Modern Medicine in the Holy Land Pioneering British Medical Services in Late Ottoman Palestine

by Perry, Yaron; Lev, Efraim

• ISBN13: 9781845114893
• ISBN10: 1845114892
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies

Summary

Using a wide selection of primary sources from both Britain and Israel, Perry and Lev bring together for the first time the history of medical service men who fought to improve the health of the inhabitants of the Holy Land under the most difficult conditions of climate and disease.

Author Biography

Yaron Perry is Lecturer in History in the department of Land of Israel Studies, University of Haifa. Efraim Lev is Lecturer in Biology and the History of Medicine and Pharmacology at the departments of Land of Israel Studies and Public Health at the University of Haifa.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Historical Introduction	p. 1
History of the London Jews Society	p. 3
Medical Introduction	p. 8
English Mission Hospitals	p. 27
Early Attempts by Medical Missionaries in Jerusalem	p. 27
First Hospital in Jerusalem	p. 33
New Hospital in Jerusalem	p. 38
Hospital in Safed	p. 43
Pharmacological and Medical Aspects	p. 50
The British Physicians	p. 59
Edward Macgowan	p. 61
Thomas J. Chaplin	p. 68
Percy Charles Edward d'Erf Wheeler	p. 81
Ernest William Gurney Masterman	p. 86
Walter Henry Anderson	p. 102
Impact	p. 109
Protestant Medical Activity, Institutions and Politics	p. 109
Deaconesses of Kaiserswerth's Hospital	p. 112
Jesus-Hilfe Leper's Hospital	p. 114
Marienstift Children's Hospital	p. 117
Order of St. John's Ophthalmic Hospital	p. 121
German Templars' Hospital in Jaffa	p. 125
Scottish Hospital (EMMS) in Nazareth	p. 129
Scottish Hospital in Tiberias	p. 132
Catholic Medical Activity, Institutions and Politics	p. 136
French Hospital of Saint Louis	p. 137
Order of St. John of God's Hospital (Tantur)	p. 139
Austrian Hospital in Nazareth	p. 140
Orthodox Medical Activity, Institutions and Politics	p. 141
Russian Pilgrims' Hospital	p. 143
Muslims Medical Activity	p. 144
Turkish Municipal Hospital	p. 144
Jewish Medical Activity, Institutions and Politics	p. 145
The First Jewish Hospital	p. 146
The Montefiore's Hospital	p. 150
Meir Rothschild's Hospital	p. 152
Bikkur Holim Hospital	p. 154
Shaare Zedek Hospital	p. 157
Misgav Ladach Hospital	p. 159
Postscript	p. 163
Appendixes	p. 169
English Hospitals' List of Household Furniture	p. 169
English Hospitals' Medical Journal	p. 177
English Nursing Staff	p. 184
Notes	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 221
Index	p. 241
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