The Need for Medical Missionaries
The London Lancet concludes that "there is no career more lofty or honorable than that of a well-informed, capable, and courageous medical missionary. A few hundred of such individuals would powerfully affect the history of China, India, and Africa." Another authority says: "To illustrate the comparative need of medical missions in China, the Inland Mission publishes a black chart containing 4,000 white spots, to represent the number of qualified and registered medical men to every 2,500,000 of the population of the British Isles. In order to represent the proportion in China we should have to blacken all the spots except one. As one is to 4,000, so is the supply of surgical and medical skill in China to the supply in Great Britain."