File:The Survey October 1916-March 1917 (1917) (14780700585).jpg

Identifier: surveyoctmar1917surv (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: Algoma University, Trent University, Lakehead University, Laurentian University, Nipissing University, Ryerson University and University of Toronto Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
y are bad. Courtesy Harvard Medical School of China the Chou Dynasty, when these rules were laid down for theguidance of medical officers, a proper state examination inmedicine was held for those qualifying for doctors. But in spite of some excellent methods of treatment anduseful drugs handed down from the ancients, until more latelynothing has been done to improve that knowledge or to keepabreast of the times. The result has been deplorable. Themajority of native-trained physicians are completely ignorantof the true causes of most diseases, especially epidemic diseases,their methods of diagnosis and modes of prevention. Certainmaladies, like cataract of the eye or malarial fever, are stillregarded as incurable. Syphilis is terribly rampant; tubercu-losis is common. The simplest measures of prevention arenot practiced even among the educated classes. Cases whendiagnosed are not treated properly, and, as a result, numbersof the most promising young men are sacrificed to an earlygrave.
Text Appearing After Image:
TREATMENT OF EYES AND THROATS A New York dispensary is little better equipped than this out-patient clinic of the Eye and Throat Department of the Harvard Medical School at Shanghai Also, health and dietetics were by no means unrelated sub-jects in those days. Food was rarely eaten uncooked. Anotherchapter of Chou Li says: In spring, eat more sour stuff; in summer, try more bitterthings; in autumn, cook more hot dishes, and in winter, con-sume more salt food. Beef should be eaten with rice, muttonwith grant millet, pork with panicled millet, dogs flesh withkaoliang, wild goose with barley, fish with sea-grain andso on. That the ancient Chinese also knew something of drainageis proved by the following memorandum on military defense: The officer of defense looked after the defensive efficiencyof the inner and outer walls, the moats and ditches, andplanted trees along the drains. They dug moats and utilizedthe earth to build the inner walls around the city. They dugtrenches and utilized

Note About Images