her interest; while working with
whole-hearted devotion in her own corner, she still keeps the needs of the
entire field in mind. At the fifth triennial meeting of the Educational
Association of China, held in Shanghai in the spring of 1905, she gave an
address on "Medical Education," in which she said in part:

"Turn the mind for a moment to the contemplation of China's four
hundred millions, with the view of inaugurating effectual modern
medical practice in their midst. How many physicians are there to
minister to this vast mass of humanity? Barely two hundred! Such a
ratio makes the clientele of each physician about two million. What
would the English-speaking world think if there were only one
physician available for the cities of New York and Brooklyn! Yet
the people of these cities would not be so badly off, because of
the steam and electrical connections at their command."

"We as missionary physicians recognize our own inadequacy and the
imperative demand for native schools. How can we undertake to help
spread medical education in China with the limited means at our
command? Shall we simply take unto ourselves a few students as
assistants, and after training them for a few years turn them out
as doctors? By all means, no! Take us as we are generally situated,
one or two workers in charge of a large hospital or dispensary, is
not the stress of our professional work almost as much as we can
bear? Then there are the people to whom we ought to give the bread
of life as diligently as we minister to their bodily needs. Add to
this the urgent need of keeping up a little study. Where comes the
time and strength to teach the students as they should be taught?
Certainly to the average missionary such work as the turning out of
full-fledged doctors ought to be debarred. It seems to me that what
can and ought to be done is to single out promising students who
possess good Christian characters as well as physical and mental
abilities, and send them to large centres such as Peking, Canton,
Shanghai, and Hankow, where they might take a thorough course in
medicine and surgery. In these large cities the case is altered;
for hospitals and physicians are comparatively numerous, and much
could be done in a union effort. I am glad one or two such schools
have been inaugurated."

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