The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER I.

THE ARMY SURGEON.

I. YOUTH.

Birth at Ealing -- Motherless childhood -- Feeble health -- Irregular schooling -- Medical education -- Student days in Paris -- Wax-modelling -- Admission to College of Surgeons -- House Surgeon at Westminster Hospital.

Born in the same year as Mr Gladstone, May 1809, John Rutherford Alcock[1] predeceased that statesman by on...