The introduction of ether and chloroform as anaesthetics was an-fother pioneer distinction. In 1047, father was first used as an anaesthetic for operations and other purposes In {the hospital, being first introduced to China for this purpose. In the follow-Ing year, chloroform was used instead.
1875, the major operation of laparotomy was first performed in the hospital, again the first instance such an operation in China, The frst operation in the hospital was the amputation of the arm of 9 male patient who was in a critical condition. With $50 offered by Dr. Jardine, the man accepted the opera-Yon and was saved.
'An interesting aspect of the development of the hospital in its early' days was the fact that it was mostly patronized for diseases which were considered incurable by Chinese. medical doctors, such as rumours in different parts of the body. urmaty ccaleulus and eye diseases.
In the early days, it was extremely dificult to teach western medical science to the Chinese because there was no other way of teaching except by lecturing from English text-books. There was. urgent need for translation, and Dr. B. Hobson started his great task of translating medical Books into Chinese. The year 1851 saw the first translation by Dr. Hobson, "A Treatise on Physiciogy." Another book was translated by him during the year 1857. the "First Lines of the Practice of Surgery in the West." Several other valuable translations were published Dr. Hobson was succeeded by Dr. J. G. Kerr, who took charge of the Canton Hospital for many years and who had translated, up to 1886, more than twenty volumes of medical books into Chinese for students in medical
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