are in our mission school.  Her husband gave one hundred dollars for the dispensary and two merit boards or tablets to us, and he said he would help us in raising money for the hospital....”

    “One thing which pleases us very much is that those whom we have
    treated outside, when they get well almost invariably come and call
    on us, and even go with us to church.”

The following year she wrote: 

“The time has come again for us to give our yearly report and we are very glad to be able to say that the work has advanced in every direction.  The year has been a very unhealthy one and fevers have simply flourished, so that our nurses have been kept very busy caring for patients often in a critical condition.  During the year we were enabled to make four visits into the country.  Miss Stanton has been more free to do evangelistic work and take long trips than previously, and it has been a privilege for one of us doctors to accompany her on the journeys.  By taking turns, one of us could always attend to the regular work.  People are awakening everywhere, and crowds flock to us to hear the truth and receive medical treatment.  Sometimes we dispense medicine to one or two hundred people a day.  Our stock of medicine usually gives out, and many people have had to be turned away for lack of drugs.  Everywhere they begged us to come and visit them again.  At one place a party of women came at night to the boat where Miss Stanton and I were staying, inviting us to go ashore and organize a church.  They told us:  ’Men can hear preaching sometimes on the street; but we women never have an opportunity to hear anything except when you ladies come to teach us.’”

During that year, the second of their practice, the young physicians were able to report 90 patients treated in the hospital, 134 in homes, 3,973 in the dispensary, and 1,249 during country trips, making a total of 5,446.

Their third year was also a very prosperous one, not only in their work among the poor, but also in the number of calls which they received from the class of people who were able to give them ample compensation for their services.  This money was always turned into the mission treasury by the young physicians, who also, for four years, gave their services to the Woman’s Missionary Society without salary, in return for the four years of training which they had received at Ann Arbor.  An interesting glimpse of the impression they made upon their fellow-workers is given by a letter from one of the missionaries written at this time:  “None who know our beloved doctors, Mary Stone and Ida Kahn, can do otherwise than thank God for raising up such efficient and faithful workers.  It is difficult to think of any desirable quality which these two ladies do not possess.  To this their growing work gives witness.”

Dr. Kahn was honoured in the latter part of the year by being appointed as the representative of the women of China to the World’s Congress held in London, June, 1899.