Book Description

Title:

Doctor Apricot of "Heaven-Below". The Story of the Hangchow Medical Mission (C.M.S.)

Author:

Kingston de Gruchè

Publication Year:

[1910]

Location:

New York

Publisher:

Fleming H. Revell Company

Pages:

144

Subjects:

Christian Mission, China, Biography

Copyright Holder:

Public domain

Contents

• Foreword
• Preface

1. Relates how the European doctor's olfactory organ gains new experience during his first walk through the streets of "Heaven-Below" to the scene of his future labour
2. The new doctor begins work under difficulties, but decides that each stumbling block must be made a stepping-stone lo a new hospital
3. Explains how Doctor Apricot succeeded in obtaining some funds and then added to them by increasing his occupations
4. The Hospital of "Universal Benevolence" has its foundation laid with prayer, its walls rise with hope and its roof goes on with praise
5. Gives some account of the opium trade with China and its degrading influence on the people. The Honourable Li gives his opinion and helps to provide means for enlarging the Opium Refuge
6. Explains why late hours are necessary though they beget troubled days, with tears at midday and smiles at midnight
7. The consecrated home-life and home-joy acts as a "cheer up to a weary worker; and Amah's message nerves her spirit for fresh effort
8. Shadow and sunshine visit the home and hospital, but by faithful prayer to God above, and by the ceaseless work of man below, the clouds pass, albeit homes are emptied and graves are filled, ere the sun shines once more
9. Gives some illustrations of Chinese ideas upon the value of human existence, and of the peculiar characteristic, which shews itself in the losing of one's life in order to save one's face
10. Shows how love and gentleness sweep away darkness and superstition, and how young lives, begun in adversity and sorrow, blossom into happiness and beauty when taken into the Home
11. Shows how the general working of the hospital has grown to be a formidable undertaking, both practically and financially. Tells also how the doctor's knee was massaged to the amusement of his wife, and how the doctor's wife was "warded " to the anxiety of her husband
12. Gives some account of Chinese women, their social position, their trials and sorrows; and tells how Mrs. Apricot, aided by some intelligent Chinese ladies, endeavoured to succour them in their need
13. Contains some remarks on native doctors, and tells how easily a man passes from a cook to a doctor, from a bottle-washer to a druggist; also gives some account of the Training of students in Western Medicine; and of a new treatment which causes much astonishment to the natives
14. Gives some information concerning the Chinese opium reform, and shews the connecting link between it and the affectionate farewell accorded to Dr. and Mrs. Apricot on their return home for their third furlough. Shews also the tree fully grown

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