Amidst the rushing stretchers and the constant hum of Beihai People's Hospital, 19th-century brick structures hold a quiet, commanding presence. The Doctor's Building and the Octagonal Building are the surviving fragments of Puren Hospital, established in 1886. Dr. Horder, supported by the British Church Missionary Society, built this compound to introduce Western medicine to the southern coast, naming it Puren Hospital—the Hospital of Universal Love.

Puren Hospital carried an immense geographical weight. It served as the first comprehensive Western medical facility across the entirety of Guangxi, Hainan, and Yunnan. Dr. Horder took a radical approach to public health here, establishing modern China’s first leprosy asylum alongside the main hospital to treat a population entirely marginalized by society.

These physical structures anchor the sprawling modern medical complex to its origins. Visitors walking through the shaded, arched corridors experience the exact spatial proportions engineered to soothe suffering patients over a century ago. The heavy masonry absorbs the ambient noise of the modern city, preserving a quiet space where the original mission of universal care remains embedded in the walls themselves.