This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...people left off coming to visit us, and we were seldom invited to their houses. This state of affairs was not improving, when one day, a poor, dying woman arrived at the hospital, alone, and scarcely able to speak. We received her, perhaps unwisely, but still it would have been hard to refuse admittance to one ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...people left off coming to visit us, and we were seldom invited to their houses. This state of affairs was not improving, when one day, a poor, dying woman arrived at the hospital, alone, and scarcely able to speak. We received her, perhaps unwisely, but still it would have been hard to refuse admittance to one so weak and ill, simply because she was not accompanied by a relative or friend. As her end drew near, Miss Johnson sent to the village where her people lived, imploring them to come quickly, but the messenger returned unable to find them. However, the day following that on which she died, a young woman appeared, claiming to be her daughter. " My mother! My mother! " she shrieked. " You have murdered her! Truly what people say is true; you are murderers." We tried to quiet her but it was of no avail. She went, loudly wailing, to the city, where she attracted considerable attention, walking through the streets followed by sympathetic crowds. Dr. Rigg immediately appealed to the chief City Mandarin, who decided to come and hold an inquest, in order to prove whether the case was one of violence or not. For hours previous to his arrival, the road between our compound and the city looked like a brightly coloured stream with a continuous line of men in white or blue coats steadily walking out to the scene of action. As some of them were climbing the steep path which led to our house, quietly enough, though in a state of suppressed excitement, they were suddenly confronted by one of our patients emerging from the hospital door, a young woman recovering from most dreadful epileptic fits, and scarcely able to walk. Clinging to her aged mother, too excited to speak plainly, and very jealous for our honour, she urged them in shrill tones not to...
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