Around the World Studies And Stories of Presbyterian Foreign Missions
Around the World Studies And Stories of Presbyterian Foreign Missions
Charles Edwin Bradt
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Mission) "from the first as so often since in oth- er parts of China, the medical missionary opened the way for the clerical, disarming suspicion and inducing a friendly feeling toward the foreigners and a willing- ness to hear their teachings. " China's China, with one-fourth of the world's Medical Needs P is . In d * e need of the modern physician. Except the few MEDICAL MISSIONS IN CHINA 309 who have been trained by foreigners, her native doc- tors have very little scientific knowledge; thei...r medi- cines are vile concoctions; they know nothing of mod- ern surgery; they are ignorant of the germ theory of disease. The average Chinaman, particularly in the north, is dirty in person, wears dirty clothes, lives in a dirty house and travels through dirty streets. He is afflicted with plague, cholera, smallpox and period- ically the famine sweeps away millions, while chronic diseases of various kinds cause untold suffering. To rescue this numerous population from the bonds of physical misery, China has supplied herself with a horde of ignorant, superstitious doctors, whose reme- dies usually serve to aggravate disease.
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