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History
It was founded in 1903 to educate Christian missionaries working in British colonies about homœopathic medicine
Its motto is “to preach and heal”
Known as Medical Service Ministries since 1992, it was transformed after the closure of the school into a grant-making trust funding health education and training for missionaries
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What was reforming about it?
It combined homœopathic medicine with religious evangelism
Where in Bloomsbury
It was originally located within the Homœopathic Hospital, Great Ormond Street
It moved into the neighbouring building, 2 Powis Place, in the 1920s, where it remained until it closed as a school in 1996
Website of current institution
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Books about it
Philip Price, ‘Touching the Ends of the Earth,’ in A. Cousins (ed), Touching the Ends of the Earth (2003)
Anita E. Davies, ‘The History of MSM – Homeopathy and Natural Medicines’ in Homeopathy (2007) 96, 52–59, available online via www.sciencedirect.com (opens in new window)
See also Ruth Duncan Abbott, unpublished doctoral thesis, “A comparison of the health beliefs of Florence Nightingale and Ellen G. White and the incorporation of them into their respective schools of nursing” (Andrews University, 2001), copy held by Wellcome Library
The annual reports of the MSM were published; copies are held by the British Library
Archives
Its archives are held by the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, ref. GB 0102 MSM; more details are available online via www.mundus.ac.uk (opens in new window)
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