For ten years she stayed in Soochow, where her whirlwind energy won her the nickname of "the Small Typhoon." Faced with any deplorable condition her instant reaction was "something must be done about it" And always "something was. Baby cases formed a large part of her practice and she once remarked to a friend that she had trained in surgery and had degenerated into obstetrics.
During her forty years of active practice she delivered into the world 6,017 babies; once as many as
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