Minutes of the annual meeting of the Medical missionary society in China : and fifteenth report of its Ophthalmic hospital at Canton, for the years 1848 and 1849 / By Rev. P. Parker, M.D.
- Medical Missionary Society in China.
- Date:
- 1850
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Minutes of the annual meeting of the Medical missionary society in China : and fifteenth report of its Ophthalmic hospital at Canton, for the years 1848 and 1849 / By Rev. P. Parker, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![For some time I saw the patient daily or every other day, dressing the parts as above described, and perceiving decided improvement, it was proposed that she be brought to the Hospital, where she could be attended to more conveniently, and receive the constant care of my senior pupil. This was cheerfully acceded to. After remaining at the Hospital some weeks, her daughter, who had been in constant at- tendance, thought she had become so familiar with the mode of dress- ing the sore, that if furnished with the means she could do it at home as well as in the Hospital. The request was granted, and the family— mother, daughter, nephews and servants, went back to the country. As the supply of medicines, particularly the solution of nitrate of silver (which was much extolled) and simple cerate became exhausted, more were requested, and favorable reports from time to time of convalescence of the patient were made. On a recent occasion, in which a number of foreign gentlemen and ladies met several Chinese ladies at a picnic in the vicinity of the Factories, the wife of the Chinese merchant above1- named was one of the party, and recognizing the Doctor, alluded o the case of her relative, whom she represented as being well and ble to walk. Baffled in accounting satisfactorily for the origin of this serious mala- y, with the hope of obtaining more information, the following account as obtained from her son. In February, 1847, my mother had a sore suddenly occur upon the abdomen, hard as a nut, without redness or tumefaction. At the expiration of one year, the noxious properties of the sore made a great ado, and the pains and distress were difficult to be borne. We re- quested the physician of the village to see her and examine her pulse, who applied medicinal plasters, and the skin and flesh were altogether destroyed, even to exposing the bone [of the ilium], and the dis- ease became nearly incurable. I had been aware of the skillful hand of the American Doctor, but [my mother] being a country lady, to- gether with the circumstance of her severe illuess, was induced to hesitate and delay coming to the provincial city for treatment. Sub- sequently I vvas obliged to Mr. Morss, an American merchant, for ur- gently recommending her coming to Canton to be treated without de- lay. Mr. Morss is an intimate friend of my brother (Young Tingqua)i who ordered me to tell my brothers to take our mother and bring her to Canton, when I respectfully requested Dr. Parker to see her, and was obliged to him for washing the parts and removing the sloughs from the sore with his own hand, and applying medicines several .1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21011084_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
