About Frederick Porter Smith
Lived 1833 – 1888 (aged 54–55). Frederick Porter Smith was a British botanist.
Frederick Porter Smith (1833–1888) was one of the first British medical missionaries to China, in the 19th century. The Wesleyan Missionary Committee sent him to Hankow, China, for both philanthropic and evangelical reasons late in 1863.
Writings He wrote several books on China while there and after his return; his 1871 work is only the second English-language work to mention soybean sprouts. Smith also reported on the use of tobacco and of opium in his territory, opining that moderate opium use was "not incompatible with the health of those who practice it".
Works The Rivers of China (1869) A Vocabulary Of Proper Names, In Chinese And English: Of Places, Persons, Tribes, And Sects, In China, Japan, Korea, Annam, Siam, Burma (1870)
Chinese Materia Medica: Vegetable Kingdom (1911) (with George Arthur Stuart)
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