t\hv. n,M AM J^,s5c^ J^fe U a^- E ^,M£. § %% m. &.^ ^ ^mm.x^^ a^ ^ms n m .f . ^ 7K ^ T> ^!ii.i^ff.ii # P» A^f- mmm ii t3j Bl M ^^w>a^ ^.^ g^BP^ m mm.^. #P> m ™k ^ '^mmmm j. ^ a. p kt u M-^m J^ A^^: m.^^iM a^ ^®fi. n^mm S^.IH ^ Si:!Spl^>Ji SA nm^' Poster issued by medical missionaries: Gives short description of Plague, its method of propagation, with simple directions for disinfection, isolation, the destruction of rats, etc. It is therefore the principal and gigantic ally of barbarism. No wild deserts, no savage races, no geographical difficulties have proved so inimical to civilization as this disease." In many lands, as in Siam and Laos, it is attributed directly to the work of demons. A good illustration of the power of this disease was seen in the malignant malaria epidemic which swept over Laos, North Siam, in the year 1912-13. Whole villages were wiped out. The disease was so virulent patients died within a few hours. "The disease takes many forms besides fever and ague," writes one from Chieng Mai, "such as convulsions, insanity and comatose condition, often resulting in death within a few hours. Three little 46 girls died suddenly on the same day within gunshot of our home. One man lost his wife and five children. But for Christian medi- cine many villages would have been entirely wiped out." The tenacity with which the Oriental clings to old customs is evidenced that, in spite of the uinunnbcred instances of the cure of malaria by quinine, people whose door-yards touch the missionary homes, would use the old line of treatment, spirit charms and the like, until nearly fatal results drove them to the miracle worker. So effective was the treatment given, not merely by the medical missionary but by those he had instructed, that within the year more than three thousand turned from demon worship and the fear of evil spirits and confessed Christ. The White Plague is not confined to Christian lands. Its deadly pall hangs heavily over non-Christian lands. Tuberculosis is exceedingly common throughout China. "At least fifty per 'rubcrcnlosis Saiiitorium, Syi'ia cent, of all dispensary patients in South China arc affected with some form of the disease." A letter from India speaks of it as the "Captain of the Men of Death." Men who go from their farms and the free life in the open air to Bombay or other large cities to work in mills and offices, living in a dusty, smoky at- mosphere, in crowded quarters, indulging in drunkenness and de- bauchery, become an easy prey to this disease. A physician in Korea writes : "Tuberculosis is also our next- door neighbor. We meet him everywhere." The physicians of China are at present instituting an anti-tuberculosis crusade. The missionary has been ffircniost in carrying on this campaign in China and in other non-Christian lands. The most signal illustra- tion is the Mt. Tebanon Sanitarium for Consumptives. It is the 47 only institution of its kind in all the Turkish Empire. It has two homes, one on the mountains of Lebanon, over 3,000 feet above the level of the sea, where patients can stay from May to Novem- ber; the other at Juneih Bay, where suitable buildings are erected to care for patients during the winter months. Russians, Rou- manians, Egyptians, Persians, Armenians, have been treated in this beneficent home. A woman who contracted the disease in America returned to her old home. Her neighbors complained to the local authorities and soldiers carried her off to a pine forest outside the city. Her father slept near but soon deserted her. She suffered from hunger and thirst, wet with showers, dried by the sun. She was turned out a hopeless case. She wandered to a dry bed of the river and slept under the arches of the bridge for five days. After this a relative put up a tiny hut without roof, but the neighbors two hun- dred yards away threatened to pour oil on the structure and burn herself and the hut. After a month of this terrible life she was found by a medical student and sent to the Sanitarium. She was placed in one of the open-air tent houses on a soft bed laid on a wire mattress. She had the best of care and food. The Bible lessons of long ago were brought to her mind. She may never be cured of her bodily diseases, but she has found a new life. This is the story of the missionary; it is the story told to John. The missionary in the numerous hospitals and dispensaries, by tract, by word and by example, in every way, is waging war on this enemy of the human race. "We are sure," writes the physician in charge of the Hodge Memorial Hospital at Paotingfu, ''that the out-door sleeping porches have saved the life of the Chinese head teacher in the Girls' School, from a complete nervous breakdown. Also the life of a young girl who had tuberculosis of the lungs. She has become rosy and plump and able to walk four miles in an afternoon and has no cough after two months of sleeping out of doors." Public opinion is being aroused. Governments are recogniz- ing the value of the missionary as a healer of the body, as a bene- factor of the state. Here, as elsewhere, in relieving the many ills which flesh is heir to the missionary has been the pioneer. The people are quick to note the difference between the Gospel of the Christ and the Gospel of self. A Parsee woman requested that one of the nurses be permitted to go with her to her home in the hills. She was told that a better and more efficient nurse could be obtained in Bombay. She replied, "That is true, but I want a Christian." The missionary has wrought wonders by his skill, but greater wonders by the power of the spirit of Christ dwelling in him. He has even dared to grapple with the man dominated by that most potent destroyer of human happiness, the opium fiend. "The care of a large contingent of opium patients has been an anxious con- sideration," is the report of one physician of long standing in the province of Shantung. "Physicians in Western lands who have had experience with patients confirmed in the use of morphine, are prepared to appreciate some of the difficulties in dealing with a class of invalids having all the vices of the drug habitues en- grafted upon the inherent moral obliquity of the heathen I have settled upon a line of treatment based upon medication, supplemented by moral and mental suggestion by means of God's word. It is God that worketh in us both to will and to do, and here, where will has long been shackled and power of initiation practically withdrawn, the remedies of the physician can be only accessories to the enabling grace of God." The medical missionary has wrought social revolutions little short of the miraculous. Vaccination was practically unknown in most non-Christian lands till introduced by the medical missionary. The King of Siam once called into consultation a Presbyterian medical missionary. The subject under discussion was the large death rate in the Kingdom. The missionary showed him this was After vaccination due to a number of young children dying of small-pox and sug- gested vaccination. The King at once adopted the suggestion. After several years of using the vaccine from other countries, the Government established a vaccine farm of its own where serum is made and sold to those who wish to use it. The medical mis- sionaries do a great deal of vaccinating and especially in the North of Siam a large force of trained men are kept busy vaccinating and preaching, for the two go hand in hand. Where small-pox used to claim wdiole villages as victims of the dread disease, now there is often not a case. Formerly it was often impossible to persuade a person to be vaccinated, but now most of them are willing to pay for being vaccinated. In former days in Korea, the father did not count his chil- dren until they had had small-pox, so prevalent was this disease. The Japanese Government is dealing with it officially, but for many years in many lands it was fought by the missionary alone. The dread sleeping sickness has spread with wonderful rapidity in East Central Africa. A number of cases in the last few 40 ^k H \.'^' ; \\'itch doctor, Africa years have been found in connection with the work of the Ameri- can Presbyterian missionary in German Kamerun, West Africa. "I have seen," writes one of the medical missionaries of the Board, "hundreds of natives with sleeping sickness at the hospital established for them by the German Government, and they were being given the best treatment that could be given there, but there is no treatment known that is very satisfactory. I saw a case or two being treated at the London School of Tropical Medicine with fair success. To our sorrow, it has lately been' discovered that there is more than one kind of fly that can carry the disease. It is coming into our Mission terri- tory from the branches of the Congo." In Africa poison is often used in witch- craft. One of the missionaries, in investi- gating the poisons used in the ordeals con- nected with witchcraft, was specially inter- ested in the poison put on the arrows which were used for the killing of large game. In taking a river trip in 1874, one day, while float- ing along the stream and looking at the verdure on either side, one of the crew said, in speaking of a certain vine, "That is the vine that bears the fruit from which is made the poison for our arrows." It was the strophanthiis. This was reported by the mis- sionary to a brother doctor in the United States and later became an article of export to Europe. In innumerable ways the missionary has thus contributed to the welfare of humanity. It was Yuan Shih Kai who, in January, 1913, in the City of Peking, in re- sponding to an address pre- sented by the representatives of the Triennial Conference of the China Medical Association, said : "It gives me great pleasure to receive so many members of the China Med- ical Missionary Conference who have gathered in the capital from the provinces. We are very grateful for your charitable services, es- pecially for your work in the interior, where the im- portance of sanitary prin- ciples is comparatively un- known. For the country to be strong and prosperous it is essential for its citizens to be healthy. It is due to you that sanitary principles are now spreading through- 50 Returning home after a few weeks in the charity ward out the land, and it is also due to you that poor and desti- tute women and children have been succored and have re- ceived the elements of an enlightened education. Many of you assisted during the plague, materially aiding in restrict- ing the ravages of the disease which alarmed the whole world, while during the Revolution many of you faced danger and difficulties in order to relieve sufiferers. I am glad of this opportunity to tender my personal thanks, and I hope that you will continue in the future as in the past, thus