Huang Kuan（黄宽 1829-1878）

First Chinese student to study in the west. Graduated Medicine 1855, PhD in Pathology and Anatomy 1857.




Huang Kuan sculpture at the University of Edinburgh’s Abden House, home of the Confucius Institute for Scotland.


Huang Kuan, the first Chinese student to study at a Western university, returned to Hong Kong after graduating from the University of Edinburgh and worked for Huiai Hospital.

From 1860 Dr Huang began to carry out new types of surgery in China, putting him at the forefront of medicine in Asia.

When the Cholera epidemic broke out in Canton in 1873, he made important contributions to the diagnosis of the disease.

Dr Huang was the only Chinese doctor among 17 doctors recruited when the Custom Medical Section was set up in 1863 in Hong Kong.

By 1867 he was deputy chief of Boji Hospital, and in 1875 he became joint Chairman of the West-South Medical Bure.

The University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh Global (英国爱丁堡大学.校友会)
http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/edinbu ... s/alumni/huang-kuan


黄宽 （中文介绍.百度百科）
http://baike.baidu.com/view/145198.htm

英国爱丁堡大学于世闻名遐迩，也是中国最早笫一批留学生珠海（原属广东香山县的一部分）东岸人黄宽兄弟俩人畄学西医的大学，为纪念黄宽最早将西方医学引进古老的东方----中国，爱丁堡大学校内立有纪念中国留学生黄宽的铜像。

黄宽兄弟俩人和容闳三人都是中国最早第一批畄学生，黄宽兄弟俩人去了英国爱丁堡大学学西方医学,容闳则去了美国耶鲁大学法学院，容闳之所以成名于世是因为他学成后回来历经数载说服并最终促成晚清政府公费派遣120名畄美幼童生（分三批）。

这些畄美幼童留美时间分别在9-15年间，除个别人逃逸滞留美国外，这批人后来对中国近代民族工商业、教育等业界发展影响很大。黄宽兄弟学医其中弟弟病故在英伦，黄宽学成归来执业。黄氏、容他们三人都是早年就读澳门马礼逊教会学校由传教士保送出去的广东香山少年。


在爱丁堡大学网站国际校友栏里我们还看到了中国工程院院士、抗SARS功臣钟南山教授的身影：
http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/edinbu ... les/alumni/overview


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昨天和一位正在就读爱丁堡大学的本地学子网上聊天，我告知我所知道的黄宽信息，很快这学子便在学校网站搜索到了黄宽的资料并发了过来。因黄宽是一位 PhD in Pathology and Anatomy ，所以转发上来以飨同道网友。