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Similarly, we received for assay through the Japanese legation gold 

 and silver coins in 1876, 1877, 1878. 1879, 1880. These were what 

 are known as pyx coins, which are selected at random through the 

 year for an annual test. They were invariably close to the standard, 

 tending somewhat to run over rather than under it. Thus the pace 

 set before the embassy of i860 was the pace which the mint at 

 Osaka under our stimulus was setting for itself. The Enlightened 

 Rule recognized that a nation's position among commercial nations 

 rests in very large degree on the confidence to be placed in the 

 scientific precision of its coinage. 



Leaving now this great essential result of the first embassy, let 

 us look for other indications of its influence in the making of a new 

 Japan. 



While in Philadelphia the two physicians attached to the em- 

 bassy, Measaki and Moryama, together with the governor Narousa- 

 Genosiro, and the interpreter, attended an operation for lithotomy 

 performed by the distinguished Dr. Samuel B. Gross, at the patient's 

 residence. The anaesthetic was administered by the famous Mor- 

 ton himself, the discoverer of sulphuric ether for this use. The 

 whole performance was a revelation to the orientals. They smelt 

 and poured the ether on their hands, astonished at the coldness 

 resulting from its evaporation. After the operation they carefully 

 examined the instruments and showed so much interest in the 

 whole subject that they were invited to attend the Jefferson Medical 

 College, in which Dr. Gross was a professor. 



In an address delivered before the students of the Jefferson 



in February, 1906, Baron Takaki, Surgeon General of the Japanese 



Navy, said : 



Japanese surgery is founded on the teachings of Dr. Samuel D. Gross for 

 so many years surgeon in the splendid medical college in which we are 

 gathered. Dr. Gross' " System of Surgery " translated into German was taken 

 by my countrymen and retranslated into Japanese and upon that has been 

 built up Japanese surgery as practiced to-day. 



The Baron said that the thanks of the Japanese nation are due 

 to the medical profession in this country, and added, 



The United States has been our teacher. We have tried our best to prove 

 our faith in your teachings and doctrines by effective applications of your 

 principles in safeguarding the health of our people. 



