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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · May 14, 1908

An urgent call was made at the late General Conference Committee Council from the Swiss field for a French-speaking physician to prepare for medical missionary work in that field. Who will be the man?

Dr. Riley Russell, who will be graduated from the George Washington University this spring, has been invited by the General Conference Committee to go to Korea to labor as a medical missionary.

In sending his regrets from the Nashville Sanitarium, that he could not attend the late General Conference Council in Takoma Park, D. C., Dr. W. A. George says: “Our work here seems to be well on the way to being self-supporting, and I do not want to do anything that is likely to hinder it in any way. Several physicians are sending us patients from Nashville and other places, and I must be here to take care of them, or they will not be satisfied.”

The Secretary of the Medical Department urgently repeats his request that medical missionary workers in the field should render their assistance both to this department of the REVIEW and to the similar department in Life and Health, by reporting such experiences as will be a benefit to the readers of these journals. General interest in this department of the work will be greatly stimulated by information concerning the medical missionary work which is actually being done.

Brother Sam. Koenigmacher and wife have lately gone from the St. Helena Sanitarium to Nyassaland to assist in the work in that field. Mr. Koenigmacher has for a number of years acted as head nurse in the St. Helena Sanitarium. His presence and that of his wife will be much missed in the work at St. Helena, but as Dr. Rand writes, they are always willing to give up even their best help to go to the regions beyond to help in carrying the message. The St. Helena Sanitarium has lately sent Miss Dehn to Kobe, Japan, to answer a call for a nurse in that field. St. Helena is approaching the record made last year by the Boulder Sanitarium, in furnishing workers for foreign fields. All our sanitariums should vie with one another in this matter, because there is so much need of consecrated nurses in these dark parts of the world.

Dr. R. M. Clarke has been transferred from the Knowlton, Quebec, Sanitarium, where he has been laboring for a number of months, to the Moline Sanitarium. It has seemed best to transfer the medical missionary work that has been done at Knowlton, to the city of Quebec as soon as arrangements can be made in that city for treatment rooms. The institution has been prospered under Dr. Clarke’s supervision, but on account of the stringent medical requirements in the Province of Quebec, it is not possible for an American graduate in medicine to become registered in that province. What work we do there must be done by nurses until we can find a man who has both a medical degree and a literary degree from a French or English University. Dr. Clarke spent a few days in Washington on his way to Moline, where he will be located for some time to come.