Constancy of Purpose: An Account of the Foundation and History of the Hong Kong College of Medicine and the Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong, 1887-1987

The Early Years [Image Plates]

The Early Years Dr Sun .Yat-sen, one of the College of Medicine's first two graduates in 1892, and subsequently President of the Chinese Republic. Sir James Cantlie, KBE, MA. MR, LL D. FRCS. DPH, Dean of Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (1889 - 1896). Sir Palrick Manson, GCMG. MD. FRS. FRCP, D.Sc., LL D. a founder of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, and Dean of the College (1887 - 1889). Sir Kai Ho Kai. KCMG. ME, FRCS, a founder of the Alice Memorial Hospital and the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese. Dr Li Shu Fan, IP, MB, Ch.B, FReS, DTMH. LL D (Hon.). Professor Wang Chung Yule, B.SC., MD, FRCP, DPH, DTMH, Professor of Pathology (1920 ·1930). Ng Li Hing (1840 - 1914), donor of $50,000 for the erection of an Anatomy School. The College in 1908. Dr Li Shu fan is direclly behind and between Rector F.H. May and Dr Ho Kai; from the Rector's right are E.H. Sharp, Standing Counsel, and next to him Dr R.M. Gibson and Dr R.A. Belilios; by Dr Ho Kai is Dr J.C. Thomson, lhe Secretary. Dean Francis Clark was away. Professor Kenelm H. Digby. OBE. MB.BS. FRCS. Professor of Anatomy (1913· 1923). Ho Tung Professor of Surgery (1915·1923), Professor of Surgery (1923· 1945). and Dean of the Faculty (1915 • 1916. 1920· 1922. and 1923 · 1925), Professor Herbert G. Earle, MA, MB, LL D (Hon.), Professor of Physiology (1915 - 1928), Dean of the Faculty (1916 - 1920, 1923 and 1925). Sir William Brunyate. KCMG, LL D. ViceChancellor (1921 - 1924}. Two or the College's leading hospitals in about 1906. The Ho Miu Ung Hospital. The Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital. ----... Professor John Anderson, MA, B.Sc., MD, DTM. First Professor of Medicine (1923 • 1928), Dean of the Faculty (1921). r .,,::.~ Government Civil Hospilal in Sai Ying Pun where general clinical teaching took place during the early da)'s of the Faculty before the Queen Mary Hospital opened in 1937. (photograph supplied by courtesy of the Public Records Office of Hong Kong.) ...