Contents: Arrival -- Up the Yang-tse-Kiang to Hankow -- By house-boat to Heng-chow -- Early days -- Digging in -- A call on the Tao-t'ai -- The Chinese doctor -- Preparatory studies -- Some traits in the Chinese character -- Historical and political -- The Boxer rising -- Last years of the Empress-Dowager -- Kuling -- Overland to Canton -- The case of Mr Sung -- The clinic -- Emergency calls -- Research -- The new hospital -- Revolution -- The hospital at Tientsin -- The daily round.