The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-06
CHINESE MUST
LEARN TODOCTOR

Pekin, July 6.-The Rockefeller COM
China's needs in medical and surgi-
cal way has already found that a
| most important point is this: the
Chinese must be taught to doctor
themselves along modern lines and not
rely, except for the present, upon the
foreign medical men.
The country is so vast and the need
of the medical men so extensive that
all the doctors and surgeons in Ameri-
ca could be utilized in China. Such q
great invasion, or even enough to
make any wide impression, is i'm
practicable. The 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 Chinaman is suspicious of the
secondhand training of the modern
lied Chinese doctor, and if he is NOV
ed to resort to foreign treatment he
prefers to go direct to the foreign doc
tor.
The commission, which is 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 it's re-
port undoubtedly will be largely con-
cerned with the problem of making
the foreign trained native doctor re-
spected in China.
The United States department of
state has temporarily detached Roger
S. Greene from his consular post at
HankoW to aid the commission as an
interpreter and guide in it's tour of
investigation, and the Chinese govern
ment, both central and local, has
furthered rather than impeded the
work of the commission.
In the medical schools, the commits
sion has found various men at work
trying to coin medical characters and
combinations Of characters or ex-
pressions in Chinese. ... .
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 Peking. Last year
the first class, a small number, of wo-
men doctors were graduated. Because
of prejudices against the treatment Of
women by men, women doctors will
have valuable place in medical work
in China.
While the class Of Chinese who pre-
Ter the OlQ- Q-SLylS CnlueSS QOCIOrS 1S
still in the majority, the foreign doct-
ors have more than what they can do.
Chinese medicine is a poor thing.
The Chinese have had for centuries
remedies for certain well known dis
easses, 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 counteractions. Much il
not most of their work is quackery.
They have very little knowledge of
surgery. AS rule the Chinese doct-
or cannot set a 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 be seen even on
the streets of Canton, Shanghai and
Peking, where the services Of the
foreign doctors are always available.
They are men who have gone to their
own instead Of foreign doctors, and
probably have received plasters, or
even medicine to take internally, for
their broken bones.
Some of the tales that go through
the country about the missionary
doctors are to these people like stories
of the Bible. A man learns Of a sur
prising cure, which seems to him mi-
raculous. A friend has been shot by
brigands or by marauding troops of
the government and is paralysed down
one side as result. The foreign
doctor opens his head, takes out a
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