Medical missions : an address to students introductory to a course of lectures on this subject undertaken by members of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society / by James Miller.

  • Miller, James, 1812-1864.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Medical missions : an address to students introductory to a course of lectures on this subject undertaken by members of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society / by James Miller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stantinople, I had a consultation with one of the mis¬ sionaries, in order to have one of them translated into the Armenian language. The suggestion was adopted, and the translation made; upon hearing which, Dr. Aber¬ crombie caused three thousand copies of his work on the Culture of the Mind to be thrown off at his own expense.” Note Q.—P. 56. It is interesting to remark how widely the diseases of the eye prevail in heathen lands, and how frequently the Medical Missionary is called upon, m consequence, to restore sight ; while, at the same time, we remember how prominent a place it held in our Saviour’s offices of love, to open the eyes of such as Bartimeus, in fulfil¬ ment of prophecy—[“ the blind receive their sight,” Matt. xi. 5 ; and Isaiah xlii. 7, “ To open the blind eyes,” &c.]—and how specially this is made a type or emblem of spiritual illumination. Note R.—P. 57. “ The most unequivocal expressions of gratitude have been manifested, both in words and in actions. The father, whose only child, a beautiful daughter, had a tumour of seven pounds1 weight removed from her back, after she was discharged well, returned with a scroll with a poetical inscription to the physician to this eflfect £ A grievous disease had entwined itself around my little daughter ; I had gone in vaiious directions seeking for physicians of distinction, and had expended much money upon them in vain. When I