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now used will cure all cases if not too far advanced. It consists of simple injection a double normal salt solution into a vein, a quart or more which bucks up the circulation & pulls the patient thru. Colera he explained takes all the water out of the body & shrivells it up so that a person looks wrinkled & aged. [[Narinestine?]] he used for amoebic disentery [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] only sort prevalent in China. Injected into the blood it is a sure cure. The lepers are incurable but by cutting off their legs when they cannot walk & replacing them by wooden ones the patients can walk again & the disease is set back often 10 years. He kindly gave us a letter to his brother-in-law in Yunnan, Dr. Thomson, also a C.M.S. Dr. Typhoid occurs in Yunnan but not here on the coast. Plague, bubonic, occurs only in the spring. We took dinner on shore with the Dr. who is