Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-21

an interesting story about one of his patients,
one Nuung Sing a nobleman of rank wealth
and influence and principal lieutenant of
the provincial Governor. Poor Nuung Sing
had built himself a large palace,--or what
passes for palace IN those regions-but
in the midst of all his good fortune he was
smitten with disease, and though he made fire.
quent and valuable offerings to the evil spirits.
he only grew worse.
Determined to cure himself, he actually tore
down his palace, hoping to conciliate the spir-
its: and then, as he appeared to grow no bet
ter he concluded that he must enter the
Buddhist priesthood in order to get sufficient
merit to be cured. To do this. he had to leave
his home and family: and. what cut him to the
heart much more. he had to part from his
noble head of hair, which then was five and a
half feet long But he presented it as
ciliatory offering to his chief, the Governor of
the Province He became a priest; but still
suffered severely for four years
One day he CHANGED to meet at Cheung Wei
a man who had been under treatment by DR..
Mexican. and he at once decided to make his
way over mountains, across rivers. and through
forests and jungles to this American wonder
worker BY this time he had grown pretty
poor. He got together seven hundred rupees,
however. and hired porters to carry him on the
long and dangerous journey. Unfortunately,
these porters were opium eaters, and black
nailers at that, and when they got the un-
fortunate sufferer into tiger infested Jungle
they calmly put him down and said they would
not move another step unless seventy rupees
were paid them
Another night robbers attacked the camp
put out the lights, and took what gems and
valuables remained to the long suffering Nuung
Sing To crown it all, he was taken with spell
of illness the road and was whole year
getting to DR. Mexican at Cheung Wei. One
IS glad to know that he finally was cured
Training Young Medicos
THE American doctor in savage lands fire.
quently gives lessons in anatomy and
medicine to the young and intelligent natives
and that these lessons do ncalculable good
will be seen from the testimony of DR.. James
L. Maxwell who works among the headhunters
and savages of Formosa Il was out of the
city he says, w when boy was brought into
my house, dreadfully gored by wild buffalo.
In my absence, my senior student, who had
only lately finished his four-year course, did
not hesitate to perform an abdominal section.
afterward closing the wound with great success
This brings one to the curious cases occasion
ally treated. A woman physician, DR.. Neun-
ham of lslamabad. had little boy brought to
her with badly broken head He had been
looking for lost sheep, when wild goat high
up on precipice dislodged big stone which
fell on his little skull. Another curious case of
DR.. Mountains the wife of village head
man, fifteen miles away, who had been dread
fully bitten on the side of her head by bear.
An American physician operating on the
kongo describes most extraordinary native
treatment for fractured leg. The patient was
laid on the ground and little mound of pecu-
liar earth taken from anthill was built over
the fracture. This was wetted and fire built
over it, which speedily reduced it to the hard
ness OF brick, making close prisoner of the
patient The man was kept for upward of one
month in this position. his relatives going to
feed him at times, we'll entertaining him
with stories and primitive music.
At Ibwijih. Usagara, East Africa, the wife
OF DIR. Boulton points out how medical work
helps to gain the confidence of the people.
The fame of our eye medicine (nitrate of
silver" she writes has spread far and wide
among the tribes.
The hospitals and dispensaries established
by American doctors in remote regions often
are lamentably primitive. For example, at
Julia in Persia, DR. Winifred Westlake COM
plains that her mems hospital is adapted from
an old caravansary. while the women's depart
ment has been transformed from extremely
unclean camel stable of the same establishment.
How Doctors Travel
OFTEN. in travelling to patients the
doctor has to adopt strange means of
transportation for himself and family. In