Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1899 — Doctor Hu. [ARTICLE]

Doctor Hu.

It is not so very long since it was a disputed point whether women should be admitted to medical lectures and should become doctors, and now even China has its woman doctor, the first who has practiced in the Flowery Land. Hu King Eng is a great success. For seven years she studied in the United States, where she took her degree of M. D., and then went to China to take charge of the Siang-Hu hospital at Foochow. Her labors are appreciated by men as well as women. Christian Work tells a story of a coolie who -wheeled his blind old mother a thousand miles in a barrow that she might have the benefit of the attention of the lady doctor. A double operation for cataract -was the result, and to-day the old woman can see as well as ever. Dr. Hu King Eng is the daughter of a mandarin of great wealth and power. He was converted to Christianity late in life, and his daughter is also of the Christian faith. Dr. Hu King Eng is to be a delegate to the Women’s Congress to be held In London next year.