Outlines of the history of medicine and the medical profession / by Joh. Hermann Baas ; translated, and in conjunction with the author rev. and enl., by H.E. Handerson.

  • Johann Hermann Baas
Date:
1889
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Credit: Outlines of the history of medicine and the medical profession / by Joh. Hermann Baas ; translated, and in conjunction with the author rev. and enl., by H.E. Handerson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    With the co-operation of the same Li Hung Chang, Dr. Howard, a female phj-sician and graduate of the Medical College at Ann Harbor, Michigan, has organized in a temple at Tien Tsin a dispensary for females, who b}' Chinese custom are absolutely denied all medical aid from male practitioners. Many of the missionary stations have hospitals and dispen- saries attached to their other institutions. Thus the Methodist mission at Soochow has a hospital and dispensary, and organized in 1883 a medical school, which in 1884 had eleven native students. The lectures are deliv- ered in Chinese, and text-books are also furnished in the native tongue. The curriculum comprises a course of instruction of five j'ears' duration. In the hospital and attached dispensary nearl}' 12,000 patients were treated in 1884.] (H.) JAPANESE MEDICINE. The imaginative, busy Japanese, the French of the East, more disposed to art than the Chinese, and fond of novelty, are a mixture of the aboriginal Ainos (now almost extinct) and the conquering Malays, whose blood at present predominates. (According to Baeltz, however, the Japa- nese are pure Mongols.) They have advanced in independent medicine no further than the Chinese, from whom (according to Gierke) they adopted their medical knowl- edge about the fourth or fifth century of our era. Recently, however, they have endeavored to push forward, partly by calling European physicians to the medical schools of their own county, partly by sending their young men to be educated as physicians in foreign universities, especially those of North America and Germany (e. g. Munich, Berlin).1 Medical schools, after the model of those of Europe and America, exist in Nagasaki, Osaka, Kangoschina, Sanga, Hakadot and Nadegoja. A most complete academy or university on the German model, and in which even tlie German language is employed in teaching, was erected at Yeddo, in 1871. Here, however, the instruc- tion is given more as in our Gymnasia, and is divided into several grades. The text-books are European works translated into Japanese. Even a medical journal appears regularly, edited by an Englishman, and bears the title Kin-se-i-Selzu, or Medical News.2 The Japanese, especially the wealthy among them, worship, as the god of health, good cheer and fruitfulness in women, Hotei, a fat, jolly god — plumpness is considered a sign of happiness and comfort — whose belly as he sits overhangs his short legs, and who seems, therefore, to have a good 1. No less than 500 students were sent to the United States, among them the brother of the Mikado, who became a studetit in the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Among these students were five ladies, the first of their sex to leave Japan for educational purposes. Harvard University received a number of the Japanese students, and others attended various other eastern colleges. (H.) 2. In 1884 about a dozen medical journals were published in Japan, all of which were said to receive a fair support. (H.)