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Medical missions is the term used for Christian missionary endeavors that involve the administration of medical treatment. As has been common among missionary efforts from the 18th to 20th centuries, medical missions often involves residents of the "Western world" traveling to locales within Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, or the Pacific Islands.
In 1849 Scudder returned to his mission in Madras, where he laboured till his death. He took a visit for the benefit of his health to Wynberg, Cape of Good Hope, Africa where he died on January 13, 1855. He and his wife Harriet had six surviving sons and two daughters who all became medical missionaries and worked in South India. [4]
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The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...
The purpose was not just to be a missionary, but also to provide medical health care including operations. [ 1 ] Medische Zending was established in 1765 when Ludwig Christiaan Dehne, Rudolf Stoll, and Thomas Jones established a base near the Suriname River which became the first clinic.
Mother Anna Maria Dengel, Medical Mission Sisters (S.C.M.M.), (16 March 1892 – 17 April 1980) was an Austrian physician, Religious Sister and missionary.She was the founder of the Medical Mission Sisters, which was among the first congregations of Religious Sisters authorized by the Roman Catholic Church to provide full medical care to the poor and needy in the overseas missions.
The Life, Letters, and Journals of the Rev. and Hon. Peter Parker, M.D. - Missionary, Physician, and Diplomatist. - The Father of Medical Missions and Founder of the Ophthalmic Hospital in Canton. Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society (1896). Edward V. Gulick. Peter Parker and the Opening of China. (Cambridge ...
MAP International was founded in 1954 by J. Raymond Knighton, the first Executive Director of the Christian Medical Society, now known as the Christian Medical and Dental Associations (CMDA). Knighton had heard reports of missionary doctors in remote parts of the world lacking necessary medicines and health supplies to adequately treat their ...