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1850.

Report of the Ophthalmic Hospital.

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Oct. 29th. Pulse 80. No headache or fever since the operation, or cystitis, to speak of, as indicated by ropy pus. The water free, and the patient cheerful and happy. Nov. 1st. 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.

耶穌濟世傳天下

伯觧奇方救萬民

"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."

"Liú Lien-mau presents his compliments."

No. 26,796. Feb. 28th, 1848. Calculus of the triple phosphates. Chung Ping, æt. 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 pin was not excessive, the operation was postponed till the heat of sum- 1er 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 were 34 and 41⁄2 inches, and its diameters 14 and 12 inches; weight, one ounce and ten grains. The operation was entirely successful; in seventeen days he passed his water naturally, and in about a month was