"To have lived in China at a time when Westerners were beginning to try to understand Chinese medical thought, and when China was beginning to recognize the need of the Western approach to scientific medicine, has been a unique experience. This book is the personal record of how one American doctor discovered that medicine was a builder of bridges between nations and cultures."--Prologue.

"First edition."

What journeyings! -- The blocked archway -- The city of the long sands -- West Archway Street -- "Fifty cash! No less!" -- "He knows no medicine!" -- The first inpatients -- Medical rivals -- Advertising pays -- "I have come to thank you, sir!" -- The hollow needle medicine -- Our hospital neighbors -- Ambulances of a dozen sorts -- "A piece of jade" -- "Even though he is a foreigner" -- The great peace door -- "The time is not yet ripe" -- Cultural traditions -- "He kept plague away" -- "Scholars to watch and guard" -- The street of the grass tide -- The family controls the treatment -- Dr. Welch lays the cornerstone -- Outside the city wall -- The world of spirits -- Good companions -- Restless decade -- Crusading for health -- Saviors of the city -- "Yes, but ..." -- "You are to be shot at dawn!" -- "If you plant for a hundred years" -- The way is one, the winds blow together.