adding to the glory of your reputation and strengthening the bond of friendship between your coun- tries and ours, which I earnestly hope will be strength- ened every year." Ex-President Taft said the missionary had formed communi- ties which had been the nuclei of a new civilization. The physician in non-Christian lands has illustrated the truth of the text: "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having prom- ise of the life that now is and of that which is to come." 51 CHAPTER V. "The Poor Have the Gospel Preached to Them" The medical missionary is an evangelist: he preaches. The labels on the bottles of medicine contain verses of Scripture. The prescription card has a Scripture verse. The words spoken in hos- pital and dispensary are direct messages from the preacher to the hearer. The hospital draws audiences that no preacher can hope to gain. In a single hospital and dispensary in Korea, in one year, more than 17,000 persons heard the Gospel preached. The phy- sician drew the crowd, the native evangelist spoke the word. But it is in the indirect preaching that the beloved physician does his most effective work. His acts speak louder than words. His life is a sermon. He is a living epistle known and read of all men. Pie needs no interpreter. It is a proverbial saying that the medical missionary opens doors. He does more, he opens hearts. "Come The Dispensary Sunday School, Bohol, P. I. unto me all you who feel trouble," so runs the Bulu New Testa- ment, "and tell the loads, and I will give you rest." Many a weary toiler panting beneath a heavy physical or moral load, has had the burden removed by the skillful act and kindly word of him who follows in the path of the Great Physician. Out of the hospital the physician cuts a wide swath. His itinerating trips are evangelistic. "While itinerating," writes one who had spent long years of service under Syrian skies, "we strive most earn- estly by our example to impress upon the people wherever we go to serve one another in love, to merge self-interest into love of others, pride of race or tribe into a desire to each esteem other better than himself. Barriers of section, race and religion are high, ancient blood fueds and the memory of recent wrongs are hard to efface; but we 52 live among tht people and for them, never asking to what religion or tribe they belong. . . , One plaee we camped in had not been visited by a foreign missionary for seven months. During this time the preacher had lost a child, had seen his scholars removed en masse from his school by threats, a bonfire of Bibles had been lighted, and two bans of excommunication pronounced against anyone who spoke to him. Do you wonder that such workers welcome the opportunity to preach to increasing audiences, to help us in special services, to meet patients from villages not yet visited by them which will ensure them a welcome there in the future? ''When riding through another large town with the preacher who had gone out to meet us, a generous share of a shower of pebbles intended for him fell upon me, but once our errand of mercy was understood, hatred and op- l^osition completely vanished. Before, no meat nor even a jar of water could be obtained; now all vied in offer- ing their services. Previously, the doorway was shunned, now, a sturdy guard could scarce keep order among those crowding into the yard. At another place when our com- ing w^as announced, the school rose from six to sixty, be- cause the teacher, on his own responsibility, announced that we would not treat any member of the family of a boy who had been removed." His vocation demands evangelization. "I have had more than the usual number of chances for personal w^ork with individuals," writes a physician engaged in work among Moslems in Persia. "My assistant, too, has been very faithful in such work. There seems to be a number of sincere inquirers. One family has specially interested us. A little boy came to the hospital in September for a small operation. He proved to be a 'bleeder,' and in spite of all our efforts continued to bleed for many days so that his stay in the hospital was much prolonged. His father and mother were with him most of the time. I suggested to the two school boys who were helping me this winter that they read to him. My assistant also talked and read with the parents. They developed a genuine interest. The mother and little boy have been coming to Sunday-school ever since, while the father and an older brother attend the men's Bible class. Another is an Ali Allahi (a sect which con- siders Ali, the son-in-law of Mohammed, divine) whom I first met in Lahijan. He used to come occasionally but did not seem much interested until one day, when I was busy, my assistant undertook to entertain him. Evidently my assistant was better able to reach his understanding, for since then he has been a frequent caller and (unable to read himself) has listened eagerlv to the reading of the Word." 53 Head nurse and pupil nurses, An Ding Hospital, China "A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind." The fact that suffering can be relieved, develops brotherly love and kindness among Christians in non-Christian lands. One morning a poor Chris- tian, living near one of the hospitals in Korea, carried into the con- sulting-room a feeble, gray-haired old man. The Christian said, "Doctor, this is a poor Christian brother who is ill. I have bought Korean medicines for him and done everything we know how, but cannot help him." The old man, was gasping with pneumonia, complicated with a bad heart. Under skillful treatment he recov- ered. Weeks later, meeting the physician in church after service, he grasped his hand and said, "Thank God for the doctor and my Christian brothers." The Gospel had been preached by native Christian and medical missionary without text or sermon. The triumphs of the Gospel are seen in the hospital as pos- sibly nowhere else. A brutal husband will beat his wife merci- lessly, and then kind friends will bring her to the hospital where, after a quick recovery, she returns filled with the spirit of the Gospel and wins the man who so cruelly beat her. In the district bordering on the Hwai Yuen station in China, are groups of believers. Most of these were brought into contact with the Gospel in the wards of the hospital. The kindly recep- tion which the evangelist and the foreigner receives traveling in 54 the district is due, in large measure, to the friendly feeling created in the hospital. Everywhere throughout the region where dwell those who have been treated l)y the medical missionary, kindness is shown to the preacher and teacher of the Gospel. The unspoken word, the acts of love so freely given, break through the crust of indifference and unbelief and sin. A well-to-do merchant, know-n throughout the city of Taiku, who had been an infidel for years, was brought to the hospital in a very precarious condition. His friends were unwilling that an operation should be performed, saying, "He is too weak for the instrument work." After a time consent was given, the operation performed. He went hom'e cured. During his weeks of convalescence he heard the Gospel, but it seemed to make no impression. The day he went home, earn- est prayer was made with him privately. Later, he said, "How is it possible for a man to resist longer when he is prayed for spe- cially like that." The far-reaching effect of this type of preaching cannot be estimated. A tiny slave girl whose mistress punished her by thrust- ing hot needles into her feet and ankles, was sent to the Tooker Memorial Hospital at Foochow. She was an outcast, — a cast off bit of humanity. Her cure, body and soul, was complete. From a miserable, suffering child, love had changed her into the happy, loving pet of the home. The text and the sermon was one those who saw and heard could never forget. Even where the disease is beyond the skill of the practitioner, the Christ love does its work. A patient with an incurable cancer stayed for a time at the hospital in Peking and listened eagerly to the old, old story. "I know this is a Gospel of patience and love," she cried after a time, "so I shall exhort my daughter-in-law not to fight, and I myself will give up my habit of going out on the street and reviling my relatives Avhenever they have done any- thing I do not like." Is it strange that, in the report of a year's work in this hos- pital, there is the statement : "These are some of the bright bits of the mosaic of life that we see in our wards from day to day." Among primitive nations, as in Africa, the people are visited and treated in their towns and in their homes, where, before the coming of the medical missionary, disease, physical and moral, bound them with fetters that could not be broken. The medical missionary, with the aid of a motorcycle, travels from village to village, and at the sound of the cycle approaching the village, the people will gather from near and far and listen to his words be- cause he is able to heal them of their sickness and relieve them of their disease. Among half primitive peoples, as in Laos, the Gospel of healing finds a ready entrance into the heart and home of the people. Two brothers lay side by side in a Laos home, stricken with fever. For many weeks native doctors of all kinds had tried their rem- edies, but to no purpose. The last one called, said to the younger brother, "I can do nothing for you; unless something very precious should fall from heaven there is no hope." Something precious did fall. The Christian elder, trained by the physician, was called 55 Before operation, Philippines in, quinine administered, fever broken, and in a few weeks both were well. The people thus lose their faith in the spirits and the native spirit doctors, and turn to the Great Physician. One of the first cases in the Hospital in Taiku, Korea, was that of a young man very ill, the members of whose family were sure that he would die. His cousin, who came for the physician, said, "We have all heard the Gospel, but have not believed it. If you will cure him now we will all do so honestly." The patient improved rapidly and after a month was able to limp to the church near by. He is an alert, in- telligent man, and soon developed into an earnest Bible student. His Christianity at first, like that of many sick Koreans, was a matter of sharp bargaining, pure and simple. Their reasoning is logical, — "We followed the Buddhist doctrine, and prayed at the temples, but did not recover. We worship the spirits, but are no better, now we will do the Jesus doctrine if that will make us well. Many of them, whenever they recover, are so grateful that they turn a listening ear to the teaching and accept it from the heart. The medical missionary under God is the means whereby the Gospel