Notable Women of Modern ChinaBurton, Margaret E. (Margaret Ernestine)
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Notable Women of Modern China
Burton, Margaret E. (Margaret Ernestine)
China -- Biography; Women -- Biography
"Do you think I shall be able to see much clinic in two weeks? That
is the only time allotted me, and my only hope is that you will be
the 'master of the situation,' and help me to spend every minute to
the best advantage.... I have attended as much clinic as I possibly
could this month, but it is awfully hard to get around in New York.
Do you suppose I would be able to go directly to Wesley Hospital
Monday, and do you think Dr. J---- would have the time and the
interest to show me the inside methods of the hospital? He wrote me
a most kind letter and invited me to do so.... Two weeks will mean
a lot if I can be right in the inside track of things. I want some
time on the eye and ear work, besides a few clinics on dermatology.
I know two weeks will not be enough for the much I want to see and
know, but since it is the only time I am to have, I know you will
help me to make the most of it."
Thus did the indefatigable little doctor take the "much-needed rest" of
which her friends in China had written. That she did make the most of her
two weeks is testified to by Mrs. Danforth, who visited many of the
hospitals with her, and who says: "In visiting the hospitals she never
missed a thing. She saw everything--nothing escaped her notice, not even
the laundries. She was always keenly alert for every idea that would
improve her hospital."
On her way back to the East, Dr. Stone stopped at Ann Arbor, for she was
eager to revisit her "dear old campus," and the faculty under whom she had
taken her medical work. "We had a lovely time in Ann Arbor," she said in
writing to a friend. "Dr. Breakey, in whose home we stayed, arranged a
meeting, or reception, where I saw most of my old professors. Then in the
parsonage we met all the ladies of our church. Next day I had a meeting in
the church."
The next few months were filled with almost incessant labour, chiefly
speaking and making friends for her work. The cordial responses which she
met everywhere never became an old story to Dr. Stone and her letters are
full of enthusiastic accounts of them. "Here at Silver Bay, a society wants
to support a missionary and we hope to find the missionary to-night. The
first was yesterday's work and the second we hope to gain to-day." Again,
"Last night on the car we met a gentleman whom I know through my sister
Anna, and after a few minutes' talk he wants to give me his camera, 5x7,
for hospital work. Isn't that splendid?" Or, "This morning we went into a
flower-seed store and what do you suppose the proprietor did but to give us
the seeds, a big list of all kinds we wanted, and then offered to add a few
more varieties. We are having lots of fun here."
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