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Show MODERN MIRACLE PLANTS 43 The Taikuhsien Hospital another, examining patients, washing sores, compounding drugs, and doing minor operations, to the commodious administration building. Each afternoon, outpatients are brought into the cheerful roomy chapel to wait their turn, and listen to a gospel talk, after which they see the doctor in the consulting room. From there some pass directly to the drug room window and so out, while others go into the dressing room for treatment. It seems too good to be true to have a place for everything, and it is hoped before long to have everything in its place. The medical work is so important iu its evangelistic effect that quite apart from the humanitarian motive involved the country stations should be provided with something of the sort IN THE at the earliest possible moment. IN TA*I•K•»U•" - rOTIMTRV HS1EN, such a dispensary has been opened in the most important outstatiou, while the new TECHOW station hopes to have a branch dispensary in each of ten important centers. Two Chinese doctors will give their entire time to it, spending five days a month iu each centre. This has beeu made possible through friends of the evangelistic work who wisely consecrate fuuds to cover the cost and maintenance for the first year or two. It is hoped that they will gradually become self supporting, but in the meantime, they will draw many thousands of people into touch with our work. In SHA.NSI a similar function has been filled in the years just drawing to a close by the opium refuges, at which, in the Taikusien station, 441 patieuts took the cure this year. The number cured at the central hospital brings the total up to 677. The prohibitive price of opium as well as the efforts of the government to stop its use as well as its cultivation and sale are making many wish to break off, aud this is a record year for this station. At Fenchow, across the plain fifty miles away, the attendance is dwindling down to a vanishing point. Iu both places, new means must be used to take the place of the opium refuge, in the very near future. |
