After Parker, there followed a succession of famous missionary and other physicians like John Kerr. W, Sardine, Kwan A-to, Wong Fun, William Lockhart, J. C. Hepburn, B. Hobson and others too numerous to bbe mentioned here.
"The great Manchurian pneumonic 1910-1911 and its successful eradication by modern trained Chinese doctors formed the second stage in the, development of scientific medicine in. this country, Continuing, Dr. Wu said: "The frst need of the new medicine has indeed Deen planted in this city and while we celebrate with joy the opening of! this fine, well-equipped, modern has ital on the foundations of the one which Peter Parler and his asso-lates so worthily laboured, we should not forget the immense' dimicultics Which they experienced in the early stead of a handful of foreign practitioners of the new cult, we have now hundreds of scientife medical men and women, mostly Chinese, practising throughout the length and. Breadth of this province. The influence of Canton has " permeated other cities, and the Republic of China may now claim to have at Yeast 40). modernized hospitals and over 16,000 modern medical practitioners. There are also over thirty med-
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