Interesting Historical Survey Cumwa anp Mopern Mepicine. By Harold Balme, F.R.c.s., Tsinanfu, Shantung, China. With preface by Sir Donald Macalister, President of the General Medical Council and London: Price 5/- net.
Principal of Glasgow—University.—
This study of medical missionary development, as the sub-title gives it, is published as one of a series of mission study books for the information of the large body of people in all civilized lands whose material and moral support enables the work of Chri-which stion missions to i missions to be carried on. In its eight chapters with appendices, it gives in about 200 pages a very readable account of the coming western medicine to China first in the person of Thomas Colledge, Surgeon of the East India Company at Macao where he founded an Ophthalmic Hospital, then a few years later at Canton where Colledge's friend Peter Parker, an American Missionary, in 1835 founded also an Ophthalmic Hospital. William Lockhart, F.R.cs., of the London Missionary Society after a period of work in Macao and Hongkong came to Shanghai and in 1844 founded the Chinese Hospital which is still at work in our midst at Shantung Road. And
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