The Protestant hospitals before liberation in Fujian are the research objects of this thesis , which is written with the studying principle of "Respecting the facts and Reporting history what it was ", and based on the first-hand materials of Chinese and western texts.

To understand the patterns of medical activities of the early missionary hospitals in China,in particular the prevalence and treatments of ophthalmologic cases,the annual reports of the hospitals have been collected and analyzed,with special attention paid to statistic data in these reports.

Architecture of Pre-Modern Christian Hospital in Shanxi;