the case is altered; for hospitals and physicians are comparatively numerous, and much could be done in a union effort.  I am glad one or two such schools have been inaugurated.”

“As stiff a course as possible ought to be arranged and if it is thought best the whole thing might be outlined by the China Medical Missionary Association.  For entrance requirements there should be presented a solid amount of Chinese and English, with some Latin and perhaps one other modern language.  That may seem a great deal to ask at present, but our higher schools of learning ought soon to be able to supply such a demand, as well as the necessary training in mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc.  In other words the student must be equipped in the very best manner for his lifework.”

“During the present generation at least, if not longer, the women of China will continue to seek medical advice from women physicians, and to meet the demand we must confront and solve another problem.  Co-education is impracticable just at this juncture.  We must have either an annex to the men’s college, or a separate one entirely.  Whichever plan is adopted it matters not, barring the ‘lest we forget’ that it is just as important to establish medical schools for women as for men.”

“In the golden future when schools abound we shall have to think of state examinations; but at that time we shall expect to be ready to greet the blaze of day in this wonderful country of ours, when she has wakened from the long sleep we often hear about, and taken her place among the nations of the world, and God and man shall see ‘that it is good.’”

At the close of 1907 Dr. Kahn had been back in China for twelve years, years of arduous, almost unremitting labour; and her fellow missionaries felt that before the work on the new hospital building began she ought to have a vacation.  Certainly she had earned it.  Not only had she worked faithfully for seven years in Kiukiang, but she had, within the five succeeding years, established medical work in a large city, where she was the first and only physician trained in Western sciences.  Assisted only by two nurses whom she herself had trained, she had kept her dispensary running the year around, all day and every day.  Moreover, she had kept the work practically self-supporting, in spite of the fact that she had refused to economize by using inferior medicines, or bottles of rough glass which could not be thoroughly cleansed.  She had insisted that her drugs be of the purest, and dispensed in clean, carefully labelled bottles, and had often furnished besides the food needed to build up strength.  In addition to all this, she so commended herself and her work to the people of the city that in 1906 she was enabled to hand over to the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, a dispensary building and two fine building lots, to be used for a hospital and physician’s home.