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Show CHIXA NEEDS DOCTORS. There is a demand for medical men in China, and the field appears to be one of unlimited opportunity for American Amer-ican doctors who have the heart and the spirit and the courage to venture into the Orient. The China. Medical Journal says it is doubtful if there are at this time 2000 trained physicians in the wholo of China, Manchuria and Mongolia. The number of foreign medical missionaries in China anil contiguous countric3 in 1914 was but 40j. Thi3 number was greatly decreased in 1917 by the war, so that, when a survey was made two ycirs ago, there were found only 270 n en aud SI women missionary physicians. physi-cians. "vVorking with Hose were 213 Chinese lthvsiciar.?.. About 120,000 "in" patients and S.lBa.flOO dispensary patients were treated during the year, to ti.nt it' wii1. bo seen that the doctors were kept reasonably busy. In tii bi:.; province of Shcnsi there are cniy two foreign medical missionaries mission-aries in active practice. The population popula-tion of the province is in excess of 6,SOO,000. The .fournnl says there is rn unlimited unlim-ited fiedd in China for original research in e'.try branch of medicino and surgery. sur-gery. Jn addition to the great need of pr::efie;ng pliy.-.icj.'ms, teaciiers are required re-quired for mission medieal schools. The movement for public health education, feir wtiieh tlie China Medieal Missionary Mission-ary r,-soeiation is lare.dy rc-ponsilile1, has barely begun, and ''sickness and wretchedness .eist everywhere." There is no question that China, wittiiu the ri":tt epmrlcr of a century, will r),:.i:e giant ftrids forward. Thero is room for alert and capable- men mi '1 women in e-'ery e.ceupation, and the chfriee t)f veinning fame and fortune by yontig doctor. i aj.jir-iirt to be bright, indeed. |