The Archive · 1936

Chinese Lepers Before Christ

Hua To, a famous Chinese surgeon, performed brain operations and is said to have successfully treated lepers who were exceedingly plentiful in North China even before the birth of Christ, but who are only now bennning' to get some mercy shown them specially through the benign influence of Christianity and advanescientific approach fo the disease.

And no traveller can wholly escape the "wonderful chain of leprosari built throughout the world, which chain shows the generosity of men, the tne rey and compassion of Christ and his followers. The rear ciency of stich wonderful and international organizations as' the American Mission to Lepers, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, and its associate organizations in London, in Paris, in Tokyo and in Shanghat. The Chinese Mission to Lepers has recently erected the finest Christian leprosarium China just outside of the city of Shanghai—an institution well. worth a visit of those staying"over a day or more in Shanghai.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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