Medicine in the Far East.

THE FOREIGNER'S STATUS.  When over a generation ago Japan was compelled to abandon her position of isolation and open her doors to the ingress of western trade, and western ideas, her rulers wisely concluded to profit as much as possible by this new innovation, and allow her people to imbibe as much of western learning as it was possible for them to assimilate. Hence, she sent her brightest youths to Europe and America, to be instructed in their best institutions of learning, as well as inviting men of eminence to come to Japan and act as teachers in her own institutions of learning. From some cause or other, Germany was chosen as the country where most of these young men were sent to be educated; and German professors were called, in the main, to fill chairs in Japanese colleges.

THE FOREIGNER'S STATUS.  The army that achieved such phenomenal success in the war between