finds a way even into such selfish hearts. On the other hand, cases not a few indicate that where suf- ferers know their bodily ailments cannot be cured, they seek a physician who can cure the soul. A wealthy Bulu headman in Kamerun, West Africa, who had been exceedingly wicked, was made to understand that his days on earth were probably limited. Looking earnestly into the eyes of the physician, he said, "Do you know why I came to the hos- pital at Elat? It was not because I thought I would get well, but because I knew you would show me the path." He was shown the path "which shineth more and more unto the perfect day." An intelligent Buddhist priest was more than a month convalescing after a surgical operation in the hospital at Taiku. The doctor said, "Have you not yet de- cided to become a, Christian?" He an- swered, "I have." "What led you to de- cide?" He replied, "The difference be- tween what I have heard here and of that worship in the temple which I know is foolishness." The priest departed. The evangelist connected with the hospital and some of the students were skeptical about After operation his change of heart. He had no money to pay for the fee agreed upon, nor for his board bill. He promised, however, to send it in three months. He had nothing to pledge. A Bible and hynm book were sold him on credit. As he went away, • the evangelist remarked, "That is the last we shall hear of him." Promptly on the date agreed upon, however, a post- office order for the amount and a long letter of gratitude were re- ceived. The amazement of the hospital staff was great. The sermon had been more effective than any of them had supposed. To one who has followed the course of medical missions there can be no doubt of the permanent effect of the Gospel preached by the medical missionary. The most stubborn enemy of the Cross in all non-Christian lands is Caste. This enters into the warp and woof of the economic, civil and religious life in India. It is even doubted by some students of missions and some recent visitors to mission lands whether the breaking of the caste system in a land like India, and the introduction of individualism, may not be fraught with great dangers both to the individual and to the nation. But even caste yields to the physician. A blind Alahar, after a forty-mile tramp in rough weather, reached the Hospital at \^engurle, India. He was a low caste man. He was speedily frightened away, because of Brahmans in the same ward who called down on him the curses of heaven for daring to stay in the room with them. In spite of the entreaties and promises of the physician, he and his family fled. The priceless gift of sight could have been his after a few days' resi- dence, but the caste spirit drove him out to continue his life of darkness. These untouchables often remain and are cured. A sermon is then preached which bids fair to make even the walls of the Jericho caste fall down flat, hospital by a young man who came from a distant village and insisted on a private room so as to be as little contaminated as pos- sible with the lower caste people. He was sullen, suspicious, and supposed that the missionary had evil intentions. As the days passed by his suspicions vanished. One of the Christian women, a ward patient, needed a private room because of certain complica- tions which had developed. This young man came forward volun- tarily and offered his room, saying he would gladly stay in the ward. Before he left the hospital he confessed his belief in the Lord Jesus Christ. He revisited the hospital and, like Andrew of old, brought his brother with him. The preacher whose Gospel breaks the chains of caste is the physician. A woman of high caste, needing an operation, was sent to the Miraj Hospital. She had often heard the Old. Old Story, and though interested would not accept the Saviour because ambulance Vengurle This was evidenced in the same I'our graduate nurses of the Severance Hospital, Korea it meant the breaking of high caste. She was greatly impressed during her convalescence with the Christian native nurses and the Gospel story which they told, and better still, which they exempli- fied. The nurses said to her, "Go home and tell your friends what great things the Lord has done for you." She had to travel a long distance on the train, and then was carried in a heavy down- pour of rain on a cart loaded with cocoanuts. Arriving at her village she refused to salute the god of the yillage as her custom was when she was carried past it. In consequence of her long ride through the rain, she became ill and a, missionary living near was sent for, who, seeing that the woman's condition was serious, took her to her home and nursed her. She said, "I will never worship idols again and I mean to tell the people what the Lord has done for me." As the end drew near and her old mother and young daughter were with her during her last days, she witnessed to all her faith in Christ, saying, "I am not afraid to go out to darkness. Jesus will not let me go alone." The caste and the outcastes alike are reached by the Gospel of the Healer. "To the poor the Gospel is preached." 58 CHAPTER VI. The Last Bkatitude The physician whose Hfe is dominated by the spirit of his Master has pecuhar opportunities for removing stumbhng blocks from the path of toiling- men and women. The most bitter oppo- sition breaks down before the magic wand of him who brings healing to the body and life to the spirit. One loves to think of the missionary in the Christ-land fol- lowing so closely in the footsteps of the Divine Alaster. In the hospital in Beirut, where the missionaries of the Presbyterian Board have so long ministered, patients come from all parts of Syria and Palestine, from Egypt, Cyprus, Constantinople, Russia and various parts of Asia Minor. The hospital has Bibles in Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew, Yiddish, French, German and Greek, and they are often in use. Many a stolid Jew has had his heart softened to find a copy of his Sacred Law in his hands. One woman from a dis- tant Jewish colony said with great earnest ness, 'T sometimes think that we are reject- ing the very Christ, that He truly fulfilled the prophecies, only we are too blind to see." She spoke better than she knew, and her state- ment could be verified in many a Hebrew and Moslem home throughout the Orient. Some years ago a Kurd, Timur-bag, went to Westminster Hospital, Urumia. He was very ill. He had tried many physicians and was not cured. He was a chief, and controlled many villages over the Persian border. He came to the hospital on a litter with a large retinue. It seemed as if he might die that night. Under the blessing of God and the skillful care of the medical mission- ary, he recovered. His interest in all that he saw in the Hospital was very great, giving special attention to surgical operations, and often visiting the wards. Some time after his return home the chiefs in his region, in a conclave where Timur was present, pro- posed the assassination of Armenians. He opposed the proposition on the ground of his experiences in the hospital and declared that if the othicr chiefs decided to carry out the plan, he would cast 59 i '.'■ ^ ^^^m^^^r-' ' ^ 'iMIM 1 ^m i 5r^ A missioaarj' plivbiciau iur^ical treatuiLUl, .Vliit. Mountaineers — came four days' journey to Urumia Hospital in his lot with the Christians and fight against the Kurds. He made these three points : First: Their abiHty to cure at the hospital. Second: The equal care of the poor, the lowest and all sorts and conditions of men as well as chiefs like himself. Third: The hospital doctor and others there were gentlemen and ladies and yet they did this lowliest service for all alike. The "Beloved Physician" who so successfully treated this wild Kurdish chief has long since passed to his rest. His succes- sor, after one term of service, on his return home, having labored in the same territory, writes : "My heart burns within me, especially when I travel into Kurdistan. In this land where every man's hand is against his neighbor, where robbing and killing are or- dinary, every-day occupations, there is a rich field await- ing the coming of the missionary. The Kurds are truly 'as sheep without a shepherd,' and 'no man cares for their souls.' Yet they are warm-hearted and friendly to a marked degree. And the doctor at least is safe to go any- where among them." This is not a mere missionary apologetic. It is the removal of a great stumbling block in the way of the progress of the King- dom. The last of the Beatitudes has been realized by the physician. Any one living in India knows the difficulty of securing real sympathetic touch with the people. The physician secures the touch. A strict purdah woman from Central India said, as she threw aside the curtain which, until that time had concealed her from the physician, "We will consider the doctor one of the fam- ily." In this single act she revealed how the man of God, skilled in medical practice, can overcome the prejudices of centuries. 60 Children operated on at ^liraj Hospital In the clinic of the Tripoli Hospital, one morning, a patient said : "T am a brother of the great chief of the Anczeh tribe of Arabs who live on the desert east of this place. Last winter I was shot in the arm and people tell •me there is a dead bone which must be removed." The dead bone was there and the phy- sician was able to remove it and send his patient back well and strong. Some time after the physician and his assistant started to spend the Sabbath in two villages on the borders of the Syrian desert. As the)- journeyed, they came to a low hill, when up sprung a number of Bedouins, dressed in their picturesque costume, riding their magnificent horses, each man armed with a repeating rifle, sword and revolver. Every rifle was ready. The click of the hammer was distinctly heard. The leader said. "Who are you and where are you going?" The doctor replied, "Only a doctor; I am going to yonder village on the Lord's business. I had the honor of treating the brother of your Chief." "Are you the American doctor?" He answered, "Yes," to which the reply came, "Then go in peace." Each man put up his rifle and was soon lost to sight. The doctor and his assistant went on their way. This is the land "where all that were sick with divers diseases came and were healed." It is the same Gospel and preached in the same spirit as of old. It is the contrast between the old and the new, between the religion exemplified by the medical missionary and the religion bound hand and foot by caste, custom, superstition, and prejudice, that makes the last Beatitude so impressive. During one of the recent famines in India, starving children were refused food because it was given by an outcaste, that is, a Christian. One