Records, 1921-1961.

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Records, 1921-1961.

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Records document the broad range of interest and activity in medical missions of the principal departmental correspondents, Drs. Dodd and W.J.K. Clothier, Medical Secretary and Assistant Medical Secretary respectively, between 1921 and 1961. The collection contains the personal medical correspondence with missionary candidates and missionaries on the field and reflects both the concerns of the BFM for the welfare of its numerous workers abroad and their level of response as reflected by problems of personal care and maintenance under generally primitive conditions.

5 cubic ft. (ca. 5,000 items)

Presbyterian Historical Society, PHS

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Presbyterian Historical Society, PHS

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United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations. Medical Dept.

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The Medical Department was established in 1921 as the first organized attempt by the Board of Foreign Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., to supervise the health of missionaries on the foreign field because of the growing number of missionaries subject to unsanitary surroundings, malignant diseases, and other stresses that would impair their usefulness or threaten their lives. In 1921, Edward M. Dodd, MD, a former missionary to Persia, was appointed Acting Secretary and later elevated t...

Dodd, Edward M. (Edward Mills), 1887-1967

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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. Medical Dept.

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Clothier, W. J. K. (Walter James Kilburn), 1899-

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