A smaller one was established years ago at Baguio, where surgical work may be performed with great advantage on account of the rapidity with which convalescence occurs in the cool, pure mountain air, which also expedites the recovery of persons recuperating from wasting diseases.
A little more than a year ago a hospital was opened at Bontoc, the demand for accommedations being so great from the start that we did not even await the arrival of beds.

Sick Igorots were only too glad to lie on the floor if their needs could be ministered to.
It had previously been the custom of the wild men to kill chickens, pigs or carabaos in case of illness, in order to propitiate evil spirits, the kind and number of animals killed being of course determined by the wealth of the patients.

They have now satisfied themselves that quinine for malaria, salvarsan for yaws, and other effective remedies for common ailments are more useful and more readily obtained than was the helpful intervention of the _anitos,_ or spirits of the dead, while the methods and results of modern surgery are a source of unending amazement and satisfaction to them.
The first surgeon to anesthetize a Kalinga became promptly and widely known as "the man who kills people and brings them to life again," and the individual on whom he operated successfully, who chanced to be the most influential chief of the tribe, became his friend for life.

Indeed, the results of medical and surgical work for the wild men have been an important factor in bringing about and maintaining friendly relations with them.
Their gratitude is at times very touching.

At Atok, in Benguet, there lives an Igorot chief named Palasi.