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Report of the Ophthalmic Hospital.
MAY,
No. 29,351. Sept. 19th, 1848. Gunshot wound. Chin Asín, æt. 24, of Sinhwui, the gunner of a passenger boat of Kiángmun, was shot by pirates on the evening of the 20th instant. An iron grape shot an inch in diameter, entered the left side just over the fifth rib, passed along the rib, backwards and over the spine, and lodged beneath the integuments in the opposite side at a point nearly cor- responding to that at which it entered. Assisted by Dr. Ruschenberger of U. S. N., the ball was cut down upon and extracted. Poultices were applied, and an antiphlogistic treatment was adopted; copious suppuration followed, the lungs suffered sympathetically to a conside- rable extent, but in six or eight weeks the patient perfectly recovered. Subsequent to his return home, the proprietors of the line of boats to which he belonged presented their acknowledgments, by the presen tation of these two scrolls.
花旗國伯駕大國手鑒
回春藥圃無凡草
褻
濟世靑囊有秘篇
江門渡拜題
Translation.
"The following couplet is composed, and with com-
pliments presented, by the Passenger-boat company of Kiángmun, for the inspection of the celebrated physician, Dr. Parker, of America. [From the winter of disease], you restore the spring of health; and possessing in your emerald satchel,* books unknown to others, you [are able] to benefit the world."
No. 29,352. Gunshot wound, fatal. Chin Aho, of Shunteh, æt. 32, a sailor belonging to the same boat as Chin Asán last mentioned, was mortally wounded in the shoulder. The ball passed through the up- per third of the humerus, producing comminuted fracture of the whole upper third of the bone, and dividing the brachial artery. He sur- vived his arrival at the hospital only about an hour.
Here is an historical allusion to a celebrated physician of antiquity who is said to have carried his prescriptions in an emerald pocket by his side.