%0 Journal Article
%T Medical missionaries in China: John Glasgow Kerr (1824¨C1901) and cutting for the stone
%A Louis Fu
%J Journal of Medical Biography
%@ 1758-1087
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0967772014533049
%X With the introduction of Western medicine into China by Anglo-American medical missionaries in the early 19th century, Reverend Dr Peter Parker at the Canton Ophthalmic Hospital pioneered surgical operations in Chinese patients. The subsequent development of surgery for bladder stones at this institute by ParkerĄ¯s successor Dr John Kerr and colleagues is described
%K Bladder stones
%K history of medicine
%K John Glasgow Kerr
%K lithotomy
%K missionaries
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0967772014533049