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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, AUGUSİ. 1991

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of the Los Angeles A.C., pole- ; "evens," which would be a first vaulting 12 £. 1/4 in.. a new class performance in the adult junior zecord. This 13 a section. His fellow-clubman, Geo. tine performance indeed, surpas- Stanton, won the slinging the sing the Engish senior's record. | 56lb. weight competition. While The world's record, established in skill is naturally an important 1912, is 13ft 2in. At the recent advantage, this is essentially YOUR MONEY and JEWELLERY Far Eastern Olympiad the "strong man" feat. Usually the An excellens method of winning jump was 11ft. 644in. weight is thrown for distance, encouraging rising talent is the! In the 220yd. low burdles, Earl but sometimes for height. The holding of Junior Championships Fraser put up a new record for sport is popular in Ireland and st by the American Amateur the junior championships with the Highland gatherings, but bas Athletic Union, which the Eng-4.25 sec, another fine perform only been included of late years lish A.A.A. might cops with soce. The U. S. invariably in the English A.A.A. Champion- excels at hardling, especially ships, the object being to provide Some fine performances were at the regulation. 10 yds. candidates for the Olympic accomplished at this year's meet- In the forlong sprint Eddie) Games, in which the event bas in just held in California. Our Sudden, of the San Francisco always gone to an American or illustrations show Dick Emmons, Olympic Club accomplisbed Scandinavian competitor.

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will be very difficult to correct. They are handicapped also by certain customs, like foot-binding and the binding of the breasts in young women before marriage, which they still practice blindly, baving forgotten their origin and

lady, merely hands a smal sociation passed resolutions, figure of a nude woman through which make their purpose clear. the curtains on which she marke (2) Foreign Agencies of Non- the location of her trouble. He Missionary Character. The British then prescribes for her. A great Government has materially aided deal has been written about Chi-in the development of modera nese drugs but few realize how medicine in the South of China. Native physicians toy with many millions of dollars are spent has been particularly success- fe and death throughout China on them annually. At a very ful in securing the goodwill and THE with child-like faith in the printamous store in Peking, establish- sctive support of wealthy Chi- ciples of medicine as laid down ed over three hundred years ago, nese in founding the Medical De- by the mythical Yellow Emperor, they claim to sell $1,000 worth of partment of the University of Huang-t, in about 690 BC. The native drugs a day. This native Hongkong. Even the President ideas enunciated by him and his; medicine is not at all bad, but | of China`showed his interest' in followers are very deeply rooted considering its amount, it has a he enterprise by establishing the they see in them no opportunity in his great nation of approx-surprisingly small element of Ta Tsung Tung Ch'uan Haneb for evangelistic work. One doc- iuately four hundred million good in it.

Fei fellowship for university for dismissed the question by say. people, writes Dr. E. V. Cowdry Chinese are by nature very tudents. The school buildings ing that it is difficult to co- in the Mildery Surgeon.

superstitious and are continually ste up-to-date in every particular Operate with them because they The doctrine of acupuncture, preyed upon by the priests. Our ad command & magnificent are only heathens anyway." or of healing through pricking rickshaw coolie, suffering from a view of the harbour. The The underlying difficulty is the with predles, is productive of un-cold, goes to a priest, obtains alquipment is excellent, the leeply rooted conviction, handed not troubling to ask the why told misery. In the courtyard of paper dragon, which be barns and surroundings the finest sad down for forty centuries, that the and the wherefore. They the Temple of the Universe drinks with his tea. In the above-most healthful along the South medical profession is but a fourth make their women Cripples Tung Yueh Mia!, just outside mentioned Temple of the Universe Chins coast; all that is needed to or fifth-rate occupation. The en- for life and peculiarly susceptible the East Gate of the Tartar City the god and goddess of medicine make the medical department one tering classes of all the medical to certain kinds of disease. am JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the of Pesing, on Chinese New Year, may be seen in the shape of two of the best and most attractive in colleges combined amount to less surprised to find the impression most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality during it is possible to watch the speci-mules. On Chinese New Year all China is an adequate full-thso six handred. This cannot among foreigners that foot-bind- Hot Weather; (2) LACTOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods aliats at work. Patients are the sanctuary is crowded with time staff. The future of the be attributed to inadequate pro...ing is rapidly growing out of date. of Infants and Dyspeptics; (3) MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID attracted by the display of the halt, the lame, and the blind institution is very bright in view vision for premedical training. No greater mistake could be INSECTICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Flese, Mosquitoes, brightly painted chart illustrating Standing in the incense-laden air, of the broad-minded attitude of which can be easily obtained in made. The small sheds in the Bags, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days; and (4) different ailments and their cure listening to

monotonous the authorities, that it is the pur-Peking, Shanghai, Hongtong, and rear where, in some districts, the JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN PLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA through acupuncture. After tones of a great bell sounded by a pose of the medical school to all the larger cities. It is inter guls are kept during the time SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses.

