April 1,
A PLEA FOR HAKEEMS.
1868.]
87
their loins and do likewise.
Ojc EnJJian JHrfotral (frajcttc.
of the Burmese, better
examples
made in
printing them.
Neglect of these simple
rules
Communications should be
delay
must
inevitably
causes
much
occur
trouble.
in the month in their publication.
forwarded
as
early
as
possible,
else
Business letters to be forwarded to the Publishers, Messrs. Wyman Bros.', and all professional communications to the Editor, direct. Subscribers changing their address are requested to notify the same. The Co-opebation estly solicited. Special
Pbofession
of this paper Calcutta.
can
Steeet,
January, 1868.
thboughout
India
is
eaen.
particularly requested to notify any responsibility for miscarriage of copies be assumed by Wyman Bbos., Publishers, Hare Street,
Notice.?Subscribers
changes of address, Habe
or the
as
otherwise
are
no
WYMAN BROS., Proprietors.
?) j
11 You have chosen the path, not of politics, but of science. Among those who have preceded you in it, and in our own particular department, we find some of the brightest ornaments of British history ; iand I will not do you the injustice of supposing that there is any one among you who would not prefer the reputation of Harvey or the Hunters to that of nineteen-twentieths of the courtiers and politicians of the periods in which they lived."?SIR BENJAMIN BROME.
A BURMESE MEDICAL MISSIONARY. It will be welcome
intelligence
interested in the progress
are
to
those of
of Medical
our
readers who
Missions in
India,
youth named Mowng Shaw Loo has where he went, about ten years from returned America, recently ago, to qualify himself as a Medical Missionary, with a view to practising his profession, and preaching Christianity, amongst his countrymen in Burmah. In 1858, young Loo, then a boy of 16, impelled by a love of knowledge and a desire to benefit his countrymen by true religious instruction, and stimulated by Mrs. Ingolds, left the little school in Calcutta where he was being to
be informed that
a
educated, and embarked for America.
as a
cabin-boy
There he took service
on
board
a,
vessel bound
gardener, educated himself at the University of Lewisberg in Pennsylvania, and finally, by the assistance of friends and the profits of some lectures on Burmah, took the degrees of B.A. and M.A. there. He subsequently graduated in Medicine at the Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Loo lately landed in Calcutta from the Nubia, on board of which vessel he delivered one of his lectures, and where he so succeeded in securing the esteem of his fellow passengers, that, before landing, they presented him with a purse of sovereigns, coupled with a testimonial conveying their appreciation as
a
of his conduct. In placing Burmah, we
on
record this little episode in the history of
would express our earnest hope that I)r hitherto successful career, pursued in a genuine Christian is but the first fruits of the
Loo's
spirit,
goo1, seed sown, nearly fifty years by the pioneer Judson ; and that whilst he himself, accredited by President Johnston to the King of Burmah, shall be proclaiming glad tidings to the three millions of his countrymen, others shall be stimulated by his example to gird up ago,
If he is to be taken
should augur
of perseverance and
as
a
sample
well of the nation; few
industry
in
attaining
the
honorable ambition have been shewn among the object ranks of our own, or of any other, profession. of
It is particularly requested that all contributions to the "Indian 'Medical Gazette" may be written as legibly as possible, and only on one side of each sheet of paper. Technical expressions ought to be so distinct that no possible mistake can be
we
an
A PLEA FOR HAKEEMS.
1868.]
87
their loins and do likewise.
Ojc EnJJian JHrfotral (frajcttc.
of the Burmese, better
examples
made in
printing them.
Neglect of these simple
rules
Communications should be
delay
must
inevitably
causes
much
occur
trouble.
in the month in their publication.
forwarded
as
early
as
possible,
else
Business letters to be forwarded to the Publishers, Messrs. Wyman Bros.', and all professional communications to the Editor, direct. Subscribers changing their address are requested to notify the same. The Co-opebation estly solicited. Special
Pbofession
of this paper Calcutta.
can
Steeet,
January, 1868.
thboughout
India
is
eaen.
particularly requested to notify any responsibility for miscarriage of copies be assumed by Wyman Bbos., Publishers, Hare Street,
Notice.?Subscribers
changes of address, Habe
or the
as
otherwise
are
no
WYMAN BROS., Proprietors.
?) j
11 You have chosen the path, not of politics, but of science. Among those who have preceded you in it, and in our own particular department, we find some of the brightest ornaments of British history ; iand I will not do you the injustice of supposing that there is any one among you who would not prefer the reputation of Harvey or the Hunters to that of nineteen-twentieths of the courtiers and politicians of the periods in which they lived."?SIR BENJAMIN BROME.
A BURMESE MEDICAL MISSIONARY. It will be welcome
intelligence
interested in the progress
are
to
those of
of Medical
our
readers who
Missions in
India,
youth named Mowng Shaw Loo has where he went, about ten years from returned America, recently ago, to qualify himself as a Medical Missionary, with a view to practising his profession, and preaching Christianity, amongst his countrymen in Burmah. In 1858, young Loo, then a boy of 16, impelled by a love of knowledge and a desire to benefit his countrymen by true religious instruction, and stimulated by Mrs. Ingolds, left the little school in Calcutta where he was being to
be informed that
a
educated, and embarked for America.
as a
cabin-boy
There he took service
on
board
a,
vessel bound
gardener, educated himself at the University of Lewisberg in Pennsylvania, and finally, by the assistance of friends and the profits of some lectures on Burmah, took the degrees of B.A. and M.A. there. He subsequently graduated in Medicine at the Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Loo lately landed in Calcutta from the Nubia, on board of which vessel he delivered one of his lectures, and where he so succeeded in securing the esteem of his fellow passengers, that, before landing, they presented him with a purse of sovereigns, coupled with a testimonial conveying their appreciation as
a
of his conduct. In placing Burmah, we
on
record this little episode in the history of
would express our earnest hope that I)r hitherto successful career, pursued in a genuine Christian is but the first fruits of the
Loo's
spirit,
goo1, seed sown, nearly fifty years by the pioneer Judson ; and that whilst he himself, accredited by President Johnston to the King of Burmah, shall be proclaiming glad tidings to the three millions of his countrymen, others shall be stimulated by his example to gird up ago,
If he is to be taken
should augur
of perseverance and
as
a
sample
well of the nation; few
industry
in
attaining
the
honorable ambition have been shewn among the object ranks of our own, or of any other, profession. of
It is particularly requested that all contributions to the "Indian 'Medical Gazette" may be written as legibly as possible, and only on one side of each sheet of paper. Technical expressions ought to be so distinct that no possible mistake can be
we
an
