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35 Educators Commended KING'S PIGEONS Women Doctors: As Old

For Long Services

Long. devited service to education and teaching is now being. riven official recognition for the first time in Chinese educa tional history.

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awarded In a recent mandate the Ministry of Education certificates of honor to 35 university professors who have served the same institution of higher learning uninterruptedly over 10 years.

for

FOR POSTAL

SERVICE

As History Itself

Not so many years ago people raised their hands in horror at the idea that a girl should want to go to the university and study medicine in the company of young men.

Actually the woman doctor is as old as history itself, la Greek, Román and German mythology we find again the names of women who gave medical help to those who needed it.

In Homer's Iliad we are told thea Bocchi, and she had taken

Pigeons from the King's loft at Sandringham have been added to a pigeon post organised to operate! In the event of a national emer- Rency

Britain. The in Great pigeon post was inaugurated In July last year, by the Duchess of Four professors were awarded Kent when she visited Fort-Dun-that Agamede. the daughter of over the professorship from her

as many healing father. Class A Certificates for having lop and released the first flock of Augtas, "know

herbs as there are in the world," served over 20 years, namely: Prof. pigeons from their baskets-

writer. in "Haagsches Lo Chung-shan, Tangshan, Eng- On the eve of the outbreak of states a COMMISSIONER ineering College of the University war a pair of blue checks arrived

According to Pliny. Cleopatra of Communication, 28 years; Prof. from Mr. E W Steele, the King's

PACIFICATION

up.

Pest"

women

EARLY EPITAPHS

COURT DOCTOR

With the progress of the Renais- sance this zeal for study among

WOR

Matale damages however great tion, 15 yrs: Prof. Lu Chi-tsen said Mr. Collins, "They can't fly at Nicerate, healed the gastric trouble fully with medical instruments.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1940.

SANDEMAN

SHERRY & PORT

Obtainable everywhere

Japan must, in the end, be made wu Ching-hu, same institution, 25 pigeon keeper. They are long was expert in the preparation of women declined, but there was all In the female Court doctor in Salerno to pay for the Chinese blood spilt and cities destroyed by her air-years; Prof. Li Pei-ying, same in-distance birds, four or five years potions and ointments.

the old Teutons, then 1414. In the sixteenth century men's bombs, declared Lieut-Glen. stitution, 24 years; Prof. Chen old, of the stock which has won bellet of Pan Wen-hua, Pacification Com- Shih Central China University. the big races from Lerwick in physician himself was protected by no more women doctors were off-

Shetland and Bordeaux.

a goddess, and thus in the old clally to be found in France: the Wuchang, 23 years, 7 months. 'missioner for ..the · Szechwan

sagas we frequently meet with the medical faculty of Paris had won Today they have four young Shensi-Hupeh Border, upon arrival. Twelve professars were awarded in Chungking.

Class B Certificates for having ones less than a month old, all at names of women who healed his fight against them.

Fashion, of course, has player » Gen. Pan, who was previously served over 15 years, namely: Prof. present being trained by Mr. Harry roca from their wounds and pains.

part in the history of women "Mayor of Chungking for eight Chow Plen ming. Univ. of Amos Collins, a fancier who has charge

doctors, as it has seldom left un- years and, therefore, considers the 19 yrs 6 months; Prof. Ku Yi- of the loft of fifty birds...

In Italy, the south of France, touched anything undertaken by Two of the Royal birds, all blue war-time capital his second home. shun. Tangshan. Engineering Col- was pained to fuc, the best part lege 17 yrs: Prof. Huang Stou-checks ilke their parents, are be- and Portugal, there are many early women. In the eighteenth century

"doctors. Theodosis, of the city reduced to ruins, much heng, ditto, 17 yrs.; Prof, Li Wel-Ing trained to fly thirty miles epitaphs praising the names of it became the rage to dabble in

the anatomy. and in Paris it of which he had helped to build lien, Klangst Medical College, 15 away to the Company's war-time mother of the martyr Procopius, almost a society game.

yrs. Prof. Yu Chih-ching. same headquarters. The other two will;

was a doctor; she was executed by:

Limbs and "organs were made ut "But," said he, "this is our life-institution. 18 y 11 months; make the return journey.

Diocletian.

wax, and women used to gather "They will do almost a mile a and-death struggle, and therefore Prof. Hu Ting chen, same institu

a side wind," i It is said that a woman and experiment more or less skil- minute-except in cannot dampen our morale."

