A wonderful grouping of 25 original photographs, some signed, of missionaries graduated from the Missionary Medical School of London.
The school was founded as a cooperative project of the London Homeopathic Hospital and the British Homeopathic Association and served the needs of many evangelical missionary organizations.
During the 19th century, missionaries continued to struggle with acclimatizing new missionaries to tropical regions with diseases westerners had often not encountered before and therefore had little resistance to. This, combined with increased pressure on missionaries to bring a tangible expression of the Kingdom, in this case medical care, made homeopathic medicine the perfect choice. Its focus on a holistic approach to care meant less equipment, etc., but the rigor and accountability of well-respected organizations.
The school became the go to, partnering with H. Grattan Guinness' Regions Beyond, J. Hudson Taylor's China Inland Mission, and others.
The present volume, essentially disbount, appears to retain all of its original contents, and includes photographs of:
Anthony Gladstone Clarke of the China Inland Mission / Northern China.
Miss Birtill, Moravian Missionary to Leh, India, Working with Moslem Girls.
Miss Howlett of the Zenana Bible Medical Mission in India. She did in fact end up being ill for nearly 5 months upon her first arrival.
Miss S. Francis, Missionary at Labrador
Miss Elsie Pearse
Miss Cumming of Dorie Lodge, 1905 [Apparently sent out by a lodge of freemasons, who did send missionaries in the period]
Ernest Cartwright of the Congo Balolo Mission
T.C. Anwyl of Lagos, West Africa [RPPC to Dr. Edward Neatby from Anwyl]
Miss M. Jenkins of Central Africa [RPPC signed by Jenkins]
Miss L. N. Baker, Missionary to Palestine
Mary A Nelinas of the Baptist Zenana Mission [India]
Etc., plus folded photographs, albeled, of the classes of 1920-1921, 1919-1920, etc.,
A wonderful artifact from the history of medical missions.
