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Straub-215, Dec. Why Should Physicians Attend Medical Societies? L. F. Barker-319, Dec. tury-and-one-half old education fades The star of the Manchu Dynasty compared with which our present cenhas sunk beneath the horizon. With an American Chinaman at the helm, the Ship of Chinese State has been guided into the sea of democracy. It is befitting the educational advancement that goes with liberal medical education, that a physician, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, should be the first President of the Chinese Republic. The fact The fact that a doctor was attendant upon the birth of this new child in the cradle of nations, at a time when the mother had long passed the ordinary period regarded as natural for the development of new forms, bespeaks progress. Tho in the birth of our own country doctors were numerous and the Declaration of Independence was signed by several members of the medical profession, the actual delivery of this country from monarchial control was in the hands of laymen. Dr. Sun Yat Sen has accomplished his purpose, and after turmoil and struggle and bloodletting labor, has delivered the new creation into the hands of his successors. The awakening of China, the land of gun-powder, the silk industry, the printing press, the land of civilization, It was But medicine has a curious status. In the first place, there is practically only one large Imperial University giving courses in medicine, and that is the Union Medical College of Pekin which originated under missionary Copyright, 1912, By Frederic H. Robinson, Publisher. auspices, and its first class is to graduate in 1912. This institution has the sanction of the throne (that was) and has a faculty consisting of the graduates of American and British institutions. Owing to the peculiar oriental mentality and idea of morality, anatomy and osteology may only be taught by charts and models. Is it strange, indeed, that while there is provision for courses in sciences, languages and in engineering, there has been no organized governmental system of medical education? That Chinese medicine has made no progress in 2000 years is easily understood. With the superstitions, dependent upon charms and amulets, with magic and astrology, with a vague indefinite series of ideas regarding symptomatology, it is little wonder that Chinese medicine has not risen either as science or art. The pulse with its 51 variations, each indicating some special condition of the body, with its three yang and its three yin make ridiculous the practice of medicine as it has been handed down largely from father to son without any special training or supervision. cording to Cadbury, the yang is the warm principle of life, symbolized by the sun; the yin is the moist principle of life and is symbolized by the shadow. The equilibrium of the yang and the yin, ordinarily opposing forces, constitutes the health of the individual. With the idea that the blood circulates thru the body about fifty times in twenty-four hours; with the belief that the active and passive principles are disseminated thruout the whole organism by gases, the ancient standard of physiology may be understood. The pulse is really the main-spring of Chinese diagnosis. Feeling the pulse of the right hand, the pulse of the Ac left; using separately the ring finger, the middle finger, the index finger, and from this the medical attendant must determine, within nine inspirations, the entire physical status of the patient. From these pulsations must be learned the origin of disease, the seat of disease, the possible course of disease-no wonder it takes at least ten minutes to feel the pulse! Color is a basis for judging disease, and each organ has a proper color scheme, as red for the heart, white for the lungs, blue for the liver and gall bladder. gall bladder. The Chinese physician relies entirely upon the palpation of the pulse, the general appearance of his patient and knows nothing of percussion, auscultation or the refinements of modern or even medieval medicine. The only bit of treatment that deserves special attention is the 388 points that have been described as suitable for acupuncture. Recently there have been instituted under American auspices, hospitals for the training of Chinese in modern medicine, but modern methods are slow to take root in soil that has been so nearly overgrown thru neglect. Surgery is an unknown. science. Even the Chinese soldier dresses his own wounds received on the field of battle. China is now a Republic; may the wisdom of the first medical President of this great Republic be spread over the whole country and serve as an example for the growth and development of an educational system which shall not neglect that primal intelligently guided medical force that is so essential for the conservation of the life and health of its citizenry. The feet of Chinese girls are no longer bandaged, encased and deformed; the abuse of opium is being relegated to tradition; and a nation |