近代西南边疆西方医学传入概况

An introduction to the transmission of modern western medicine in southwestern borderland

云南地处西南边疆，毗邻南亚、东南亚，自19世纪末，西方医学随着传教士进入云南。对云南乃至中国内陆带来了较大的影响，是中国近代医学史的重要组成部分。最初是由粗通医药常识的传教士随身携带一些常用西药，在传教途中发现病人则对症下药，通过实际疗效争取信徒。20世纪初，天主教、基督教开始在云南创建教会医院，1901年创建“大法施医院”，1902年创建“福滇医院”，此后，云南各地兴办了不少教会医院。各教会医院还在云南各地创办有医学校及护士学校，发展了云南近代医学教育，对近代云南西医医学教育深有影响。

Yunnan is located in the southwestern border of China, neighboring South Asia and Southeast Asia. Since the end ofthe 19th century, the western medicine was introduced into Yunnan Province along with the arrival of missionaries, exerting great influence on local medicine in Yunnan, even in inland China, and has become an integral part of Chinese modern medical history. Initially, the missionaries who knew only a little medical knowledge and treated the patients effectively during their missionary work with the western medicines they carried, so as to develop the believers. At the beginning of the 20th century, Catholic Church and Christian Church began to establish Church Hospitals in Yunnan, including the ＂Dafashi Hospital （French Consulate Hospital）＂ set up in 1901, and＂ Fudian Hospital （French Government Hospital） ＂established in 1902, and many Hospitals set up in Yunnan Province. The Church Hospitals also established medical schools and nurse schools all over Yunnan, which promoted modern medical education in Yunnan, and had profound influence on modern education of western medicine in this Provence.