Dugald Christie

Dugald Christie (司督阁; 11 November 1855 – 2 December 1936) was a Scottish medical missionary in China who founded the Shengjing Hospital (盛京医院) and the Moukden (Fengtian) Medical College (奉天医科大学) in Fengtian.

Life

Dugald Christie was born on 11 November 1855 in Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In 1882 the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland sent him to Fengtian (now Shenyang) in Northeast China, where he set up a clinic. Over the next 30 years Christie worked to establish a complete medical college: as funds came in (from the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, the Chinese government and local people), the clinic grew into the Shengjing Hospital, and in March 1912 Christie became the first president of the Moukden Medical College. It was the first medical school in Northeast China.

The Hospital

The hospital continued as the teaching hospital of the Moukden Medical College until 1949, when the college was merged into China Medical University; the hospital became one of that university's hospitals and was renamed the Second Affiliated Hospital. In 1969, as part of a rural medical programme, the hospital moved to Chaoyang, and in 1983 it moved back to Shenyang. In 2002 it merged with the Third Affiliated Hospital, and in 2003, on its 120th anniversary, it took back its original name, Shengjing Hospital.

Writings

• Christie, Dugald. Ten Years in Manchuria: A Story of Medical Mission Work in Moukden, 1883-1893. J. and R. Parlane. 1895 (in English).
• Christie, Dugald. Thirty Years in Moukden, 1883–1913: Being the Experiences and Recollections of Dugald Christie. Ed. Mrs. Dugald Christie. London: Constable. 1914 (in English).
• American edition: Thirty Years in the Manchu Capital in and Around Moukden in Peace and War. New York: McBride, Nast & Company. 1914 (in English).

Profile

• Honours: CMG
• Born: 11 November 1855, Glencoe, Scotland
• Died: 2 December 1936, Edinburgh
• Nationality: British
• Education: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• Occupation: medical missionary