COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
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Watson Scholarships $60 each.- first, J. Wong; second, Sun Yat-sen.
Botany (Prizes given by Hon. E.R. Belilios).- first, J.Wong; second, Sun Yat-sen.
Chemistry (Prizes given by J.J. Francis, Esq., Q.C. and T. Whitehead, Esq.). First, Sun Yat-sen; second, J.Wong and Kwong Wing-wan.
Physics. First, J. Wong; second, Sun Yat-sen.
Anatomy. First, J.Wong; second, Sun Yat-sen.
Physiology. First, J. Wong; second, Sun Yat-sen.
Materia Medica.- First, Lau sye-fuk; second, equal, U.I.Kai, Kwan King-leong.
Minor Surgery. Prizeman, Sun Yat-sen.
Clinical Observations.- Prizemen, equal J.Wong and Sun Yat-sen.
It is interesting to note that the institution was essentially the "Hongkong College of Medicine for Chinese": and that it originated actually in 1881, with the opening of the Taipingshan Dispensary by Dr. William Young, who had come to Hongkong from Canada in 1878 to take over the practice of his brother Dr. Richard Young. He expanded the idea of his dispensary for poorer Chinese into the Alice Memorial Hospital, in the founding of which he also threw his energies; and was one of the advocates of the College, by which a Chinese medical fraternity, to help further in the healing work, was to be created.
For a good many years this College of Medicine suffered from its inadequate accommodation in the hospital, and it was not until 1905 that the Government reserved a suitable site for it on the Taipingshan resumed area. In 1907 Mr. Ng Li-hing offered $50,000 for the erection of the college buildings, and the work was about to be commenced when Dr. H.N. Mody came forward with his offer to donate $180,000 for a University, which should incorporate the College of Medicine. This incorporation was duly carried out, when the University of Hongkong came into existence.
In subsequent articles we shall deal with the life of Mr. Mody and the founding of the University.
Brief reference to the inauguration and growth of the HongKong College of Medicine for Chinese, as it was originally called, has already been made in this series (see 3-1-34), but additional material which is now available might be included in this historical record. A great deal of the following resume is taken from the HongKong University brochure issued a few months ago. Of considerable interest is the connection with the College in its earlier years of the famous Sun Yat-sen. I quote from the brochure already mentioned.
In December, 1883, Sir Patrick Manson left Amoy and settled in HongKong as a private practitioner. The medical profession of HongKong "being singularly exempt from jealousy" Manson came rapidly to the fore, not only as a private practitioner but also as a public worker. In 1887 the London Missionary Society opened the Alice Memorial Hospital, and it was in this hospital that Manson started the HongKong College of Medicine for the Chinese.
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