day a very thin, old man came among the crowd that had gathered on the mission compound. Some native bread was handed him which he c|uickly took. In a short time the people began to beat him and drove him off the compound because he took bread from the hands of a Christian, and he a caste man. This is a true picture of Hinduism. Before many months had passed, on this same compound, high caste mothers were ofifering to nurse the babies of low caste women. The Gospel of relief had brought a social revolution, had removed a stumbling block, had taught the fatherhood of God. and the brotherhood of man. A man whose wife was ill in the hospital at Hunan, after seeing the doctor sit up with her for two nights, exclaimed. "I know there is something in Christianity, since it makes a doctor willing to do this." Even the patient sees that what is needed is more than physical healing. A tired woman was waiting her turn in a mission dispensary, and when she came she raised her eyes 61 Chapel service at Sri Tamarat Hospital, Siam to the physician and said, "Give me some medicine for a sad heart, my son is dead." The skilled practitioner quickly detects where more is needed than physical healing, and when the heart is full with love to the Divine Master, he can pour the oil of joy and the wine of glad- ness into the bruised spirit. The Spirit of the Lord God, of which Isaiah sang, enables the physician to "bind up the broken-hearted" as well as "to heal the sick." The physician who can speak peace to the troubled soul brings often a larger blessing than he who re- moves pain from the body. No better illustration of the vast hold which the medical missionary can gain on a community, or on a ruler, and on a nation, than is seen in the report of the Miraj Hospital for the year, 1913 : "Many Parsees also find their way to the hospital. Courteous, dignified and grateful for the care received, they make good patients. Amongst other patients we find nearly all the classes of people the country can pro- duce. The high and low, the rich and poor, some travel- ing hundreds of miles and dififering widely from Marathi people in appearance, language and customs. One man, a villainous type from Kabul, Afghanistan, traveled over two thousand miles to our hospital. He was scarred and wounded, the result of a feud, and frankly admitted that his whole desire for recovery was that he might take re- venge by killing the enemy who had wounded him. We try to be friends to the women and children and often get glimpses into their lives of ignorance and superstition that make us long to be able to help them. "The most notable change in the work itself has been its continuous growth, evidenced this year in the erection of new buildings. 62 "Through the generosity of His Highness, the Maha- rajah of Kolhapur, a new plot of six and a half acres of land opposite the hos- pital has been secured for the erection of such new buildings as the de- velopment of the work demands, and income of the work may permit. "Two gifts of Rs. 15000 and Rs. 3300, re- spectively, have been promised towards the erection of a new hos- pital block for Parsees on this site, where we hope in time to erect a new residence for phy- sicians, which will be required in the develop- ment of the medical school, together with the proposed new laboratory when that is needed. It is a satisfaction to be able to report the complete self-sup- port of the work, and we expect /// tlic coining fiscal year to relinquish all appropriations from America, either for the cnrrent work or nezv hnildings." The hope of the future in all non-Christian lands is that groups of native men and women can be trained in the skill and science of the West, coupled with the spirit and love of Him who came down from heaven as a missionary to a suffering world. "Has your country many daughters like you?" said a robber chief to the elect lady whose hospital tent looks out on the snows of Lebanon. "Truly our work is to despoil and deface ; yours is to restore and repair." "Blessed is he whomsoever shall not be offended in Me." Not an earring but a horn of thirty years' growth 63 APPENDIX A Medical missionaries under ai)poininK'nl of the Board of For- eign Missions, February 1st, 1914: AFRICA : Date of arrival Johnson, Silas F., M.D 1894 Knight, H. W., M.D 1912 Lehman, W. S., M.D 1898 Pinney, O. H., M.D 1907 Senska, F. R., M.D 1912 Weber, H. L., M.D 1902 Total 6 CHINA : Anderson, Elizabeth E., M.D 1907 Bash, Clementine, M.D 1912 Berst, W. L.. M.D 1907 Boggs, Mrs. J. J. (Ruth C. Bliss, M.D.) 1892 Boyd, Harry W., M.D 1899 Bryan, Herman, ]\I.D 1902 Burnham, Mary L., M.D 1897 Cochran, Samuel, M.D 1899 Cooper, Efifie B., M.D 1899 Cunningham, W. R., M.D 1904 Dillev, F. E., M.D 1907 Dobson William H., M.D 1897 Dunlap, R. W., I\I.D 1909 Fleming, Emma E., M.D 1898 Fulton, Mary H., M.D 1884 Hackett, Martha, M.D 1913 Hamilton, G. W., J\I.D 1903 Heimburger, L. F., M.D 1913 Harding, B. M., M.D 1913 Hills, Oscar F„ M.D 1907 Humphreys, Anne F., M.D 1913 Johnson, 'C. F., M.D 1889 keator, Louise H., M.D 1903 Keller, J. F., M.D 1903 Lasel'l, S. L., M.D 1899 Leonard, Eliza E., M.D 189r, Lewis, C. E., M.D 189G Lewis, S. C, M.D 1901 Lewis, Elizabeth F., M.D 1906 Logan, O. T., M.D 1897 Lyon, C. H., M.D 1900 McCandliss, H. M., M.D 1885 65 CHINA: {Continued) Mackey, Maud, M.D 1899 Machle, E. C, M.D 1889 Mateer, Mrs. R. M. (Madge Dickson, M.D.) 1889 Merwin Caroline S., M.D 1905 Murdoch, Agnes G., M.D 1908 Neal, J. B., M.D 1883 Niles, Mary W., M.D 1882 Patton, Mrs. C. E. (Isabella Mack, M.D.) 1905 Robertson, W. E., M.D 1906 Robinson, Mary H., M.D 1913 Ross, R. M., M.D 1906 Roys, C. K., M.D 1904 Seymour, S. F., M.D 1894 Schultz, W. M., M.D 1909 Sloan, T. D., M.D 1912 Tooker, F. J., M.D 1901 Tooker, Mrs. F. J. (Mary E. Fitch, M.D.) 1901 Tootell, G. T., M.D 1913 Vanderburg, E. D., M.D 1894 Total 51 INDIA : Allen, M. Maude, M.D 1894 Avey, Mrs. H. T. (Sarah E. Swezey, M.D.) 1910 Carleton, M. B., M.D 1881 Carleton Jessica R., M.D 1886 Forman, C. W., M.D 1883 Goheen, R. H. H., M.D 1905 MacArthur, Victoria E., M.D 1899 Marshall, Mrs. A. W. (Mary J. Stewart, M.D.) . . . 1900 Marston, Emily, M.D 1891 Mitchell, Alice, M.D 1895 Noble, Mary R., M.D 1903 Orbison, J. H.. M.D 1886 Vail, C. E., M.D 1909 Vrooman, Sarah, M.D 1901 Wanless, W. J., M.D 1889 Wilson, A. S., M.D 1896 Young, Annie, M. D 190G Total 17 GUATEMALA: Gregg, Mary E., M.D 1906 Total 1 PHILIPPINES: Carter, R. W., M.D 1907 Graham, J. A., M.D 1905 Hall, J. A., M.D 1900 Langheim, H. W.. M.D 1901 Miller, W. J., M.D 1913 Total 5 66 KOREA : Avison, O. R., M.D 1893 Bigger, J. D., M.D 1911 Fletcher, A. G., M.D 1909 Hirst, J. W., M.D 1904 Ludlow, A. I., M.D 1911 Mills, R. G., M.D 1908 Pieters, Mrs. A. A. (Eva H. Field, M.D.) 1897 Purviance, W. C., M.D 1908 Sharrocks, A. M., M.D 1899 Smith, R. K., M.D 1911 Underwood, Mrs. H. G. (Lillias S. Horton, M.D.) 1888 Wells, J. H., M.D 1895 Whiting, FI. C., AFD 1903 Total 13 PERSIA : Allen, Mary D., M.D 1910 Cook, J. W., M.D 1913 Frame, J. D., M.D 1905 Funk, J. A., M.D 1902 Lamme, C. W., M.D 1913 Lawrence, E. T., M.D 1903 Lawrence, Mrs. E. J. (Jessie C. Wilson, ALD.) . . . 1893 Miiller, Mrs. H. A. (Laura B. McComI), M.D.) . . 1910 Orcutt, Edna E., M.D 1911 Packard, FL P., M.D 1906 Smith, Mary J., M.D 1889 Stead, Mrs. F. M. (Blanche Wilson. M.D.) 1900 Sutherland, Mira, M.D 1913 Vanneman, W. S., M.D 1890 Total 14 SI AM : Bulkley , L. C., M.D 1905 McDaniel, E. B., M.D 1902 Shellman, C. J.. M.D 1906 Van Metre P. W., M.D 1913 Wachter, E., M.D 1884 Total 5 LAOS: Beach, W. B., M.D 1913 Briggs, W. A., M.D 1890 Cort, E. C., M.D 1908 Crooks, C. H., M.D 1904 Lyon, W. T., M.D 1912 Mason, C. W., M.D 1906 McKean, J- W., M.D 1889 Park, C. E., 1\LD 1913 Peoples, S. C, M.D 1882 Total 9 67 SYRIA : Eddy, Mary P., M.D 1893 Harris, Ira, M.D 18»3 Harris, Ara Elsie, M.D 1908 1 otal S TOTAL. Africa • ^ ^1 . 51 China . ,. 17 India ■• Guatemala Philippines Korea Persia e- 5 Siam Laos Syria 134 Hospital Buildings at MacLean and Assistants 68 APPENDIX B. DATA REGARDING THE PRESENT MEDICAL WORK OF TPIE PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES.* Note. — Although, where po.ssible, the number of beds is given for each hospital, it should be remembered that this does not mean that this number of patients can be cared for at any one time; as it often happens, especially in China, that a number of the relatives and friends accompany the patient and have to be accommodated. In hospitals where there are no nurses these friends are really necessary in serious cases, but they take up room which might otherwise be occupied by patients. AFRICA: BENITO— Dispensary work begun 1864 Managed by lay missionaries until 1907 when medi- cal missionary came to station. Boys' dormitory, when vacant, used as operating room. Hospital in process of erection. BATANGA— Dispensary work begun 1885 Small Hospital. 17 beds. EFULEN— Dispensary work begun 1900 "Schauffler Hospital and Dispensary" 1913 Hospital and dispensary buildings the gift of Mrs. A. F. Schauffler of New York City. Leper work connected with this Station 1911 MAC LEAN— Dispensary begun 1898 Hospital. 40 beds, 3 distinct buildings. METET— Medical work begun 1909 Dispensary. Nearest physician aside from station physician, 54 miles distant. Outlook good for medical work at Metet. As yet (1914) no hospital or dispensary buildings. The natives are asking for the white man's medicine and want to know when a hospital is to be built. The missionary takes his medicines with him in a chest when he goes on an itinerating trip and holds clinics by the roadside. *The names of Hospitals are those now in use. 69 CHINA: Medical work in China begun at Ningpo First missionary sent to China by Presbyterian Board, a physician, Dr. D. B. McCartee. HAINAN: HOIHOW, KIUNGCHOW— Begun 1 hospital, erected 85 beds, 1 dispensary. Medical work begun at Kiungchow by physician. All applicants agree to spend an hour a day in studying Catechism, New Testament and hymns if they wish to become in-patients. Work among lepers carried on in nearby village. 1844 1885 189G Back of Hoihow Hospital Iloihow Hospital 71 Dispensary, Hoiliow NODOA— Medical work opened "Mary Henry Hospital" 33 beds. Beds consist of boards placed on benches. Dispensary. Hospital erected by women of Princeton Church, Philadelphia, in memory of wife of Dr. Addison 1891 1899 Front of Kachek Hospital, Hainan 72 Henry. Completed with gilts from missionaries on the field. Four or five dialects used in the medical work. KACHEK— Aledical work begun 1903 "Kilborne Hospital" 1907 40 beds. Dispensary. Hospital gift of ]\Ir. A. W. Kilborne, of Orange, N.J. Some of the best evangelistic work and workers have been developed from hospital patients. SOUTH CHINA: CANTON— Aledical work begun 1838 1 Hospital. 2 Dispensaries. 1 Medical College. 1 Training School for Nurses. 