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Hongkong Telegraph.glow with golden blossom, and table worlds is regrettable and
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cuddled into the nethermost worthy of prolonged study, and
he only younger what. Wyndham St., Hongkong corner lies a neat, octagonal, were
little, house of the simplest local might be not achieve, materials the arching entry gay with varied Morning Glory this lovely late May morning.
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Some War Costs
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GRIN AND BEAR IT
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JENLE
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MEDICINES
OF CATHAY
RUEFUL complaint is often THE ART of medicine is IN THE time of the Empire, un- heurd of the sameness of one of the few sciences degree would often take up the pre- successful aspirants for a literary Hongkong, of the lack of some-which needs no apology. tice of medicine, and this procedure thing new; that her inhabitants
is still followed to a certain extent. THE cost of war is always
The liability of the human
of cut from the common
For instance, Chinese youths THE MASTER of this most are
race to disease is an all suffeducation. lacking copital, or inclina- mould; but shun the market reckoned in terms of money, ex-
ilon to
a mercantile career, unlocal-looking domain peers place, penetrate behind the clent reason for its exis-often turn their attention to medicine
to pursue pended, trade lost, damage to from his dusky interior, his eye-scenes where surprising and re-tence.
or dentistry. Strangely enough, these freshing co-colonists sustain life
"irregular" practitioners generally However erratic its pro-specialised, for Chinese medicine like buildings and growing crops, and sight none too good.
as to thern seems best, regard- Kindly is the expression ou less of the world outside; and CSS may have last, but not least, the toll of
been its western counterpart is sub-divided the long, Jean face lives and suffering.
he querulous unrest may change to through the ages, its boon to into different branches. nervously (he receives few visi- vivid interest.
suffering mankind has been Much has already been written tors) fingers the straggling,
undeniably great. about the cost of the Sino-scanty growth of ginger hair on
* Japanese conflict. The tragic cheek, on lip, on pate. The eyes cost in lives is only too well-what can be seen of them- are grey; the now wrinkled skin known. It is interesting, how-retains suggestion of the
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A Look Through The Telegraph"
50 YEARS AGO
ever, to calculate some of the freshness of a northern youth. and yet the evidence of the smaller items, which all mount
East's co-operation is undeni- Up and eventually form
"able, though scrutiny within the colossal total. Every shot fired limits of good taste can give no -means----money--spent.--Even--a- valid reason, beyond the fragili-been at last discovered-it is carted
His history? He will not tell,
The
May 27, 1889, reason the Victoria College NO long
Этан Ketting finished
away in sections by thieves as fast AH SE in put up. The chief objects of interest th them are the brass
me to time stolen. hinges of the doors, hundreds of which, without exaggeration, have been from
25 YEARS AGO
May 27, 1914. The House of Commous passed the
and politely leads the straying third reading of the Home Rule Bill talk towards the beauties of his by 51 votes to 274. wallflowers. Seldom is Green Fingers seen upon the high- ways, but on the rare occasions
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Jess
Save by a small handful of freeing individuals, Kowloon wan, nach than a score of years ago, even, the despised portion of the Colony. There
single rifle cartridge works outty of the small-boned frame. at something like ten cents, with his life is amongst the Chinese; Ho goes by a Chinese name; replacement likely to be more he is of them and not of us. expensive still, owing to the tendency for materials to go up in price: and millions of rifle cartridges are being fired every day in this conflict. Pro- gressively, the shells from field-we have crossed upon the roads, guns, trench mortars, and big he straightens creaking knees, cannon, are expensive items, the squares the sloping shoulders, charge as well as the missile raises the battered old grey felt from a moderate sized gun cost- hat and peers shortsightedly warranted by the facts ing enough in dollars to keep the average Chinese peasant family in comfort for about a month. Thousands of shells are being fired from guns of all calibres every day. Even bombing raids are costly, apart from loss of the larger aeroplanes which may cost around $100,000 or more.
into the greeting face.
the
is one cry which has often been voiced Kawton's behalf by the Telegraph facilities. The prevailing
the cry for more light, better lighting conditiona are nothing short of a disgrace to the
Colony, they constitute a grave publie scandal. Strong ቤ these words
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Thus, one physician will undertake the treat- ment of fevers, rheumatism, etc.; an-
other, the diseases of women, and so on.
Dentistry or surgery are popularly regarded as being on a lower plane than medicine, probably because in IN the West where the talent the absence of surgical and dental knowledge most manipulative opera- and indefatigable energy of tions were not understood. its adepts have been expended in endeavouring to enhance its value, every department medicine has benefited from the TT IS a singular fact that although self-denying labours of its re-ledge of medicine from western stan- Chinese physicians, whose know.. search workers.
of
by
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⚫ substances, many
dards is highly imperfect, are yet able Great names like those of to treat the majority of their patients Koch, Pasteur, and Erlich crowd quite Jadlelously. themselves on the memory, re may be rather sketchy, but they have.
Their theory of materia nigdica calling notable advances in learned through experience the uses various fields of the science. and properties of a formidable num-
In the East, on
ber of medical the other hand, Jittle has been done for medicine as a selence until very recent years.
In fact, until advent of western methods of treat- ment, the functions of the body were imperfectly under-
the
T. PAUL GREGORY
stood, and the application of refedial agents generally enveloped in an op- polling veli of superstition and dogma.
