John Kerr and the early China Medical Missionary Association

Abstract

In 1886, the Euro-American medical missionaries in China founded the first modern Chinese medical association-the China Medical Missionary Association, and John Kerr was elected as the first chairman and the first editor-in-chief of the China Medical Missionary Journal. John Kerr, who had done missionary medical work in China for thirty years, was then the director of Canton Hospital, and was one of the most influential medical missionaries in China and even all over the world. His great prestige and foresight and sagacity played an important role in the early development of the China Medical Missionary Association.