Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . ed, especially during periodsof danger. The first medical congresses convened in Eastern lands havebeen held under missionary auspices, as the one at Calcutta in Decem-ber, 1894. The Medical Missionary Society in China, with head-quarters at Canton, held its sixtieth annual meeting in January, 1899,and the Medical Missionary Association of China dates from former cooperates with the American Presbyterian missionaries insupporting a large hospital plant. The spirited example of professionalfidelity and e
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . ed, especially during periodsof danger. The first medical congresses convened in Eastern lands havebeen held under missionary auspices, as the one at Calcutta in Decem-ber, 1894. The Medical Missionary Society in China, with head-quarters at Canton, held its sixtieth annual meeting in January, 1899,and the Medical Missionary Association of China dates from former cooperates with the American Presbyterian missionaries insupporting a large hospital plant. The spirited example of professionalfidelity and esprit de corps manifested by missionary physicians in timesof public peril, or in private practice, has been of value in introducinga higher code among native practitioners. In addition, the liberalityof wealthy natives, especially in India and China, has been enlisted inpromoting the establishment and support of hospitals, and in providingbenevolent ministries for the suffering. Quite recently, at Madura, inIndia, large gifts were received from native princes and merchants for. w \ : III ?ur:V* ~ -. x THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIOXS 411 the building of a hospital, which is now completed and under the careof Dr. Van Allen, a missionary of the American Board. Late newsfrom Uganda informs us that the King of Toro, to whom referenceis made on page 16 of this volume, is building a hospital—surelya sign that his heart is responding to the promptings of The use of anaesthetics, the introduction of vaccination, and theintelligent treatment of the epidemic diseases which make such awfulhavoc in the teeming centres of Oriental life, aredue, as a rule, to missionary physicians, although a Missionary doctors . %_ i bearers of the best gifts notable exception should be recorded in the case 0f modem science,of China. Dr. Alexander Pearson and Dr. T. , who were not officially connected with any missionary society,were the pioneers of modern medical practice
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