"John Glasgow Kerr arrived in China in 1854 and, as successor to Peter Parker, was in charge of the Ophthalmic Hospital in Canton for 44 years; he is estimated to have treated 780,000 patients and performed 48,000 operations, translated 34 volumes of medical works into Chinese, taught 150 Chinese medical students, and in 1898 founded China's first Refuge for the Insane. Robert E. Speer wrote of him: "Vast as was his distinctly medical work, Dr. Kerr was above all things a missionary. He never lost an opportunity to preach Christ. ... He was a missionary first, and all his medical knowledge was used to commend the Gospel.""
— Gerald H. Anderson, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
Source: BDCC, "Kerr, John Glasgow" (reprinted from Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions; quoting Robert E. Speer)
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