Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-25

their medical students, comprising a
class of about 30 men and six women.
When l mentioned what l had seen OF
the teachings done at st. Johns, and the
claims of that institution, to the most
thorough course given in medicine any
where in China, the Canton hospitals
doctors ~vehemently repudiated the
claims of the Shanghai institution. BY
what 1 could CLEAN, however, of the
means that each has to illustrate it's
teachings l am inclined to think that the
claims of st. Johns college are well
founded.
"At Tientsin, near Picking, there is a
medical school supported by the Chin
ese government, n where the faculty
are mostly Americans and in which
, western medicine is exclusively taught.
The class consists of about 30 students,
and when they graduate they are de-
signed for places In the army and navy
Sanitary science is a branch that is
taught most thoroughly. This school is
well equipped and, excepting that its
students have not the advantage of dis
secting the human body, in all other
respects their course of study is an eX-
cellent one. The students who make up
this class are chosen by competitive ex-
animation and as the numbers that COM
pete for the places are very large excel
lent men are found in this.
RECOGNIZED AS GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS.
II saw several of these Tientstin grad
yates, and, compared with other Chinese
physicians, wherever educated, they
| We're the best men that l met anywhere
in China. One whom I saw in Shanghai
told me that When he went up for the
examination to enter this school, he was
one of six, and hat 1000 young men
competed for these places. These young
men, after graduating, print on their
cards, Diplomat of the Imperial Medical
College of Tientsin,' and are ever after
recognized as government officials. The
educated Chinaman, like our politician
at home, has an Unsuitable appetite for
office. In his prayers to his gods, ne
never forgets to implore them to get him
| a position in the government service. In
Canton l saw the little brick stalls where
| II 900 young men were lately incarcer-
| ated for three days, undergoing an eX-
animation for positions in the govern
/ ment civil service. From these II 900 APP
/ plicants, however, there were only 81
/; places to be filled. After meeting these
. Tientsin graduates, and observing what
a superior class of men they are, intel
~lectuallly, I regretted that our material
at home, to fill the ranks of our profess
| sion, could not be chosen in the same
manner that these men are.
las in Japan / found at the Shanghai
hospital also that true croupous pneu-
monia is a very rare disease. They have
a ward connected with this hospital Tor
isolation of scarlet fever. While l was
in Shanghai a case came up before the
mixed court which illustrates the fact
that the heather Chinese, like his more
civilized brother of the western world,
is easily gulled in matters of medicine,
and is an easy victim of quacking and
quacks. October II was the birthday OF
! the Chinese god of medicine. On that
day an enterprising druggist imported
from Japan a fine specimen of holy deer,
whose tissues are supposed to be pos
sessed of a wonderful therapeutic virtue
To render this beasts body more eftica-
cious it is necessary to get it's blood as
hot as possible before it is killed. To
accomplish this object an iron was
bound on it's head in such a manner as
to press deeply and put the beast into
the most terrible agony. The English
Humane society heard of it. The mar
was arrested, but only fined SO upon tbs
ground that this was an old established
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