Reminiscences of medical missionary work / W. Burns Thomson ; with biographical chapters by J.C.D. and preface by James L. Maxwell.

London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1895.

xvi, 248 pages : portrait ; 21 cm

Early life - How I came to be a medical missionary - Entrance on service at 39 Cowgate - Nature & claims of medical missions - How the dispensary became a training school - Method of training - Supplementary training school - Testing school - Classified perplexities - Samples of fruit - City arabs - Home in Cowgate - Plague - Convalescent homes - Nazareth - Travancore: Dr John Lowe & native students - Bombay medical mission - Madagascar: its first medical mission & medical missionary college - Women & medical missions: full & partial qualification - Mission nurses at home & abroad - Link with wide field: "Medical mission journal" - Spread of interest - Helpers in Jesus Christ: Dr Coldstream & Prof. Miller - Later years: parting from 39; Canongate; Leaving Edinburgh; Mildmay & last days - Appendix: Sketch by C. Valentine of Agra; Letter from J. Hutchison of Sialkot.

This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.