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ut which, .from their therapeutic value,
are Dow
being adopted into western pharm-
coposins.
Chinese medicos have also been
in plencers
nd- vocating diet and
being marvellously accurate obser-
vers of the course and treatment of diseases, they have been successful in treating cases by empirical methods, that is, by the age-old plan of trini ant error.
THIS WAS especially the case in
Such a system of medical procedure of the case, which can be gathered by China, which although one of the is bound to be mixed with much that anyone taking the trouble to stroll most populous, wealthy, and cultured is reminiscent of the days of Patacel- through Kowloon after dusk, provided regions of the globe, has been con- sus, but while the Chinese physician it is not a moonlight night. No part of the peninsula is well lit; many partsary science.
tent to regard medicine as a second- may be ignorant of the cause of the disease which he is treating, he is fre- of it are left in absolute darkness,
quently miccessful in its cure. 10 YEARS AGO
Always must another take the initiative, or pass unseen, He salutes
with all
grave courtesy of a cultivated gentle- man and in excellent English, strongly "R'd; no hint of any at dry weather, further water retrie
"velly."
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May 27, 1929. In consequence of the continuation
tlons are to cúnie Into force as from Tuesday next.
5 YEARS AGO -
May 27, 1934. A record was created at the Kowloon rat lime all the ten bertin, including wharves this morning, when for the
were ton steamera
She Will Wed Queen Mary's Footman
The healing art has been permitted to remain in a mediuoval zinte, sub- jected to practically no restrictions or control.
No recognised system of imparting knowledge of the science was follow ed, and as may be expected in such circumstances, diplomas or certificates were not required.
Thus, many. Chinese, doctors enjoy' reputations which their western col- Tengues might well. envy, bringing them patients from vast distances, and even from the most remote parts of the country.
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Incongruous as, they are, my The big aerial bombs are worth thoughts fly to the precincts of
AS IS well known, the Chinese are Canterbury and to a charming
Any person desirous of uniting up an intensely practical people, and a goodly sum in cash. Japan old prelate who, sympathising
those books which he thought desir-dealings with their physic pers the practice of medicine other read this trait is amply revealed in their spends tens of thousands of with a straying stranger, set the the now one, was occupied.
able, or else attached himself to some For instance, when
ix a person dollars each time a mass attack erring footsteps upon the need-berthed, the total tunange of which few months or years
all, there
already established physician for taken , his family or friends con- as the case sult some medico, who undertakes to is staged, both 'in missiles and ed path and, incidentally, added came to nearly 120,000 tons.
might require.
treat the, case
If the results do not follow expecta in petrol, apart from the toll of much to a sadly deficient his-j
The former method of learning was most in vogue; for if an intending tions, another doctor is invited in. occasional damage to, or loss of, torical education."
doctor could procure manuscript and in the case of his fallure, suc- a machine. Then there is the
"book" "containing medicni formulne cessive gentlemen of the art are sent
for. handed down for a number of genera- 10 wear and tear of weapons. The
tions, he was considered to be well Finally one is found, whose treat- average
riflo has a
on the way to becoming a successful ment of the case is regarded as satis- life of CONJECTURES are fascinat-
practitioner.
factory, and he is teft in charge. But thousands of rounds, though it ing and lead to multitudinous KING'S LYNN (Norfolk).
This was because old books were under his care as wis expected, they should the patient not do as well possibilities. Certainly the fore-MISS BERYL ANDERSON is regarded as containing the results of again resort to the process of select- probably becomes Inaccurate
bears of Green-Fingers include going to marry Mr. Sydney the experience of successful incdicos, ing another medical attendant. after a few weeks of incessant those hungry for the land, who Cumper, Queen Mary's footman--and in view of the tremendous ver
eration paid in die Chim to the cult no sense in retaining a doctor in They naively reason-fitat "thern h use. The smaller cannon are deeply cherish green and grow- -in August, perhaps.
of the antique, it is to be expected charge, of a case, it he cannot effect n not materially affected until they ing lives; those who find intense South-stroot, King's Lynn sold-that-worth-their-weight in gold
Miss Anderson at her home in that such manuscript works
wero have fred some hundreds of enjoyment, indeed beauty in the wedding plans were bolig kept Medient notebooks of this kind were
the precocious development of a secret. rounds, but larger guns -
se sub-, cabbage.
She is twenty-eight years old," " this-day. If a Chinese doctor-
———-zurenity-retained in familie, and to YN.
of the [N THEIR Cory Jected to a great deal of wear
photographer's 'assistant, Every plant and every flower
old school can advertise. In the ver- Chilnert *Eight and tear.
And so the toll thrives upon his care; his blos- Floric mears ago her half-sisternacular press that he is a physician system of the past; belleving int
married Me. Cecil Thompson,
allled to of three, four, or Ove generations, he organs of the body are goes on, money and blood being - soms surpass those grown by the second chauffeur" to King Georve V. is gonularly supposed to possess all various materal substances sucht- an
the ability and experience accumu- metal, wood, water, fire and eart! comparatively wealthy, ableton Queen Mary "Filerally poured out in a seeming-
He now "drives Queen Mory's car,lated by bis-ancestors-andals-there- These ore iho, ng-hang, dr command_the_allegiance of the anti Queen Mary la godmother to his fire untad of enjoying u ly ceaseless stream:
wage earners.
-17 ~ 2 and aecond child.
PLEASE Turn To
practice, flag de
cure."
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