Frederick Porter Smith

Frederick Porter Smith (1833–1888)[1] was the first British medical missionary to China, in the 19th century.[2][3] The Wesleyan Missionary Committee sent him to Hankow, China, for both philanthropic and evangelical reasons late in 1863.[4]

Writings

He wrote several books on China while there and after his return; his 1871 work is only the second English-language work to mention soy sprouts.[5] Smith also reported on the use of tobacco[6] and of opium in his territory, opining that moderate opium use was "not incompatible with the health of those who practice it".[7]

Works

  • The Rivers of China (1869)
  • A Vocabulary Of Proper Names, In Chinese And English: Of Places, Persons, Tribes, And Sects, In China, Japan, Korea, Annam, Siam, Burma (1870)
  • Frederick Porter Smith (1871). Contributions Towards the Materia Medica and Natural History of China. American Presbyterian Mission Press.
  • Chinese Materia Medica: Vegetable Kingdom (1911) (with George Arthur Stuart)

References

  1. ↑ "Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (TL2)".
  2. ↑ Fa-ti Fan, "British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter", Harvard University Press, Jun 30, 2009
  3. ↑ http://www.methodistheritage.org.uk/missionaryhistory-whathappenedwhen.htm
  4. ↑ The Wesleyan-Methodist, Wesleyan Conference Office, London, 1864
  5. ↑ William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi (January 2013). History of Soy Sprouts (100 CE To 2013): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook. Soyinfo Center. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-1-928914-54-9.
  6. ↑ Carol Benedict (10 April 2011). Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010. University of California Press. pp. 134–. ISBN 978-0-520-94856-3.
  7. ↑ Edward Balfour (1885). The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial, Industrial and Scientific, Products of the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms, Useful Arts and Manufactures. B. Quaritch. pp. 35–.
  8. ↑ IPNI.  F.P.Sm.
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