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Show • Chaotung, Yunnan, CHINA. Sept I, 1935, ' Our dear Children: I haven11 written you such a letter at this since Jul 261 n?ful&e%e htvrt been pressed - fi^st, trying to "settle in" , and then mad11 wojk, Of the latter, especially emergencies, there sepms no end* Last, week, within 4 days there were 3 attempted suicides, on the part of young women, all having taken lethal doses of opium, which is SO IAST to procure1. On passing on the street, any day, wejf^bpiun being sold by a vendor, out in the era en, surrounded by a crowd, many of whom are the would-be purchasers. Most pitiful is i t , thgfc l i t t l e boys, of varying ages, art eager on-lockers, and, with SUCK environment they will soon be the next recruits at the opium- pipe I Of those 3 yo una: womei two were within 24 hrs. All three were saved. Alas, that the "sting" of insult^ or cruel treatemnt, did not vanish with being saved from death. One young womai - all these were married young women, - cried as if her heart wld hrpa>, at having to be brought back to life and having to go into the same home again! Before the 3rd young woman came in, in those feV day a, there was an emergency t a l l to rm obstetrical case within the city. 1 was desperately in need of sl^p; so Wee Hicks and two student nurses responded, to that call. All told, within the month* there have heen 6 attempted suicides, from opium! One was a man. He, too, was saved - as well as all the others. However,another mam Wat brot in neatly moribund, from taking an excess of alcohol, A group of friends together tried to see ho could drink the mostf This one did . 4li he died therefrom. #t aere unahls to save him, tho we worked hard over him, as we did the other si Each case is a long, taking, wtaryin* process of giving jjrfemetics,-frequently f-stimulants, walking the patient" up and down for at least 4 hours - for, to fall asleep on the part of the patient, would mean to not wake again. The heart and respiration ere paralyzed" to a dangerous degree: the pupils are pin-point. "Thy, oh, why! MUST man do thus! WHY be slaves to alkaloids and alcohol! I cannot answer these questions. I vm slad our task is to try to save life! In the laboratory T have not much help, as y t t . Sometimes the graduate IT! fc M1 ao( graduate of the big Union University medfl Schtel at Ch'eng-tu SZ J Ch*tttn- a union of English and Americans, at ltaet - several mission orsanim* tions working to gather), finds a l i t U e t i ^ e t o help ne stain and examine . l a ta. 430, one of the two young men^^aT33^*ily about-grown boys - h«lpS me' some in the forenoons. His help, so far, is mostly limited to helping clesn slides, etc, he novr knows 1 l i t t l e aot the microscope. This i t the tiaa of year when bowel troubles, arid MALARIA, *tf which there is legion - abound' A ,n intestinal worms stalk abroad. Nearly WfmYBOVT haa them! fh.t i a t h e ' * Zy pouting good medicines into bodies to try to get them well w^n tH- ^ i s a hot-house for intestinal flora and fauna! - say I So' I t?v to *?dorapn the People Today I can not go to Church s e r v i c e d I ^ t i dlo a . t | l n tl the hospital, from whom m are trying to extract a tape-worfc, of abt 15 v I J standing! She i t 4u yrs old, and an autocratic, unmarried sister o* ly/* of the Province! Am trying Oil of Chenopodium r>nd Carbon "-trlrUnV.U lr°!l ing to the latest, by no less an authority tha^ M e n ^ S £^1?'**°***' 3chl of Tropical medicine. Btti.ta, Aecaxt. *aW* l*rZl< , \ L o n d on or 'wbip-wo™" is next most common I tft« ? r i c S i . . L J r i ^ P ^ " ?i i p i 11 I haven't explained to you that %i l l d l returned 'j^£?*J*i**ii*Mi*' tion of a month, nealy all of which was scent in trnvii f 1 / ° m h l s YB^" and SzCh'tten Incidentally, v. M, +v,« I2L£ A w2h?a n we Imlrl rmnlamn , ~aZ hlotp e 't°o ? n"gd o froo>u t" «etthwa th er-e. that hev e not too study, evau to Peking Language Sctool7~huCtha1 toH?*.tSi f2a5i*1^2*£ i t to give 2 hrs a day on an average, in the Hospital^ ant"?he r e n d e r of %ers-M03T difficult, «d where artisans of good qquauliatyl ^arae is^caSrcrelny"^ kfnofwin^. |