Chen, Medicine in Shanghat Following the election of the new officers of the society, Dr, Tane, the Rew president, {00k the chair,' and the retiring president, Dr, Paterson, fave a brief address on some points Jot interest in the early history of western medicine in Shanghai, After a brief outline of the chet topographical features of the city Settlement between 1643 and 1673, he gave @ sketch of the conditions under which the settlers in the area now known as the Central Dis trict of the Settlement carried on their home and business life, Special reference was made to the water supply of those days, when the best water available was that drawn from the Whangpoo, and oven that was loaded with the discharges from the numerous creeks inside and gur-rounding the city, and from the hundreds of junks and smaller boats lying opposite the city,
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