Missionaries And Medicine

"What part the medical profession plays n foreign missionary work," was the subject of sereral addresses given at the students' mission meeting, Sunday. Dr. Carrow and Prof. Steere were among the speakers. Dr. Carrow, who spent eight years of hospital practice in China, had many interesting facts to teil of medical missionarj- work in that country. The Chinese, themselves, have no knowledge of anatomv or surgery. Not even will they pull a tooth, but will leave it until it falls out from decay. In acute diseases they are quite successful. They have no medical schools. Their doctors are self made, and receive their diplomas from their patients, who print on large boards the acknowledgment of their cure. These boards are hung up on the outside of the doctor's house. The fees of a Chinese doctor are from i to 10 cents. The ordinary prescription is a yard long, calis for about a gallon of liquid, and prescribes a pint to the dose. The superstition of the Chinese, whose keenness of intellect and powers of argument are fully equal to those of th'e Anglo-Saxon people, makes the work of a medical missionary very trying at fïrst, but every man he cures or benefits becomes his friend, and soon a better way is opened for him, both for practicing his profession and teaching it to the natives, and for spreading christianity among them.