TRENDS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
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• Publication Date: April 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Medical Services TibweluAlaliauz_12
In June 1946 Chinese Communists.in Sinkiang, led. by Soviet citizens, tried to-�,
overthrow the Nationalist provincial government (the Elee Rebellion). The rebels
were put down and Soviet leaders prodised Governor CheriE Tzu-Chung (who con-
sistently worked for a wedding of Nationalist-Communist interests in the
province) that they would withdraw from political activity in Sinkiang. It was
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A result of the rebellion's failure vas a change of staff at Tihwa's municipal
hospital. it was Chineseeadministered and
starfed, but at the time of the rebellion it had been Soviet-adminietered.
The Soviet administration had trained Chinese Com:Munist medical pereonnel for
hospital work "on the job" without benefit of academic instruction arid in the
following manner: (1) young men and women were hired as nurses' aides; (2)
after a little experience soma :4' thee, were promoted to nurses; (3) some of
the nurses became doctors' aides; (4) the best doctors' aides became doctors.
These last could diagnose and operate as they pleased.
When the Soviet administration left the hospital a clinic was set up at the
Soviet Consulate in Tihwa and provincials were enticed to go there for free
medication and sometimes money for 'needed nourishment."
5. Under Chinese administration the hospital had 100 beds, 30 of these in the
psychiatric ward; a good GE imitation, Soviet-made X-ray machine.; and several
Ford imitation) Soviet-made automobiles with poor quality pneumatic tires.
Critical hospital posts were limited to competent medical personnel.
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6. ,There was very little research-done (1) because of a lack of trained help, (2)
because people (including scientists) were hungry and anxious o (3) because
Western research pUblications were not available. PUblications available after
World War II were often microfilmed and
ordinary hand magnifying glass.
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During this period medical activity was confined to the usual fighting of animal and
human infectiou3 diseases. In 1945 in, Szechuan Province there was a sizeable anti..
rinderpest campaign� and anti-schistcsomiasis efforts in the Yangtze River Valley,
begun in 1930, were carried on There was 4 widespread rumor during World War II
that large numbers of El- '- ee'e - into streams in the Yangtze region to learn
to swim became infected with schistosonesr for detailed account of
an antiesChistosomiasis research station to ta established at Szewui, Kwangtung in
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Stalita` Medical Research Since 121_0
Chinal best trained researchers in medical and related fields are men past their prime,
not likely to want to cooperate with the Communists, and working at reduced efficiency
because- of fear.
Younger men, trained under the Nationalist, regime, are good researchers and are,
perhaps, willing to cooperate with the Communists, Many of these would be bacteriol-
ogists because there are always more, man in this specialty in China than in any other
in the meditalrange.
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10. In 1949 there were about 10 thousand. Western trained MDfs in all China. Only a small
percentage of this nut:4er, as here in the US, would have an inclination to research,
Those Who do would; have ,the'ziecressary 'basic training. It may be of some importance'
that, over the years, a signifidant number - not a majority - of US trained Chinese
medical men came to the up with a neutral attitude', returned to China with an anti-US
feelil
110 Research eCuipment WoUld be almost entirely ivorted,ana is Probably in short svpply.,
I feel that Sovistiemide'etaipment would generally be inferiors but the Soviet-made
1C-ray machine was a goodAE imitation.
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12, In 1947 the National Neurola-phiatrio Institute was founded in Nanking ae &A experiment.
It was supperted by tbe Min-Ary of,Heelth,
13. The Institute hoipital had 100 beds and a basic staff of 10 nos (psychiatrists),two
psychologists; three social workers. The World Health Organization (WHO) provided an
additional psychiatrist and one psychiatric nurse.
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l5 The Insti uto gave psychiatric treatment to all comers' but it special special project
wao
determining the normal behavior pattern of children for each year of life
to 15 years of ago. We had. selected 50 "normal" children and had collected some data
on behavior; intelligence development and physical health -hardly a year' e vork - when
I fled the mainland,. Actually; from the' beginning of the prdject none of *As was in a
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16. The child ttUdy was selected prinerily because it was inexpensive to pursue' involving
mostly Observation and record keeping & TSychometric and other testing materials were
made at the Institute and, �12 d a- .
was supplied by the Ministry
of Health, UNNRA and WHO.
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Research Policy. Makers in Communist China
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who sets research policy in China now. What I know of the old regime may
have implications for today. Medical research was nominally set by the Ministry of
Healtbl but it was usually guided. by people with a Peking Union Medical College con-
nection, Infectious diseases dominated the public health program.
Communist Chines Future Researchers
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20, With respect-tb the training of new peoples.
accelerated training will hurt research.
Research and Research Areas
21, Plague
Encephalitis
Schistosomiasis
Kalazar (6 protozoan disease
endemic to regions eouth of
the Yellow River)
Coemiunist policy of abbreviated,
Fukien Province, In 1946-47 there were WHO
plague specialists in Fukien.
Peking
Yangtze River Valley
Research would be centered probably at
Heuchow (Soochow), Kiangsu Province.
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