ts who have seen the quick results from
operations want me to operate on their lungs."

Another large department of Dr. Stone's work has been the training of her
nurses. This has been an absolute necessity, for, as Dr. Stone said: "When
I found I had to run a hospital with accommodations for 100 beds, and an
out-patient department with sometimes 120 patients a day, I at once found I
had to multiply myself by training workers. These workers I selected from
various Christian schools with good recommendations as to qualifications. I
do not dare to take into training any one who has failed as a teacher or in
any line of work, because nursing is an art still in its embryo. To succeed
in this profession one must not only know how to read and write, but also
know arithmetic and some English."

The course of study which Dr. Stone gives her nurses is about the same as
that prescribed by the regular training schools, or hospitals, in America.
To do this she has had to translate several English text-books into
Chinese for the use of her students. The reliable and efficient nurses who
have completed the course and are now her trusted assistants in all her
work, have amply repaid her for all the time and labour she has expended
upon this part of her work.

In an article on "Hospital Economics" she speaks of the efficient service
of these nurses:

"I am blessed with five consecrated young women," she says, "who
have completed a course of nursing and studies with me, and I have
divided the work into different departments, holding them
responsible for the work and for the younger nurses under them. For
instance, one of the graduates is the matron, who looks after all
the housekeeping and the accounts, watching for the best market
time for buying each article in connection with the diet, the best
foodstuff for the money expended, and looks after each and all of
the servants so that they do their work properly. Another graduate
nurse looks after the dispensary, the filling of prescriptions, the
weighing and compounding of medicines, and superintends the sale of
drugs in that department. Another one has charge of all in-patients
upstairs, and another downstairs, including private cases, with
junior nurses under her. These look after the special diet, and the
carrying out of orders in all the wards and the charting of
records. (This is done in English.) Still another nurse