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Show and that is our x-ray. Many Mission Hospitals in China to be sure have no x-ray at all-we have one but it is insufficient for the work we have to do. It is an old-fashioned, small, portable machine, without fluoroscope. For common things like fractures or bullets in extremities, we can use it, but it is most unsatisfactory for diagnosing tuberculosis, to instance. And cases of tuberculosis, not only of the lungs, but also of bones and joints are very frequent. We see a lot of such poor patients, mostly in a stage where we are unable to help, but still we admitted fifty-nine cases of pulmonary tuberculosis only, and after long treatment we got some very satisfactory results. But we feel that we could do so much better work if we had a decent x-ray and we could also save considerable money to our patients, were a fluoroscope available. Thus our sincerest desire for the Hospital is a new x-ray machine. At the time that this is written we are already in possession of a little money towards this object but we still need at least $1800.00 (U.S.A.) more before the purchase can be made. So we hope to find generous people who will realize how necessary a good machine is for our work, and how great our need for it, and we hope to have the opportunity to report next year what we have accomplished with a better machine. - In general medicine a newly arrived doctor has to get acquainted with some diseases that he knew only in textbooks never having seen in person. For instance we admitted thirteen cases of kala azar, mostly children, which is rare in Europe. Since medicine has discovered neostibosan this disease is not difficult to treat, if the - 12 - |