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tact has been through the written word — to the 

 general practitioners of the English-speaking 

 world — I should like to say how deeply their loyal 

 support has been appreciated. Nothing in my 

 career has moved me more, pleased me more, than 

 to have received letters from men at a distance — 

 men I have never seen in the flesh — who have 

 written to me as a friend. And if in this great 

 struggle through which we have passed sorrow 

 came where she has not been before, the blow was 

 softened by the loving sympathies of many dear 

 friends. And may I add the thanks of one who 

 has loved and worked for our profession, and the 

 sweet influences of whose home have been felt by 

 successive generations of students? 



To the committee and the editors I am deeply 

 indebted for the trouble they have taken in these 

 hard days, and to the publisher, Mr. Paul Hoeber, 

 for his really pre-war bravery; and our special 

 thanks are due to you, kind friends — and in say- 

 ing this also I would associate Lady Osier with 

 myself — ^who have graced this happy ceremony 

 with your presence. 



The ceremonies terminated with the pro- 

 posal of a vote of thanks to Sir Clifford 

 AUbutt by Sir D'Arcy Power, and concluding 

 remarks by Sir Donald McAlister and Sir 

 Clifford Allbutt. F. H. Garrison 



Army Medical Museum 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



MEDICAL EDUCATION AND PRACTISE IN 

 CHINA 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation calls attention to the fact that under 

 the influence of several American and other 

 missionary boards and by the aid of such 

 prominent American medical schools as Har- 

 vard, Tale and the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and with the generous financial assist- 

 ance of the China Medical Board, which was 

 organized by the Rockefeller Foundation, 

 there has been great medical progress in 

 China in recent years, and there are twenty- 

 six medical schools in China. Five of these 

 at present are members of the Association of 

 Medical Colleges of China. Membership in 

 this association is limited to colleges, which 

 provide a four-year medical course, and which 

 require for admission two or more years of 

 college work, including courses with labora- 



tory work in physics, chemistry and biology. 



Two practically new medical schools, in- 

 cluding premedical departments, are being 

 erected as Peking and Shanghai by the China 

 Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. 

 These are the Peking Union Medical College 

 and the Shanghai Medical School. The plan 

 is to make these equal to any other medical 

 schools in the world in buildings and equip- 

 ments, as well as in hospital facilities and in 

 educational standards. 



The Rockefeller Foundation is also aiding 

 financially other medical schools in China, 

 particularly the Shantung University School 

 of Medicine at Tsinan, The Hunan- Yale Col- 

 lege of Medicine at Changsha, and the medical 

 schools of ISTankin, Canton, Soochow and else- 

 where. 



A strong appeal is still being made for med- 

 ical missionaries. In China, with an esti- 

 mated population of more than 400,000,000 

 people, including Manchuria and Mongolia, 

 there are said to be at present only 2,000 

 scientifically trained physicians. It is stated 

 that at the end of 1917 there were 351 foreign 

 medical missionaries who had working with 

 them 212 foreign physicians. During that 

 year these physicians cared for about 120,000 

 hospital inpatients. Although large, these 

 figures do not begin to touch the great needs 

 of medical service in that country. 



The Journal notes that all civilized nations 

 are interested in helping to provide better 

 medical service in China for the sake of their 

 own people, if not for the sake of the Chinese, 

 because China is at present the source of 

 many of the epidemics which are liable to 

 sweep over the entire world. It is for the 

 medical practise of the entire world to combat 

 disease wherever it is found by checking it at 

 its very source. If any physician would pre- 

 fer to have a large practise regardless of the 

 financial income involved, he would have no 

 difficulty in securing it in China, where there 

 is indeed great need of skilled medical service. 



MINERAL PRODUCTION OF THE UNITED 

 STATES IN 1918 



The Department of the Interior has issued 

 a preliminary report on the mineral produc- 



