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Title: The Survey October 1916-March 1917
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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the West, such as mercury, arsenic,iron, sulphur, camphor, aconite, castor oil, digitalis, etc., butother inert or repulsive substances, like insects, snakes skins,tigers claws, deer horns. The Chinese have a strong beliefin all kinds of drugs, spells and charms. They also spend aconsiderable portion of their income on medicine. Organotherapy, that is, treatment of diseases with sub-stances derived from organs similar to those diseased, hasexisted for a long time in China. To the man in the street the word hygiene is synonymouswith sanitation, which again is synonymous with drains;and, since drains are apparently non-existent in China, hedraws the obvious conclusion that hygiene is not practicedthere. The science of hygiene has, however, for hundreds ofyears before Christ been known to the Chinese, and althoughsanitation as we understand it nowadays is rarely seen inChinese cities, the people have from time immemorial prac-ticed, and are still practicing, a certain system of hygiene.
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YOUNG CHINA LOOKING FORWARD Announcement of the new medical school at Changshaaroused much interest Su Wen Ling Chu, a book written about 2,600 years ago,defines hygiene as health preservation in order that life maybe lived to an old age. It holds that true hygiene is in con-formity with natures laws: Everyone who attends to them can reach a hundred years.In order to reach long age you must live moderately, and thereare two comprehensive laws of health which you must obey inorder to attain this, namely: Restraint in all the appetites; andcleanliness in house and person. The term corresponding to hygiene in Chinese is WeiSheriff, which, so far as I have been able to discover, first ap-peared in the writing of the sage, Chuang Tzu, of the thirdcentury B. C, who annotated the famous sayings of the 40.^ 404 THE SURVEY FOR JANUARY 6, 1917 philosopher, Lao Tzu. But regulations for the proper preser-vation of health had long before that time been mentioned,as witness the following extract fr

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