Lecture At the Imperial University on Practical Hygiene in the Orient: A Fine Reception from " Correspondent.
Kioto, Oct. 20.
Dr. Wu Lien-teh, the celebrated Chinese physician, now on a lecturing tour in this country as guest of the government and principal universities, has arrived in Kioto. Yesterday in the large reception hall of the Imperial University, he delivered an address in Mandarin on ''Some Aspects of Practical Hygiene in the Orient" before an audience of over 400 medical men and students, including the full staff of the University.
Dr. Wu dealt with the urgent need in teaching centres of placing hygiene upon an independent footing instead of leaving it under the Department of Bacteriology or even Pathology. The subject of public health had become bigger and bigger and certainly more important in the lives of individuals and nations. Oriental countries, owing to the different constitutions and habits of their peoples, had somewhat dissimilar problems to tackle as compared with western nations, and he advocated intensive research upon problems of physiology, pathology and health matters in the East, so that a common standard might be found for common. action. The prevention of certain well-known diseases, such as_ scarlet-fever, tuberculosis, intestinal affections, syphilis, gonorrhea, ete., was still far from satisfactory, in spite of increased scientific knowledge, and he believed more graduates of medicine' should be encouraged to undertake public health work than was the case at present.
The lecture was translated by Dr. Wen, a Chinese graduats of the University, and enthusiastically received.
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