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The [[Jesuit missions in China|Jesuits]] had provided Chinese emperors with medical care for more than a century. In 1713, only one aged Jesuit remained in [[Beijing|Peking]] and the Kangxi Emperor requested through an intermediary the Russian Governor of [[Siberia]], Matvin Petrovich Gagarin, to send priests and doctors to China. |
The [[Jesuit missions in China|Jesuits]] had provided Chinese emperors with medical care for more than a century. In 1713, only one aged Jesuit remained in [[Beijing|Peking]] and the Kangxi Emperor requested through an intermediary the Russian Governor of [[Siberia]], Matvin Petrovich Gagarin, to send priests and doctors to China. |
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Thomas Garvine (1690-1766) was a Scottish surgeon who was part of a delegation that journeyed from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Peking China in 1715-1716. He treated the Kangxi Emperor of China. In 1717 he left China, returned to Saint Petersburg and, subsequently, to Great Britain.
Garvine was the first British person known to have traversed the Siberian Route from Russia to China.
The Jesuits had provided Chinese emperors with medical care for more than a century. In 1713, only one aged Jesuit remained in Peking and the Kangxi Emperor requested through an intermediary the Russian Governor of Siberia, Matvin Petrovich Gagarin, to send priests and doctors to China. The Russians subsequently sent eight medical doctors to China, including John Bell, of whom Garvine was the first.
