This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... XVI AS A MEDICAL MISSIONARY DR. COCHRAN was primarily, of course, a medical missionary. The general influence which he wielded was secondary. It came to him, and was used by him as he went about his business of opening the eyes of the unseeing, restoring the lame and halt, and healing the sick of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... XVI AS A MEDICAL MISSIONARY DR. COCHRAN was primarily, of course, a medical missionary. The general influence which he wielded was secondary. It came to him, and was used by him as he went about his business of opening the eyes of the unseeing, restoring the lame and halt, and healing the sick of their diseases. The story of his life, as it has been told, has been necessarily filled with incidents of his medical work, but something should be said in a more connected way of what he did, and how he worked as a physician. The centre of his medical work was the hospital. The first building was erected in 1880. A mile or two from the city of Urumia, on the banks of the river of the same name, the Mission had purchased fifteen acres of land. Four acres of this were enclosed, Persian fashion, by a wall fifteen feet high. It was a beautiful garden, with streams of water running through it. Avenues lined with sycamore, pear, and poplar trees, divided it into four squares, and filled it with pleasant shade. On one of these squares wrote Dr. Cochran in one of his reports the hospital is built, on another the college, and on the remaining two the residences of the superintendent of the college and of the physicians. The building is seventy-five feet by thirty-five, faced with red brick, and two stories and a half high. Aside from accommodations for the sick, it has drug rooms, operating and assistants' rooms, and storerooms. It has two large wards, and six smaller wards. The large wards have sixty beds, the smaller from three to six. The beds are of straw on high wooden bedsteads, and are furnished with sheets and quilts made in the native style, i.e., of wool, with a covering of bright calico. The windows are curtained with gay calico; pictures...
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