1 Nurses' Home. 1 Hospital for Insane. The first medical missionary to Canton was sent out by the American Board in 1831: — Dr. Peter Parker. He opened a hospital chiefly for eye diseases. This was merged into the Canton General Hospital and superintended from 1853 to 1899 by Dr. John G. Kerr. Dr. Kerr, in connection with this hospital, founded the Refuge for the Insane from which, as a center, much evangelistic work is done. "The David Gregg Hospital" 1901 Given by Lafayette Avenue Church of Brooklyn as an appreciation of their pastor, the Rev. David Gregg, D.D. Work practically self-supporting from gifts of Chinese. Hospital" 73 Native women physicians operating-, "David Gregg Hospita Examining Room, "David Gregg Hospital" "Julia M. Turner Training School for Nurses". Given by Mrs. Charles P. Turner in memory of Mrs. C. N. Thorpe, for six years the honored and beloved President of the iWoman's Board of Philadelphia. 74 Nurses Home. Gift of Mrs. Charles P. Turner in memory of Mrs. C. N. Thorpe. Ward in "David Gregg Hospital", Canton, China Mary H. Perkins' Maternitv and Cliilch-en's Wards" Memorial by Mrs. Charles P. Turner to INFrs. Alary 11. Perkins of the Philadelphia Board. The Medical School for women was opened Name changed to "Hackett Medical College" Buildings gift of Mr. E. A. K. Hackett, of Ft. Wayne, Indiana. 190G 1901 1903 Graduates and Faculty of Hackett Medical College, I'JH Motto of College: "To give light and save life". r)2 Chinese women have been graduated from the Col- lege. One of the women members of the staff is the most famous native surgeon in China. Through the dispensaries fully 22,000 people have heard the Gospel in a single year. When the doctors are called to homes they carry ^ c — u 3 C Kg tracts for distribution. If the time is not suitable to talk to the anxious household, the tracts are left for future reading. Some years ago a large hospital was built in Shek Lung by the Merchants' Guild. For some reason it was not opened, and the large building stood vacant Pupils in Dr. Nilcs' School for Blind, Canton, China Leper Chapel, Canton, I hina 77 until last spring, when it was decided to open it, with a staff which included representatives of both East- ern and Western medicine. The doctor who is in charge of the Woman's De- partment was formerly an assistant in the David Gregg Hospital, Canton, and teacher in the Woman's Medi- cal College. YEUNG RUNG— "Forman Memorial Hospital for Men" 14 beds. Dispensary. Hospital gift of First Presbyterian Church, Jersey City. LIEN CHOU— First hospital opened Destroyed by mob Medical Work for Women begun "Van Norden Hospital for Men" 50 beds. "James H. A. Brooks Hospital for Women" 50 beds. These two hospitals memorial to the martyred mis- sionaries of Lien Chou 1902 1897 1905 1899 1910 1910 1905 Outside the Woman's Hospital, Lien Chou, China 78 Ill the Children's Ward, Lien Chou, China SIANGTAN— HUNAN: Medical work opened "Tooker Memorial Hospital" 30 beds. Dispensary. Land and building for the "Tooker Memorial Hos- pital" given by Mr. Nathaniel Tooker of East Orange, N. J., in memory of his wife. HENGCHOW— Medical work begun 1 Hospital 50 beds, room for 30 more. 1 Dispensary. The Hospital was given by the Women's Board of New York in 1907 but was not opened for lack of equipment until 1911. C HEN CHOW— 1 Hospital. 40 beds. 1 Dispensary. Large amount of medical itineration done from this station. Hospital gift of Church in Warren, Pa. Equipment gift of Mrs. Henry Kuhn in memory of a son. 79 1901 1906 1906 1911 Nathaniel Tooker Hospital, Hunan, China Hengchow Hospital 80 CHANGTEH— Medical work opened • 1899 1 Hospital for Men 1903 30 beds. 1 Hospital for Women 1903 12 beds. 1 Dispensary. First Hospital opened in Hunan Province. Men's Hospital was begun by the Cumberland Board. The first hospital opened in Hunan Province. Land for Woman's Hospital given by the women of Salt River Presbytery, Missouri. CENTRAL CHINA: SOOCHOW— "Tooker Memorial Hospital for Women and Children" 1899 35 beds. Built by Mr. Nathanial Tooker of East Orange, N. J., in memory of his wife. 4 Dispensaries (3 in the country). NINGPO— Dispensary opened in 1844 There is a small hospital in a neighboring city with a Christian Chinese physician in charge. NORTH CHINA: Union Medical Work carried on at Peking. *Lockhart Union ]Mcdical College for Men, opened 1906 fUnion Medical College for Women, opened 1908 JUnion Training School for Nurses, opened 1906 *3 classes have graduated — 48 doctors ; one of these took part in the anti-plague campaign, fl class graduated. $2 classes graduated. *This College is one of the three Union Institutions established jointly by the North China Educational Union (American Board, American Presbyterian, and London Missionary Society Missions). Subsequently the Peking University of the American Methodist Episcopal Mission joined in its work. The College was built and equipped by the London Missionary So- ciety which is especially responsible for its mainte- nance. The name of Lockhart was given to the Col- lege in honor of the distinguished pioneer who led the way as the first Medical Missionary of the Society, and indeed of any British Society. The main building was finished and opened in March, 190G, and the dor- mitory section in 1908 81 A great deal of interest in the College was aroused at the outset among the wealthy and governing classes, and Her Imperial Majesty, the late Empress Dowager of China, contributed handsomely to its funds, and sent a special Commissioner to open it. It has received another mark of favor in being reg- istered by the Imperial Board of Education, so that its successful students receive a Government diploma. An Ting Hospital An Ting Dispensary 82 PEKING— Medical work begun An Ting Hospital for Men 23 beds. Douw Hospital for Women 18 beds. 2 Dispensaries. 1883 1903 1902 Au Ding Hospital Ward — Man with broken back PAOTINGFU— Medical work begun *"George Yardley Taylor Memorial Hospital for Men" 60 beds. "Hodge Memorial Hospital for Women" 50 beds. 2 Dispensaries. "The George Yardley Taylor Hospital", erected in memory of Dr. Taylor, who perished in the Boxer outbreak of 1900, by his classmates of Princeton Uni- versity. Equipment provided by gift of Dr. B. C. At- terbury, of N. Y. Other buildings added by Mr. E. B. Sturgis, of Scranton, Pa. "The Hodge Memorial Hospital", erected with funds received from Indemnity Fund, Dr. Cortlandt Van R. Hodge having perished in the Boxer outbreak of 1900. The Indemnity was received from the Chi- nese Government for property destroyed at time of outbreak. *Physician in charge has fitted up a dental room and makes his own tablets. 84 1893 1904 1901 SHUNTEFU— Medical work begun "Hugh O'Neill Hospital", memorial 60 beds. Dispensary. Opium wards outside main building. Hospital built by Mrs. Hugh O'Neill, of New York, in memory of her husband. (See page 85.) 1904 1907 Hope Hospital, Hwai Yuen l^f^^^ Men's Ward, "Hope Hospital" 86 KIANGAN: HWAI YUEN— Medical work opened "Hope Hospital" Dispensary. Hospital building erected by Mr. W. C. Lobenstine, of New York, in memory of his wife. Has ward for women. 1902 1909 NANKING: Union Medical College in connection with Nanking University Union Training School for Nurses Union of Presbyterians, North and South; Metho- dists, North and South; Baptists, North and South; Disciples. 1911 1910 SHANTUNG: TSINAN-FU— Union Medical College 1911 This College is under the joint control of the English Baptist and American Presbyterian Missions Plant provided by the Baptist Missionary Society of Lon- don. Aim and policy of the College: To give a medical education under distinctively Christian influ- ences to young men, chiefly from Christian families. When the College was opened, the Governor of Shan- tung made a generous gift of 1000 taels ($700 gold). 1 Hospital 1910 40 beds. 1 Dispensary 1910 Severance Hospital, Tengchow 87 TENGCHOW— Medical work opened *Preseiit Hospital occupied 35 beds. 2 Dispensaries. *Gift of the late Mr. L. H. Severance, of Cleveland, Ohio. 1878 1912 CHEFOO— Dispensary work begun "Temple Hill" Hospital 80 beds. The hospital building, the gift of Dr. (). F. Hills and the late Mr. L. H. Severance. The Dispensary is capable of handling 3U,()iH) patients annually. TSINGTAU— Medical itinerating work among wcimcn, under care of a woman physician. WEI HSIEN— Medical work opened Present hospitals opened Men's Hospital. 30 beds *Woman's Hospital. 15 beds. 3 Dispensaries opened *Money for an isolation ward given by Presbytery of Minneapolis. 1908 1913 1882 1900 190G Woincirs Dispensary, Wei Ilsien, thina 89 TSINANFU— Medical work opened 1880 Union Medical College of Shantung. University located here. "Mcllvaine Memorial Hospital for Men" 1892 18 beds. "Louisa Y. Boyd Hospital for Women" 1899 13 beds. 2 Dispensaries. The Mcllvaine Memorial Hospital, erected from a part of the legacy of Rev. Jasper S., Mcllvaine, as a testimony to him, he having founded the station at Tsinanfu. The Louisa Y. Boyd Hospital, given by the late Mrs. L. Y. Boyd, of Harrisburg, Pa. ICHOW-FU^ Medical work begun 1891 Woman's Hospital 1907 50 beds. 2 Dispensaries. "Floyd D. White Memorial Hospital for Men" 1899 50 beds. These hospitals are called the "Jesus Hospitals". Women's Hospital given by the Woman's Board of the Southwest, St. Louis. Memorial Hospital, named for young son of a Mrs. White, of Mulberry, Kansas. TSINING— "Rose Bachman Memorial Hospital for Men" 1894 60 beds. "Annie M. Hunter Memorial for Women" 1895 24 beds. 1 Dispensary. "Rose Bachman Hospital" given by 1st Presbyterian Church, Utica, N. Y., in memory of pastor's wife. New building erected 1907 by Women's Board of New York. "Annie M. Hunter Memorial", given by Dr. S. A. Hunter in memory of his mother. New equipment for men's wards to be provided from Kennedy Fund to the amount of $1,000. YI-HSIEN— Hospital 1907 8 beds. Dispensary 1907 90 GUATEMALA: Medical work begun in Guatemala City 1906 Hospital erected 1913 12 beds. ' U Medical work conducted in hospital and dispensary and by visits to the homes. It is also expected to conduct a Training School for Nurses. INDIA— PUNJAB: LAHORE— Dispensary 1819 Work conducted for a number of years by natives. ' Missionary in charge since 1891 Dispensary at JJ'agaJi in charge of missionary. SAHARANPUR— Dispensary 188;] Medical missionary does much medical itinerating, having a large van fitted up for the purpose. Municipal Leper Asylum at Saharanpur, under Mis- sion management. SABATHU— Dispensary. Medical work opened ISGG A large Leper Asylum connected with this Station under the management of our Mission and superin- tended by a physician of the Presbyterian Board. LUDHIANA— Medical work at this Station carried on in connection with the North India School of Medicine. The North India School of Medicine at Ludhiana was Hindu Ward, Ludhiana 92 founded in 1894 by Dr. Edith Brown in conjunction with a Committee composed of medical and educa- tional missionaries and others who realized the need of providing medical training, combined with the in- fluences of a Christian home, for the Christian women of India. Its primary object is to train such women as desire to engage in Zenana medical missions and to fit them to be medical missionaries to the country- women. It has received the co-operation of some of the leading missionary societies and has also been recognized by Government as a school of medicine. In view of all that was said at the World Missionary Conference about union and the emphatic need of interdenominational co-operation in supporting good schools and colleges for the training of Christian help- ers, it is a matter of congratulation that, in the North India School of Medicine, such an institution has been found, one which is well worthy of support. For a number of years the North India Mission of the Pres- byterian Church has loaned to the School the services of one of its medical women missionaries. JULLUNDUR— Station opened 1846 Aledical missionary has a traveling dispensary. AM BALA— Medical work opened 1866 "Philadelphia Hospital for Women" 1898 20 beds. 2 Dispensaries. 