여천 이용설의 의료 계몽과 학술활동

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the medical enlightenment and academic activities of Dr. Yong-Sul Lee who graduated from the Severance Union Medical College in 1919. Dr. Lee was medically trained in both China and the United States, and by 1926 had developed advanced concepts about the prevention of disease, as well as about its treatment. Christian Messenger between 1927 and 1929, about his experience as a Christianity doctor working with various infectious diseases, and also surgical, pediatric and obstetric diseases. The main purpose of his articles was directed towards the medical enlightenment of the Korean people. He especially emphasized the prevention of diseases by maintaining hygiene, and he described the treatments for various diseases, and warned against the harmfulness of certain traditional medicines. His academic activities were published in those newspapers, magazines and medical journals that were concerned with infectious and orthopedic diseases. He reported on his method of treatment for amoebic abscess of the liver at the Pan Asia-Pacific Surgical Conference in 1929. He was a member of the Korean Medical Society established in 1930, and was involved in the first orthopedic surgery in Korea.