William James Wanless
(1865-1933)
Canadian surgeon and missionary
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Sir William James Wanless FACS (May 1, 1865 – March 3, 1933) was a Canadian-born surgeon, humanitarian and Presbyterian missionary who founded a medical mission in Miraj, India in 1894 and led it for nearly 40 years. As part of this mission, Dr. Wanless founded India's first missionary medical school in 1897, and helped to establish a leprosy sanatorium as well as a tuberculosis hospital, now known as the Wanless Chest Hospital.
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1 May 1865 Charleston, Ontario, Canada
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| Died |
3 March 1933 (aged 67) Glendale, California, United States
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| Zodiac | Taurus |
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