1 Dispensary for Lepers. Leper Asylum 1848 Lupcr A;.yluiu, Auibala 94 The Philadelphia Hospital for Women has a Me- morial ward in memory of Mary N. Thorpe, of Phil- adelphia, called the "Family Ward". Here the rela- tives can stay and cook for the patients. Necessary on account of caste. Plospital built by Woman's For- eign Missionary Society of Philadelphia, on the 25th anniversary of organization of Society. HOSHYARPORE— Dispensary 1901 "Denny Hospital for Women and Children". 10 beds. Hospital was given by Miss Anna Denny of Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City. FEROZEPUR— Dispensary 1882 Hospital work begun 1893 "Francis Newton Hospital for Women and Children" 1894 Medical itineration at outstation of Kasur. Hospital built by late Mrs. Frank J. Newton. N. INDIA: ALLAHABAD— '"''Dispensary work begun 1874 "Sara Seward Hospital for Women" 1896 22 beds. ^''Allahabad Dispensary was opened August 11, 1890, in which year the number of patients treated num- bered 3,738. During a plague epidemic in 1902, the hospital dispensary record showed an attendance of over 18,000 from January to August. At the close of one year of work in the dispensary, during which nearly nine thousand patients were treated, the physician in charge says : "A closer acquaintance with the people has given an increasing influence for good along many lines. It is often very gratifying to see the efforts made to carry out directions, under great difficulties. Mothers, none too well themselves, will come long distances on foot day after day, bringing in their arms sick chil- dren for dressing or treatment, when caste customs will not allow them to remain over night in the hos- pital. Some have asked to be allowed to stay all day to get the medicine regularly from the nurse and then go home for the night returning the next morning. I always let them, for by seeing something of the hos- pital they become less superstitious. "All the patients are daily taught from the Bible, and the nurses also have a daily lesson with the Bible woman. Each morning the hospital staff assemble in 95 the dressing room for prayers and then the day's work begins. We have been able to open several homes where the Bible had never been taught, and now some take great pleasure in preparing their Scripture les- sons, where a short time ago there was only bitter opposition to Christianity. "It is encouraging to see that some of the parents are remembering not to give opium to the children, though it is still the usual thing and the panacea for all ills of both old and young. One of my most pleasant duties is the attendance, medically, of several schools. The difference between the uneducated women and girls and those in the schools, such as the Mary Wana- maker High School and the Lady Muir Memorial Training School, is most marked." Hospital work begun in 1889, but no building having been opened until 1896, the buildings erected by Dr. Seward having been used as a dispensary up to 1896. The "Sara Seward Hospital" was named in memory of the devoted missionary by that name who was on the field for seventeen years and died of cholera in 1891. Sarah Seward Hospital, Allahabad, India ETAH— Dispensary work begun 1900 In charge of a trained compounder. FATEHGARH— Medical work begun 1903 Memorial Dispensary 1910 Memorial Dispensary built and equipped by Dr. Anna M. Fullerton and Miss Mary Fullerton 1907 Given to Mission in 1903 Dispensary at outstation of Barhpur. This is for boys connected with the Barhpur orphan- age. 96 W. INDIA: KOLHAPUR— ]\Ie(lical work opened 1906 Conducted at first l)y a lay missionary during an out- break of cholera. 2 Dispensaries. "Marv Wanless :\Iemorial Hospital" 1910 30 beds. The Memorial Hospital was given by His Highness, the Maharajah of Kolhapur, as an appreciation of the services of the medical stafif of the Miraj Hospital who attended him after a serious accident. Named for the late Mrs. W. J. Wanless, of Miraj. KODOLI— Medical work opened 1901 Ho-spital (built bv famine labor). 55 beds. Dispensary. Hospital temporarily closed and Dispensary in charge of an Indian assistant and superintended by the Miraj Hospital Stafif. V EN GU RLE- Dispensary — work begun 1907 Hospital 1908 26 beds. 2 out-station dispensaries. Training classes for nurses and compotmders. SANGLI— Dispensary work 1887 This work was begun by Dr. Wanless and continued by him for two years until he was transferred to IVIiraj. The dispensary was first fitted up in one end of the school-house on the compound. A bathroom, 5x8 feet, with the addition of shelves made out of packing boxes, served as a compounding room. An- other room, 8 x 12, with a table and chair, served as a consulting room. The open court in front of the school was the waiting room. Later an old building in the city, with greater space, was secured, fitted with a new door and windows, sink for washing purposes, rough shelving for bottles, packing boxes for cup-* boards, a cloth ceiling for protection against the dust which l)lew in through the tile roof and curtain sepa- rating the consulting and compounding from the preaching and waiting room, with a few rude benches. 97 MIRAJ- Hospital New Building 75 beds. Dispensary at Station. 3 Dispensaries at out-stations. Medical School. Training School for Nurses. Leper Asylum Land for the Hospital was secured through the friend- liness of a prime minister of the State of Miraj who had been a patient of the physician in charge. The Hospital was the gift of the late Mr. John H. Converse, of Philadelphia, who said that it was his "best investment". Before he died he had the satis- faction of knowing that about half a million patients had received treatment in this institution. In one year alone the total number of in-patients was almost 1,500. There were over 30,000 in attendance at the dispensary and 2,605 operations performed, of which over 500 were for cataract. The Hospital has fine operating room, with lecture hall and laboratory for the medical school. 1894 1904 1901 Miraj Hospital The present Sherifif of Bombay (1913) has given an X-ray apparatus to the Hospital, and Plis Highness, the Maharajah of Kolhapur has presented to the in- stitution a plot of six and a half acres of land on which to erect more buildings as funds shall warrant. A new Home for the Nurses is being built as the Jubilee ofifering of the Presbyterian women of Wash- ington, D. C. 98 The Leper Asyhiiii is supported by the Mission to Lepers in India and the East, but superintended by the missionary statT at Miraj station. The Medical School is for the training of Indian Chris- tian young- men. Note. — At a meeting of the MecHcal Missionary As- sociation of Incha held in r)oml)ay in I'\'l:)ruary, 1!»(»!), resohitions were passed and a s])eeial interdenomi- national connnittee api)ointed with the object of estab- lishing in connection with one of the existing Mis- sionary hospitals, a Union Medical College for the training of Indian Christian young men to work among the village population in India. With this in pros- pect the Medical School at Miraj is being enlarged. The Medical Association of India has endorsed it, and it is only a question of when they have the money to so ahead. KOREA: SEOUL— Medical work opened 1884 "Severance Hospital" 1905 48 beds. Medical College and Dispensary 1905 New buildings 1913 Nurses' Training School 1905 Dispensary, memorial. Memorial dispensary established with gifts from ]\Irs. Huffh O'Neill, of New York. Severance Medical College and Hospital, Seoul 99 Ward in Severance Hospital "Severance Hospital", given by the late Mr. L. H. Severance, of Cleveland, Ohio, in memory of his wife. First Graduates of Severance Hospital, Korea 100 Hospital has an isolation building accommodating G patients, pharmacy, dental and optical dei)artments. Also a Pasteur Institute with rabbit pen attached where rabietic virus can be produced. From the Report of the Korea Mission (iyi;3) we quote: "Severance" is now an almost universal con- traction for "Severance Hospital", and it is used to denote the whole plant which has passed the original and simple stage of hospital and has become an insti- tution, for it is gradually developing towards its ideal of being the many-sided institution which will make it complete within itself along the lines of an all- round medical plant. This ideal : 1. A hospital equipped and manned with such Ameri- can workers as will make it as capable of giving relief from suffering and saving life as any similar institu- tion in America. 2. The instruction of Koreans as physicians to be associated with and in due time replace Americans without loss of efficiency to the plant. 3. The instruction and training of Korean women as nurses on the same basis as the doctors. 4. The training of specially capable doctors and nurses as specialists and teachers so as to make pos- sible the teaching of numbers to do effective medical and nursing work throughout the wdiole country. 5. The development of a school manned ultimately by these trained Koreans. 6. The addition of a department of medical re- search both for training native scientists and investi- gating and determining the cause and cure of dis- eases existing in Korea. 7. A dental department for treatment and teaching. 8. A pharmaceutical department with similar aim and with the additional one of providing the rest of our institutions with prepared drugs and appliances. 9. An optical department for the relief of diseases, refraction and the manufacture of lenses. 