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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 29, 1909

Dr. M. M. Martinson has accepted a position as physician and surgeon in the sanitarium at Orlando, Fla.

The new sanitarium being constructed at Nevada, Iowa, is fast nearing completion. It is hoped it will be ready for patients in a few weeks. For years in the past the sanitarium work has been conducted in the city of Des Moines under adverse circumstances; but now the institution in the country will be most favorably located for sanitarium purposes. We certainly wish the institution success.

Dr. P. A. De Forest writes from the Gland (Switzerland) sanitarium, as follows: “The sanitarium is now paying its own way independent of the food factory. Thus, you see, we are gradually gaining force.”

A very interesting letter was received a short time ago from Dr. M. G. Kellogg, an early pioneer in the medical missionary work. His home is at Healdsburg, Cal. He is at present seventy-eight years of age, and has been connected with our medical work from its beginning.

Dr. H. C. Menkel, writing from Mussoorie, India, says: “There is a great work to be done here in India along medical missionary lines. A new field is opening up before us that is very promising. We have organized a Good Health League, and it seems to appeal to the people of India. I am receiving very encouraging letters from all parts of the country, and I believe the future success of the medical work lies in our enlisting the sympathy and co-operation of the Indian people through some such means as the Good Health League.”

Dr. G. B. Replogle writes encouragingly from Argentina, where he has lately gone to take up medical missionary work. He states that the absence of Dr. R. H. Habenicht makes it difficult for them to carry on aggressive medical work on account of their having no recognized physician of our faith in the field. Dr. Habenicht has been in this country for several months. He left Washington July 18, and is to proceed immediately to his field of labor in South America. He is desirous of having a company of consecrated young people connect with the new sanitarium that is being built in Argentina. These should go with the object of taking the nurses’ course in the field. They could thus learn the language at the same time they are getting the nurses’ course. This, it seems, would be an excellent plan. Are there those who desire to offer themselves unreservedly for such a work?

In speaking of his work in South Africa, Brother W. C. Walston, writing from the Somabula Mission, Gwelo, Rhodesia, South Africa, says: “I am very glad to be able to report myself as enjoying good health,—much better than I have had at any time during the last three years. I was told by some that if I came to Rhodesia in the state of health I was in when I left Cape Colony, I would be very likely to take the fever and drop out; but I have been here three years, nearly, and my health has improved, and I have entirely escaped the fever so far. There has been very much fever all about this season, and our native boys and girls have been ill, but our mission family has escaped. I travel by ox wagon, with three boys to care for the oxen and camp. We go through the forests from one station to another. I take my instruments; and when I come to a kraal (native village), I stop and visit the people. The chief calls his people together, and I ‘take off teeth’ and give other treatments, as required. I demonstrate the fact that I can take out their teeth, by removing my own false teeth, which is very amusing and wonderful to them.”