The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-07
CHINESE DOCTORS
 BUT POOR THINGS,
 SAYS COMMISSION
Need of Modern Medical Meth ods Great in FlOwery
 Kingdom.

Picking. June 10-The 7ockefeller Commission which is here inyesttgat- snR ChIna'E needs in a medical and surgical way has already found Chat Chinese must be taught to doctor themselves along modern lines and not rely. except for the present, upon the foreign medical mers
 The country is so vast and the need of the medical men so extensive that all ths doctors and ssngeoris in Axaerf- ca could be utilized in China. St1ch g great Invasion. or even enough to make any wide impression. ,is innpr ac- tfcabIeE The solution uiast De the present there. are only a few score Of them trained along modern lines. and these havg difHeu1ty In making a. living Tine EnirMnan ls etispictous of the 1ndhand training of tsae mod erniaed Chlnese doctor. and if he is moved to resort to foreign treatrr entl he prefers to so direct to the foreian doctor
 ed here by Dr. Harry Pratt Judsnn, president of Chicago BTdversity, and Dr- Francis W. Peabody of Boston, has not gone far enough to commit itself to any definite plan. but It's re- .port undoubtedly win be largely com cerned with the problem or making the foreie1l-t trained native doctor re spected dn China
 The United States Depar tnent of State has temporarily detached Roger g. Greene from his consular post at Hanisow to aid the commission as an. lnl.- -eter and guide in it's tour of invesaEatfon. and the Chinese sgov- ernnen< both central and local. has furthered rather than 1mpeded the work Of the connundsston-
 In 4he medical schools, the cona1nis- sion has found various men at work trying to coin medical characters and com 1binations of characters or exrres- slous in Chfneae-
 It was only three years ago that the fIrsts clans EEzknsse edUcaked in Ch4na. took fhetr medical degrees from the Union College ew11ere American and 3ritlsh. missionary doctors work to- gethsr1 here in Pelking- Last year the nrst class a small ntnbef Of wo- men doctors were graduated. Because of pre5zdfces against the treatment of women by men women doctors will have a valuable place. in medical work in China
 while the class of Chinese wfso pre- fere the old-sty1e Chinese doctors. is stin in the n1a3or1ty, the foreign doc tors have more than what they can do-
 Tho Chinese have had for centuries remedies for certain weII-known dis eases, remedies which are often very eRer4ve- But they have never. sp- parenflys studied anatomy, and know little or nothing of the reasons for actions and counteractions. Much if not most of their work is quaclkerR They have very little knowledge of surgsrE- As rule. the Chinese docA tor cannot get a bone. Men whose broken limbs could be stuck together by an ordinary man in Europe or 4 An1eE1ea 8hecCnne permanent crfpp1es in China Such tars to be seen even on the =strssts of Canton SfanE4aai and Feking. where the services Of the for eign doehprE are always available. They are men who have gone to their own Instead of foreign doctors and prob ally have received pIasters. or evan medicine to take internally, for their broken sbores
 Some of the tales that go through the country about the rnisslcnary doc rors are to these people like stories oI the Bfnle A man learns of d surprfEilrr cure. which seems to Dim miraculous A friend has been shot by br1gznds or by nnarsudfrnr troops of the government and is paralyzed down one side as 8 result. The for- elEn doctor opens his head, takes out q htfie piece of metal and the man begins at once to walk and talk. or 1t might be in the case of a woman who vas blind from a cataract and 1 has been given sight
 It used to be the case that malicious r7les were spread7 of the mission hos pifaas The Chinese could not under stand ehe reason for good work betns z-gfvsn freely by white f1len and worn en, who came thousands of miles across 1i1e seas >and suspicious and dislike oI z foreigners gave rise to stories thal medical eonnectaone- of their eyes 1rhfs and similar tales were current isr fc the time of the Boxer Rising. b,1t thev are now seldom heard.