The report of the Royal Commission on opium compared with the evidence from China that was submitted to the Commission. : An examination and an appeal. / by Arnold Foster... with preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and others.
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Opium
- Date:
- 1898
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Credit: The report of the Royal Commission on opium compared with the evidence from China that was submitted to the Commission. : An examination and an appeal. / by Arnold Foster... with preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and others. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![III,—List of Medical Practitioners (omitted from the Blue Book of Correspondence regarding the Opium Report) who replied to tlae Interrogatories issued by tlie Royal Commission on Opittm, All of these are practicing among the Chinese. Name and Designation. Eeference to page of Vol. V. of the Proceedings of tte Commission. Nature of Evidence classed for the sake of Brevity as Favour- able, Unfavourable, to the use of Opium, and Doubtful. 1. Dr. John E, Kuhne, M.B.CM.Ed., A German medical missionary who has a very wide expgrience, Tungkum. 2. Dr. J. M. Swan, Physician and Surgeon to the Canton Hospital 8. Dr. John Dudgeon, Peking - - - - . . 4. Miss A. K. Marston, L.K.Q.C.P.I., Medical Mission to Women and Children, Peking. 5. Dr. Cousland, Eight years' experience, Ch'ao-chow-fu 6. Dr. 6. A. Cox, Seventh Year in China, Chinkiang 7. Dr. D. Christie, arrived in China 1882, U.P. Mission, Moukden 8. Dr. Horder, C.M.S., Pakhoi .... 9. Dr. S. R. Hodge, seven years in charge of Wesleyan Mission work, Hankow. 10. Dr. I. Rigg, C.M.S. Kien-Ning-Fu, Foochow 11. Dr. R. Swallow, Ningpo . - - . . 12. Dr. A. W. Douthwaite, 20 years engaged in practice of Medicine among the Chinese, Chefoo. ] 3. Dr. H. W. Boone, 13| years in charge of Hospital, Shanghai 14. Dr. G. A. Stuart, VVuhu General Hospital, Wuhu 15. Dr. R. Beebe, Piiilander Smith Memorial Hospital, Nanking 16. Dr. Jellison, ditto ditto ditto ] 7. Dr. Davenport, London Mission Hospital, Chungking 18. Dr. Percy Mathews, Shanghai ..... Page. 220 Unfavourable. 222 Do. 229 Do. 236 Do. 240 Do. 258 Do. 275 Do. 290 Do. 295 Do. 297 Do. 308 Do. 283 Do. 331 Do. 332 Do. 334 Do. 334 Do. 341 Do. 329 Favourable. Total analys is The above list shows the opinions of 18 medical men resident in China, all engaged evide'ifcTirom Chinese practice, in regard to the use of opium to be as follows:—Favourable, 1 ; China. Unfavourable. 17. Adding these figures to those given before, we have— Medical witnesses Unfavourable to use of opium Ditto Favourable ditto - Ditto Doubtful 26 9 5 Total - 40 The above ligui'es totally coutiadict the lieport. IInw a medical witness was selected as a special autho- rity. A comparison of these facts with the Commissioners' statement above that the medical opinions were in general accord with those of the Consular body renders comment almost unnecessary. The figures just given speak for themselves, and tell their own tale as to the trustworthiness of the Report of the Commission on Opium presented to Parliament. I leave the subject of the medical testimony with these remarks: .1st. It is significant that the two quotations given by the Commissioners from medical witnesses (Dr. Rennie and Dr. Percy Mathews), and their particular reference to the answers of another witness (Dr. Myers), all direct attention to the same aspect of the opium question, viz., the favourable view of it, which view is taken by only 9 out of the 40 witnesses who gave medical evidence in China. 2ndly. No more striking illustration of the perverse ingenuity of this method of appealing to special witnesses in support of the favourable view can be found than the following. In Vol. V., pp. 329-332, the evidence of two witnesses is printed consecutively, who both belonged to the same Mission and were living in the same place. One witness (Dr. P. Mathews) tells the Commission he has had six years' experience (p. 329, Ans. 1); the other witness (Dr. Boone) tells them he has had charge of a hospital for years (p. 332, Ans. 20).](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2439810x_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