To Hsla Univ. Shanghai, 16 TS.; night. I have never known any which afflicted Johannes Chry- Madame Etheron became famous The "Pacification Commissioner

Prof. Yen Fu-tsul, Central China

homers trained for night flying. sostomus; and Hieronimus tells us and was allowed to perform "her who is here to report to Generalis Univ. 17 yrs.: Prof. Chen Ching- They come down to sleep and they of a woman called Fabiola who, anatomical art in the presence of

chin, same institution, 17 ; will go two days without food." at the time of the invasion of the a learned Society. " Prot. Tang Wenchih, Wusih

In addition to the pigeon loft at Roman Empire by the Hums, sold

MADAME NECKER

four children, however, she had no time to continue her studies. | Academy of Chinese Studies, is headquarters, lofts are being open- all her possessions to

NEW DIRECTOR In 1790 a book was published by the more so as she herself became Mr. Ho Hao-jo, chief of the Yrs 7 months; Prof Lu Halu-yu,ed up in other parts of the coun- hospital.

When the medical school of Madame Necker, who was esteem-the mother of four. But when her publicity department of the San same institution, 19 yrs, 7 months. try for the service, which is the

OVER TEN YEARS

only organised civilian pigeon post Salerno in southern Italy, was, ated in France as a reformer husband died, she took her studies Min Chu I Youth Corps, has as-

was the height of its repute, a woman hospitals. She herself founded up again and promoted in Those who received Class C Cer in Great Britain.

sumed duty as Managing Director "Elfcates for having served over 10 By reducing messages to facsi- doctor named Trotula wrote a hospital with 120 beds, which, con- 1754.

of the official Central Daily News." sidering the hygienic ideas of the

Henry VIII encouraged the Mr. Ho succeeda Mr. Cheng Chang chih-CHUNG years numbered 19. namely: Profs.mile on a special thin film the number of medical treaties,

time, was of extraordinary clean- Chen Tse-ging, birds can take 35,000 words in an

ness, and in which, for the first edical studies of women; but Tsang-po who has been appointed ASSUMES NEW POST Huang Chi-hsien of Univ. of Amoy aluminium carrier fixed to their

time, two doctors had to live as later they were again forbidden to to an important post in the Con- Profs Wen Chung-liang, Chen Talegs. Each centre has apparatus

practise. We bear, however, of trol Yuan, The Director, Mr. Ho, is CHUNGKING, Sept. 2 (Central)

resident..practitioners,

Anri Halket, who was a much-41, American-educated (B.A. Star- -General Chang Chih-chung, Chin, Chen Wen, and Wu Nai-tse for reducing the messages and for

Madame Necker also believed admired woman doctor in the ford, M.A., Ph.D. Wisconsin), and newly appointed Director of the of the Univ. of Canton; Profs. magnifying them to a readable

that each hospital should have a seventeenth century...

oretime Finance. Commissioner of Political Affairs Board of the Hsiao Yuan ting, Wang Chao-hsun, script when received.

special mortuary, Another strange

Among her other activities, she the. Hunan Provincial Government, National Military Council, formal-Liu Tseh-min, Ku Jen of the Yale- in-Hunan Medical College; Frota.

figure was the German woman

nursed soldiers wounded in the (Central News).. ly assumed office yesterday.

doctor Christine Erxleben, of

battle of Dunbar, General Chang, until recently Wang Chi si and Lu Chi-heng of of Education; Prof. Chao Hang-yu chief of the Adjutants Office of the Central China Univ, Wuchang; of the Northeastern University: There were several women doc-Quedlinberg, who obtained permis- the Generalissimo's Headquarters. Prof. Wu Tse-lin of Ta Hsia Univ.; Prof. Chao Jen-lin of the National tors at the University of "Florenca sion to study at the University of la in succession to General Chen Prof. Feng Chen, the Wusth Institute of Fine Arts; and Prot. betweer. 1380 and 1400, and a Halle from no less a person than Cheng, who has been appointed Academy of Chinese Studies; Prof. Chen Yi of the Provincial Kansu woman professor of medicine and Frederick the Great.

As she married a widower with a Bzechwan Defence Commander. Kao T of the Kiangsu Institute College (Central News)

philosophy. Her name was: Dorn-

simo Chiang Kai-shek on his duties told Central News that the only comforting thought on such appalling destruction was that the suthorities and the people will be spurred on to greater efforts in re- building the city, into a bigger and better one-(Central News).

Han kuno.

found 1

Famous, also was the abbess.

of the nunnery Rupertsberg near Bingen, Hildegardis, who was born at the time of the First Crusade. In 1098. She.... too, wrote a number of books and seems to have been parti cularly gifted as a diagnosti cian.

Catherine Bowler, wife of a

remedy for surgeon, did useful medical work Stephens, found In the eighteenth century. while stone in the kidney, which was

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