Portrait of Benjamin Hobson
Hoban (1816-1873),a British missionary physician,carrie to China in 1839.He taught medicine to Chinese in the Hong Kong Hospital from 1843 on,and became Director of Shanghai Hospital in 1857.He compiled various introductory textbooks of Western medicine,including Quan ti xin lun(Outline of Anatomy and Physiology)and Xi yi liie lun(First Lines of the Practice of Surgery in the West).