Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-06
CHINESE MUST
Be TAUGHT HOW
To CURE ILLS
Doctors Of New Asiatic Re-
public Have Little Knowl-
edge Of MediciOei RocKefeI-
Ter Commission Is Aiding,
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Pcking July 5-rhe Rockefeller
commission which is here investigate
ing China's needs in a medical and
surgical 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 ana the need
OF the medical men so extensive that
all the doctors and surgeons in Amer
lea could be utilized in China. Such a
great invasion, or even enough To
make any Wide impression. is inn
practicable. The solution must he 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
living The Chinaman is suspicious of
the secondhand training OF the mod
ernized Chinese doctor, and if he Is
moved to resort to foreign treatment
he prefers to go direct TO the foreign
doctor
The commission, which Is repre-
scented here by Dir. Harry Pratt Jud-
son. president of Chicago university,
and Or. Francis w. Peabody of BOs-
tbit lidH HNl SUN itii illtARH ~ YUM
nit itself to any definite plan. but
its report undoubtedly will bc large
~ concerned with the problem Of
making the forcign-trained native
doctor respected in China.
10 Assist Commission.
The United States department of
state has temporarily detached Roger
5. Greene from his consular post at
Hankow TO aid the commission as an
Interpreter and guide in its tour of
Investigation. and the Chinese gov
ernment 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-
ters and combinations of characters
or expressions 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 (wherc Amer
lean and British missionary doctors
work togetherl. here In Picking Last
year the first class. a small number
of women doctors were graduated.
Because of preiudices against the
treatment Of women by men. women
doctors viii have a valuable place IN
medical work in China,
While the class Of Chinese who
prefer the pld-style Chinese doctors
is still in the majority the foreign
doctors have more than what they
can do.
Chinese Medicine Inefficient.
Chinese medicine is a 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. np- /
studied anatomy, and know
little or nothing Of the reasons for ac-
tons and counteractions Much if not f
most Of their work is quackery They /
have very little knowledge of surgery F
As a rule the Chinese doctor cannot
set "A bone Men whose broken limbs +
could be stuck together by an ordi- {
nary man in Europe or America be- F
come permanent cripples IN China
Such are to be seen even on the T
stfcts Of Canton Shanghai and Pc T
king, where the services of the for
aign doctors are always available. I
rhey are men who have gone to their
,wn instead Of foreign doctors. and +
have received plasters or
aven medicine to take internally, for
heir broken bones.
Work of Missionary Doctors.
Some Of the tales that go through
he country about the missionary doc
ors are to these people like stories Of
he Bible. A man learns Of a surpris-
ng cure which seems to him mifacu-
GUS A friend has been shot by lTi-
lands or by mafauding troops Of the
and Is paralyzed down +
me side as a result The foreign doe
or opens his head. takes out a little
)ece of metal, and the man begins
It once to walk and talk. Or II might
% in the case of q woman who was
hind from cataract and has been f
;ivcn sight.
II used to be the case that MALI
'ious tales were spread Of the mis-
ion hospitals The Chinese could not
the reason for goad work
,eing given freely by white men and
women. who came thousands Of miles
lcross the seas. and suspicious and f
dislike OF foreisners gave rise to
tories that they murdered children
Gully to make medical connections
# their eyes. This and similar tales
we're current up 10 the time Of the
3oxer rising. but they are now sci
lom heard
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