Minutes of two annual meetings of the Medical missionary society in China : including the sixteenth report of its Ophthalmic hospital at Canton, for the years 1850 and 1851.

  • Medical Missionary Society in China
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1852
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Credit: Minutes of two annual meetings of the Medical missionary society in China : including the sixteenth report of its Ophthalmic hospital at Canton, for the years 1850 and 1851. 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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    Deep is the sincere gratitude I bear him, and I have composed this couplet as a record of my constant and lasting remembrance. By detergents, by cutting asunder, he causes Longevity, and men declare his means are clever; By cleansing, by cutting, he gives life to men, And extoled are his virtues profound. Or thus, By the stream and by the steel, He can save and he can heal , Life and health he can impart, Be ho honored—and his art ! Presented to the friendly inspection of His Excellency, the eminent physician, Dr. Parker. Sif Wan-kwoh.1' No 42,596. December 22d, 1851. Calculus. Kwo Ashun, aet. 36, a farmer of Nanhiii. February 4th, 1852, assisted by Dr. Dickson and Rev. J, F. McDoug.il! and Mr. Purdon, with but three strokes of the knife entered the bladder. With difficulty found the calculus, which was symmetrical, and about the size of an arbutus (cut 42,506). Immediately on exposure to the air, the small granulations of about the size of the seeds of that fruit, seemed to lose their adhesion to each other, and water thrown from a syringe with moderate force, to cleanse it of blood, penetrated the pores. The color is a dingy brown. Loss of blood very trifling, altogether not over three ounces Water soon became pure, and patient quite comfortable. This patient had suffered apparently more than many with larger calculi, and there was very great irritability of bladder. Though in- sensible to the operation, his struggles and spasms were unusually great. February 13th, no unfavorable symptoms have followed. Since the third day the passage of urine through the urethra has been free, and now the wound is rapidly healing, and the patient has had no fever or loss of appetite. February 14th, 15th, and 16th; every symptom favorable and the wound fast healing. Spends his day in reading, and is very happy. February 17th, a pink colored deposit in the urine. Wound healthy, and but little discharge of urine through the wound, appetite good. R-. bicarbon. sodzs, grs. ij. pulv., divide 8 parts, one at bedtime daily in a bowl of congee. Flax seed tea ad libitum. February 18th, no deposit in the urine to notice; involuntary emission in the niirht; continue bicarb, soda;. February 20th and 21st; patient only complains of wet dreams; wound fast healing and healthy. February 23d, patient walking about. March 7th, discharged in excellent health and spirits, with a supply of books and such affectionate coun- sels as befitted the occasion. A grateful and happy man.
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