The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-09-10
FIRST CHINESE WOMAN DOCTOR.
After Nine Years Study Hero She Is Going
Home to Practice.

Home to Practice.
Tho first Chinese woman doctor,
graduate Of IN American medical col
logo, to practice III China and the second
Woman of her race TO take an occidental
medical degree is now on her way across
the Pacific 10 her nativcland to inaugu-
rate there - now era in womcn's work
among women. Shc is DR. Hu KING
Eng. Il charming, modest httlc woman,
Enthusiastically Celestial III every way,
despite her ninc years residence i'll tho
United States. She has never discarded
her quaint, rich native dress and loves
her Own land best. She received her
doctors degree in PHI ladc!phia year
ago, has spont the past IL months in
taking postgraduate course and i'll OBJ
tanning actual czpcriouco III llcr profess
sion, and "a week ago She sailed from
San Francisco to FucLau, where she
Will take up her life work as physician
and missionary Mt tho Womnns hos
pital, an institution Supported by tho
Woman's Foreign Missionary society.
While She il pure blooded Chinese and
proud of tho fact, Or. Hu King Eng WAS
never hoathen, her family having
boon Christians for two generations. Hor
grandfather was one of tho first natives
converted i'll Fuchnu and her father
ono of tho first Christian ministers or
damned i'll China. She has brother in
tho Methodist ministry and n sister Il
teacher III Methodist school in China
She came to America nine years ago
when quito young girl with tho do
termination Of becoming IA physician be-
cause she believed that she could do far
moro effective work in Christianizing
hcr people, which is her main purpose.
rs II physician and missionary among
the women of her race than rs mere
teacher and preacher Sho did not know
more than 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 sho went first to preparatory school
at Delaware. O.
There she spent four years, and thcn
came to Philadelphia and after passing
Il highly crcditable examination was adj
mltted to tho Woman S Medical college
Sho graduated from tho college If
mouths ago, and then took tho postgrnd-
uato COURSE and dispensing course at tho
Philadelphia polyclinic. She made Il
special study Of diseases Of the eye and
ear, and was for some months an assist
ant III that department. of tho polycliniC.
Finishing her course "a few weeks ago.
sho started for home in company with "a
missionary and his wife who were bound
for Fuchau
Besides her work with the Woman's
hospital she will try to build u regular
practice as physician among her coun-
trywomen, She believes there is great
field for her among the higher class of
Chinese women. There AFRO some China
women, sho says, who would rather die
than be attended Ivy man physician
while tho doors of both rich and poor
are wide open to women doctors. Three
years ago she Went homo OH a visit and
met with romarkablc reception from
the women of her native place Sick
women camo to hor III great numbers
because they had heard She could euro
them Of all their ills by arts She had
learned in America, and She expects to
WELD great Influence among them as "A
aid them as physician. The Won
ans hospital at Fuchau is for women
only Its staff of physicians arc all wo-
men. and tho nurses arc all native girls
who hope some day to become doctors,
like the white women missionaries. Dr.
Eng Is the first to attain that distinction
The Chinese women, she says, are
waking mp and are getting to he pro-
grcssive i'll their ideas. They want 70
become educated and 10 take part in the
work Of the world like tho women Of
tho western nations. One other Chinese
woman has graduated from an occidcn-
tai medical college, DR.. King, who
graduated from au eastern college soy
eral years ago and isnow living III Ha-
waii. DR.. flu King Eng will be the
only Chinese physician with q western
world degree III China. -Philadelphia
Press.
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