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REVIEW OF MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK o!5before his medical course is completed. I do not supposethat missionaries will care to have a part in the directmanagement of the medical schools, but that they will havean opportunity to make the strongest impression on thestudents, in preparing them for the schools, in activeChristian work among the student body through Christianteachers, and in the organization of Christian activities inthe schools and during their service in mission hospitals.A notable event of no small importancewas theMedicalmee*ing in February, 1916, of theAssociation Chinese Medical Association composed ofChinese physicians trained in Westernmethods of practice. The papers presented, the questionsdiscussed and the actions taken reveal high ideals, mostcommendable progress and a high conception of the medicalprofession. It was an event that augurs well for the futureand was most encouraging to those who had laboured inhope of such a consummation. The National MedicalAssociation decided to hold its future meetings at the sametime and place as the China Medical Missionary Associationso as to have the benefit that will come from holding jointmeetings for discussion of professional subjects.^ verPublication -v n tablc advance was made by theCommittee publication committee of the Association inChina Medical securing the co-operation of three ChineseAssodaTionorganizations, the National .Medical Association by China, Kiangsu Provincial Educational Association and the Medical and PharmaceuticalAssociation of China, in fixing technical terms. Work isbeing done by these four Associations in preparing a list ofanatomical terms and it is hoped that their work, whenfinished, will receive the sanction of the Government andsecure uniformity in all publications and in all schoolsusing anatomical terms. It is expected that this will proveto be the beginning of the work of permanently fixing alltechnical terms used in Chinese and secure that uniformitywhich has been but a dream thus far.^ ie (<mna MedicalPublic Health Missionary Association,lnCampaignconnection with the Young Men sChristianAssociation, through Dr. W. W. Peter, has

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