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

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.

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$Oct. 29th. Pulse 80. No headache or fever since tlie operation, or cystitis, to speak of, as indicated by ropy pus. The water free, and the patient cheerful and happy. Nov. 1 st. Patient continues to do well; some discharge of pus from the wound, but not from the bladder. Without an unfavorable symptom, he rapidly advanced to full con- valescence, when on the 21st of November, in twenty-six days, the wound was thoroughly healed and the patient perfectly well. His feel- ings will best be conceived, when it is reflected that he had suffered from this stone ten years. Subsequent to his discharge from the Hospital, his poor widowed mother came to my residence with some little tokens of her gratitude (as a pair of fowls and a basket of eggs), for what she again termed the saving of her son, and renewed her attempt to prostrate herself before the instrument, but was directed to make her acknowledgments to the Source of her obligations. She was furnished with an assortment of Christian books, from which it is devoutly hoped she and her son may come to a saving knowledge of revealed truth. The young man has become stout and healthy, and frequently revisits the Hospital. Probably but few calculi of the same magnitude have ever been successfully extracted whole. A year subse- quent to the operation he presented two scrolls, with the following sentiments, the original expressed in verse. m ft m it » % t ffi i » n m & R ' Let the [merits] of Jesus, the Savior of mankind be promulgated throughout the world. You deliver from all diseases, and by extraordinary means save myriads of people. Liu Lien-mau presents his compliments. No. 26,796. Feb 28th, 1848. Cab ulus of the triple phosphates. Chung Ping, aet. 33, of the district of Tsingyuen in this province, had suffered for years from this painful disease. After presenting himself, he was absent till the commencement of warm weather, when, as his pain was not excessive, the operation was postponed till the heat of sum- mer had passed, and on the 6th of Sept. the stone was successfully ex- tracted by the lateral method. The calculus was symmetrical, of an oblong oval form, and for the most part smooth. Its circumferences were3J and 4J inches, and its diameters \\ and 1^ inches; weight, one ounce and ten grains. The operation was entirely successful; in seventeen days he passed his water naturally, and in about a monih was$