The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-22
DOCTORS WELCOME IN CHINA
THAP COUNTRY TAXING KIND
~ 70 WESTERN METHODS.


ID. mA1smamR. en- AmeriOaa Who PTns-
tisss On Amog. aays me CsantFy Isas
0roWn Mere N ne Last ar YeAss
Tnan n the ThFee Centuries DsfOge.
Dr.. John T. HansmAnn. an American
physician who haA bosn In the Orient
twelve years. and who now praciises In
Annoy. China. has arrived At the Imperial
on his fret visit 10 New York In ssven-
teen years.
d.. Hannmann ussd 20 be In TIE regular
army. and after the spanish-Amagioan
war and tho troubles IN the Philippines
10 SsGs % Shanghai 20 practise In iool.
removing later 10 Annoy. Several years
ago he travelled through China. Burmah
and Bornso Tor one Of the Chinese life In
suFance companies. estAblishing agencies
and appointing examining phySiolAns
Tor Il.
-rhers are only eight or ten Americans
nov h Amor. said Dr.. HAuamann yestsr-
day. and abRit 200 other foreigners.
Ths forSinSrS live on . pretty little
Island called KulOng Su. which b an
International settlement. All business
"a conducted IN Annoy proper. which Il
mile and . quarter away. aOFoas the
water.
Annoy ussd 10 b. . great place for tea
exportation. but aimee PormosA was
taken over by The JAps that island has
the tee trade. and Annoy u used princi-
pally for importation. Il ussd 10 be .
great port Of call. About the most
noticeable things you go there now are
Standard Oh tAnks. But there h a great
deal Of social life. We have a fine club.
cricket. tennis and Golf. and thsn there
IL the racing tWics . year With gsntlomen
jockeys and With horses from HongkoAg.
shanghai and Canton.
i have been practising among the
more enlightened Chinese e well a.
among the foreigners The Chinese are
getting more add more used 10 foreign
toctOrS. Then the missionaries have
ooen graduating a big number OF natives
who have been trained In American and
European ways Of practising medicine.
A lot Of good work has been done by
medical missionaries. The Chinese take
very kindly 70 modern surgery. Their
whole method Of treating surgical cases
has been by counter irritation. running |
, needle. for instance. into the part that |
needed attentlon' They are gradually |
getting away from this. The common !
people are coming more and more 20 /
the missionary hospitals. The native
doctors frequently ape the methods Of |
modern science. often with more or less l
humorous results.
About six or seven years ago there |
was an outbreak OF smallpox In the !
Fokien province and the foreign doctors /,
In the province promptly vacCinated their ,
friends and such OF their Chinese patients .
~ would submit 10 It, The native doctors 4
40 AZ Chin Chew. about lOO miles away.
beard about this and made inquiries. 4
They learned that the foreigners were
fascinating people with lymph taken
1ut they felI that Chinese mStaria medica
must not be allowed 20 show up badly
u compared with the foreign importa-
ion. They did not know how 10 ct this
ymph but they finally sent down 20
smOy and got a lot of condensei milk In
he can. With this they vaccinated their
latients. asserting that ~ the condensed
milk came from the COW Il was just -
pod - the virus used by the foreigners.
The Chinese have PROGRESSED more
rithin the last ak years than IN the pre-
ious three centuries said DE-. Haus-
mann As Tor living among them. they
reat you very kindly IL Won show the
anne spirit toward them. Il h a mistake
D make them feel that you think yourself
pftar than they A GhinRman Il very
ii9icult 10 get 70 make a promise. but
nee u 10 given he will never break Il Il u
osts hts lie.
There are now tao Chinese insurance ,
1mpanies doing business which insure ,
My Chinese. though there are others
,undet under KonRkong ordinances and
iiicerei by foreigners. but irancet by
hirese These companies are conducted
long Western lines epd insure for 81 OlO
y 70 tiOO.O0O. lhey are doing great
cal OF business