Photograph of 9 Mukden Hospital Assistants, standing on the steps of Mukden Hospital. All are wearing traditional Chinese robes. Mukden, or Shenyang, is the capital of Liaoning province in Northeast China. The Scottish missionary Dugald Christie came here in 1884. This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to the Scottish missionary Dugald Christie. Dugald Christie was born in Glencoe in Scotland and studied medicine under the auspices of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society. In 1882, along with his first wife, Elizabeth, he went to Manchuria to work as a medical missionary of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. He worked initially in Newchang and later moved to the capital of Mukden where he opened Manchuria’s first hospital in 1884. In 1912 he established Mukden Medical College. Dugald Christie retired in 1923 and died in Edinburgh in 1936.
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