Medical Missionary Society of China

The Medical Missionary Society in China was a Protestant medical missionary society established in Canton, China, in 1838.

The first work of the society was to support the ophthalmic hospital in Canton run by Dr. Peter Parker, a medical missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The founder and first president was Dr. Thomas Richardson Colledge. The society split in 1845 when some of the members moved to Hong Kong. Only the Canton society continued into the twentieth century. In its heyday the society supported mission hospitals staffed by British and American doctors at Canton, Hong Kong, Macao, Amoy, Ningpo and Shanghai. A number of young Chinese men were trained in Western medicine in the society's hospitals in the early days.

## See also

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* Medical missions
* Medical missions in China

## References

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* Wylie, Alexander (1867). Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press.
* Wong, K. Chimin and Lien-Teh, Wu (1936), 'History of Chinese Medicine', 2nd edition, Shanghai: National Quarantine Service
* Couling, Samuel (1917), 'Encyclopaedia Sinica', London: Oxford University Press
* Lockhart, William (1861). 'A Medical Missionary in China', London: Hurst and Blackett
* Parker, Peter (1843), 'Report of the Medical Missionary Society 1841-1842', Macao
* Colledge, Thomas Richardson and Parker, Peter (1838), 'Address and Minutes of Proceedings of the Medical Missionary Society Canton, China 1838', Canton: Office of the Chinese Repository
* Choa, G. H. (1990), 'Heal the sick was their motto : the Protestant medical missionaries in China', Hong Kong : Chinese University Press

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Protestant missions to China

Background|

* Protestantism in China
* Protestantism in Sichuan
* Chinese history
* Missions timeline
* Christianity in China
* Nestorians
* Jesuits
* Protestant missions in China 1807–1953

People|

* David Howard Adeney
* Mary Ann Aldersey
* Roland Allen
* Thomas J. Arnold
* Gladys Aylward
* Joseph Beech
* John Birch
* William Jones Boone
* Pearl S. Buck
* John Burdon
* Thomas Cochrane
* Hunter Corbett
* Jonathan Goforth
* Frederick Graves
* Karl Gützlaff
* Francis Hanson
* Laura Askew Haygood
* Elizabeth G. K. Hewat
* Jennie V. Hughes
* Robert A. Jaffray
* Carl C. Jeremiassen
* Griffith John
* Walter Judd
* James Legge
* Eric Liddell
* Robert Samuel Maclay
* Lottie Moon
* Robert Morrison
* George Moule
* Gideon Nye
* David Paton
* Karl Ludvig Reichelt
* Timothy Richard
* Issachar Jacox Roberts
* Charles Scott
* Cambridge Seven
* George Smith
* Vincent John Stanton
* John and Betty Stam
* John Leighton Stuart
* Elwood Gardner Tewksbury
* Hudson Taylor
* Thomas Torrance
* William C. White
* (more missionaries)

Missionary
agencies|

* American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
* American Methodist Episcopal Mission
* Canadian Methodist Mission
* China Inland Mission
* Church Mission Society
* London Missionary Society
* National Christian Council
* US Presbyterian Mission
* Protestant Episcopal Church Mission
* List of Protestant missionary societies in China (1807–1953)

Colleges and
universities|

* United Board
* University of Shanghai
* Cheeloo University
* Ginling College
* University of Nanking
* Soochow University
* Yenching University
* St. John's University
* Hangchow University
* Fukien Christian University
* Lingnan University
* College of Yale-in-China
* Huachung University
* West China Union University
* Peking Union Medical College
* Methodist Episcopal Church
* Hwa Nan College
* English Presbyterian Mission
* Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui
* Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association
* Reformed Church in the United States

Impact|

* Bible translations into Chinese
* Medical missions in China
* Manchurian revival
* Chinese Christian colleges
* Chinese hymnody
* Chinese Roman Type
* Minnan Roman Type
* Foochow Roman Type
* Anti-footbinding
* Anti-opium

Pivotal
events|

* Taiping Rebellion
* First Opium War
* Second Opium War
* Unequal treaty
* Yangzhou riot
* Tianjin Massacre
* Kucheng Massacre
* Boxer Crisis
* 1911 Revolution
* Chinese Civil War
* Second Sino-Japanese War
* People's Republic

Publications|

* The Chinese Repository
* Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal
* The Christian Occupation of China
* Journal of the West China Border Research Society
* The West China Missionary News

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