In April 1841, medical missionary Reverend Peter Parker,
M.D., addressed an enthusiastic audience gathered at a
special meeting of the Boston Medical Association. His
subject was “the condition and prospects of the hospitals
of China.” He described his own work at the hospital he
had established in the foreign factory district outside the
city walls of Canton where he offered free treatment for
both rich and poor. At P’u Ai I Yuan (Hospital of Universal
Love, as it was known in Chinese) Parker
...
M.D., addressed an enthusiastic audience gathered at a
special meeting of the Boston Medical Association. His
subject was “the condition and prospects of the hospitals
of China.” He described his own work at the hospital he
had established in the foreign factory district outside the
city walls of Canton where he offered free treatment for
both rich and poor. At P’u Ai I Yuan (Hospital of Universal
Love, as it was known in Chinese) Parker
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