In seconding this resolution Dr Davenport referred to the pioneer work which had been done by British medical missions in China. They had established and strengthened the relations between themselves as foreigners and the Chinese, winning em over, and so opening up channels of various kinds. He believed that this work had paved the way for all other foreigners who followed in its train.—Mentioning the first medical missionary who had come to China, Peter Parker who was in Canton in 1834, it had been said that he had opened up China with a lancet. And from the south his influence had spread up the coast and up the big water-rays and throughout the 18 or 20 provinces of China. He did not think that the merchants of Shanghai altogether realized that medical mission work promoted a common interest—the interest of the merchant here and the Chinese. Ho thought that the medical missions were one of the greatest advertisements for Britain trade and Br ish interests represented in. China that there was. Wherever they had gone they had carried an advertisement with them, advertising drugs, dressings, instruments and so forth. How much poorer would the British nation have been but for the great work which the medical missions had done in China. On behalf of the merchants they had introduced these things, they had recommended them and in due time they in Shanghai hau received their orders and so British trade had been pushed forward.
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