The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-17
FIRST CHINESE WOMAN DOCTOR.
After Nine Years Study Here She 10 Going
Home to Practice.

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Home to Practice.
The first Chinese IONA doctor,
graduate Of an American medical col
lege, to practice in China and the second
woman of her race to take an occidental
medical degree is now OH her way across
the Pacific to her n%ativeland to inaugu-
rate there a new era in women's work
among m She is DIR. HUI King
Eng. a charming, modest little woman,
Enthusiastically Celestial in every way,
despite her nine years residence i'll the
United States. She las never discarded
her quaint, rich native dress and loves
her own land best. She received her
doctor's degree III Philadelphia a year
ago, has spent the past IL months in
taking a postgraduate couSSe and in OBJ
tanning actual experience Ill her profes-
sion, and a week ago she sailed from
San Francisco to Fuchau, where she
will take up her life work as physician
and missionary at the Woman's hos
pital, an institution supported by the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society.
While she is pure blooded Chinese and
pTOul VI tIlo lthlt, III L IAlIS A1IiS was
never a heather, her family having
been Christians for two generations. Her
grandfather was one of the first natives
converted in Fuchau and her father
one Of the first Christian ministers or
dained in China. She has a brother in
the Methodist ministry and Il sister q
teacher in a Methodist school in China.
Oh o~, 60 ,1rt, NINA ynnrc upn
when quite u young girl with the de-
termination of becoming IA physician be-
cause she believed that she could do far
more effective work in Christianizing
her people, which is her main purpose,
as a physician and missionary among
the women of her race than as a mere
teacher and preacher. She did not know
more than a few words of English, and
her first steps on the way toward her
ambition lay in the acquisition of a
thorough knowledge of that language,
SO she went first to a preparatory school
at Delaware, o.
There she spent four years. and then
came to Philadelphia, and after passing
a highly creditable examination was a d
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She graduated from the college IA
months ago, and then took the POSTCARD
uate course and dispensing course at the
Philadelphia polytechnic. She made ;
special study of diseases of the eye ant
ear, and was for some months an assist
ant in that department of the polytechnic
Finishing her course a few weeks ago
,l.a .t,.+cl frr ln,,a ~ cnr,rnrJ, with
missionary and his wife who were bount
for Fuchau.
Besides her work with the Woman
hospital she will try to build a regula,
practice as a physician among her coun
trvwomen. She believes there is a grea
field for her among the higher class o
Chinese There are some Chin;
women. she says, who would rather dit
than be attended by a man physician
while the doors of both rich and poo
are wide open to women doctors. Thre
years ago she went home on a visit an
met with q remarkable reception from
the women Of her native place. Sic
women came to her in great number
because they had heard she could cur
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learned in America, and she expects t
WELD great influence among them as
missionary now through her ability t
aid them as a physician. The Won
ans hospital at Fuchau is for wome
only. Its staff of physicians are all VIC
men, and the nurses are all native girl
who hope some day to become doctors
like the white women missionaries. d,
| Eng is the first to attain that distinction
: The Chinese women, she says, Ar
waking up and are getting to be pro
gressive in their ideas. They want I
= become educated and to take part in tn
g work of the world, like the women
r the western nations. One other Chimes
e woman has graduated from an occldeI
: tai medical College, DIR. King, VIII
/. graduated from an eastern college se'
eral years ago and is nov living III H;
S waii. DIR. Hu King Eng will be ii
only Chinese physician with q wester
h world degree III China -Phihadelph'
Press.
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