Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-07

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Books on Medicine.
Picking, July 6.-The Rockefeller
Commission which is mere investigat'
ing China's needs in a medical and
surgical way has already found that a
most important point is this: the Chi
nese must be taught to doctor them.
selves along modern lines and not re.
~, except for the present, upon the
foreign medical men.
81, Needs Medical Men,,
The country is so vast and the need
of the medical men 80 extensive that
all the doctors and surgeons in Amer
ica could be, utilized in China. Such
q great invasion. or even enough ia
make any wide impression, is imprac'
ttcahle. 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 mod.
ernized Chinese doctor, and IL he is
moved to resort to foreign treatment
,ha prefers to 60 to direct to the for.
3eign doctor.
Has Definite Plan.
a The Commission, which is repre-
scented here. by, DR.. Harry Pratt Jud.
son. president Of Chicago University,
and Dr. Francis w. Peabody Of Bos-
ton, has not gone far enough to COM
init itself TO any definite plan, but it's
seaport undoubtedly will be largely
1oncernsd with the problem Of making
the fofeign.trained native doctor res
pected in, China. l,g.
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 its tour Of in
vestigati0n. and the Chinese govern
ment, both central and local, has fur
thered than impeded the work of the
Commission.
Coming Medical Characters.
In the medical schools, the Commits
sion, has found various men at work
trying to coin medical characters and
combinations Of characters or express
si0ns In Chinese.
1t was only three years ago that the
first class Of Chinese educated in Chi
M took their medical degrees from
the Union College (where American
and British missionary doctors work
togethsr) here, in Picking. Last year
the tisat Glass; Z small number, of wo.
men doctors we're graduated. Because
Of %prejudices against the treatment Of
women by men, women doctors will
have 4 valuable place in medical
work In China.
Sems Want Old Style Doctors.
While the class Of Chinese who pre-
fer the old-style Chinese doctors is
still in the majority, the foreign doc
tnrs. have more than what they can do,
Chinese medicine il a poor thing.
The Chinese have had for centuries
remedies, for certain %well.known d.
aeases, remedies which are often very
Affective. But they have never, ap-
bassntly, studied anatomy, and know
little o. nothing of the reasons for &C.
tiona and c0unteractions. Much If
not most Of, their work IL quackery.
They have very little knowledge of
snIgery. As q rule the Chinese aoc-
Tor. cannot set q bone. Men whose
broken limbs could be stuck together
by an ordinary man in Europe or
America become permanent cripples
~ China. Such are to be seen sven
on the streets Of Canton, Shanghai
and Picking, where the services Of the
foreign doctors are always available.
They are men who have gone to their
0wa instead Of foreign doctors, and
probably have received plasters, OF
even medicine to take internally, fol
their broken bones.
Wonderful Tales.
Some Of the tales that 60 through
the country about the missionary doc
tors are to these people like stories Of
the Bible. 4 man learns Of a surpris
Ing cure, which seems to him miracu
loua. A friend has been shot by bri
gaads Or by marauding troops Of the
government and is paralysed down
one side az q result. The foreign doc
TOR opens his head, takes, out q little
piece, Of metal. and the man begins
at once to walk and talk. or it nigh,
begin the case of q woman who was
Dlind from a cataract and has been
given sight.
ut used to be the case that mali
Ncaets tales were spread Of the mission
hospitals. The Chinese could not un
derstaAd the reason for good work
being given freely by white men and
women, who came thousands Of miles
across the seas; and suspicious and
dislike Of foreigners gave rise t
stories that they murdered children
4ouly, to make medical concoctions o.
their eyes. This and similar tales
were current up to the time Of the
Boxer Rising, but they are now sci
dom heard.
suPPosED MURDERED MAN.
Elsin, N. d., July 6.-The wildes,
excitement vas created here as q re
sult.of the finding of. what appeared
To- be the aforementioned body of 8
AsInan being In two gunny sacks IL
the river. Because q resident q,
this place mysteriously disappeared
some months ago the people conclud