| Show JESE DOCTORS ARE ALL ALLA I I 1 A Study of Their Methods Reveals the Lack LackS S of f Them 5 5 5 S t 5 J The Tho Chinese p doctor Is IR not without n's ns is adherents in this his country A BUill study of lC modern t-ii t medicine In China has been bee made by hy Dr W W. H H. Dodson of or Washington Wash Wash- Ington D D. C C. surgeon in charge of the he Forman Fozman Memorial hospital at City in tho the province province- China In Itt a paper I recently rea read before the George Washington ton university rity alumni Dr Dt DOII Dodson on told about th the Chinese doctors practicing 11 at it home Dr DocI Dodson on said One word of oC ancient medicine and atiel the native herb borIs doctor octor You have all ahi heard icard of or hi hitS his formidable prescriptions of or tigers tiger's bones hones bears bear's gall deers deer's horn lizards s etc The more mor filthy the they are the tite b better the thc medicine All Allare Allare are e given because the they are arc good for fOl forthe the nic disease Ilea c. c x In my dealings with patients they disclose the quacks quack's o of disease and anti remedies i b by Soy Inquiring whether the thc ailment I i. i Is cold or or fo er The native doctor no stud study no examination no other qualification Ion Ho ha has often foiled In other business s and has taken taleen Sip IP p drugs drug's as E a last resort of or the thc governmental literary literal graduates dabble in medicine for fOl pecuniary profit hould the thc doctor have had who followed ollo ed the same calling call caH- inS big he will vill gain the greater Sleater confidence dence of or his countrymen Alas Ala this Alas this conf d n Q is If not due loan to lo an any belief in heredity but hut because the son will vill probably be lie in possession o of or many nany ony prescription bo books ls of oC hl his IH pro pro pro- genitors II Ills His Is fees vary vat from c cash or it r five o cents cent to a chicken or hOl horsa i ot l' l I 1 have seen a a herb doctor anti and parent haggle over e a tc fee fco while precious mo- mo of or lIr were were e ebbing front from the Putting th cin on a solemn and nov nov- a made mn H ml l t air ah he feels feel three pulses in each wrist lip US thus titus examines exam exam- ines th the six Ix regions of or thin the the body bOIl body anti and antino no questions 01 or other othet examinations are necessary 1 Many lany apothecaries employ cm- cm plo ploy a doctor to lo sit nil in the tho shop nd IllI see ee patients who vito bu buy their thell is compounds before going outI outI out I have gone to lo such lengths to describe describe de de- de- de scribe these doctors anti and their ways in iii or order er that you OU ma may in part lint imagine the which we encounter In examining examining- f ignorant anti and superstitious people accustomed to the native quack Take falt for instance a n oman woman's land anti and wrist vrist presented fL from be be- hind Ind a curtain for fOl diagnosis |
