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THIS is an address, with a series of notes, delivered by Sir Henry Acland to the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club at the beginning of last December, with the object of showing the valuable work which can be accomplished by men with scientific knowledge acting in connection with foreign missions, either as coadjutors or as appointed religious teachers, as medical practitioners, or as health officers. The needs of India for such men are especially referred to, and it is shown that the prevention of disease, or the care of the public health among various races under different conditions of climate life, and character, as well as the treatment of disease under the same conditions, should be an essential object of foreign missions. The establishment at Oxford of a department where the complicated subjects bearing on the public health of India can be taught is warmly advocated.
Medical Missions in their Relation to Oxford.
By Sir Henry W. Acland Pp. 92. (London: Henry Frowde, 1898.)
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Medical Missions in their Relation to Oxford. Nature 58, 222–223 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058222d0
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