Making the world better, one answer at a time. It means your physician has an MD, a Medical Degree in allpathic medicine. He also has an MS, a Master's of Science degree. In other words, he is a doctor of medicine and he has a master's degree in some science discipline as well.
As a result of the Boxer Rebellion, China was subjected to even greater humiliation. An indemnity of more than $300 million was levied on the nearly bankrupt nation and the government was forced to allow the permanent quartering of foreign soldiers in Beijing.
On the eve of the Meiji Restoration the country had 420 factories. From 1830 to 1844 and, later, from 1865 to 1868 a wave of uprisings of the urban poor, or uchikowashi, engulfed Japanese cities, caused by the rising cost of living and the depreciation of money.