Peter Parker (medical doctor)
Peter Parker (born June 18, 1804 in Framingham , Massachusetts , † January 10, 1888 in Washington, DC ) was an American doctor and missionary who long toured the China of the Qing Dynasty .
Life
Parker was born in 1804 into an Orthodox Congregational family. His parents Nathan Parker (1764-1826) and Catherine Murdock († 1836) were farmers. Parker graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1831 and a doctorate in medicine from Yale Medical School in 1834 . He also completed his theology degree at Yale in January 1834 and was ordained a Presbyterian priest.
In February 1834, Dr. Parker to Canton , where he was the first Protestant medical missionary from China. In 1835 he opened a hospital for eye diseases in this city. Parker specialized in eye diseases such as cataracts , but he also operated on tumors and introduced western anesthesia in the form of ether anesthesia in China. He also worked on an adhesive bandage, but unsuccessfully (the bandage broke after an hour).
On March 29, 1841, he married in Washington DC Harriet Colby Webster (* around 1820 in Augusta , Maine ), the daughter of John Ordway Webster and the Rebecca Guild Sewall .
Between 1855 and 1857, Parker served as the American ambassador to China.
The portraits of Lam Qua
Parker met the western-trained painter Lam Qua in China and commissioned him to portray patients with particularly large tumors or other abnormalities. Some of these images are in the online Peter Parker Collection of Yale University Medical Library.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://cushing.med.yale.edu/gsdl/collect/ppdcdot/ ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Peter Parker Collection Yale University
- Chang, J. A reconstructive surgeon's taste in art: Dr Peter Parker and the Lam Qua oil paintings , Ann Plast Surg. (1993) PMID 8342936
- Hume, Edward Peter Parker and the Introduction of Anesthesia into China Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (1946)
- Rachman, Stephen Memento Morbi: Lam Qua's Paintings, Peter Parker's Patients Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parker, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American doctor and missionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Framingham , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1888 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |