Lin Yuen Fai | | Lin Lianhui 林联辉 | Lien Luen Fay Lin Luen Fai | 林丽堂 | 4 | 109 | 1861 | Nanhai, Guandong Province. | 15 (Lunar Calendar) | 1900. Died of septicemia while treating wounded during Boxer Rebellion. | Tianjin | Enfield, CT; 1880: Andover, MA | Miss C.J. Porter; 1880: Louise H. Eaton (1880 U.S. Census) | Phillips Academy, Andover, MA | | | | | Assigned to Beiyang Medical School 北洋医学堂, Tianjin; graduated 1885. | Instructor at Beiyang Medical School Director of Beiyang Hospital (first Chinese director of a Western-style hospital) 1895: Personal physician to Viceroy Li Hongzhang when Li was sent as Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan to sue for peace after China's defeat in Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95. Saved Li's life after assassination attempt. | Medicine: Education, Administration and Clinical Practice | Fourth Rank Expectant Tong Zhi (Sub-Prefect) of Zhili Region 四品直隶候补同知 awarded 1895. | | | | Elder brother of Lin Yuen Shing (Lin Liansheng 林聯盛IV, 101) | Youngest son: Lin Shixi 林世熙: physician educated at Qing Hua, Johns Hopkins; taught medicine at Peking Union Medical College, practiced in Tianjin. | Lin Cheng-Chi 林正基 lives in Ontario, Canada. Paul Yang-Kao Lin 林仰高, 4th son of Lin Shixi, is a doctor in Hawaii Lonnie Mingqing Lin 林明清, daughter of Paul, is a gynecologist in N. Carolina. Raymond Yang-Chun Lin 林仰进, nephew of Paul, is a cardiac surgeon in Texas | Information is drawn principally from: Lee Chee Kong, “CEM Student Lin Yuen Fai and his Contributions to Modern Chinese Western Medicine (Abstract)," paper presented at the Celebration of 150th Anniversary of Yung Wing’s Graduation from Yale and Conference on “Yung Wing and Revival of China through Scientific Education,” Zhuhai, China, November 2004, 李志刚:留美幼童林联辉对近代中国西医事业的贡献(提要), with additional material courtesy Richard Yung. | 1.The romanization of the middle character 联 should have been "Luen," and not "Yuen" as rendered by Yung Shang Him (1939) and LaFargue(1987). | |
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