Second Day's Proceedings: Interesting Address on What Ancient Chinese Physicians Discovered At the second day's proceedings of the National Medical Association the first paper was on "The importance of adopting a uniform nomenclature" by Dr. C. V. Yui who maintained that China should possess a medical literature of her own in order to obtain the most permanent results. At present, half the Japanese terms used were either inaccurate or obsolete, having been copied in a large measure phonetically from the German equivalents. The time had come when they should use every effort to use only such terms as had been fixed by the semi-official Terminolagy Association composed of re-presentives from the Government and leading medical and educational organizations. This body had already published terms in anatomy, bacteriology, histology, embryology and chemistry, which could be had at all booksellers. Dr. Yui urged all school authorities to use these books, so as to enable a unit system to be adopted in the nea future.
After a short paper, in Chinese on "Duties of a Physician' by Dr. Joseph King, Dr. E. S. Tyau, physician to St. Luke's Hospital, described the new treatment of Oriental Schistosomiasis by means of Antimony Tartrate which he had found successful in six cases Shanghai. In Dr. Tyau's opinion, this disease, which was apparently carried by a species of snail found in the rice fields of these regions, had already reached considerable dimensions and should be taken in hand by the authorities.
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