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extracted, and others again to have their wounds 

 dressed. All were attended to in the kindest 

 manner " without money and without price." It 

 did not signify to the Christian missionary whether 

 the person carried to his door for medical aid was 

 an imperialist or a rebel ; it was enough that he 

 was a human being suffering pain and desiring to 

 be relieved. And hence the wounded of both 

 parties met in the same hospital, and each had his 

 wounds attended to by the same friendly hand. 



In his report for 1854 Dr. Lockhart relates the 

 following circumstance : — " One Sunday afternoon 

 two wounded persons were brought in ; one was a 

 Canton man, an artilleryman at the battery on the 

 eastern side of the river, or Poo-tung ; he had 

 fired his gun once, and was reloading it when the 

 charge exploded and so severely injured his arm 

 that it had to be amputated below the elbow, and he 

 did well. The first shot that he fired had crossed 

 the river, and struck a woman near the city- wall on 

 the leg, destroying all the soft part from one side 

 of the limb. These two patients met at the hos- 

 pital about an hour afterwards." He then tells 

 us : — " A man was brought in one morning whom 

 a rebel had caught, su23posing him to be an impe- 

 rial soldier, and tried to behead (!), but owing to 

 the man's struggles he was unable to effect this, 

 though he inflicted most severe injuries upon him." 

 Then a beggar is brought in who had been struck 

 on the leg by a cannon-ball ; his wound is dressed, 

 he is lodged and fed and sent away cured. An 



