- John Dudgeon
John Dudgeon (1837 – 1901) was a British
physician who spent nearly 40 years inChina as a doctor, surgeon, translator, and medicalmissionary .Dudgeon attended the
University of Edinburgh and theUniversity of Glasgow , in the latter of which he graduatedM.D. andMaster of Surgery in 1862. In 1863, he traveled to China where he was appointed Physician (and later Consulting Surgeon) to the BritishLegation in Pekin (modern-dayBeijing ). He was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at the Imperial College, and in 1864 he was named Surgeon to the Pekin Hospital in connection with theLondon Missionary Society . In "Wanderings in China",Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming wrote:He was an accomplished Chinese scholar, and during his long residence at Pekin he studied the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and the semi-annual reports that he forwarded to the
Chinese Customs Maritime Service contain a large amount of valuable information regarding the climatic condition, physical features and drainage, and general habits of the people bearing upon health. He was the author of an "Historical Sketch of the Ecclesiastical, Political, and Commercial Relation of Russia with China", of a work "On the Principles and Practice of Photography" (in Chinese), and of an article in the "Pekin Magazine" (in Chinese) on the virtues ofquinine , in which he pointed out the dangers of the imported spurious article. To the "Chinese Medical Journal " he contributed papers on "A Modern Chinese Anatomist", and "A Chapter on Chinese Surgery". He also made several contributions to other medical journals, especially on subjects connected with the medical practice and "materia medica " of China.According to an obituary in "The British Medical Journal", Dudgeon was arguably the best-known European in China, with the single exception of Sir Robert Hart. He had the confidence of the best Chinese statesmen, and knew all about the inner working of the Celestial machine. He was in close personal touch with the Emperor before the outbreak of the present trouble, and it was he who first gave the world the news of the secret treaty between China and Russia. Dr. Dudgeon took an active part in the defence of the Legations during the siege. He was a member of the British Medical Association.
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"This article incorporates text from an obituary published in the [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2400690 The British Medical Journal, March 16, 1901] , now in the
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NAME = Dudgeon
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = British Physician
DATE OF BIRTH = 1837
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DATE OF DEATH = 1901
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