, America and Great Britain. About 150 were present and between 30 and 40 were unable to attend. The company included three British doctors. Dr. Li Swets, chief of the medical military corps, was the prime mover. Dr. Duncan Main was the chief speaker and expressing his delight at seeing such a crowd of doctors made comparison with the time 41 years ago when he was the only doctor in the city. In his address he advocated ce-operation and pulling together loyally for the treating of the sick. There was much to be done not only in curing disease but in preventive medicine, research, sanitation, and public health. He laid emphasis on the fact that the foreign doctors were only too willing to put their knowledzce at their Chinese friends' disposal and work with thems for the relief of suffering humanity, of which there was much in the city.
Yesterday Dr. Barlow of Shao-!/ hsing fu addressed the Missionary Association and gave a most interesting lecture on a special fluke, the largest trematode inhabiting (man, and found in the Shaohsing plain. With slides and magic lantern he showed us its life history its beginning and end, and if he
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