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5¢ will supply chloroform to anaesthetize two persons.

50¢ will provide liniment for 1000 burn cases.

$5 will save 15 persons from lockjaw, or disinfect the wounds of 250 people, or purchase 350 [[strikethrough]] does [[/strikethrough]] doses of the new sulpha-drug -- sulphathiazole, to combat pneumonia or blood poison.
 
$25 will treat 50 patients suffering from relapsing fever, or sterilize drinking water for 25,000 people or purchase 54 dozens of assorted surgical needles desperately needed in China.

$100 will buy 10,000 special formula vitamin capsules of high potency for countless undernourished and ricket-ridden children in China. Will provide emergency treatment for 100 air-raid victims.

$1000 will buy an ambulance, delivered.

$5000 will equip a small hospital.

$100,000 will provide 10,000 new hospital beds.
 
Every dollar does an unbelievable amount of good.

Many Americans ask me why medical aid is the most vital need. My country has been at war for over four years. My people suffer from the diseases that war brings, from epidemics, lowered vitality, and lowered resistance. The privations of war always result in deficiency diseases of all kinds. Epidemics spread rapidly, almost impossible to check. Many areas have not a single doctor. At the outbreak of war in China the medical situation was acute. There were only 6000 doctors for 450,000,000 people. Public health education had just been started under the new republic and its progress was halted by war. To make matters worse, China had no facilities for the manufacture of drugs, surgical instruments, or hospital supplies.