preliminaries the ragged priest with a piece of wood serve the whole of South China, esting to note, for comparison, when the pain is most soute and operator selects

ap-carved to represent a human not merely the colony and Chi- that the Caiversity of Toronto, they are apt to disturb the pease propriate needle, a short one for thigh bone (the Mongolians use nese of British nationality. has an entering class in the fof the household, are just as well facial work or long one for the the femur of a virgin), the scene (3) The Chinese themselves. medical, school of 416 students, patronised as ever. Only among thorax or abdomen, and planges is certainly impressive. The male The,work of the Chinese Govern- who will work in a country of Chinese under direct and con- it into the body. Between acts mule of brass is the most venerment should be most carefully about eight millions, already tinuous foreign influence is he sterilizes it by passing it slow-ated. After making a small con- considered. The Army Medical well-stocked with doctors. We change noticeable. ly through bis hair. Sometimes tribation to the priest and suitable School, the Naval Medical cannot "change the sentiment of It is imperative that we should the needles are used red-hot. Afcboisance, the faithful draw near School, the National Medical a nation like China overight nor learn to know the large bronze figure may be seen and rub the part that sils them College, and the five Provincial yet in Sfty years' time, but a through the study of the science in the College of Imperial Phy-jand then the corresponding part Medical Schools are a good begionlog has been made in Pek- of anthropology. Owing to the sicians in Peking with numerous of the mule. The eyes, worn foundation on which to build, ing, for example, where the widespread prejudice which still boles illustrating the position of smooth in this way, bear mute They represent a conscientious splendid buildings of the new exists in Chins against human the pancture points which is used testimony to the terrible incidence attempt on the part of the Gov. medical school of the Rockefeller dissection, our knowledge is ab

of standard in acu-of blindness in North China. The stament to assume responsibility Foundation will surely lead the present little more than skin told that female mule is used in the same for the introduction of modern people to doubt whether, after all, deep. Soon, however, with more schoors of acupuncture are main-way by women. This method of medicine. Military discipline is the medical profession is so very enlightened public opinion, we tained, which, however, do not healing through contact is very maintained at the Army Medical degrading. The raising of a des- shall be in a position to study the invite foreign inspection, and that widely practised. In the South School as indicated by the guard pised trade to the level of a digni- Chinese through and through so teaching is carried on with the the image chosen is often that of at the entrance. The buildings fied profession requires long and that nothing will be bidden fron aid of similar statues. At the an elephant.

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It is not difficult for us to recall plan and are quite up-to-date. country, but until it has been studied and the aggregate results bizarre practices in The late President, Yuso Shih-accomplished, we cannot hope carefully weighed before we and the students required to in Europe. The real difference be-kai, declared that "For a country for any real development of venture any opinion regarding sert needles at strategic points.tween China and Europe or to be strong and prosperous, it is modern medicine in China the potentialities of the Yellow By this ingenions method the America is one of degree, not essential that its citizens bei The people generally look upon Race. The gradual reduction ix students who have not learned of kind. China is steeped in healthy."

disease and sickness in an ap-the vermiform appendix in the the exact position of the holes are superstition: we are beginning to, Unfortunately these schools sthetic and fatalistic way, bola coure of evolution seems to be a eliminated. After they have emerge from it.

have received vory little foreigning that it is a visitation of Pro-progressive characteristic." If on learned their .trade. largely The following agencies are support, and it is doubtful whether vidence in punishment for their investigation, we should find that through apprenticeship, they be concerned in the development of they will accept any. One of transgression, orat any rate that it is relatively larger in the Rin to practise independently-moderm medicine in China: their directors told me that open it is the will of God, as par fore- Chiness, we should say that in They claim to refond the money (1) Foreign Missionaries. co-operation with a foreign in-fathers thought in Europe several this respect the Chinese are of m which has been paid when cures Most of the pioneer work bas stltation might have a bad effect hundred years ago, and some more primitive and lower type. are not made. The residences of been accomplished through the upon his annual budget owing to continue to think. While such ke siso the question of the well-to-do physicians are marked energy and devotion of foreign anti-foreign feeling. The condi-views prevail there can be no real relative size of the brain. If it by a display of testimonial tablets missionaries who have laboured tion is not improved by the at progress. This tendency to shift should prove to be larger in the from grateful palents. Juliet faithfully in the face of prejudice titude of some medical mission-the responsibility from their bwn Chiness than in Occidentals, fa Breden says in her book on and superstition. In 1913 the aries, who iske but little interest shoulders is characteristic of the would be safe to conclude thas in Peking, that a physician visiting China Medical Missionary As in the Chinese schools because Chinese in all their dealings, and

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