Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 66
ings in common.Inside the compound of the EnglishPresbyterian Medical Mission of Swa-tow, the patients buy their bottles ofthe vendor as they if were patients ofGuys or St. Bartholomews. A similarincident is to be witnessed in Smithfieldany day of the week. It may be men-tioned that the hospital of… … BOTTLE SELLER AND HOSPITAL PATIENT, THE DYING COOLIE. Perhaps because benevolence andcharity are the objects of guilds, thereis very little of the personal element ineither. Personal kindliness and care forthe sick and dying do not characterisethe people of China. If a man is sickto death he is of…
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