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 CHAPTER 21.

“THE OITY OF RAMs.”

N order to see the city to advantage some central point should be chosen from which to make excursions; we therefore select, as the most convenient point of departure, the group of mission houses on the river's bank a short dis- tance below the steamer’s wharf.

There we see the great hospital which for nearly half a century has been a fountain of beneficence to the suffering Chinese. Founded by Dr. Parker, it has for the past thirty years been under the efficient: care of Dr. Kerr, who, besides being a surgeon of extraordinary skill and success, is also one of the most devoted and self-denying men the world has ever seen. The annual attendance of patients is from 16,000 to 24,000, and the number of surgical operations performed is from 1,000 to 1,200 every year. A large elass of medical students, including three women, now under instruction, give promise of the spread of true medical science in the south of China,

Across the street is the female seminary, with one hundred and forty pupils. It has been brought to a high degree of efficiency under the superior management of