Im a cable from Peking dated \ugust 23 it was said that half dozen small newspapers in that ity had launched a vigorous cam-Balen against the Peking ical College, the institution established by Mr. John D. Rockfeller to teach medicine to Chinese, An incident which seemed of little importance to western obseryers was sti sd_upon as the basis for the campaign.
An illiterate coolie was admitted to the College hospital suffering from an obscure disease.
He was treated free of charge ud finally di ied. The doctors attending hi wished to perform an autopsy obtained permission from the coolie's brother to do so. As the brother could not write he affixed his finger prints to a document containing lis permission, The coolie's wife subsequently learnt of the autopsy and demanded that the doctors concerned be arrested for "mutilating" her husband's body.
Accordingly, the doctors were imprisoned for 24 hours, wi hen they were released after prov-that they had obtained permis-ion to perform the autopsy.
The autopsy and the imprison-me vent of the doctors provided the local Chinese press with material for scurrilous attacks on the Col-
"ge hospital and those connected ith it. The former was described list institution" and dogs of in lism." At the height of thi campaign against the College one of the papers printed the report of a murder in Tientsin in which it wag alleged that a young man had been killed so that heart and brei could be sold to "forei medical men."" Although inves ti jon showed that there wag no foundation for this report it was readily believed by ignorant Chinese, medical practitioners obtain their medicines, bodies. No action report.
The only plausible explanation of the verbal and other attacks on the allege Hospital seems to lie la innate prejudice of Chinese dos tors of the old school.
The extraordinary progress of western medi as advocated and en-staged by the Rockefeller institahas convinced them that their livelihood is being seriously threat-ered. They have apparently
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