The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-06
CHINESE MUST
LEARN TO HELP
i THEMSELVES
I'm a Medical Way and Not De-
pend upon Foreigners,
Says Commission.
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PEKING, July e--Thes r Rockefeller
commission which is here investi-
eating China's needs in medical
and surgical way has already found
that a most important point is this:
the Chinese must be taught to doctor
themselves along modern tines and
not rely. except for the present, upon
the foreign medical men.
Train Chinese Doctors.
The country ia 50 vast and the need
OF the medical men so extensive that
all the doctors and surgeons in
America could be utilized. in China,
Such great invasion, or even
enough to make any wide impress
sion, is impracticable. The solution
must be the training of the Chinese
doctors. At present there are only
q few score Of them trained along
modern lines. and these have diff
Guilty in making a living. The Chi
naman is suspicious of the second
hand training Of the medernized
Chinese doctor, and. II heis moved to
resort to foreign treatment he pre-
fers to go direct to the foreign doc
tor.
The commission, which Ii represent
ed here by DR.. Harry Pratt Judson,
president of Chicago, University, and
DR.. Francis w. Peabody, Of Boston,
has not gone far enough to commit
itself to any definite plan, but its re-
port undoubtedly will be largely
concerned with the problem OF max
ing the foreign trained native doctor
respected in China.
The United States Department OF
State has temporarily detached Rog.
er s. Greene from his consular post
at Hankow to aid the commission as
an interpreter and guide in its tour
or investigation, and the Chinese
government, both central and local.
has furthered rather than impeded
the work Of the commission.
In the medical schools, the com
mission has found various men at
work trying to coin medical charac-
tiers and combinations OF characters
or expressions in Chinese.
Women Physicians,
1t was only three years ago that
the first class Of Chinese educated In
China took their medical degrees
from the Union College where
American and British missionary
doctors work together) here IN PEI
king. Because of prejudtces against
the treatment Of women by irien.
women doctors will have a valuable
place in medical work In: China.
While the class Of Chinese who
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Is still in the majority, the foreign
doctors have more than what they
can do.
Chinese medicine Is poor thing.
The Chinese have had for centuries
remedies for certain well known dis
eases, remedies which are often very
effective. But they have never, ap-
studied anatomy, and know
little or nothing Of the reasons for
actions and contradictions. Much II
not most OF their work Is dtlackery.
They have very little knowledge OF
surgery. As rule, the Chinese doc
tor cannot set bone. Men whose
broken limbs could be stuck together
by an ordinary man In Europe or
America become permanent cfipples
in China. Such are ito be seen even
on the streets OF Canton, Shanghai
and Picking. where tie services of
the foreign doctors are always avail
able. They are men who have gone
to their own instead Of foreign doc
tors. and probaly have received
plasters, or even medicine to take
internally, for their broken bones.
Seem Like Miracles.
Some Of the tales that 60 through
the country about the missionary
doctors are to these people like
stories Of the Bible. A man learns
Of a surprising cure, which seems to
him 1niraculos. A friend had been
shot by brigands or by marauding
troops Of the government and is par.
alyzed down one side as aErAsult. Tie
foreign doctor opens his head, takes
a little piece Of metal, and the man
beginsJat once to walk and talk. Or
1t might be in the case df q woman
who was blind from d cataract and
has been given sight.
1t used to be tie case that ma
licious tales were spread st the mis-
sion hospitals. The Chinese could
not understand the reason for good
work being given freely by white
men and; women. who came tiious-
andS Of miles. across the seas: ana
suspicious and dislike Of foreigners
gave rise to stories that they muir
dered children freely to make med
zeal connections Of their eyes. This
and similar tales were current up to
the time OF the Boxer uprising, but
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