The first report of the Medical Missionary Society's hospital at Macao : For the quarterly term beginning 5th July, and ending 1st Oct., 1838 / By the Rev. Peter Parker, M.D.

  • Parker, Peter, 1804-1888.
Date:
1838
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Credit: The first report of the Medical Missionary Society's hospital at Macao : For the quarterly term beginning 5th July, and ending 1st Oct., 1838 / By the Rev. Peter Parker, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    His pulse ivaa Mill small, and quick, and ranged fiom 100 to 1'20. 'I'lie lather was told that a fatal crisis was fast approaching. He went to a fortune teller, who cast the horoscope. He came back delight- ed— exclaiming, Ikj will not die now, and presenting a paper, show- ing that a man born upon the day his son was would not die then. He still lingered on, the discharge becoming daily more fetid, and his body more loathsome. The day previous to his decease he seem- ed bewildered at times, cried saying his aged grandmother in his native place had been dead more than a month, and grieved that he had not been present to administer to her comfort, tihal feeling being the 'ruling passion strong in death.' On Sabbath morning, just a fort- night from entering the hospital, his immediate release seemed certain. At 4 o'clock p.m.) it was manifest he could not survive many hours. He had his senses fully. He was reminded that one could feel but lutle regret at leaving an old bouse just ready to bury its inmates in its ruins, provided a new and commodious one were presented in its stead, a companion he full well understood, for it was a change he had experienced. He listened attentively. He was then informed tint he must in a few hours experience a still greater change, but that there were mansions prepared on high, to which the Saviour (ol whom he had previously heard) would welcome all that trust in him. He seemed pleased with the idea, rather than agitated at the fact that he must die so soon. 1 did not leave linn till he breathed his last, at about 9 P. M The father was less reconciled to the event, and when told Ins son was living he could not believe it, but insisted upon giving bun some strong medicine. His son being already unable to swallow, he was authoritatively told that he should not in- crease his Bufferings by so doing. In a little time his sufferings were all ended. His father then attempted to administer the strong med'h cine; but convinced by the attempt that all was over with his son he prepared a potion tor himself, which he swallowed quickly, excit- ing in us the apprehension that he bad taken opium. It proved how- ever to be otherwise The body was intered in the course of the night, without much troubling the hospital. Aneurism spontaneously cured. A girl, 10 years old, a fortnight previously to entering the hospital, received a blow from a playmate with a Chinese pillow (which is a cylindrical apparatus of bamboo), upon the left temporal artery, high on the forehead. There was at the tifne a flat tumor extending nearly to the ear, to the outer angle