DOCTOR APRICOT OF "HEAVEN BELOW" The story of the Hangchow Medical Mission (C.M.S.) [Second edition]. Marshall Brothers, Ltd publishers, London & Edinburgh. n.d. but

DE GRUCHÈ, Kingston.

Edité par ca. 1911-2., 1912

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8vo, pp. [xii], 144; with frontispiece portrait of Dr Duncan Main, and 12 full-page photographs; lightly browned throughout due to paper quality with some occasional light marginal foxing; with ownership signature of Lois Raleigh dated 1912 on front free endpaper; in the original green publisher's cloth, upper cover and spine lettered and decorated in gilt and red, ruled in blind, head and tail of spine a little bumped, extremities lightly rubbed with some minor wear and silverfish marking to lower cover; a good copy. Second edition (date of first edition uncertain but ca. 1910) of this fascinating biography of Dr Duncan Main (1856-1934), the British physician renowned for his medical missionary work in Hangzhou in the south-eastern Chinese Province of Zheijiang, and in particular for his work at the Opium Refuge Hospital. As such it provides a valuable account of the opium epidemic and attempts at opium reform. Main, one of the most famous missionaries in China at the end of the 19th and early 20th century, went on to help found the Hospital of Universal Benevolence, the Hangzhou Medical Training College, as well as a leprosarium and tuberculosis sanatorium. He and his wife dedicated 45 years of his life to medical services in China and were credited with the establishment of at least thirty medical and welfare institutions in Hangzhou by the time they left China in 1926.

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• Titre: DOCTOR APRICOT OF "HEAVEN BELOW" The story of the Hangchow Medical Mission (C.M.S.) [Second edition]. Marshall Brothers, Ltd publishers, London & Edinburgh. n.d. but
• Éditeur: ca. 1911-2.
• Date de parution: 1912
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale