American Baptist Foreign Missio Society
Published: 2016-12-18
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Excerpt from The Baptist Missionary Magazine, 1908, Vol. 88 I was surprised at the confidence placed, by the natives, in the foreign doctor, willingly submitting to the knife or to the anesthetic, provided I would promise to cure. I needed to be careful, however, how I promised, or how I took any chances that might prove fatal, as the Chinese have a very uncomfortable way for pulling one's house down or making one pay roundly for any such disastrous treatment. A man was brought in one day with both bones of one leg badly broken and the skin and flesh mangled. I could do no more than make him comfortable with a little morphine, and he died during the night on my premises. But for a city magistrate who had had dealings with the foreigners before, it would have gone hard with us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.