In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, missionaries came to China to bring Christianity to China, but they also brought science and medicine from modern western countries. Because at that time, only superficial anatomical and physiological knowledge was taught.
Moreover, western medicine is not superior to traditional Chinese medicine in clinical treatment technology, so it has little influence. Western medicine began to exert an influence on China medicine at the beginning of19th century, and introduced vaccinia vaccination, western medicine surgery and ophthalmology treatment technology. With the spread of western medicine, the achievements of modern western medicine were introduced to China, which laid the foundation for the development of western medicine in China.
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Guangzhou was the first frontier city in modern China to contact with the west, and it was also the first city to introduce and prosper western medicine. As early as 1835, missionaries established the first eye hospital in Guangzhou. 1838, "China Medical Missionary Society" was established in Guangzhou.
After the Opium War, 1842 1 1 in June, Grandpa Gong returned to Guangzhou from the United States and reopened the hospital at the old site. Before 1845, surgical operations in missionary hospitals were carried out without anesthesia.
1846, ether anesthesia was introduced for the first time in our hospital, and progress was made in the operation in our hospital. In June+10 of the same year, my uncle bought Jackson's anesthesia equipment and some ether from Dr. Berber in Boston, and introduced the use and medication of this equipment with the letter.
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