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The article presents a personal past of public health scientist John B. Grant. Topics discussed include his early life that includes his family, education and friends, details of his father James Skiffington Grant who was a medical missionary at the Hwa Mei Hospital in Ning-bo, China and also quotes some important correspondence.

In 1907, China Medical Missionary Association appointed a Research Committee with the purpose of launching medical research in China. Two important themes were studied by the Research Committee: parasitic diseases in China and the body physiological investigation data of its people. The Committee made its due contribution to the progress of medical science, and also turned the professional orientation of a number of medical missionaries to medical research, thus influencing Western medical profession in China and turning medical research into a professional pattern of this profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the source and determination of the Chinese translation of the word "anatomy." The author claims that the assumption that the term for anatomy was imported from Japan is wrong and that the phrase can be traced back to medical missionary and British doctor John Dudgeon. The author examines the scientific thought and life science research methodology and approach that was expressed in "Quan Ti Tong Kao," which represented the state of the art in anatomy at the time and provided a base for the establishment of certain medical terms.