The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-06
NEED To TEACH CHINESE
TO DOCTOR THEMSELVES
All Physicians and Surgeons In
America Could BE Utilized
in Vast Empire.
ONLY FEW NATIVES TRAINED
Rockefeller Commission, Which Is
Investigating Conditions, Is Being
Assisted in Every Way Both by
Central and Local Governments,


Picking, July THE Rockefeller
commission which is here inves,igat-
ing Chinas needs in IL medical
and surgical way has already found
that most important poimt Is this:
the Chinese must be taught to doctor
themselves along modern lines and not
rely. except for the present, upon the
foreign medical mon.
The country is so vast and the need
Of the medical men so extensive that
all the doctors and surgeons in Amer
lea could be utilized in China. Such
great invasion, or even enough to
make any wide impression, Is imprac-
ticablc. Tho solution must be the
training of the Chinese doctors. At
present there are only a few score OF
them trained along modern lines. and
these have difficulty in making a liv-
Ing. The Chlnaman is suspicious of tho
second -hand training of the modernized
Chinese doctor, and II lie is moved to
resort to foreign treatment he prefers
to 20 direct to the foreign doctor
The commission. which is represent
ed here BY Dr. Harry Pratt .Iudson.
president Of Chicago University. and
l)r. Francis w. Peabody. OF Boston.
has not Son" Tar enough TO commit it
self 10 amy definite plan. but its report
undoubtedly viii be largely concerned
with the problem OF making the for
cign strained native doctor respected in
China.
Tho United States Department. OF
State has temporarily detached Roger
:. Green" from his consular post at
Iiankow to aid tho commission as an
Interpreter and guide in its tour OF in
Ncstigation, and the Chinese govern
lucnt both central and local. has fur
thcrcd rather than inpcdcd the work
of the commission.
VARIOUS MEN At WORK
IN MEDICAL. SCHOOLS
In the medical schools, the commits
sion has found various men n, work
trying 10 coin medical characters and
combinations of characters or express
SioAs in Chinese.
Ii was only three years ago that the
first class OF Chinese educated in
China took their medical degrees from
the Union College twhcro Amcrican
and british missionary doctors work
toccthcr) here in Picking. Last year
the 'irst class. small number. % wo-
men doctors were graduated Because
OF prejudice against the treatment or
women by men. women doctors will
have a valuable place in medical work
in China.
While the class OF Chinese who pre-
fer the old style Chinese doctors IL
stiil in the majority, tho foreign doc
tors have more than what they can do
Chinese medicine is II poor thing.
| The Chinese hay. had for centuries
remedies for certain well-known dis
eases, remedies which are often very
effective. But they have never ap-
parently, studied anatomy. and know
| little or nothing of the reasons for
actions and contractions. Much, II
/ ~ b..fr
/ They have very little knowledge of
| surgery AS q rule the Chinese doctor
| cannot set 4 bone. Men whose broken
| limbs could be stuck together by an
ordinary man in Europe or America
| become permanent cripples in China
| Such are TO he seen even on the streets
of Canton, Shanghai and Pcking. where
| the services of the foreign doctors are
| always available. They are men who
| have gone To their own instead OF for
| "iEn doctors, and probably have re-
cetved rlasterS, or even medicine to
| take Internally, for their broken bones
! MiRACULOIS TALES
! ABOUT FOREIGN DOCTORS
Some Of the tales that go through
| the country about the missionary doc
tors are 10 these people like stories
OF the Bible, y man learns OF II sur
| prising cure, which seems to him
| miraculous. y friend has been shot BY
! brigands or by marauding troops of
| the government, and is paralyzcd down
| one side as n result The foreign doc
| tor opens his head, takes out a little
| piece OF metal, and the man begins at
/ once To walk and talk. or II might
be in tho ease OF woman who was
| blind from a cataract and has been
| given sight.
! 1t used to be tho case that malicious
| tales wcrr spread of the mission nos
pitalS The Chinese could not under
| stand the reason for good work be-
| ing given freely by white men and
women. who came thousands of miles
across the seas. and suspicious and
/ dislike of foreigners gave rise 10 stories
/ that they murdered children foully to
| make medical connections of their
eyes. This and similar tales were cur
rent up 10 the time OF the Boxer ris-
Ing, but they are now seldom heard
| Iiody Taken to North Carolina.
| The body of Rom Wood. sixteen
! years old, who died In the Johnston
/ Willis Hospital Saturday night. was
yesterday returned TO his home in En-
field, y. G. The hoy suffered a frac-
tured vcrtebra when he dived into a
shallow stream near his home on June
-. and. although local physicians eX-
erted every effort to save him, young
Wood died Saturday night. His broth
ar and sister were at his bedside At
no timc during his stay in the local
hosDital WAS his condition Suu}riaptI,,