The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21

Is to Be Built in New York and
Native Standards Adopted.

NAIVE StAuuhEuB AWVtsSt'
New York Times.
Il is a token Of the high cosmopolitan
character OF this city. not exceeded by
Rome or Alexandra in their most pros
porous periods that the Chinese residents
here intend to found hospital where
ing to medical usages preyahins
In their own land. Not much 10 known
here Of the Chinese medical practice
though In dim outline the system displays
itself as one which depends in-some meas.
ure on incarnation and exorcism ana
makes a call on the faith and pisty OF
the patient as urgent ~ that when the
Christian Science healers do in our own
| country. 1t employs q great many ma
terial remedies, 1t Is true, and these are
drawn from all sources familiar and &C
cult and are administered on the genera
principle that II they do not kill the pa
tent they may possibly help him, though
the scheme altogether Is one Of conjecture
and experiment. In the surmise Of these
meditative and pious Oriental peoples
nature, the common mother, brings palm
her substances and growths. One Is as
good as another, to try, at any rate. ana
If 1t fails. the situation Is at least no
worse, unless the patient has CHANGED
to die under the administration, which
in a thickly populated country like China
need not always be construed as calam-
ity. Measured by the standard of Ocos-
dental practice, the medicine and surgery
minded people would Of course be re-
sarded as primitive and upscieptifc and
their remedial value wholly niusory. like
the beating Of tomtoms by tAs SICK PEG
of an Ashantee chieftain; but It seems 70
have served the occasions Of the Chinese
SO we'll that they have outlastsd almost
all the other historic races. that individu.
ally the good examples OF them present
the strongest tokens Of physical Eeii,De-
plicity Of their therapeutic methods they
became ages ago and nave ever remained
the most numerous race existing any
where In the world, Estimated according
to its results, there would seem to be
something salutary In their practice not
withstanding that Its materia medica con-
tains such substances as pulysrized Pup
py's tatis, dragons blood ana dried sal
ike these our ewn faculty would Of course
have nothing to do, and It is doubtful
whether tnsy woui~ deem 1t professional
to sons S "h he Pasan fast,3nts
according to the plan proposed It VIII &c
found necessary to- import . msd'eal stah
equal to all It's requirements and inds-
pendent Of any outside counsel on avg
loudly In Its Index. The pious pastatls
who found 1t have full confidence in their
own national ways, medical and other,
and II thterrogated could from their own
hath that is in them. The days Of their
fathers were long i1 the land which the
Lord their Joss GAVE them; the genera.
lions of them epe after another walked
fat like JeshuEpR and kioked like the
procession Of Jethro's asses. What more
could they have done with any kind OF
doctors Of praetiess
While the founding Of this institution
is DESIGNATED primarily for the rsilef 2.
means employed al h6flk, It may as time
goes on and Increased endowment per-
matt serve further uses, partly edueaaonal
ana propagandfst, looking to the extension
Of the system and its adoption BY the
Gentiles among whom the pigtaMs have
taken their transient Industrial refuge.
1t might properly undertake the function
OF telling US something about Chinese
obscure and empirical practice 10 feund-
ed. Al present we know very little about
h, and while access to literary authority
on the subject Is not shut Off altogether,
1t still presents q measure OF diHteulty.
staff of learned hospital oficials would
compose q bench Of authority on TINS sub
Jeet to which appeal might be made 81 any
time with assurance that 1t knew Its bus
iness and could give points upon IT in AL
would be useful service and should net
be lost sight Of among the various fune-
tons which the institution assumes. 1t
may thus come to pass that We shall IN
time know as much about Chinese medi-
cal practice as We now know about the
methods Of Asklepios or pioscorides. The
knowiedge when acquired may be OF no
practical value, but ought to present fee-
lures of interest and curiosity which be-
long to all the ways and works of John
Chinaman. since he first appeared on the
staQa of history.