meeting of the China Medical Missionary In one vf the papers read at the May recently appeared in a very attractive form, Association, the proceedings of which have
we find the President remarking apropos of medical educatiuu in China, that No attempt is made to treat the. insane". This may be the general truth, but that, as inmost generalizations, there are exceptions, is obvious from twy cases of which the writer has become cognisant, one of which occurred in " village about a mile from the place in which these lines are written, and about the time that the Medical Conference adjourned. The other case happened but a few days ago, in a village twenty-tive miles distant. The facts were in each case reported by a person who had knowledge of them at first hand. It has often been noticed both in medical reports and elsewhere, that the Chinese are in the habit of tracing a great number of diseases to the excessive extent ut what they call chi, a pregnant monusyllable, which in connection with hue (tire) is adequate to explain to the Chinese intellect almost any variety or combination of physical ills. Among the diseases which on told were originated by chi (sheng chi te ti) is one which is called chi-m: ($f BE), or an aberration of mind produced by chi. An-ether form is als" exceedingly common, and is called "'the besotment of wealth"
3B), signifying that the victim is deranged through excessive lust for gain. To what particular class of nervous or other diseases these maladies appertain, we leave the learned doctors to decide. We wish to call attention to the fact that these maladies are extremely frequent and that they
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