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For the maimed and crippled the Bureau has first sent splints, material for making plaster casts and X-ray machines, Recently they have been sending surgical instruments for reconstructive and plastic work and a lathe - a shiny up-to-date American lathe, if you please - to equip a machine shop for artificial limbs. For the prevention of the most dreaded catastrophe to ever befall a war-torn country, namely the extension of epidemics and pandemics, chemicals for water sterilization against the spread of cholera and other water-borne diseases. The Bureau is proud to say that the National Health Administration of China has credited them with having prevented a cholera epidemic in 1939. The Bureau has recently sent a completely equipped vaccine laboratory over these tens of thousands of miles of sea and difficult terrain to make China's future vaccines. They have sent twelve million tablets of quinine to combat the great scourge of malaria.

From the above brief sketch you can see for yourselves, ladies and gentlemen, that the program of medical relief conducted for the United China Relief by the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China is not only one of emergency measures. It aims to build permanent hospitals, training centers, schools and permanent institutions which will be of great service to China when the war is over. Under the leadership of Dr. Lim there are now six central training schools with over 100 branches in practically every [[strikethrough]] nook and [[/strikethrough]] corner of Free China. These [[strikethrough]] six [[/strikethrough]] are attached to different front areas to teach the relief workers in the elementary treatment of wounded and diseased soldiers and civilians. At the same time it conducts a large scale program of public health work among the civilian population who are unfortunate enough to be forced to remain in the war area. All the personnel working in these training schools and centers are European and American trained. I mention this to you because I want you to see with me the vista of 450 million Chinese people opening up to the marvels of modern medicine. Ironically one may say that war has its advantages. The one in China is that it will banish the old [[strikethrough]] imperial [[/strikethrough]]  empirical method of Chinese witch doctory and in its place we will have the scientific empiricall  [[empirical]] modern method of care & prevention.