The Marston couple and the staff of Yongchun Hospital. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, foreigners established a Western medicine hospital in Zhili Prefecture, Yongchun, Fujian to provide medical services to the local people. John Preston Maxwell, a British Presbyterian missionary doctor who presided over hospital affairs, collected a set of photos (1904-1910), which recorded the scenes of the hospital and gave us a general understanding of the operation of early Western medicine hospitals in China. ?

Patients in Yongchun Hospital. According to records, as early as 1888, the British Presbyterian missionary doctor David Grant opened a temporary clinic in the west of Yongchun City. A few years later, he purchased land and houses and built the Yongchun Medical Center. It officially opened in 1895, led by Luo Dr. John Cross was in charge of the medical affairs. These "foreign monks" brought new medical methods and treatment methods to the local area.

In 1904, Marshton was sent to Yongchun. He succeeded John Cross in charge of the Yongchun Medical Center. He studied medicine in London and specialized in obstetrics and gynecology. In 1898, he was sent by the British Presbyterian Church to practice medicine in Fujian, first working at Yuanliang Hospital in Zhangpu County. , and then went to the Yongchun Medical Center. ?

As soon as he came to Yongchun, Marshton vigorously raised funds to expand the Yongchun Medical Center, and rebuilt four new-style buildings on the original site in 1906. Building and renamed Yongchun Hospital operating room. Not only did Marston expand the building, he also installed modern facilities such as running water and generators in the hospital, and equipped it with advanced medical equipment such as microscopes and surgical instruments. Equipment and even X-ray machines, which were rare in the entire Qing Dynasty, turned Yongchun Hospital into a large-scale first-class hospital in the country at that time?

Patients in the operating room of Yongchun Hospital, looking at the dressing area. It's an eye disease, probably cataracts.