10. To provide for a considerable supporting rev- enue by the careful conduct of those lines of busi- ness which are naturally closely allied to medical work, such as manufacturing and wholesale phar- macy, optical manufacturing and sales department, etc. PYENG YANG— Medical work begun 1895 "Caroline A. Ladd Hospital" 190G 25 beds. Hospital was given by the late Mrs. Wm. S. Ladd, who was President of the North Pacific Board of Missions for twenty-one years. 101 Waiting Room and Chapel, "Caroline A. Ladd Hospital", Pyeng Yang This hospital is called by the natives the "Jesus Doc- trine Hospital". Mr. W. M. Ladd, of Portland, has made a yearly gift of $250 for charity beds. FUSAN — Medical work begun "Junkin Memorial Hospital" 25 beds. "Mary Collins Whiting Dispensary" Dispensary was begun in Small hospital Leper Asylum. 1891 1900 1900 1892 1893 S^HIH ■^^■tt ^^1 HiPHB "^B HBI nm The Leper Asylum near I'lisan, Korea 102 ^*i ^Sgf ^^ZSj^^ ^'' ' 9 ^ml '^ wUKKm.4J^ )iL ^^^ •11 Sycn-Cliun Hospital SVEN CH UN- Work begun Dispensary built Hospital IG beds. ]\Iedical students under instruction. The hospital building was the gift of California Young People's Societies. TAIKU— Work begun Plospital, 2-i beds. Dispensary. CHAI RYONG— Work begun Hospital 1-i beds. 1 Dispensary. Hospital was gift of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City. CHONG JU— Dispensary — work begun "Duncan Memorial Hospital" 20 beds. Hospital gift of Mrs. John V. Duncan, of Nfew York. AN DONG— Medical work begun Dispensary. "Cornelius P>aker Memorial Hospital" (in pro- cess of erection). Given by Mrs. A. F. Schaufller, New York City, in memory of her father. 103 1901 1905 1906 1898 190G 1907 1907 1910 1911 "Duncan Hospital", Choni RANG KAI— Medical work opened Hospital 30 beds. 1 Dispensary. Hospital given by tbe late Mr. John S. Kennedy, of New York City. 1909 1911 E. PERSIA: TEH ERA N- Medical work opened 1881 Hospital for Men and Women 1892 3 Dispensaries. Land for Hospital given by Prime Minister. Woman's Ward given by mother of a nobleman. Several classes of physicians have been educated here. H AM AD AN— 2 Dispensaries 1881 "Lily Reid Holt Memorial Hospital for Men" 1907 25 beds. "Whipple Memorial Hospital for Women" 1902 8 beds. The "Lily Reid Holt Memorial Hospital" result of gifts through Mrs. Simon Reid, Lake Forest, 111. 104 The "Whipple Memorial Hospital" in Memory of Mr. W. L. Whipple, missionary in liamadan from 1872-79 and 1S!>!)-1!)()1. Inuids collected by his widow. Operating Room, Teheran Hospital RESHT— Medical work opened Dispensary. Hospital 7 beds. Branch dispensary and drug room in I^ahijan, .')() miles east of Resht. 1905 1909 Room in Hospital, Rcslit, Persia 107 Ilosi'ital patitnts, Kuslit, J' KASVIN- Medical work begun Dispensary. Patients of Kasvin Dispensary, Persia KERMANSHAH— Opened as a Station in Dispensary carried on in private house. W. PERSIA: U RUM I A— Medical work begun Dispensary. "Westminster Hospital" 100 beds. "Howard Annex for Women" The central building of the Westminster Hospital given by Mr. S. M. Clements, of Buffalo, in memory 108 1902 1911 1835 1880 1890 One of the inl^, Westminster Hospital, Urumia, Persia of Dr. Joseph P. Cochran, for twenty-seven years a medical missionary at Urumia. TABRIZ— Medical work begun ''"'Whipple Hospital for Women" 12 beds. Dispensary for Men. Dispensary for Women. Hospital named for Rev. W. L. Whipple, who left the field in 1901 and who, on leaving, gave his resi- dence for a hospital for women. *Not in operation at present. 1873 1901 Men's llosiiilal, Tabriz 109 . • Iliiiiiinf^ . . H^-r^lgUl ill^i^f^ H|^^ ^MRjIl^'^'^^iLi^MUdyHy^^^^^^^^^^^^B QHhw ^^K BHI Whipple Hospital for Women, Tabriz PHILIPPINES: ILOILO— Medical work begun "Sabine Haines Memorial Hospital" 65 beds. 1 Dispensary. Nurses' Training School. Hospital named in memory of the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Haines, of New York. This is a Union Hospital with the Baptists. 52 of the 65 beds are for the poor. Concrete ward for women given by Mr. and Mrs. Dunwoody, of Minneapolis. The first hospital to be opened in the Islands for the care of the poor. Training School graduated the first nurses trained in the Philippine Islands. 1899 1905 f '" -^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^BSflHEuflBi SP'^M z^^^~~^--' 11^^ ^ • .& Iloilo Hospital, Dunwoody Annex 110 DUMAGUETE— Medical work begun 1901 Hospital 1903 40 beds. Dispensary. Ice plant for hospital given as a memorial to Wil- lard Hubbell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W. Hub- bell, director of Public Works for the Philippines, by ]\Irs. George R. Clark, of Detroit, Mich. LEYTE— Hospital 1907 Dispensary. TAGBILARAN— Medical work opened in 1909 Hospital. Dispensary. LliaiJcl and Hospital, Tagbilaian BOHOL— Work opened Hospital. 20 beds. Built from Kennedy Fund. LACUNA— Medical work begun Dispensary. Large medical work carried on in out-patient visits. Work among the Lepers at the Government Leper Colony on the Island of CuHon in charge of a Fil- ipino evangelist. 113 1909 1907 Dispensary, Tagbilaran SIAM: BANGKOK— Medical work begun Hospital 40 beds. Dispensary. Hospital — The building now occupied by hospital and dispensary has been loaned during his lifetime by the Vice-minister of the Department of Foreign Affairs who became interested in the work being done 1887 1909 Bangkok Hospital 114 by the physician in charge. The building, originally a tenement house, has been transformed into a two- story hospital with five wards accommodating 40 patients. In offering the use of the building the Vice-Minister made the following conditions : 1. "That charitable medical work shall always be done in the hospital. 2. "That the hospital shall not become a money-mak- ing institution, nor be diverted in any way from medi- cal missionary work, but fees shall be charged to those who are able to pay and donations may be re- ceived to provide for the expenses of the hospital and upkeep of the rooms of the hospital in repairs both in and out. 3. "That the Mission shall permanently provide a medical missionary who shall have charge of the hos- pital, including such religious exercises he may see fit, but during the absence on furlough of such medical missionary, if the Mission should find that no suitable medical missionary were available for this work, I consent to have the hospital closed after suitable notice until his return, with the understanding that it will then be opened. 4. "That in case the Mission should fail to carry out these conditions, or for any other reason should be obliged to abandon this hospital work at any time, the building shall revert thereby to my use and control. It is my intention to include in this offer other rooms of this row of buildings as the needs and growth of the work may demand, and this offer shall remain in force as long as the Mission fulfills the above condi- tions. I request that you make known this offer to your Board in New York, with whatever recommenda- tion your Mission may see fit to make and with my assurance that the hospital will remain wholly under the control of the Siam ^Mission." The operating-room outfit was contributed by the First Church of Oak Park, 111. PETCHABURI— Medical work begun 18(51 Hospital, 32 beds. Dispensary. The King of Siam, in 1888, gave $2,400 toward the enlargement to the Hospital to show his appreciation of the work. Ward for women, given by Queen of Siam. 1895 First Church, Pittsburgh, gave equipment for oper- ating-room. 115 RATBURI— Medical work begun Dispensary Hospital 10 beds. Land and hospital buildings occupied rent free on conditicin that school and medical work shall be main- tained. Given by Government. Native physician in charge. PITSANULOKE— A small hospital of 14 beds was built in 1890, but the present building was not completed finally until 1908 when a new ward and operating room were added. The Hospital was given by the High Commissioner of the region as a memorial to his mother. NAKAWN— Medical work begun in Dispensary. "Sri Tamarat Hospital" (Memorial) 40 beds. Land for Hospital given by Government on payment of nominal fee; hospital erected largely by gifts from Siamese friends. Beds are nearly all memorial, given by Siamese nobles. Waterworks, kitchen and dining room given bv King when he was Crown Prince. 1889 1889 1896 Medical work begun 1899 Hospital 1908 24 beds. 2 Dispensaries 1899 Branch Dispensary and preaching place in mar- ket 1909 1883 1907 Administration Building, Sri Tamarat Hospital 116 Dispensary, Sri Tamarat Hospital TAP TEANG— Hospital 28 beds. 1 Dispensary. Given by the High Commissioner of Puket Province in gratitude for his recovery from a serious illness. He was treated by a missionary of the Board. 1911 LAOS: CHIENG MAI- Medical work begun by Dr. McGilvary Hospital 12 beds. 1867 1887 Chieng Mai Leper Asylum 118 Dispensary Leper Asylum, 32 inmates; 49 patients under care of Asylum. Land for the Leper Asylum given by a son of the last King of Laos. Asylum located on an island in the Me Ling River. 1875 Lepers at Cliieng Mai The ground for the Hospital was given by a brother of the King several years before the Hospital build- ing was erected, with the provision that it be used for missionary purposes only. The donor himself was a Buddhist. LAKAWN— Medical work begun Hospital given by the Governor of the Province 16 beds. "Van Santvoord Memorial Hospital" Ward for Women and Children added ^ 2 Dispensaries. 25 beds in all. Memorial Ward given by Miss Van Santvoord and . Mrs. Wilton Merle Smith, New York City. Another ward given by five men of Lakawn, headed by the Governor's brother. One of the men gave teak logs for the work and assisted in the erection to show his gratitude for the care of his wife and son in the hospital. NAN— Medical work begun Hospital Dispensary 119 1885 1892 1904 1906 1883 1900 1895 CHIENG RAI— Medical work begun 1897 "Overbrook Memorial Hospital" 1911 4-i beds. Dispensary. 20 Branch Dispensaries. Hospital given in memoriam by family of Mr. John B. Gest, of Philadelphia. Furnished and equipped by Mr. John M. Gest. PRE— 1 Hospital. 1 Dispensary. SYRIA: BEIRUT— Medical work begun 1863 No medical work under care of the Presbyterian Board, owing to the presence of the Johanniter Hos- pital in this city, supported by the German order of the Knights of St. John, and cared for by the medi- cal staff of the Syrian Protestant College. JUNIEH — 15 miles across the Bay from Beirut. 2 Dispensaries. 1 Hospital 1903 30 beds. Tuberculosis Sanitorium 1908 TRIPOLI— Medical work begun 1863 2 Dispensaries. "Kennedy Memorial Hospital". 