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...busiest doctor in Chungking last week was Chang Chien-tsai, a spidery, parchment-skinned man of 64 who never studied anatomy, dissected a cadaver or saw a microbe. He is one of the 800,000 herb doctors who still provide most of China's medical care. (At the highest estimate, there are only 12,000 Western-trained physicians in China...
...stream of patients keeps Dr. Chang busy in his office from noon until nearly midnight. After that he visits his private patients. What amazes Westerners in Chungking is not the number of his patients but their prominence: he attends such august personages as the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang, Cabinet Ministers T. V. Soong, H. H. Kung, Chen Cheng and police head...
...keeping with Chinese medical ethics (as written by Sun Ssu-miao in the 7th Century A.D.), which are much like those outlined in the Western world's Hippocratic oath, Dr. Chang treats poor patients as carefully as the rich, charges them nothing. His middle-class patients pay about $100,000 Chinese ($200 American) a day. His upper-crust patients pay in largesse of the realm-fine furs and such succulent delicacies as sharks' fins and bears' paws...
Like other well-trained herbalists, Dr. Chang follows old texts going back to the foundation of Chinese medicine more than 4,000 years ago. Besides a thousand & one herbs, he uses concoctions of such weird ingredients as the gallstones of horses, rats' foetuses pickled in oil, powdered snakes, powdered horns, musk...
...Donald, too, who became the intermediary for Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Government when the Old Marshal's son, Chang, kidnapped the Generalissimo in 1936. As usual, he was just the man for the ticklish...