title: Medical missionaries in China: John Glasgow Kerr (1824-1901) and cutting for the stone.
abstract: 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 Parker's successor Dr John Kerr and colleagues is described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Louis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fu
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008493:Medical Missions / Q000266:history*; D009820:Ohio; D008921:Religious Missions / Q000266:history; D001744:Urinary Bladder Calculi / Q000266:history* / Q000601:surgery
keywords: Bladder stones; John Glasgow Kerr; history of medicine; lithotomy; missionaries