Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-30
FIRST CHINESE WOMAN DOCTOR.
After Nine Years Study Here She Is Going
 Home to Practice.

Home to Practice.
 The first Chinese woman doctor, graduate of an American medical col lege, to practice ill China and the second woman of her race to take an occidental medical degree is now on her way across the Pacific to her nativeland to inaugu: rate there new era in women's work among women. She is Dr. Hu King Eng, a charming, modest little woman, characteristically Celestial in every way, despite her nine years residence in tho United States. She has never discarded her quaint, rich native dress and loves her own land best. She received her doctor degree in Philadelphia year ago, has spent the past 12 months in taking postgraduate coT%Sse and in ob- taining actual experience %l her profes- sion, and 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 insti~ution supported by the Woman's Fore n Missionary society.
 While she is pure blooded Chinese and proud of the fact, Dr. Hu King Eng was never a heathen, her family having been Christians for two generations. Her grandfather was one of the first natives converted i'll Fuchau and her father one of the first Christian ministers or dained i'll China She has brother ill the Methodist ministry and sister teacher in a Methodist sShool ill China
 She came to AmericaSnine years ago when quite q young girl with the de- termination of becoming physician be- cause she believed that she could do far more effective work in Christianizing her people, which is her main purpose. Ss physician and missionary among the women of her race than as mere teacher and preacher. She did not know more than few words of English, and her first steps on the way toward her ambition lay ill 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 highly creditable examination was ad mitted to the Woman's Medical college. She graduated from the college 14 months ago, and then took the postgrad- nate course and dispensing course at the Philadelphia polyclinic. She made a special study of diseases of the eye and ear, and was for some months an assist ant in that department of the polyclinic. Finishing her course few weeks ago, she started for home ill 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 a regular | practice as physician among her coun- | trywomen. She believes there is q great | field for her among the higher class of Chinese women. There are some China women, she says, who would rather die than be attended by man physician, l while the doors of both rich and poor | are wide open to women doctors. Three years ago she went home on a visit and met with a remarkable reception from | the women of her native place. Sick l women came to her in great numbers because they had-heard she could cure them of all thelr ills by arts she had | learned in America, and she expects to wield great influence among them as a missionary now through her ability to aid them as a physician. The Wom- ans hospital Ut Fuchau is for women only. Its staff of physicians are all wo-
 men, and the nurses are all native girls
 who hope some day to become doctors,
 like the white woihen missionaries. Dr.
 Eng is the first to attain that distinction. | The Chinese women, she says, are
 waking up and h1e getting to be pro-
 gressive in their ideas. They want to
 become educated and to take part iii the ! %vortr If tha Ssyfr!d 1iEa tho women of
 the western nations. Ono other Chinese
 woman has graduated from an occiden.
 tai medical college-a Dr. King, whd
 graduated from an eastern college sev-
 eral years ago and Is now living in Ha-
 waii. Dr. Hu King Eng will be the
 only Chinese physician with western
 world degree in China. .--Philadelphia l Press,