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Eye Cases and Their Therapies at Early Missionary Hospitals in China, 1835--1876 (2008)

Yan, Yiwei (Author)
Zhang, Daqing (Author)

Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Volume: 27
Pages: 179--202

Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Chinese.
Language: Chinese

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Medicine Missionaries and missions Hospitals and clinics Ophthalmology Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment Eye diseases 19th century China

Abstract To understand the patterns of medical activities of the early missionary hospitals in China, in particular the prevalence and treatments of ophthalmologic cases, the annual reports of the hospitals have been collected and analyzed, with special attention paid to statistic data in these reports. Results indicate that the proportions of eye cases were unusually high during the beginning years of the hospitals, whereas the number of patients suffering from other diseases increased as time passed; the most common disorders of the eye were infectious diseases, including ophthalmia, conjunctivitis, trachoma, and leucoma and opacity of the cornea; low living standards and lack of medical resources led to the rampage of eye diseases; blindness frequently caused by trachoma and the ophthalmic symptoms of smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis and gonorrhea; medical missionaries often adopted such therapeutic means as operations for entropium, couching and extraction of cataracts, operations for artificial pupil, and various drug treatments. Lastly, this paper explores the medical as well as social motivations for medical missionaries to prefer setting up ophthalmic hospitals.

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