Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-02-26
WALHALLA, CAROLINA THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2e 1880

Kev. lsaao Pierson, Of tho Pao.tiog,fu
station, who spent some weeks at Tientsiu,
writes at later date: ga commission was
sent Coy Li-hung-ohapg) to DR.. Mackenzie,
appointing him, iu company with DR..
Irwin, physician to the ya1neu--the latter
praeticing medicine for q calling, being
made tho recipient of o salary which viii
equal fvo hundred dollars a wear. DR..
Mackenzie was appointed, or commissioned,
to heal the sick of the city, and large
yard with ample buildings was forthwith
set apart to his use. This is part of tho
great temple of the city recently built by
the same Yiceroy-tho temple in which he
received end did honor to General Grant.
Miss Howard has beoh promised similar
commission to treat the women, aud is to
have another court and buildings at tho
temple for her dspensary. Tho Viceroy
promises to pay all tho expenses of this
ohpensary work.
"For nearly thrco weeks tho dispepsary
has been opened, and DR.. Mackenzie, as
sisted by our vice consul, Mr.. Pethick, who
has been indefatigablo in his labor Of loye,
has daily given treatment to eighty or
ninety paticuts, in addition to an average
of forty or fifty opium takers, who with
medical help arc trying to break off the
habit of using opium. Mony interesting
surgical operations are performed. -Four
days ago tho number of hare lips cured was
eleven. There is general of the army at
the dispcnsary whose leg is being reset for
an old fracture. Many other surgical
operations have been successfully performed.
In all this the Viceroy is intensely iutc-
rested"
This feature of surgical operations, per-
formed with the approval Of the Viceroy,
strikes oDo acquainted With the former
prejudice of the Chinese against the use of
the knife on tho human body, US the most
remarkable thing in the whole movement.
In the past years foreign physicians have
not dared to let it be known that they lud
such thing as human skeleton In their
house, and few years ago, when DR.. Dud-
geon was lecturiug to the students in the
Pcking University on the anatomy of the
human body, he dissected q sheep in their
presence, as the dissection of human
body would not for moment have been
allowed. Mr.. Pierson further says: "It
has been said by some that medical work
could not be carried OF here, but hero is
one already started upon basis superior in
many respects to any in China, aud with
the strong presumption of Its being per-
manent one"
From these letters it will be seen how
raro is the opportunity for medical mission
ary labor in North Chiua. Preaching
missionaries arc nready Offering themselves
to 60 ond strengthen the hands of their
brethren in that interesting field. No
grander opportunity could be offered to the
consccrated ambition of Christian physi-
oian than that now offered. urgen. anpea!s
arc being made for physicians from tho
stations of Pao-ting fu, Kalgan and Tung.
cho. Shall not the hearts of the brethren
at tho front be soon ohecred with the glad
Intelligence that men arc on the way to
enter upon the work of ministcrng to mems
bodies, and thus assist in the great work of
ministering the bread of life to the famsh,
ing myriads of the heathcn?