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 charge of a government hospital—a new institution for Korea—organized by himself. Two other American physicians joined him, and a medical school in connection with the hospital was organized. An American female medical missionary became the physician to the queen and ladies of the court. An American farm was established, with the introduction of blooded stock and instruction in the cultivation of foreign cereals and vegetables. The government solicited the detail of American military officers for the reorganization of the army, an American was selected as diplomatic adviser to the foreign office, schools under American teachers were established, and in other ways preference was shown for American aid to the government and people in the transformation which had commenced.

The American treaty of 1882 and those of Great Britain and Germany of 1883 were similar in their general features to those made with China in 1858, but they contained one important omission: the guarantee of religious freedom. This, however, did not deter Christian missionaries from entering the country, and the king gave Minister Foote to understand that mission hospitals and schools would be tacitly permitted, and the work of both the Catholic and Protestant missionaries was quietly prosecuted with the knowledge of the government.

France had made earnest efforts to secure a treaty stipulation of religious toleration, and because of the refusal of Korea on this point no treaty was made by