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Автор: Jesse Russell
Год: 2013
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 123
ISBN: 9785514502028
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dr. Robert Arthur Hughes, M.B.Ch.B, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., O.B.E., (December 3, 1910 – June, 1, 1996) was a medical missionary for the Presbyterian Church of Wales who worked in Shillong from 1939-1969 at the Welsh Mission Hospital, also known as the Dr. H. Gordon Roberts Hospital, Shillong. Hughes trained as a surgeon in London prior to his time in India.:66 He is called the “Schweitzer of Assam,” comparing his missionary work to that of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer. During his 40 years in India, Hughes expanded the Welsh Mission Hospital and developed a traveling dispensary to aid those in the surrounding providences.:209 Hughes is best known for attempting to eradicate malaria from the area, introducing a vagus nerve resection process to alleviate pain from peptic ulcers and a rickets treatment in the infant population, recognizing a protein calorie deficiency disorder called kwashiorkor in the Indian population,...
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