October 13, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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Roger S. Greene, the director, that it may serve 

 as a model for other medical schools, not in the 

 sense that it necessarily represents the ideal in 

 all matters of organization and construction, 

 nor that it is as yet complete in every respect 

 as a few of the largest institutions in other 

 countries may be said to be complete, but that 

 it presents, in China, a demonstration more 

 nearly adequate than any that has preceded it, 

 of the essential elements of a modern medical 

 school. 



The college seeks to point the way by which 

 the future system of Chinese medical educa- 

 tion may be adapted as well as possible to the 

 actual conditions in the country. If the hopes 

 of its foundei-s are realized, it will graduate a 

 select group of leaders in medical education, in 

 research, and in public health administration, 

 and a lai-ger number of useful practitioners of 

 medicine and surgery. 



The attempt to harmonize the exterior of the 

 college buildings with the great architectural 

 monuments of Peking may be regarded as 

 typifying the hope that the Peking Union Med- 

 ical College itself may in time become a true 

 Chinese institution, and that through it Chinese 

 scientists may succeed in adapting western med- 

 ical science to the needs of their own country 

 more effectively than foreigners can ever hope 

 to do. 



It is obvious that foreigners can play only 

 a very limited part so far as giving actual med- 

 ical service is concerned; while foreign-trained 

 Chinese doctors and nurses, though they can 

 be very useful in the initial stages, will alwaj's 

 be few in number and at some disadvantage be- 

 cause the sehools they have attended have not 

 sought to equip them for meeting the special 

 conditions, whether of climate or of social and 

 economic organization, which prevail in China. 

 Therefore the establishment of an institution to 

 provide the requisite training on local soil was 

 logically the first step in the program of the 

 China Medical Board. The efforts of its officers 

 during these first years have accordingly been 

 largely devoted to the reorganization and 

 equipment, on a satisfactory basis, of one such 

 medical school, the Peking Union Medical Col- 

 lege. 



Since 1915 the college has been supported by 



annual contributions from the China Medical 

 Board. The budget for the academic year 

 1921-1922 provides for a gross expenditure, on 

 the school and hospital, of $1,418,989 Chinese 

 silver currency. The local income from fees 

 and hospital earnings is estimated at $219,383 

 Chinese currency. To cover the difference an 

 appropriation of $600,000 United States cur- 

 rency has been provided. 



Of a teaching staff of ninety at the end of 

 1921, forty-seven were Americans or Europeans 

 and forty-three Chinese, the latter being for 

 the most part men who had been students in 

 the United States or Great Britain. In order 

 to lessen the isolation of the staff from scien- 

 tific progress in the west, provision has been 

 made for visiting professorships under which, 

 every year, one or two leading medical scien- 

 tists of the United States or Europe are invited 

 to spend from four months to a year in Peking. 



In 1921 visiting professors included Dr. 

 A. B. Maeallum, of McGill University, in physi- 

 ology, and Dr. Francis W. Peabody, of Har- 

 vard University, in medicine. In 1922 the vis- 

 iting professors from the United States are: 

 Dr. E. C. Dudley, professor of gynecology in 

 Northwestern University, Chicago; Dr. Harry 

 R. Slack, Jr., of Johns Hopkins Medical 

 School, in charge of the department of oto- 

 laryngology; Dr. Donald D. Van Slyke, a 

 member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medi- 

 cal Research, who is giving graduate instruc- 

 tion in the department of physiological chem- 

 istry, and Dr. Elliott G. Braekett, professor of 

 orthopedic surgery. Harvard Medical School, 

 and during the war director of military ortho- 

 pedic surgery for the United States Army, who 

 has conducted graduate courses and clinics. 



LEGAL RESTRICTIONS ON TYPES OF 

 BABCOCK GLASS\!^ARE 



A STATEMENT has been issued by the experi- 

 ment station at Geneva setting forth the pro- 

 visions of the amendment to the agricultural 

 law enacted at the last session of the legislature 

 relative to the kind of Babcock glassware that 

 can be legally used for making butter fat tests 

 of milli and cream where the test forms the 

 basis of payment. Accurate glassware is essen- 

 tial for just payments, and milk dealers and 