40 beds. Medical work for women under care of woman physician, begun 1908 Tripoli Hospital 120 The printed labels with Arabic on the Margin are used on bottles of medicine dispensed at the Hospital, As the natives never take off a label on a bottle when they wash it they have the texts constantly before them when they use the bottle. We give a repro- duction of one. It is common to see bottles in daily use with a highly colored label of "Beer", "Cognac" and "Whisky" still on; but the hospital medicine bottle, with its label on which are Bible texts, is a constant reminder of the Word of God and will do the readers good, not harm. This is one of the labels pasted on the bottles of medi- cine that is dispensed at the Presbyterian Mission Hos- pital at Tripoli, Syria. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. — 1st John 1 :7. And in none other is there salvation : for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved. — Acts 4 :12. I create the fruit of the lips ; Peace, peace, to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith Jehovah; and I will heal him. — Isaiah 57:19. Bless Jehovah, O my soul, And forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities ; Who healeth all thy diseases. — Psalms lO:] :2, 3. TOTAL OF HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES Hospitals Dispensaries Africa 3 6 China 29 34 India 8 21 Guatemala 1 Korea 10 7 Persia 6 10 Philippines 4 5 Siam 6 7 Laos 5 26 Syria 2 4 74 120 Institutions for Blind and Deaf 3 Leper Asylums 6 Medical Schools and Colleges 3 Refuge for Insane 1 Training Schools for Nurses 4 Union Hospitals and Dispensaries 3 Union Medical Colleges 4 Union Schools for Nurses 2 121 APPENDIX C. Number of patients treated in Hospitals and Dispensaries for ten years, ending April 1st, 1913: Total treated 4,340,232 Total by countries : Africa •J'7,329 China 1,524,467 Guatemala ( 3 years ) 5,613 India 1,274,237 Korea 500,367 Philippines 116,397 Persia 363,573 Siam 140,019 Laos 216,185 Syria 122,045 Total 4,340,232 Total of grant by the Board for Medical work for ten years ending April 1st, 1913, $261,584. Total of amount raised on the field for medical work in the same period, $450,114. The amount appropriated by the Board does not include the salaries of the medical missionaries, new property or repairs on old. Cost per patient (not including missionaries' salaries, or prop- erty, which would approximately double it), 16 cents. 122 APPENDIX D. Partial list of diseases treated by the medical missionary in the various countries where the Board carries on Medical Mission work: AFRICA : Dengue fever. Eye-worm. Hook-worm. Leprosy. Malaria. Skin diseases of all kinds. Sleeping sickness. Smallpox. Ulcers. CHINA: Beri-Beri. Cholera— treated with saline in- fusion. Digestive troubles — especially in- testinal parasites. Diseases of the eye : Cataracts. Entropion — inturned eye- lashes. Trachoma. Dropsy. Dysentery. Fistula in Ano — very common. Gangrene — senile, etc. Goitre. Hook-worm. Hydrophobia. Insanity : Epileptic. Melancholia. Paresis. Paranoia. Kala Azar. Leprosy. Lock-jaw. Malaria. Measles and other exanthemata. Opium intoxication. Plague — bubonic and pneumonic. Rheumatism. Scarlet fever. Skin diseases — all forms. Small-pox. Spleno-megaly. Syphilis — acquired and hereditary. Tuberculosis in various forms — one-third to one-half of all cases. Tumors. Typhus fever. Vesical calculus. GUATEMALA: Dysentery. Enteritis. Gastro-enteritis. Intestinal parasites: Hook-worm. Tape-worm. Measles. Small-pox. Whooping cough. Stomach and intestinal troubles prevalent. INDIA : Ankylostomiasis (Hook-worm disease). Beri-Beri. Cataracts. Cholera. Dengue fever. Dysentery. Elephantiasis. Guinea-worm. Gynecological surgery. Intestinal parasites. Kala Azar. Leprosy. Liver abscess. Malaria. Mycetoma (Fungus foot). Plague. Relapsing fever. Stone. Tuberculosis. Ulcers — stomach and duodenum. KOREA : Diseases of the Ear: Mastoiditis. Otitis — externa. Otitis — media. Rupture of membrane — by violence. Surditis. Diseases of the Eye : Astigmatism. Blepharitis. Cataract. Chalzzion. Conjunctivis. Corneal Ulcer. Dacrocystitis. Entropion. Hemeralopia. Note.— In Shantung reported that one-third of all cases are tubercular, one-third venereal, and other diseases claim other third. Note.— In 1903 reported epidemics of "plague, cholera, dysentery, measles, small-pox, catarrhal ophthalmia, influenza, dengue or remittent fever." 123 KOREA : Continued Hordeolum. Hypopion. Iritis. Keratitis. Leucoma — very common. Pan-ophthalmitis — common. Pythisis bulbi — common. Pterygium. Ptosis. Staphyloma — common. Trachoma — common. Diseases of Nose: Polypus. Rhinitis — acute. atrophic, chronic. Septal deviation. Infectious diseases: Cholera — rare. Diphtheria. Dysentery. Erysipelas. Malaria. Measles. Mumps. Pertussis — ''donkey cough". Pyemia. Rheumatism. Tuberculosis. Typhoid. Typhus. Variola. Nervous diseases : Brain abscess. Cephalagia — anemic, com- mon, ocular, specific. Epilepsy — major, minor, traumatic. Edema. Hemiplegia. Hernia of the brain. Insomnia. Melancholia. Meningitis. Monoplegia. Neurasthenia. Paralysis. Tic. Torticollis. Parasitic infections: Ascaris lumbricoides. Oxyuris vermicularis. Paragonimus Westermani. Tape-worm. Other diseases : Abscesses — galore. Acne. Adenoids. Anal fissure. Anal prolapse. Angina (Vincent's) — com- mon. Aphthae. Arthritis. Arterio-palpitatio. Arterio-sclerosis. Boils. Bronchitis, acute and chronic — common. Broncho-pneumonia. Cancrum oris. Cancer. Carbuncles. Carcinoma. Catarrhus — acute gastric. Cellutitis. Congestion of the lungs. Condylomata. Dental caries. Dermatitis. Eczema. Empyema. Endometritis. Enteroptopsis — common. Espohago — stenosis. Epidiymitis. Fistula in Ano. Gall stone. Ganglion. Gangrene. Gastrecrasis. Gastroptosis. Gastro-intestinal. Gonorrhea — common. Hematuria. Hemorrhoids. Hemoptysis. Hepatic cirrhodid. Hernia. Herpes. Hydrocele. Hypertrophied tonsils. Icterus. Impetigo. Ischio-rectal abscess. Jaimdice. Keloid. Kidney diseases. Laryngitis. Liver abscess. Lupus Erythematisis. Lymphadenitis. Malaria. Mastitis. Mitral insufficiency. Myalgia. Nephritis. Onychia. Orchitis. Osteomyelitis. Pediculosis pernio. Peritonitis. Pes planus. Pharyngitis. Phimosis. Phlegmon of hand. Proctitis. Psoriasis. 124 KOREA : Continued Scabies. Small-pox. Stomatitis. Synovitis. Syphilis — common. Thecitis. Urinary fistula. Urinary retention. Urinary suppression. Vitiligo. PHILIPPINES : Abscess of liver. Accidents of pregnancy. Affections of the bones. Alcoholism. Amputations. Anemia. Aneurism. Agina pectoris. Apoplexy. Asiatic cholera. Asthma. Atheroma. Beri-Beri. Bronchitis. Broncho pneumonia. Cataracts. Cerebral congestion and hemor- rhage. Cirrhosis of liver. Congenital malformation. Convulsions of children. Dengue. Diabetes. Diarrhea. Diseases of the eye and car. Diseases of the joints. Diseases of the skin. Dislocations. Dropsy. Dysentery. Eclampsia. Elephantiasis. Encephalitis. Endocarditis. Enteritis. Epilepsy. Erysipelas. Fractures. Gangrene. Goiter. Gynecological cases. Hemorrhages. Hemorrhoids. Hernia. Intermittent fever. Intestinal parasites. Leprosy. Locomotor ataxia. Malarial cachexia. Malignant tumors. Measles. fKspccially prevalent. Meningitis. Nephritis. Pericarditis. Phlebitis. Plague. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Potts' disease. Puerperal hemorrhage. Puerperal septicaemia. Rabies. Rheumatism. Pulmonary emphysema. Septicaemia. Small-pox. Sprue. Tetanus. Tropical ulcers. Tuberculosis. Typhoid fever. Varices. Venereal diseases. Whooping cough. SI AM : Abscess — Antrum. *Breast. Hip — tubercular hip. Kidney. Rib. Rectal. Addison's disease. Adentitis — all forms. Adenoids. Amputations. Anemia — pernicious, splenic. Ankylosis — various joints. Aortic insufficiency. Arthritis — many varieties. Ascitis. Asthma. Auto-intoxication. *Beri-Beri. Bright's disease. Bronchitis. *Calcnlus — vesical. Carbuncle. Carcinoma (cancer). *Cataract. *Cholera. Chorea — St. Vitus' dance. Cleft palate. Conjunctivitis. Constipation. Corneal ulcer. Cysts — dermoid, ovarian. Cystitis. Cystocele. *Dengue fever. Dermatitis. Deformities — various forms. Diabetes. Dislocations. •Found in part of Laos only. 125 SIAM : Conti niied *Dysentery. Eczema. *Elephantiasis. Entropion. Epilepsy. Fistula — ano, recto-vaginal. Floating kidney. Fractures. Gangrene. Gastritis. Glaucoma. *Goitre — exophthalmic, hyperthy- roid, hypothyroid. Gonorrhea. Gumma. Hare lip. Heat exhaustion. Hemorrhage — lung. . Hemorrhoids. Hernia. Hydrocele. Intestinal obstruction. *Iritis. Jaundice. Keratitis. Labor cases — instrument. Leprosy. *Malaria. tMalaria — malignant. Middle ear — diseases. Mumps. Neuralgia — facial. Ophthalmia — neonatorium. Opium habit. Paralysis. Peritonitis. Phimosis. Phlebitis. *Plague. Pleurisy. Poisoning — anemic, croton oil, cystocele, iris, rectum. Pruritis ani. ^Pterygium. Ptosis. *Rachitis. Sarcoma. Sepsis. Sinus (rib). Skin diseases — all kinds. *Small-pox. Squint. Staphyloma. Stomatitis. Strabismus. Stone in ureter. *Stone in bladder. Sun fever. Syphilis — all stages. Tabes dorsalis. Titanus. Tonsilitis. Trachoma. Tropical liver. Tuberculosis. Typhoid fever. *Ulcers — many kinds. Ulcers — tropical. Uremia. Vaginitis. Varicose veins. Vulvo vaginal abscess. Whooping cough. *Wounds — knife, bullet, stab, gored, tiger bite, svi^ord fish bite, snake bite. *Worms — intestinal. LAOS: Acute eye affections. Appendicitis. Cataract. Constitutional affections conse- quent in malarial fever. Dysentery and other intestinal affections. Fractures from falls. Liver and kidney affections. Malarial fever — very prevalent — commonly fatal with children. Pneumonia and such kindred diseases. Skin diseases. Small-pox. Stone in the bladder. Tuberculosis. Typhoid fever. Wounds from knives and swords, and goring by the buffalo and elephant. SYRIA : Contagious diseases : Cholera — Asiatic — occasion- ally. Diphtheria — occasionally — very severe. Mumps. Plague — bubonic — occasion- ally. Rubeola, measles — very com- mon. Scarlatina — rare. Small-pox, confluent — com- mon. Whooping cough — very com- mon. Infectious diseases: Dysentery — very common. Fevers : Dengue or breakbone. Malta fever — gastro-re- mittent. Peri-typhoid, mild and severe — common. *Found in part of Laos only. tEspecially prevalent. 126 SYRIA : Continued Jyphoid — enteric. Typhus. Leprosy. Malaria. Ophthalmia — causing Entropion. Granular lids. Trichiasis. And many diseases at- tacking globe of eye. Septicaemia — blood poison. Tuberculosis in all its forms. Parasites within the body : Bidharzia — a dreadful dis- ease common in some parts of Syria. Distoma hapalicand — liver fluke — also known as "Liver rot," caused by eat- ing diseased sheep's livers. Guinea-worm. Pellagra. Phagedaerie — devouring sore or perforating ulcer. Round worm. Sleeping sickness. Taenia Echinococeus (hydi- did cyst). Parasites without the body : Aleppo button — Delhi sore. Anthrax — common in sum- mer, usually fatal. Calculi — urinary — biliary. Cancer. Cataract — senile an