After the camphor controversy, Maxwell, now armed with the legal right to prosletyze, returned to Anping in 1868 and reopened his hospital. Thus began what people later would call the jiu lou period of Maxwell's missionary work. (Jiu lou means "old building," and refers to the precursor to SinLau Hospital; sinlau, or xin lou in Mandarin, means "new building.")
在「樟腦紛爭」之後，傳教士有了宣教權和保障，於是一八六八年馬雅各又重返府城安平，在二老口租下許家大厝，重開醫館，開始了後人俗稱「舊樓」（新樓醫院的前身）時期的醫療傳道工作。