John Glasgow Kerr, an American missionary doctor, arrived in Guangzhou with his new wife. A year later, his wife, kingsbury, died of illness, because she was bumpy on the boat for half a year and could not adapt to the heat in Guangzhou. 1855, Jia John took over Guangzhou Ophthalmology Bureau, which was established in 1835. 1856, which was burnt down in the Second Opium War. The following year, Jia John returned to the United States, went to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia for further study, raised funds to rebuild Guangzhou Ophthalmology Bureau, and purchased a batch of new medical devices. 1858 At the end of the year, Jia John returned to Guangzhou with his newly married wife and founded Ji Bo Hospital, which opened in June 1859.
Because of Jia John's excellent medical skills, Ji Bo Hospital has gained a good reputation. By 1865, Jia John purchased real estate and expanded it (now the Second Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences), making the hospital a multi-functional hospital. The most famous medical skill is surgery. 1874, Ji Bo hospital successfully completed 368 cases of stone surgery, 1875 completed the first ovarian cyst resection, and then completed a variety of tumor resection.
Ji Bo Hospital was able to avoid the blow of "digging liver and opening abdomen" and successfully implemented surgical treatment, which was related to the joining of Dr. Huang Kuan. Huang Kuan and Yung Wing went to study in the United States with Dr. Brown, an American missionary, and became one of the first two international students in China. Huang Kuan graduated from the Medical College of the University of Edinburgh in England, 1856 returned to China as a military doctor. He was hired by Jia John to join Ji Bo Hospital on 1860, and successfully completed the first embryo amputation in China that year. China doctors Guan Tao and Su He Primary School trained by Jia John also made the hospital acceptable to China people.
Jia John is busy with medical operation in Ji Bo Hospital. Take the medical record of July 1875 as an example. On this day, he completed the cystectomy. Cataract extraction in 2 cases; 1 case of eye tumor resection; A case of fistula operation; A case of osteonecrosis of leg transplantation: a case of circumcision; Treat a case of cataract.
The expansion of Ji Bo Hospital first benefited from the Guangzhou Medical Missionary Society founded by American missionaries in 1838. The association raised funds in the United States and sponsored Ji Bo Hospital with a lot of money. The Church of England and British businessmen also donated money to Ji Bo. With the treatment effect of hospitals becoming more and more remarkable, China bureaucrats, including the governors of Guangdong and Guangxi, have also given generously, and there is no lack of private sponsorship. This enabled Ji Bo Hospital not only to receive free treatment, but also to expand itself and become a modern western hospital with considerable scale. It is one of the oldest and most influential western hospitals in China. By the centenary of Ji Bo in 1935, the hospital had treated more than 2 million patients and performed more than 200,000 surgical operations.
Due to the serious shortage of doctors, in 1866, Jia John founded a medical college in the hospital, becoming the earliest missionary medical college in China, with the goal of cultivating China's own western medicine talents. 1879 was renamed as "South China Medical College" and enrolled the first medical girl in China. A considerable part of the founders of western medicine in China were trained by this school, and Dr. Sun Yat-sen was a student enrolled by this school in 1886. Among the students in this school, there is Kang, one of the famous "Six Gentlemen of the 1898 Movement". 1904, the school was renamed as South China Medical College. 1949 and then merged with other medical schools to become Guangzhou Zhongshan Medical College, which is now Zhongshan Medical University.
John Jia also devoted himself to compiling western medicine and western medicine books, thus promoting western medicine knowledge in China. He has compiled 34 kinds of western medicine works in his life, covering almost all aspects of western medicine. These books were published by Ji Bo Hospital, which laid the foundation for the establishment of western medicine education system in China. From 65438 to 0868, Jia John edited and published Guangzhou New Newspaper in Chinese to publicize medical and health knowledge to the masses. 1880, Jia John edited and published the first western medicine magazine "Western Medicine News" in China. The first issue contains 14 articles, the contents of which are: on hospitals; China Medical Missionary Society; New theory of internal medicine; Convenient hospital; Treatment of scald; True and false cinchona cream; The initial stage is ophthalmia; Leg amputation; Upper arm amputation; Overview of sarcomatosis: on hematoma: treatment of madness: on internal hemorrhoids: on external hemorrhoids.
190 10 August 10, Jia John died in Guangzhou after nearly half a century of practicing and spreading western medicine in China. He treated 740,000 outpatients in China; 40,000 inpatients; Surgery was performed for 49,000 people; Translated 34 western medicine books; Trained 150 western medicine talents. Worthy of China's title as the founder of western medicine.