We heard one telling another not very capable puller that he evidently "had not graduated at the Capital." Fine handsome pocket books are carried by many and some of these men make interesting. companions for travellers. At the same time their capabilities are of no mean order, Many of the stages now being traversed are over.150 li and are made, while passengers soon.
carry with them big quantities of luggage, as much as 50 catties. being taken in addition to a person on one ricsha. And when the fares averaging a little over $1 a day are considered the mutes may well get alarmed at their icrmidable competitors in the. transport line.
A remarkable operation has. been recently performed at the Union Medical College, Poking. In June lady missionary, while' travelling by native. cart in Shansi, was seriously injured: by the overturning of the vehicle.
No medical' bale was available and it was impossible to move the, patient for a month ater the: accident. She was then carricdon a stretcher to the nearosti mission doctor in -the Province, involving a tramp of 7 days but. owing to wet weather the journey was protracted to 13 days. Ib was then found desirable to got' an X-Ray diagnosis and for this it was needful to proceed to Poking. Again rain and_ big' floods delayed progress and an-' other week wags spent on the road in distressing circumstances. Peking was finally reached and was found that the hip bone was, to all appearance hopolosaly diy: located and there were som fractures. a THE OPPRATION PERFORMED, Eighty-three days after the accident the operation of "open reduction" was performed anti' within 70 days the patient wai! able to leave the Hospital anu.) practically able to walk. annals of surgery scarcely a dozen such cases are recorded. Th who -have not in sveent ye visited Peking may net be awa ci the unrivalled ence of the equipment and ability of the, Faculty of the College and. Hoe pital.
Here in the midst of a Chinese. setting is a thoroughly up-to-darn. Institution,.untrammelled shortness of funds, and exemphifying in the highest degree the, best results of modern science, an object: lesson to the Far East of, what Medicine and Surgery can.
to relieve suffering. Patients. not only speak. highly—as walk they may—of the cave and skill. of the doctors. 'Iif equalled-it in. certainly not cxce' in any cther Hospital at heme and thy comfort, cuisine, services and the: general spirit of kindness ant helpful sympathy re unique features: which call forth the aut miration of those who in unifor~ tunate physical need are fortune. to find themselves in the P.U.M:0.
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