Through Uganda to Mount Elgon . t the demands of the school, dis-pensary, visiting, building, and language workbecame very heavy, and a European Pilgrim, a qualified nurse, sensible womanand true missionary, was sent to help us. It is almost if not wholly impossible forpeople at home to realise the variety of workone may be called upon to perform at sucha station. Imagine a clergyman at homebeing called upon at the close of the morn-ings service to perform an operation on ayouth whose head had been terribly mauledby a leopard, summoned from lunch toamputate a finger, or hauled out of
Through Uganda to Mount Elgon . t the demands of the school, dis-pensary, visiting, building, and language workbecame very heavy, and a European Pilgrim, a qualified nurse, sensible womanand true missionary, was sent to help us. It is almost if not wholly impossible forpeople at home to realise the variety of workone may be called upon to perform at sucha station. Imagine a clergyman at homebeing called upon at the close of the morn-ings service to perform an operation on ayouth whose head had been terribly mauledby a leopard, summoned from lunch toamputate a finger, or hauled out of bed atnight to stop a fight and dress the wounded ! The most interesting surgical cases arebrought to ones notice in such a country,and I should like to mention one of specialnote. A man who joined with others in someattack was speared in the abdomen and carriedhome, presumably to die. After some days Iwas asked to visit him, and found that hisbowel w^as pierced. I had him brought to thedispensary, where the wound was cleansed. ^- Tif^T^ J%ifc7_ A MUGISHU GIRL HARPIST. Natural Surgery 315 from what appeared to be a filthy applicationof native herbs and cowdung; the nurse alsoverified the diagnosis that the bowel was per-forated, and the man said he knew it was so,and was careful as to what he ate. The casewas hopeless from our point of view, and wetold him so, but expressed our willingness todo all we could for him. He expressed hisgratitude, but said he would go on with thenative medicine, and we were positively amazedto find that he got gradually better, and is nowquite well. After seeing such a case, one is tempted toask. Why is it that we Westerns have beencivilised beyond such powers of natural healing? The dispensary and school work continuedto grow, and two more missionaries wereadded to our staff—a lady from Australia,Miss McNamara, and Mr. Walter Holden, fromEngland. My own time was now taken up with lan-guage work, building, and occasionally visitingother parts of
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