True Science Not a Monopoly: Humanity Universal and Beneficial to All Creeds Canton, Nov. 2.
The remarkable "development of medical science in China during the ast 100 years was described by Dr. Wu Lin-ich. Director of the National Quarantine Service, at the ceremony, fin connection with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Canton Hospital and the 50th anniversary of the beginning of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's medical and revolutionary work here.
"It has been the custom," Dr. Wu said, "to speak of the introduction of "western' medicine into China. Surely this isa misnomer; true selentide medicine cannot be a monopoly of the east or west, for humanity is univer-al and benefits all creeds and races.
"AS a matter of fact, when the famous Chinese Minister, Chang. Chien, travelled by the overlong route at the order of Emperor Wu "Ni of the Han Dynasty (2nd Century B.C.) on a politico-economic mission te the western kingdoms of Sogdiana, Afghanistan, Sind and Ferghana, he was accompanied by a huge retinue, among whom were two accomplished 1 colleges and twenty nursing! shods to train the new generation. "Instead of individual. efforts. we have now a centralized body in the form of the National Health Adminstration of Nanking. This may be looked upon as the third step to consolidate the progress of public health in China, To enumerate the hospitals and health institutions which Dr. J. Hong Liu has established since he took up his onerous job only five years ago would consume too much time. Sufee it to say that the Central Government "have, since 1927 established the Central Field Health Station, Central Hospital, Central Vaccine and Serum Laboratory, two ional Midwifery Schools—one in king, the other in Peiping—a Child Health Station, School Health 'There were also records that, at the time of Kublai Khun, Chinese doctors practised on the' shores of the Persian Gulf and collaborated with Arabian and Persian scientists In some. valuable investigations. of which not the least important was the inoculation with the dried pow der of small-pox pustules against the rave disease, It was Lady Wortley, of the British Ambassador to who introduced this means {into Engl calf lymph superseded it.
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