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Show 3, in an obedient heart. This boy has been vomiting round worms. His treatment is simple, and is the initial treatment whioh *>e ight** tenths of one's patients »& o-ds-. This poor child is an old patient. She has lithiasis. It is more than a year since she first came to the dispensary. We wanted to operate, but her mother was so alarmed at the mere thought that they stopped coming. She says the medicine the child took before cured her and she has just had a relapse, but we know better. This child is one of a very pitiful class of which we see many each year. Her distended abdomen, swollen face, and clay colored skin almost determine the diagnosis. Until the last two years we called the condition enlarged spleen. Now we know it by the name of kala azar. As vet no cure has been discovered. This child can not live loner, She already has gangrene of the cheek. The reason she is crying so pitifully is because she is afraid of being hurt. Her mother has often taken her to native doctors who treated her by running needles into her back and abdomen. When we give her an antiseptic mouth-wash, the mother says, ''Now whe n I use this medicine, it will make her mouth well, and desolve this big tumor, will it?'' How gladly we would say ''Yes''. : There are no more patients for the woman's clinic, so the women nurses may go. Here are my two men nurses. They studied for eight months with Dr. Tucker at the Pang Chuang hospital, and that training tells. This one, Mr. Chiao, is the husband of the elder woman nurse. You may think the younger man, Mr. Wang, with his pockmarked face unprepossessing but he is a very bright, interesting young man, and is going to do his share of the world's work. My assistant, Mr. He, is away. He is often called home by family matters. Here are five eye cases, all patients whom we have treated before. For this man's eyes the native doctor blew powder of some kind into his ears, but there was no improvemement . This old man is a church member from a village four or five miles away. He asks if he may be seen next. He brings a tiny baby carefully carried inside his garments. It is his grandson, only five days old. The baby cries all the time, he says, and its jaws are already locked. We easily recognize this arch enemy of Chinese babies, tetanus. Poor little suffering thing! But there is really nothing we can do to save it. Perhaps we can relieve the spasms slightly, but anti-tetanus serum |
