102 Kenneth S. Latourettc, 



to Singapore, the school was held continuously for a number of 

 years. 101 



A fourth society formed by the foreign residents in China had 

 its origin in Parker s medical work. He reached China in 1834 

 and opened the Ophthalmic Hospital in 1835. In October, 1836, 

 Parker, Cooledge (an English merchant), and Bridgman, feeling 

 that the time had come for further action, issued a pamphlet 

 suggesting that a society be formed to aid in the medical work. 102 

 Nearly a year and a half later, in February, 1838, the &quot;Medical 

 Missionary Society in China&quot; was formed. Its object was to 

 &quot;encourage gentlemen of the medical profession to come and 

 practice gratuitously among the Chinese, by affording the usual 

 aid of hospitals, medicine, and attendants : but .... the sup 

 port or remuneration of such medical gentleman [was] .... 

 not at present within its contemplation.&quot; 103 The Ophthalmic 

 Hospital was at once taken over, 104 and thanks to the generosity 

 of Howqua and the efforts of Olyphant, was put on a secure 

 basis and in a permanent home. 105 Because of the impossibility 

 of caring for all who would have applied, treatment was largely, 

 although not exclusively, confined to eye diseases. Even with 

 these limitations, the wards were crowded, and many patients 

 had to be turned away. 100 In April, 1838, at the society s request, 

 Parker opened a hospital at Macao. At first it met with much 

 suspicion, 107 but this gradually disappeared and in 1839, Dr. Wil 

 liam Lockhart, of the London Missionary Society, was appointed 

 to devote his entire time to it. 108 Dr. William B. Diver, an 



101 Ch. Rep., 10:582; 11:337- 



102 Proposition for the Formation of a Medical Missionary Society in 

 China, Ch. Rep., 5 : 371. See too, Stevens, Life of Parker, p. 134. 



103 Formation of the Medical Missionary Society in China, Feb. 21, 1838, 

 Ch. Rep., 7 : 32-44. 



104 Ibid., and Williams, Mid. King., 2 : 333-337- Lockhart, Med. Missny. 

 in China, p. 124. 



105 Lockhart, Med. Missny. in China, p. 174. See description of the 

 hospital in Downing, The Stranger in China, 2: 11-14. 



108 Report of Ophthalmic Hospital at Canton, Jan. i to June 30, 1838, 

 showed 1,025 patients admitted during the six months. Ch. Rep., 7 : 92-95. 



m First Rep. of the Med. Missny. Soc. s Hospital at Macao, July 5- 

 Oct. i, 1838, Ch. Rep., 7:411-419. 



108 Ch. Rep., 7:55i. 



