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MEDICAL TEACHING AT THE, PRESENT TIME. 497
beyond the recognition of the ..healing 4 powers of certain
herbs and roots.*
Even amongst civilized people very different conditions
prevail in regard to medical science. The native doctors
in the "countries of Islam practise still for the most part
upon the same principles which were propounded by the
representatives of Arabian medicine in the middle ages
and the Chinese doctors still believe in the untenable
speculations which have received acceptance in their
( country, for thousands of years.t Yet contact with
European medicine and the recognition of its advantages
have led to attempts being made to introduce it into these
lands. At. Constantinople and Cairo medical schools have
been- founded in which European and, by preference,
- French and German- doctors have been installed as
teachers. Th> reform was set in progress in Japan in a
much more thorough way and as it appears with greater
results, there, during the last few years numerous schools of
medicine have arisen, organized entirely after the European
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d for the n,ost part with a
5 1 " CUltUre gives W *y before the higher
which everywhere presses forward victoriously and makes
mankind happy with the blessings* it brings
In civilized countries the general and special education
or the various callings has come to. acquire a certain
similarity, a fact explained by the easy and rapid way in
which literature serves to transmit advances and achievements
made in the domain of the intellect. Medical )
science exhibits the same phenomenon and the educated [
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