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HEALTH WEEK AT YM.C.A.
(Continued from Page 12.). mous damage destroying life and property and crippling industry. So far as I know the only like ly way to achieve success in this direction is through the co-opera- tion of the educated members of their own race who have their con- fidance.
Mr. Lo's Speech.
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1930.
·
what
yet be in a position to confor an Inestimable boon to mankind.
What is the trend and aim of modern medical science in rela- tion to general health? I suppose this question must depend on the views of the expert as to Is the chief factor contributing to disease. I think I am right in saying that formerly it was be- lieved to be an unhealthy environ- ment. At one fime many diseases were attributed to unwholesome. exhalations from the ground; we have a relic of this, belief in the name "malarla" with which we
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From MARSEILLES, & "Consignees of Cargo by the above named steamer are hereby informed Opium, Treasure and Valuables are that their goods with the exception of
Speaking in Chinese, Mr. M. are still too sadly familiar in being Godowns of the Hongkong
Lo sald in part: Mr. Tao Yim San and gentlemen,-The "Health Week" promoted by this Association, in co-operation with the Chinese Medical Association, the Hongkong Chinese Medical Association, and the Chinese Young Women's Christian As30- ciation, is, to my mind, a very important event in this Colony, and I feel greatly honoured by being invited to, this opening
ceremony.
It is a
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Hongkong, With the introducin tion and final acceptance of the serm theory of disease, and the rapid development of the nex science of bacteriology, it was Perhaps natural that the infecting germ, the seed as it were, should claim most attention, to the neglect of the study of the soil. that it has dawned upon us that It is only comparatively recently the equally important, if indeed it is not the primary, factor in the common saying that genesis of disease, is the lower "Health is not valued till sicknesaing of the natural resistance of the body, and that unhygienic come." A healthy man does not of course worry about his health surroundings, unsuitable food and clothing, unhealthy occupations and so become a prey to imaginary and evil habits, all contribute to iliness. But everyone should take
prepara a fruitful soil for the an intelligent Interest in the elementary principles of hygiene diseases to which hitherto flesh development of the multitudinous and preventive medicine, for these subjects concern, not the treat has been heir. With this modern ment and cure of the sick, which conception, the chief aim of all is the business' of the medical those who have at heart the im- practitioner, but the attainment provement of general health must and preservation of health, which be the creation, or rather pre- is so tremendously important to servation, of a healthy resistant body. As one authority puts it: all of us, individually and as
"Progress members of a community.
would thus seem to upon social and The art of healing in some form depend more
evolution than upon moral
the er other must, I suppose, have advance of sanitary science, more existed ever since-and probably
wisdom that knowledge, before-civilization began,
more upon public opinion than cure the sick, to alleviate the suffering, have at all times acted legislative enactment, more upon sociology and biology than medical 39 a great impetas to human
intervention. Yet aff are песня- effort, although that effort must
for the art of preventive of course Le conditioned by the state of the human knowledge at medicine is social in structure no reference was made in the the time. Magic, supernatural intervention, touch by a sacred person, blood-letting, potions and plasters, have all been resorted to.
In Hongkong, as I have no Medical practice became quite doubt in most parts of China, many advanced long before the Chris- of these modern ideas remain a tian era. In fact one great body seated book to the general mass. of medical literature is associated Many of them think and believe with the name of Hippocrates what was thought and believed
5,000 years ago. One (460 B.C.). In China Shen Nung say (who lived about 4718 years ago) scarcely go through the "tasted
hundred
the town herbs quarters of
on any whence arose the art of healing evening of the week withbatpaign. The former declared to- coming upon the sad spectacle of a couple of poor women beating the road with rolled up mats, and making quaint chants, Someone
many
and medicine."
Chinese Medical Art.
To
Mr. Lo discussed interestingly the rise of medical science and then referred to Chinese medical art. He said:
upon
sary"
and medical in inspiration."
Education of the Públic.
can poorer
near or dear to them was no
Some
same
London, Apr. 9. For the second time in a fort- night, Mrs. Snowden gave a lan- day to prominent Labourites and cheon at Downing Street yester- Liberals,
including Mr. Lloyd George and Sir Herbert Samuel.
This has occasioned talk of a new Liberal-Socialist alliance, but it was definitely stated to-day that
speeches at the luncheon to any
future Liberal-Labour political pact. The discussion centred solely on the practical details of a non-party campaign against what Wes, described as the "insidious efforts of the protectionists".
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doubt lying at the door of death, and these women, overwhelmed According to modern ideas, the with grief and believing that the study of medicine must involvo patient was being attacked by evil spirits, desperately the preliminary study of anatomy, or, in other words, the structure sought to chase away such spirits and form of the body, and in order that the patient might le physiology, or the study of the well. Did not. our ancestors
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