Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-07-08
CHINESE MUST
LEARN HOW TO
USE MEDICINE
Rockefeller Commission Finds They Must
Learn How 10 Doctor Themselves Along
Modern Lines and Not Rely Upon For
eign Medical Men.
CHINA COULD EASILY USE
EVERY DOCTOR IN AMERICA
Country is so Vast and Need of Medical
Men so Extensive that All Doctors and
Surgeons of America Could he Utilized,
But Invasion Is ImpracticabIe.
(ASsociatcd Press Correspondence. J

(ASsOciafcd Press CorreSpOndehce.)
Picking. July 6.-The Rockefeller com
mission which j. here investigating China'~
needs IN a medical and surgical way has
already found that u most important point
j. this the Chinese must be- taught to doe
tor themselves along modern lines aud not
rely. except for the present. upon the for
eign medical man.
The country IL - vast and the need Of
medical men 50 extensive that all the doe
tor. and surgeons Ia America could be
utilized IN China. Such 4 great invasion,
ur even enough "a make any wide impress
sion. j. impracticable. The solution must
be- the training 81 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 China
man j. suspicious Of the second hand
training Of the modernlzed Chinese doctor.
and II h. j. moved to resort 10 foreign
treatment he prefers 90 20 direct To the
foreign doctor.
The commission. which j. represented
here BY Dr. Harry Pratt Jadson. president
~ the Chicago university. and DR.. Francis
". Peabody o. Boston. has not gone far
enough "a commit itself "a any definite
plan. but it, report undoubtedly will be
largely concerned with the problem 81 max
Ing the forcign-trained native doctor re-
~pccted III China.
The United States Department of State
h.- 49, t. ls.l.l n...~ H~..
from hi~ consular post ut Hankow 10 aid
the commission a. an interpreter and guide
ia it, tonr 81 investigation, and the Chinese
government. both central and local. haS
fnrthercd rather than impedcd the work oil
the commission.
In medical schools the commission has
found various men "a work trying "a coin
medical characters and combinations OF
characters ~ expression III Chinese.
II was only three wears ago that the
first class 81 Chinese educated IN China
took their medical degrees from the Union
College where American and British mis-
-%ionary doctors work togetherl here IN
Picking. Last year the first class. 4 small
number. Of women doctors were graduated.
Because 81 the prejudice against the treat
mcnt Of women rs men. women doctors
will have q valuable place ia medical work
IN China.
Naile the class Of Chinese who prefer
the old style Chinese doctors j. still IN the
MA ority. the foreign doctors have more
than what they can 10.
Chinese medicine j. d poor thing. The
Chinese have had for centuries remedies
FOR certain well known Diseases, remedies
which are often very effective. But they
have never. apparently. studied anatomy,
and know little or nothing 81 the reasons
for actions and contradictions. Much II
not most ~ their work !, quackcry. They
have very little knowledge Of surgery. A.
i rule the Chinese doctor can not let Il
bore Men whose broken limbs could be-
stuck together NJ An ordinary man ia Eu-
rope or America become permanent GRIP
piles III China. Such are 10 be seen even on
the streets Of Canton. Shanghai and Pc
king, where the services "a foreign doctors
are always available. They are men who
have gone Ia their own instead VI foreign
doctors. and probably have received plaSt-
er~ or even medicine "a take Internally. for
their broken bones.
Some Of the tales that ~ through the
country about the missionary doctors are
IA these people like stories 81 the Bible. A
man learns of a surprising cure. which
seems Ia him miraculous. A friend has
been shot BY hrigandS or BY marauding
troops IT the government. and i paralySed
down one side n a result. The foreign
doctor opens hi, head. takes out a little
piece II metal. and the man begins at once
10 walk and talk. Or II might b. in the
ease IT a woman who was blind from "A
cataract and haS been given sight.
II used 10 b. the ease that malicious
tales we're spread 81 the mission hospitals.