The Institution that Is to Open Next Month In the reconstruction of China, stress must be placed upon one most important factor—the health of her citizen' and freeing them from disease.
The opening on September 15 of the Peking Medical College—a seat of medical learning which rivals in the quality of its training, equipment and buildings many of the biggest of such institutions in Western lands—will mark one of the biggest steps yet taken towards ihe progress of this vital culture in the Republic.
physicians, who have visited the medical school group of buildings, where most of the instruction during the first two years of the medical course is given, have gone into rhapsodies over the institution. This section of the College, which was opened in 1919, is unique, the building itself on so palatial a scale as to. rank with the new home of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. The former is equipped with every feature and equipment necessary for elementary and. advanced teaching in the surgical and clinical branches of the profession. A small private pavilion adjoining the main building makes it possible for patients to secure the professional services of the staff without entering the public wards.
Those who are helping to spread this teaching at the Peking Union Medical College by no means confine their attention to teaching alone. The college is also a largo hospital, where the treatment; given to patients is as_up-to-dace in every respect as that given at hospitals in Western lands.
'A gathering of eminent physicians of all mations will take part in' September in the ceremony of dedicating this temple of learning to'China. Their visit to Peking will also be made the occasion of numerous addresses on every branch of medical science. Dr. George do Sehweinitz, Professor of Opthalmology, University of Pennsylvania, Dr. S. M. Pearce, of the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. T., Tuffier, Professor of Medicine, University of. Paris, Dr. R. T. Leiper, of the London School "f Tropical Medicine, and Dr. W. H. Welch, Professor Emeritus of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, will be among the most distinguished visitors.
Asa training ground for nati teachers of medicine particular, the institution is chiefly noteworthy all. of them being required to graduate in certain branches of medicine and serve for a long period as practitioners. Students are required first of all to complete a course of studies in the Pro Medical School, in which they are: taught. chemistry.. physics and natural sciences-allied to medicine and surgery. The next step-is the
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