Somchot Ongsakul
Lanna Studies Center, Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University
This article is a historical study showing the continuity of medical work from Dr. Den Beach Bradley to his son-in-law, Rev. Daniel McGilvary through his expansion to the north of Thailand and the establishment of the third medical school in Thailand, located in Chiang Mai. The history reflects the growth of Western medicine to be mainstream and the development of traditional medicine to be alternative medicine. The advance of traditional medicine from the past to present can be implied from the Wat Pho inscriptions ordered to create by King Rama III and the wide study and broad use of herbal knowledge.
(Presented in the 2017 Chulalongkorn Thai-Tai Heritage Forum: Healing and Herbal Medicine (การรักษาโรคกับการใช้ยาสมุนไพรในวัฒนธรรมไทย-ไท), 22-23 June 2017, Le Meridien Chiang Mai Hotel, Chiang Mai, organized by the Empowering Network for International Thai and ASEAN Studies, Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Lanna Studies Center, Faculty of humanities ,Chiang Mai University and Thai Language Department, School of Liberal Arts Mae Fah Luang University)