ARMSTRONG-HOPKINS, Salmi, Ameri can physician, author and lecturer: b. London, Ont., 21 Jan. 1855. She was educated at the high school, Blair, Neb., and at Northwestern University. She studied medicine at the Woman's Medical College, New York Infirmary and at the Woman's Medical College of Penn sylvania, where she was graduated in 1885. She engaged in social work, taking 13 small waifs from Philadelphia and Chicago to the West, and established them in the homes of farmers in Nebraska. She was one of the founders of the Park Hill Orphan Home, now the Mothers Jewels' Home, at York, Neb. In 1886 she was sent out to India as a medical missionary by Bishop William Taylor. She was founder of Khetwadi Castle Hospital and the Khetwadi Training School for Nurses at Bombay, 1887 88. In the latter year she was elected national lecturer on heredity by the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Bombay. She was ap
pointed by the British government physician-in charge of the Woman's Hospital Dispensary and Training School for Nurses at Lahore, India in 1889 and later was made physician-in charge to the Woman's Hospital Dispensary at Hyderabad, Sindh. She returned to America in 1893, bringing with her six natives of India to be educated as missionaries to their own people. In 1893-95 she was resident physician of the Armstrong-Hopkins Private Hospital for Women and Children at Omaha, Neb., and has since practised medicine and surgery, and lectured and preached in Colorado, Delaware, Virginia and New York. She has published several works, including (Divine Call to Foreign Missionary Service' ; of Daily Work ; (Heroes and Heroines of Zion' ; In the Zenana Homes of Indian Princes' ; wadi Castle,' etc.